Fall 2009 Freshman Course Selection Guidelines » Indiana University School of Journalism

Use the information below to guide your courses for orientation and your first semester at IU. For your English composition, math and foreign language, School of Journalism advisers will help you when you meet with them after your orientation placement tests.

Some tips on using this guide:

Following are four lists of courses: Arts & Humanities (A&H), Social & Historical Studies (S&H), Natural & Mathematical Sciences (N&M) and Culture Studies (CSA, CSB, CSC). Before you meet with your adviser, select:

three courses from the A&H list
two more courses from the S&H list
two more courses from the N&M list
two courses from the Culture Studies list.

Pick nine courses total. You won’t register for all of these in one semester, but you need to select this many to have options as you plan a schedule. If you are in a FIG, pick only four courses total, one from each list.

You will notice some abbreviations after some of the courses on the lists:

“and CSA or CSB or CSC” means that the course can also double count for Culture Studies A or B or C.
“Lit/FINA,” “U.S. History,” “American Political Science,” “Economics” mean the course fulfills that specific requirement within the A&H or S&H requirement.

Advisers suggest not worrying too much about double-counting but rather to select courses that interest you from the list. At orientation, you’ll hear about how they will fit into your individual degree progress.

Want to know more about the courses listed below? Find course descriptions of courses offered in Fall 2008 through the IU Web site.

Arts and Humanities (A&H): Select three courses

African American and African Diaspora Studies
AAAD-A

141 INTRO WRITING & STUDY OF BLACK LIT I (Lit/FINA)
150 SURVEY CULTURE OF BLACK AMERICANS (and CSC)
278 CONTEMPORARY BLACK FILM (and CSC)

American Studies
AMST-A

100 WHAT IS AMERICA?
201 U.S. MOVEMENTS & INSTITUTIONS
        *THE AMERICAN SUBURBS: 1945-PRESENT
        *"WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE: CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN AMERICAN CULTURE
202 US ARTS AND THE MEDIA
        *THEORIES AND TRANSFORMATIONS OF WHITENESS IN THE US CONTEXT

Anthropology
ANTH-A
208 TOPICS IN THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE ARTS AND EXPRESSIVE BEHAVIOR
*FRAMING ART: NATIONALISM AND ART IN NORTH AMERICA

Classical Studies
CLAS-C

101 ANCIENT GREEK CULTURE (and CSA) (Lit/FINA)
102 ROMAN CULTURE (and CSA) (Lit/FINA)
205 CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY (and CSA) (Lit/FINA)
206 CLASSICAL ART & ARCHAEOLOGY (and CSA) (Lit/FINA)

Collins Living Learning Center
CLLC-L

210 COLLINS COLLOQUIUM
* READING MEDICINE AND ILLNESS

Communication and Culture
CMCL-C

190 INTRODUCTION TO MEDIA
205 INTRO TO COMMUNICATION & CULTR
222 DEMOCRATIC DELIBERATION
228 ARGUMENTATION & PUBLIC ADVOCACY

Comparative Literature
CMLT-C

145 MAJOR CHARACTERS IN WEST LIT (and CSB) (Lit/FINA)
(CMLT-BE 145 BE:CMLT-C 145/ENG-W 143)
* BAD COMPANY
147 IMGS OF THE SELF: EAST & WEST (and CSA) (Lit/FINA)
151 INTRO TO POPULAR CULTURE (and CSB) (Lit/FINA)
155 CULTURE & MODERN EXP: AN INTERDISC AND INTL APPROACH (and CSA) (Lit/FINA)
200 HONORS SEMINAR
*FOOD AND LITERATURE
205 COMPARATIVE LITERARY ANALYSIS (Lit/FINA)
216 SCI FICTN, FANTASY & WEST TRAD (Lit/FINA)
252 LITERARY & TELEVISION GENRES (Lit/FINA)
255 MODERN LIT AND THE OTHER ARTS (and CSB) (Lit/FINA)
262 CROSS-CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS (and CSA)(Lit/FINA)
291 STUDIES IN NON-WESTERN FILM (and CSA)

