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| Course | Title | Co-Req | Pre-Req | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AHUM 160 | Living Writers | AHUM-160L | Attendance at public readings required | |
| AHUM 160L | Living Writers Public Readings | AHUM-160 | ||
| ALST 229 | Disasters in the Caribbean | |||
| ALST 230 | Introduction to Latin American Studies | |||
| ALST 281 | Slavery and the Slave Trade in Africa | |||
| ANTH 102 | Culture, Diversity, and Inequality | |||
| ANTH 103 | Introduction to Archaeology | |||
| ANTH 252 | Muslim Societies in Motion | |||
| ANTH 253 | Field Methods and Interpretation in Archaeology (RI) | ANTH-253L | ||
| ANTH 253L | Field Methods and Interpretation in Archaeology Lab | ANTH-253 | ||
| ARAB 121 | Elementary Arabic I | |||
| ARAB 201 | Intermediate Arabic I | ARAB 122 or MIST 122 or ARAB 122Z | Prereq or prereq override required | |
| ARAB 301 | Advanced Arabic I | ARAB 202 or MIST 202 | Prereq or prereq override required | |
| ARAB 401 | Topics in Arabic Language and Culture I | ARAB 302 or MIST 302 | Prereq or prereq override required | |
| ARTS 100 | Introduction to Studio Art: Fakes | See term course description; Seniors require class year override | ||
| ARTS 100 | Introduction to Studio Art: Public Art and Public Space | See term course description; Seniors require class year override | ||
| ARTS 105 | Introduction to Architecture in Cultural Context (AH) | |||
| ARTS 110 | Global Contemporary Art (AH) | Large Enrollment section | ||
| ARTS 211 | Drawing (SA) | |||
| ARTS 231 | Painting (SA) | |||
| ARTS 236 | Art and Politics in the 19th Century (AH) | |||
| ARTS 238 | Transatlantic Avant-Gardes: 1880-1920 (AH) | |||
| ARTS 241 | Analog Photography (SA) | |||
| ASTR 101 | Solar System Astronomy | Large enrollment section | ||
| BIOL 101 | Topics in Organismal Biology | Large enrollment section | ||
| BIOL 181 | Evolution, Ecology, and Diversity | BIOL-181L | Large enrollment section | |
| BIOL 181L | Evolution, Ecology, and Diversity Lab | BIOL-181 | ||
| CHEM 101 | General Chemistry I | CHEM-101L | Students who repeat the lecture component are required to repeat the laboratory component if their grade in the lab was lower than B-. | |
| CHEM 101L | General Chemistry I Lab | CHEM-101 | ||
| CHEM 111 | Chemical Principles | CHEM-111L | Open to First-Years with AP CHEM score of 4 or 5; open to others with class year override | |
| CHEM 111L | Chemical Principles Lab | CHEM-111 | ||
| CHIN 121 | Elementary Chinese I | |||
| CHIN 201 | Intermediate Chinese I | CHIN 122 or equivalent experience | Prereq or prereq override required | |
| CHIN 225 | China and the West | |||
| CHIN 303 | Films and Media | CHIN 202 or equivalent experience | Prereq or prereq override required | |
| CLAS 230 | Classical Mythology | |||
| CORE 111 | Conversations | |||
| CORE C132 | Black Youth | |||
| CORE C134 | Soul Food | |||
| CORE C136 | Pacific Islands and Diasporas | |||
| CORE C139 | Pre-Modern Households | |||
| CORE C146 | Haiti | |||
| CORE C165 | China | |||
| CORE C166 | India | |||
| CORE C167 | Japan | |||
| CORE C170 | Islamic North Africa | |||
| CORE C173 | Ethiopia | |||
| CORE C175 | Wilderness | |||
| CORE C177 | Peru | |||
| CORE C183 | The Middle East | |||
| CORE C187 | Russia at the Crossroads | |||
| CORE C199 | Bolivia | |||
| CORE S102 | Molecules, Energy, and Environment | |||
| CORE S104 | Fundamental Quests in Science: From Subatomic to Cosmological | |||
| CORE S110 | Discovering Biology: Natural History, Ecology, and Observing the World | |||
