Sophomore Signature Courses
Flexible Core 200 Courses Designed with Sophomores’ Interest in Mind
- Meet Peers, Build Friendships
Connect with classmates who are at your stage, facing the same big questions, and ready to explore answers together. - Get Early Career Preparation
Get insider access to career-focused events and tailored opportunities that set you ahead on your journey. - Rely on Personalized Mentorship
Get one-on-one support from professors and advisors ready to guide your next steps and future plans.
Interpreting Objects, Text and Culture with Professor Tim McCormack
- ENG 225-01, Flexible Core Level 200, Individual & Society
- Tuesday/Thursday 10:50am-12:05pm, In Person
- Registration Code: 34655
This course teaches students to identify, analyze, and deconstruct the messages and meanings behind everything they see, hear, read, and experience. Furthermore, it argues that, as responsible consumers and creators of culture, it is imperative that they understand, interpret, and critically engage with those messages, including those with which they may disagree. Utilizing a variety of theories and methods, this course enables students not only to understand how the texts and objects they come into contact with (such as advertisements, television shows, newspaper articles, blog sites, clothing, electronic devices, etc.) shape society, but also how, as responsible members of society, they can participate and intervene in this process. Through this analytical work, they will come to understand the impacts such messages have on society as a whole as well as they individuals who inhabit it.
Technology and Culture with Professors Samantha Galarza & Juan Carlos García Rivera
- ISP 255-02, Flexible Core 200, Scientific World
- Thursday 3:05-5:45pm, In Person
- Registration Code: 35158
It is impossible to separate technology from being human. For over 100,000 years we have used technology to shape our world, and in turn we have been shaped by the technologies we have chosen, developed, and come to rely upon, from the flint and the ax, to the jet plane and the cell-phone, and beyond. Drawing on texts from the sciences, the humanities and the social sciences, this interdisciplinary course will explore and examine the various ways technology and technological progress has molded our culture and our imagination.
Love, Sex, and Intimate Relationships with Professor Jasmine Jackson
- CSL 250-98, Flexible Core Level 200, Individual & Society
- Friday 9:25am-12:05pm, Online Synchronous
- Registration Code: 34685
This course explores the individual, couple, and contextual factors that affect the development, maintenance, and decline of intimate relationships in social and cultural context. Students will be introduced to the concepts, principles and trends in intimate relationship scholarship and apply these to relationships they have observed, read about, and personally experienced. By examining scholarly articles and non-fiction texts in personal and socio-cultural terms, students will become more critical, analytical and reflective when it comes to intriguing topics like attraction, love, and effective communication. The course will also include in class discussions for students to reflect on their own behavior in intimate relationships.