East Asian Languages and Cultures
EALC-E

100 EAST ASIA: AN INTRODUCTION (and CSA)
201 ISSUES IN EAST ASIAN LITERATURE (and CSA) (Lit/FINA)
* UNREAL DWELLINGS
233 SURVEY OF KOREAN CIVILIZATION (and CSA)

English
ENG-L

111 DISCOVERING LITERATURE
141 INTRO WRITING & STUDY OF LIT 1 (Lit/FINA)
      *SURVIVOR
      *GENERATIONAL STORIES
      *OBSESSIONS/COMPULSION
202 LITERARY INTERPRETATION (Lit/FINA)
203 INTRODUCTION TO DRAMA (Lit/FINA)
204 INTRODUCTION TO FICTION (Lit/FINA)
208 TOPICS IN ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE (LIT/FINA)
220 INTRODUCTION TO SHAKESPEARE

ENG-W
103 INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE WRITING

Fine Arts
FINA-A

155 INTRO TO AFRICAN ART (and CSA)
206 CLASSICAL ART & ARCHEOLOGY (and CSA) (Lit/FINA)
280 ART OF THE COMICS

FINA-D

210 DIGITAL ART: SURVEY & PRACTICE

FINA-F

100 FUNDAMENTAL STUDIO-DRAWING
101 FUNDAMENTAL STUDIO-3D
102 FUNDAMENTAL STUDIO-2D

FINA-H

100 ART APPRECIATION (Lit/FINA)

FINA-N

110 INTRO TO STUDIO ART

Folklore and Ethnomusicology
FOLK-F

101 INTRODUCTION TO FOLKLORE
111 WORLD MUSIC AND CULTURE
131 INTRO TO FOLKLORE IN THE U.S.
252 FOLKLORE AND THE HUMANITIES
* GLOBAL POP MUSIC
* YOUTH SUB-CULTURES AND MUSIC

French and Italian
FRIT-M

222 TOPICS IN ITALIAN CULTURE (and CSA)
* FEMALE VOICES — 20TH CENTURY ITALY

Gender Studies
GNDR-G

101 GENDER, CULTURE, AND SOCIETY

Global Village
GLLC-G

210 GLOBAL VILLAGE COLLOQUIUM
* GLOBAL JAZZ

GLLC-S

103 GLLC FRESHMAN SEMINAR
* VAMPIRE IN EUROPEAN/AMER CULTURE

History and Philosophy of Science
HPSC-X

100 HUMAN PERSPECTIVES ON SCIENCE
* THE DESCENT OF DARWINISM: THE EVOLUTION OF NATURAL SELECTION
* EXPERIMENTING ON HUMANS

Hutton Honors College
HON-H

203 INTERDEPARTMENTAL COLLOQUIA
   * MAKING MEANING THROUGH STORIES
   * VAMPIRE IN EUROPEAN/AMERICAN CULTURE
   * THE ‘FANTASTIC’ IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE (Lit/CSA)
   * READING & WRITING SHORT FICTION
211 IDEAS & EXPERIENCE I

International Studies
INTL-I
201 CULTURE & ARTS: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE

Jewish Studies
JSTU-C 240 CONTEMPORARY ISRAELI CULTURE (and CSA)
JSTU-J 203 ARTS 7 HUMANITIES TOPICS: JEWISH
*MODERN JEWISH THOUGHT

Music
MUS-Z

101 MUSIC FOR THE LISTENER
111 INTRODUCTION TO MUSIC THEORY
171 OPERA THEATRE SERIES 1
202 HISTORY OF ROCK AND ROLL MUSIC II
211 MUSIC THEORY II

Philosophy
PHIL-P

100 INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY
105 THINKING AND REASONING
135 INTRODUCTION TO EXISTENTIALISM
140 INTRODUCTION TO ETHICS
150 ELEMENTARY LOGIC
201 ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHY (and CSA)