| CORE S110 | Discovering Biology:Hormones | See revised course description | ||
| CORE S124 | Cells and Human Development | |||
| CORE S131 | Scientific In-queery | |||
| CORE S139 | Election Methods and Voting Technology | |||
| CORE S143 | Statistics in Real Life | |||
| CORE S146 | The Good Life: Perspectives from Psychological Science | |||
| CORE S180 | The Science of Music | |||
| CORE S182 | From Paintings to Pixels | |||
| CORE S197 | Ethics, Algorithms, & AI | |||
| CORE S198 | Measuring the Environment | |||
| COSC 101 | Introduction for Computing I | COSC-101L | ||
| COSC 101L | Introduction for Computing I Lab | COSC-101 | ||
| COSC 102 | Introduction for Computing II | COSC-102L | COSC 101 or equivalent programming experience. | Prereq or prereq override required |
| COSC 102L | Introduction for Computing II Lab | COSC-102 | ||
| ECON 151 | Introduction to Economics | |||
| EDUC 101 | The American School | |||
| ENGL 150 | Dangerous Selfies: Division, Disorder, and Psychic Disruption in Early Modern England | |||
| ENGL 151 | Literature of Survival: Genocide, Trauma, and Memory | |||
| ENGL 152 | Plant, Animal, Mineral: American Literature and Extractive Industry | |||
| ENGL 200 | British Literary Traditions | |||
| ENGL 201 | American Texts and Contexts | |||
| ENGL 202 | Justice and Power in Postcolonial Literature | |||
| ENGL 217 | Introductory Workshop in Creative Writing: Nonfiction | |||
| ENGL 266 | Introduction to Drama | |||
| ENST 200 | Environmental Science: Challenges and Solutions | ENST-200L | ||
| ENST 200L | Environmental Science Lab | ENST-200 | ||
| ENST 202 | Environmental Ethics | Juniors and Seniors need class year override | ||
| FMST 200 | Introduction to Film and Media Studies | FMST-200L | ||
| FMST 200L | Required Film Screening | FMST-200 | ||
| FREN 122 | Introduction to French Language & Culture II | One-hour web-based work required weekly, to be completed independently outside of class as assigned by the instructor. See course description for placement info. | ||
| FREN 202 | Intermediate French: Language, Culture, and Literature | Three to four years of secondary-school French, or FREN 201 or equivalent | ||
| FREN 352 | Introduction to Literature in French: Birth of the Modern | At least four years of secondary-school French or FREN 202 | ||
| FREN 354 | Introduction to Literature in French: The Francophone World | At least four years of secondary-school French or FREN 202 | ||
| FREN 361 | French Composition, Grammar, and Conversation | Prereq or prereq override required | ||
| FSEM 100 | Conversations | |||
| FSEM 101 | Conversations | |||
| FSEM 102 | Conversations | |||
| FSEM 112 | Haudenosaunee | |||
| FSEM 114 | Black Migrations | |||
| FSEM 115 | Mexico | |||
| FSEM 116 | Ukraine | |||
| FSEM 117 | Senegal | |||
| FSEM 119 | The Danube | FSEM-119L | ||
| FSEM 119L | Film Screening | FSEM-119 | ||
| FSEM 120 | Climate Change Across Cultures | |||
| FSEM 121 | Drugs, Brain, and Behavior | |||
| FSEM 122 | Psychology of Sport & Exercise | |||
| FSEM 124 | Discovering Biology: Invasive Species | |||
| FSEM 128 | Sex, Drugs, Chocolate | |||
| FSEM 129 | Poisons | |||
| FSEM 130 | Spaceweather: The Sun-Earth Connection | |||
| FSEM 146 | Feminist Security Studies | |||
| FSEM 150 | Constructing an Ethical Life | |||
| FSEM 153 | Elementary Latin I | |||
| FSEM 154 | Alexander the Great: Lives and After Lives | |||
| FSEM 157 | Political Philosophy | |||
| FSEM 158 | Belonging, Becoming, and Beyond | |||
| FSEM 159 | New Media | |||
| FSEM 161 | British Literary Traditions | |||
