General Studies Information

GENERAL STUDIES COURSES

I. FOUNDATIONAL CORE

DEMOCRACY IN PERSPECTIVE
3 hours required for General Studies credit.

The courses in this category are designed to develop and demonstrate the following abilities:

1. Explain the roles that democratic concepts, including individual rights, play in a just democracy.
2. Analyze how citizens engage in democracy.
3. Evaluate democratic practices across different contexts (such as settings, time, socioeconomic conditions, cultures, and political boundaries).

• ART 121GS, Artistic Freedom, Censorship and Controversy in a Democratic Society - 3 hours
• CJUS 102GS, Crime, Democracy and Justice - 3 hours
• ENG 153GS, Democratic Vistas - 3 hours
• GEOG 223GS, Political Geography - 3 hours
• HIST 176GS, Democratic Debates - 3 hours
• ITEC 225GS, The Influence of Technology on Democracy - 3 hours
• JMC 100GS, Global Media Literacy - 3 hours
• PHIL 105GS, Philosophical Roots of American Democracy - 3 hours
• PSCI 140GS, Democracies around the World - 3 hours
• PSCI 170GS, Democracy as a Political Idea - 3 hours
• SOC 210GS, Participating in a Democratic Society - 3 hours
• SOWK 170GS, Introduction to Social Welfare - 3 hours
• TE 100GS, Teaching in a Democratic Society - 3 hours