Political Science
POLS-Y

105 INTRO TO POLITICAL THEORY

Religious Studies
REL-R

153 RELIGIONS OF THE EAST (and CSA)
160 RELIGION & AMERICAN CULTURE
170 RELIGION, ETHICS & PUBLIC LIFE
210 INTRO OLD TESTAMENT/HEBREW BIBLE (and CSA)
257 INTRODUCTION TO ISLAM (and CSA)

Slavic Languages and Literatures
SLAV-R

223 INTRO TO RUSSIAN CULTURE (and CSA)
263 RUS LIT: PUSHKIN TO DOSTOEVSKY (and CSA) (Lit/FINA)

Telecommunications
TEL-T

206 INTRO TO DESIGN & PRODUCTION

Theatre and Drama
THTR-T

100 INTRODUCTION TO THEATRE
120 ACTING I: FUNDMNTLS OF ACTING
121 ACTING I FOR MAJORS: INTRO TO ACTING

Topics in Arts & Sciences
COLL-E

103 TOPICS IN ARTS & HUMANITIES
* WHO WROTE THE BIBLE?
* KING ARTHUR OF BRITAIN: THE ONCE & FUTURE HERO
* SACRED PLACES
* THE EBONICS CONTROVERSY
* MEDIEVAL KNIGHTS/BATTLE GOOD & EVIL
* WHO AM I? RACE, GENDER AND IDENTITY
* THEISM, ATHEISM AND EXISTENTIALISM
* PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTIONS ON RELIGION AND EVOLUTION
* POWER, POLITICS & PIETY
* CLOAK & DAGGER
* A QUESTION OF LOVE
* JUKE JOINT TO CHOIR LOFT

Social and Historical (S&H): Select two courses

Economics
ECON-E

201 INTRO TO MICROECONOMICS (Economics)
202 INTRO TO MACROECONOMICS (Economics)

ECON-S

201 INTRO TO MICROECONOMICS: HON (Economics)

History
HIST-A

200 ISSUES IN US HISTORY (US History)
   *AMERICAN PLEASURE WARS
   *INTRO NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY
   *CRIME & PUNISHMENT
205 ASIAN AMERICAN HISTORY (and CSC) (U.S. History)

HIST-H

105 AMERICAN HISTORY I (U.S. History)
106 AMERICAN HISTORY II (U.S. History)

Political Science
POLS-Y

100 AMERICAN POLIT CONTROVERSIES (American Political Science)
103 INTRO TO AMERICAN POLITICS (American Political Science)

Natural and Mathematical (N&M): Select two courses

Anthropology
ANTH-B

200 BIOANTHROPOLOGY

Astronomy
AST-A

100 THE SOLAR SYSTEM
103 SEARCH FOR LIFE THE UNIVERSE
105 STARS AND GALAXIES
115 BIRTH & DEATH OF THE UNIVERSE
221 GENERAL ASTRONOMY I

Biology
BIOL-H

111 INTEGR FRESHMAN LEARNING EXP I

BIOL-L

100 HUMANS & THE BIOLOGICAL WORLD
104 INTRODUCTORY BIOLOGY LECTURES
* HUMAN BIOLOGY
* THE BIOLOGY OF THE SENSES
* BIOLOGY OF MENTAL ILLNESS
111 EVOLUTION AND DIVERSITY
112 BIOLOGICAL MECHANISMS