| FSEM 162 | Assembly Required: Conceptual Expression through Collage | |||
| FSEM 163 | Contemporary African American Drama | |||
| FSEM 164 | American Texts and Contexts | |||
| FSEM 165 | Acting I | |||
| FSEM 166 | Theater, Play, and Imagination | |||
| FSEM 167 | Ancient Myths, Modern Reflections | |||
| FSEM 168 | The Many Faces of Israel | |||
| FSEM 171 | Plant, Animal, Mineral: American Literature and Extractive Industry | |||
| FSEM 172 | Writers' Voices, Writers' Choices | |||
| FSEM 173 | Public Sphere Rhetorics and Social Change | |||
| FSEM 177 | Geology Outdoors | FSEM-177L | ||
| FSEM 177L | Geology Outdoors Fieldtrips | FSEM-177 | ||
| FSEM 178 | Introduction to Environmental Geography | |||
| FSEM 179 | Introduction to Environmental History | |||
| FSEM 182 | The American School | |||
| FSEM 185 | Gentrification | |||
| FSEM 187 | Age of the American Revolution | |||
| FSEM 188 | The American West | |||
| FSEM 190 | Women and Gender in Prehistory | |||
| FSEM 191 | The Growth of National States in Europe | |||
| FSEM 192 | History Workshop | |||
| FSEM 194 | Culture, Diversity and Inequality | |||
| FSEM 196 | Comparative Politics: Middle East | |||
| FSEM 199 | Global Change and YOU! | Open to AMS Scholars only; Open to Alumni Memorial Scholars Only | ||
| GEOG 105 | Climate and Society | |||
| GEOG 107 | Is the Planet Doomed? | |||
| GEOG 211 | Geographies of Nature, Economy, Society | |||
| GEOG 231 | Geography of the Physical Environment | |||
| GEOL 102 | Sustainable Earth | Large enrollment section | ||
| GEOL 102 | Sustainable Earth | |||
| GEOL 135 | Oceanography and the Environment | |||
| GEOL 190 | Evolution of Planet Earth | GEOL-190L | Recommended for students interested in concentrating in geology or environmental geology. | |
| GEOL 190L | Evolution of Planet Earth Lab | GEOL-190 | ||
| GERM 121 | Beginning German I | |||
| GERM 201 | Intermediate German I | GERM 122 or equivalent | ||
| GERM 202 | Intermediate German II | GERM 201 or equivalent | ||
| GERM 351 | Introduction to German Literary Studies | GERM 202 or equivalent | ||
| GREK 122 | Elementary Classical Greek II | GREK 121 | ||
| GREK 302 | Aristophanes | GREK 201 or higher | Prereq or prereq override required | |
| HEBR 121 | Elementary Hebrew I | |||
| HIST 103 | American History to 1877 (US) | |||
| HIST 105 | Introduction to the Modern Middle East (ME) | |||
| HIST 199 | History Workshop | |||
| HIST 203 | Age of the American Revolution (US) | |||
| HIST 209 | The Atlantic World, 1492 - 1800 (LAC) | |||
| HIST 229 | Latin American Migrations (LAC) | |||
| HIST 232 | The Crusades (EU) | 2024 needs class restriction override | ||
| HIST 235 | African American Women's History (US) | |||
| HIST 238 | Europe in the Age of the Renaissance and Reformation (EU) | |||
| HIST 254 | History of Coffee and Cigarettes (TR) | |||
| HIST 261 | Modern Irish History (EU) | |||
| HIST 275 | Modern Jewish History (TR) | |||
| HIST 281 | Slavery and the Slave Trade in Africa (AF) | |||
| HIST 288 | Animals in History (TR) | |||
| ITAL 121 | Elementary Italian I | One-hour web-based work required weekly, to be completed independently outside of class as assigned by the instructor. | ||
| ITAL 201 | Intermediate Italian | Two or three years of high school Italian, or ITAL 122, or the equivalent | One-hour web-based work required weekly, to be completed independently outside of class as assigned by the instructor. | |
| ITAL 353 | Introduction to the Study of Italian Literature: Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature | At least four years of high school Italian or ITAL 201 | ||
