You can spend a semester learning all about this

Today is the first day of classes—a.k.a the week where you sit at your computer desperately refreshing SSOL hour after hour. And if you’re looking for that one class that will advance your intellectual journey (and give more credits than Pilates), we’ve got your back. After the jump is last year’s list of must-takes; bolded classes are being offered this semester.

You might notice that there aren’t that many bolded classes—we’re looking to you to tell us which professors and courses should be added to this list! Give recommendations in the comment section, and help a horde of unsure freshmen—and even less sure upperclassmen—fulfill their intellectual destinies (/global core requirement).

Go forth and comment!

 

American Studies: Andrew Delbanco, Foundations of American Literature

Anthropology: Rosalind Morris, Mythology

Art History: Rosalyn Deutsche

Astronomy and Physics: Jacqueline Van Gorkom, Beyond the Solar System

Biology: Solomon Mowshowitz, Immunology

Biology: Nataliya Galafiankis, General Physiology

Chemistry: James Leighton, Organic Chemistry

Civil Engineering: Jose Sanchez, Engineering Graphics

Classics: Gareth Williams, Selections From Latin Literature: Horace

Core: Mark Lilla, Lit Hum; CC

Core: Richard Sacks, Lit Hum; CC

E3B: Jill Shapiro, Explorations in Primate Anatomy

Economics: Xavier Sala-I-Martin, Intermediate Macroeconomics

Economics: Sunil Gulati, Principles of Economics

Electrical Engineering: David Vallancourt, Intro to Electrical Engineering; Digital Information Era

English: James Shapiro, Shakespeare I, Shakespearean Poetry

English: Erik Gray, Victorian Poetry, Romantic Poetry

English: Nicholas Dames, The Victorian Novel

English: Edward Mendelson, Critical Reading, Critical Writing

English: Brent Edwards, Jazz and the Literary Imagination

English: Stephen Massimilla, Modernist British Fiction

History: Alan Brinkley, America since 1945

History: David Rosner, Social History of American Public Health

History: Kenneth Jackson, History of the City of New York

History: Samuel Roberts, Race, Technology and Health in US History

History: Eric Foner, United States in the Era of Civil War and Reconstruction

Linguistics: John McWhorter, Intro to Linguistics

Mathematics: Mu-Tao Wang, Differentiable Manifolds

Mathematics: Dave Bayer, Linear Algebra

Philosophy: Christia Mercer

Physics: Brian Cole, From Quarks to the Cosmos

Political Science: Andrew Nathan, Chinese Foreign Policy

Psychology: Catherine Monk, Abnormal Psychology

Religion: Peter Awn, Islam

Sociology: Shamus Khan, The Social World

Spanish: Francisco Rosales-Varo, Intermediate Spanish I; Spanish Pragmatics

Visual Arts: Thomas Roma, Photo I

Visual Arts: Jon Kessler, Sculpture II

Visual Arts: Rirkrit Tiravanija

Women’s and Gender Studies: Lila Abu-Lughod, Women and Gender Politics in the Muslim World

Women’s and Gender Studies: Beck Young

Global Core

Anthropology: The Rise of Civilization

Anthropology: Mahmood Mamdani, Major Debates in the Study of Africa

Center for Ethnicity and Race: Intro to Comparative Ethnic Studies

EALAC: Gregory Pflugfelder, Cultural History of Japanese Monsters

Religion: Michael Como, Intro to East Asian Buddhism

Japanese culture via Wikimedia Commons