Chemistry
CHEM-C

100 THE WORLD OF CHEMISTRY
101 ELEMENTARY CHEMISTRY 1
103 INTRO TO CHEMICAL PRINCIPLES
117 PRINC OF CHEM & BIOCHEM I

CHEM-S

117 PRIN CHEM & BIOCHEM I, HONORS

Cognitive Science
COGS-Q

250 MATH & LOGIC FOR COGNITIVE SCI
270 EXPERIMENTS & MODELS IN COGNITION

Collins LLC
CLLC-L 230 COLLINS COLLOQUIUM
*OUR QUANTUM UNIVERSE

Computer Science
CSCI-A

110 INTRO TO COMPUTERS & COMPUTING
201 INTRODUCTION TO PROGRAMMING I

CSCI-C

211 INTRO TO COMPUTER SCIENCE
212 INTRO TO SOFTWARE SYSTEMS
241 DISCRETE STRUCTURES FOR CSCI

CSCI-H

211 INTRO TO CMPTR SCIENCE-HONORS
241 ELEM DISCRETE STRUCTURES:HON

Geography
GEOG-G

107 PHYSICAL SYS OF ENVIRONMENT
109 WEATHER & CLIMATE
208 HUMAN IMPACT ON ENVIRONMENT
237 CARTOGRAPHY & GEOGRAPHIC INFO

Geology
GEOL-G

103 EARTH SCIENCE-MATLS/PROCESSES
104 EVOLUTION OF THE EARTH
105 EARTH: OUR HABITABLE PLANET
111 PHYSICAL GEOLOGY
114 DINOSAURS AND THEIR RELATIVES
116 OUR PLANET & ITS FUTURE
121 METEORITES & PLANETS
141 EARTHQUAKES AND VOLCANOES
171 ENVIRONMENTAL GEOLOGY
221 INTRODUCTORY MINERALOGY

History and Philosophy of Science
HPSC-X

200 SCIENTIFIC REASONING
226 ISSUES IN SCI: NATURAL & MATH
* HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF PHYSICS

Human Biology
HUBI-B

101 THE HUMAN ORGANISM (BE:HUBI-B101/HUBI-B 102)

Hutton Honors College
HON-H 205

INTERDEPARTMENTAL COLLOQUIA
* RATIONAL DECISION MAKING
* GAS PRICES & PETROLEUM GEOLOGY
* ORIGIN & HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE
* QUICK AND DIRTY MENTAL OPS
* FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Latino Studies
LATS-L 105 DIVERSITY BY THE NUMBERS

Medical Science
ANAT-A
215 BASIC HUMAN ANATOMY
MSCI-M

131 DISEASE & THE HUMAN BODY

Philosophy
PHIL-P

250 INTRODUCTORY SYMBOLIC LOGIC

Physics
PHYS-P

105 BASIC PHYSICS OF SOUND
114 UNDERSTANDING THE INVISIBLE UNIVERSE
120 ENERGY AND TECHNOLOGY
150 HOW THINGS WORK
201 GENERAL PHYSICS 1
202 GENERAL PHYSICS 2
221 PHYSICS 1
222 PHYSICS 2

Psychological & Brain Sciences
PSY-P

101 INTRODUCTORY PSYCHOLOGY 1
106 GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY-HONORS
155 INTRO TO PSY & BRAIN SCIENCES
201 AN INTRO TO NEUROSCIENCE
211 METHODS OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

Sociology
SOC-S

110 CHARTS, GRAPHS & TABLES

Speech and Hearing Sciences
SPHS-S

111 INTRO TO PHONETICS FOR SPHS

Statistics
STAT-S

100 STATISTICAL LITERACY

Topics in Arts & Sciences
COLL-E

105 TPCS IN NATURAL & MATH SCIENCE
* SCIENCE OF ANIMAL MINDS
* THE BIOLOGY OF FOOD
* DARWINIAN MEDICINE
* READ MY LIPS!

Culture Studies (CSA, CSB, CSC): Select two courses

African American and African Diaspora Studies
AAAD-A

150 SURVEY CULTURE OF BLACK AMERICANS (CSC) (and A&H)
210 BLACK WOMEN IN THE DIASPORA (CSC)
264 HIST SPORT & AFRO-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE (CSC)
278 CONTEMPORARY BLACK FILM (CSC)(and A&H)

American Studies
AMST-A
275 INDIGENOUS WORLDVIEWS IN THE AMERICAS (CSC)
* NATIVE AMERICAN AND INDIGENOUS CULTURE: THE MUSKOGEE CREEK