| JAPN 121 | Elementary Japanese I | |||
| JAPN 201 | Intermediate Japanese I | JAPN 122 or JAPN 124 or equivalent experience | Prereq or prereq override required | |
| JAPN 301 | Advanced Japanese I | JAPN 202 or equivalent experience | Prereq or prereq override required | |
| JWST 204 | Jewish Fiction since the Holocaust | |||
| JWST 213 | The Bible as/and Literature | |||
| LATN 121 | Elementary Latin I | |||
| LATN 201 | Intermediate Latin: Prose | LATN 122 or LATN 123 or equivalent | ||
| LATN 203 | Conversational Latin I | LATN 201 or higher (may be taken concurrently) | ||
| LGBT 242 | Religions of Resistance: Gender, Sexuality and Performance in the Caribbean | |||
| MATH 105 | Intro to Statistics/Africa SG | Not open to students who have either received credit for or are currently enrolled in CORE 143S or CORE S143 or MATH 240 or MATH 354 or MATH 416 or MATH 454 | ||
| MATH 105 | Introduction to Statistics | Three years of secondary school mathematics | Large enrollment section | |
| MATH 161 | Calculus I | Three years of high school mathematics, including trigonometry | ||
| MATH 162 | Calculus II | MATH 161 (formerly MATH 111) with a grade of C- or higher or equivalent experience in a secondary school calculus course | ||
| MATH 163 | Calculus III | MATH 162 with a grade of C- or higher or equiv experience in a secondary school calculus course | ||
| MIST 215 | Comparative Politics: Middle East | |||
| MIST 252 | Muslim Societies in Motion | |||
| MIST 310 | Islamic Jurisprudence | |||
| MUSI 103 | Musicianship and Songwriting (TH) | |||
| MUSI 151 | The Musical Experience (H&A) | |||
| MUSI 203 | Harmony I (TH) | Music background required | ||
| MUSI 205 | Songwriting Workshop | Experience playing an instrument or singing | ||
| MUSI 215 | Music History I: Medieval through Baroque Periods (H&A) | Music background preferred | ||
| MUSI 217 | Chamber Music I (PF) | |||
| MUSI 230 | University Orchestra I (PF) | This section is for Violinists only | ||
| MUSI 230 | University Orchestra I (PF) | |||
| MUSI 232 | Colgate Concert Jazz Ensemble I (PF) | |||
| MUSI 234 | University Chorus I (PF) | |||
| MUSI 236 | Private Instruction I (PF) | Student must have studied at Colgate with their studio instructor for at least two semesters before applying to take lessons for credit. Proposal required. | ||
| NAST 209 | Indigenous Education | |||
| NAST 210 | Indigenous Peoples Today | |||
| PCON 201 | Processes of Peace & Conflict: Histories, Theories, Technologies | Declared junior and senior majors/minors may request a class year override | ||
| PCON 202 | Practices of Peace and Conflict: Politics, Cultures, Societies | Declared junior and senior majors/minors may request a class year overrride | ||
| PCON 278 | Capitalism and Global Justice | |||
| PHED 000 | Physical Education | |||
| PHIL 101 | Introduction to Philosophical Problems | Juniors and Seniors need class year override | ||
| PHIL 111 | Ethics | Juniors and Seniors need class year override | ||
| PHIL 111 | Ethics | Juniors and Seniors need class year override | ||
| PHIL 225 | Logic I | |||
| PHIL 226 | Philosophy of Religion | |||
| PHYS 105 | Mechanical Physics I | |||
| PHYS 111 | Fundamental Physics I | PHYS-111L | Large enrollment section | |
| PHYS 111L | Fundamental Physics I Lab | PHYS-111 | ||
| PHYS 131 | Atoms and Waves | PHYS-131L | Students who plan to continue into PHYS 232 should co-register for MATH 161 | |
| PHYS 131L | Atoms and Waves Lab | PHYS-131 | ||