Asian American Studies
AAST-A 101 INTRO TO ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES (CSC)

Central Eurasian Studies
CEUS-R

251 POST TALIBAN WAR ON TERROR (CSA)
270 THE CIVILIZATION OF TIBET (CSA)

Classical Studies
CLAS-C

101 ANCIENT GREEK CULTURE (CSA) (and Lit/FINA)
102 ROMAN CULTURE (CSA) (and Lit/FINA)
205 CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY (CSA) (and Lit/FINA)
206 CLASSICAL ART & ARCHAEOLOGY (CSA) (and Lit/FINA)

Communication and Culture
CMCL-C

201 RACE AND THE MEDIA (CSA)
202 MEDIA IN THE GLOBAL CONTEXT (CSA)

Comparative Literature
CMLT-C

145 MAJOR CHARACTERS IN WEST LIT (CSB) (and Lit/FINA)
(CMLT-BE 145 BE:CMLT-C 145/ENG-W 143)
*BAD COMPANY
147 IMGS OF THE SELF: EAST & WEST (CSA) (and Lit/FINA)
151 INTRO TO POPULAR CULTURE (CSB) (and Lit/FINA)
155 CULTURE & MODERN EXP: AN INTERDISC AND INTL APPROACH (CSA) (and Lit/FINA)
255 MODERN LIT AND OTHER ARTS: INTRO (CSB)(and Lit/FINA)
262 CROSS-CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS (CSA) (and Lit/FINA)
291 STUDIES IN NON-WESTERN FILM (CSA)(and A&H)

East Asian Languages and Cultures
EALC-E

100 EAST ASIA: AN INTRODUCTION (CSA) (and A&H)
201 ISSUES IN EAST ASIAN LITERATURE
* UNREAL DWELLINGS (CSA) (and Lit/FINA)
252 MODERN EAST ASIAN CIVILIATION (CSA)

Fine Arts
FINA-A

155 INTRO TO AFRICAN ART (CSA) (and A&H)
206 CLASSICAL ART & ARCHEOLOGY (CSA) (and Lit/FINA)

French and Italian
FRIT-M

222 TOPICS IN ITALIAN CULTURE (CSA) (and A&H)
* FEMALE VOICES: 20TH CENTURY ITALY

History
HIST-A 205 ASIAN AMERICAN HISTORY (CSC)(and US HISTORY)
HIST-B 260 WOMEN, MEN& SOCIETY IN MODERN EUROPE (CSB)
HIST-D

102 ICON & AXE: RUSSIA TO 1861 (CSA)
201 THE FALL OF COMMUNISM (CSA)

HIST-H

103 EUROPE: RENAISSANCE TO NAPOLEON (CSA)
207 MODERN EAST ASIAN CIVILIZATION (CSA)
211 LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE & CIV 1 (CSA)
251 JEWISH HIST: BIBLE TO SPAN EXPUL (CSA)

India Studies
INST-I

212 THE CIVILIZATION OF TIBET (CSA)

Jewish Studies
JSTU-C 240 CONTEMPORARY ISRAELI CULTURE (CSA)(and A&H)

Latino Studies
LATS-L

101 INTRODUCTION TO LATINO STUDIES (CSC)
102 INTRODUCTION TO LATINO HISTORY (CSC)

Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
NELC-N 208 MUSLIM COMMUNITIES IN EUROPE AND THE US: TRANSNATIONAL ISLAM (CSA)

Philosophy
PHIL-P

201 ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHY (CSA) (and A&H)

Religious Studies
REL-R

153 RELIGIONS OF THE EAST (CSA) (and A&H)
210 INTRO OLD TESTAMENT/HEBREW BIBLE (CSA) (and A&H)
257 INTRODUCTION TO ISLAM (CSA) (and A&H)

Slavic Languages and Literatures
SLAV-R

223 INTRO TO RUSSIAN CULTURES (CSA) (and A&H)
263 RUS LIT: PUSHKIN TO DOSTOEVSKY (CSA) (and Lit/FINA)

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