| POSC 150 | America as a Democracy (AM) | Large enrollment section | ||
| POSC 151 | Politics and Moral Vision (TH) | |||
| POSC 152 | Global Peace and War (IR) | Students who have taken POSC 232 are not eligible to take POSC 152 | Large enrollment section | |
| POSC 153 | Introduction to Comparative Politics (CO) | |||
| POSC 208 | Comparative Democracies (CO) | |||
| POSC 214 | Comparative Politics: East and Southeast Asia (CO) | |||
| POSC 215 | Comparative Politics: Middle East (CO) | |||
| POSC 216 | Comparative Politics: Latin America (CO) | |||
| POSC 232 | Fundamentals of International Relations (IR) | Students who have taken POSC 152 are not eligible to take POSC 232. (IREL majors who took POSC 152 prior to declaring may request a prereq override for POSC 232.) | ||
| POSC 260 | Foundations of Political Thought (TH) | |||
| PSYC 150 | Introduction to Psychological Science | Large enrollment section; Juniors and Seniors need instructor permission | ||
| RELG 101 | The World's Religions | |||
| RELG 102 | Religion and | |||
| RELG 213 | The Bible and/as Literature | |||
| RELG 221 | Asian Religions: Religion, Identity, and Politics in Indonesia | See revised course description | ||
| RELG 282 | Introduction to Islam | |||
| REST 121 | Elementary Russian I | |||
| REST 201 | Intermediate Russian I | |||
| REST 250 | Cyborgs, Unite! Sci-Fi for Post-Humans | |||
| REST 303 | Russian in Context | REST 202 | Prereq or prereq override required | |
| SOCI 101 | Introduction to Sociology | |||
| SPAN 121 | Elementary Spanish I | One-hour web-based work required weekly, to be completed independently outside of class as assigned by by instructor; See course description for placement; Seniors require class year override | ||
| SPAN 122 | Elementary Spanish II | One hour web-based work req'd weekly, to be completed independently outside of class as assigned by instr; See course description for placement info; Interested students should submit a Course Restriction Override Request(www.colgate.edu/registrar/regoverride) | ||
| SPAN 201 | Intermediate Spanish | Two or three years of high school Spanish or SPAN 121- 122 | One-hour web-based work required weekly, to be completed independently outside of class as assigned by the instructor. | |
| SPAN 202 | Intermediate Spanish: Language and Literature | Three to four years of high school Spanish or SPAN 201 or equivalent | ||
| SPAN 351 | Spanish Literature: Knights and Troubadours in Medieval Spain | At least four years of high school Spanish or SPAN 202 | ||
| SPAN 354 | Latin American Literature: Illusion, Fantasy, Romanticism | At least four years of high school Spanish or SPAN 202 | ||
| SPAN 355 | The Many Voices of Latin American Literature: from Modernismo to the 21st Century | At least four years of high school Spanish or SPAN 202 | ||
| SPAN 361 | Advanced Composition and Stylistics | At least four years of high school Spanish, or SPAN 202 | ||
| THEA 250 | Stagecraft | THEA-250L | Juniors and seniors need instructor permission | |
| THEA 253 | Costume Design | |||
| THEA 259 | Performance I: Performance Workshop | Audition required | ||
| THEA 266 | Introduction to Drama | |||
| THEA 271 | Introduction to Contemporary Dance | |||
| THEA 353 | Theater, Play, and Improvisation | |||
| WMST 202 | Women's Lives: An Introduction to Women's Studies | Seniors require class year override | ||
| WMST 260 | Intersectionality in Theory and Practice | |||
| WRIT 103 | Rhetoric and Writing | Other class years require instructor permission | ||
| WRIT 103 | Rhetoric and Writing |