New Undergraduate Courses

Below is a listing of all new undergraduate courses approved since July 2025.

AAAS 21.78 Black Conservatism in Context: An Intellectual History
AAAS 22.11 Introduction to African American Religion
AAAS 25.01 Black Sociology
AAAS 86.05 Black Culture and Politics in Brazil
AAAS 86.06 Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Brazilian Film
AAAS 87.13 Witchcraft and Biomedicine
ANTH 46 Advanced Topics in Political Ecology
ANTH 47 Anthropological Genetics
ANTH 50.64 Alpha Males and Lonely Boys: Apes and the Behavioral Biology of Men
ARTH 26.06 FSP: Advanced Language and Culture of Rome
ARTH 29.01 Landscape: Art, Nature & the Anthropocene
ARTH 43.03 Environmental Histories of Architecture
ARTH 48.09 A Wider Lens: Photo Histories 1950 to Present
ARTH 60.01 Ecology, Sovereignty, and Contemporary Art in Oceania
ARTH 62.21 K-Pop and Global Korea: Art, Aesthetics, and Hallyu
ASCL 9.03 Religions along the Silk Road: Early Globalism and Cultural Exchange
ASCL 51.09 Goddesses of India
ASCL 54.13 Empire and Decolonization in South Asia
ASCL 56.01 Environment and Politics in Southeast Asia
ASCL 60.13 Literature, Gender Violence, and Trauma in Contemporary East Asia
ASCL 61.13 Foundations of Chinese Thought
ASCL 70.29 Asiantowns Across the Americas
ASCL 80.13 The Camera in Nineteenth-Century Asia
BIOL 4 The Evolution of Cancer
BIOL 20 Life’s Innovations
BIOL 30 Plant Ecology
CLST 11.21 From Persia To Rome: Ethnicity in Ancient Empires
LAT 9.01 Intensive Latin
LAT 9.02 Intensive Latin
LAT 30.10 The ‘Happy Place’
COLT 19.08 Social Justice in Translation
COLT 26.01 Romanticism and Romance in Eastern Europe
COLT 49.12 Languages at War
COLT 50.02 Irish and Jewish Identities: Crossovers in Culture
COLT 67.08 FQZ Feminist Queer Zones
COLT 70.09 Approaching Sounds through Literature
COSC 49.14 Algorithmic Foundations
COSC 89.38 Topics in Neurosymbolic AI
COSC 89.39 Graph-based Machine Learning
CSDA 29.07 Digital Game Studio
CSDA 29.08 Media Enterpreneurship and Practice
CRWT 40.21 The Gleaners
CRWT 40.22 Dew on the Spider's Web--Making the System Your Story: Personal Narrative and Creative Nonfiction
CRWT 40.23 Go Long: The Art and Craft of Longform Creative Nonfiction
CRWT 41.02 Playwriting I
CRWT 41.03 Playwriting II
EARS 61.01 Hydroclimatology
EEER 11 Special Topics in East European, Eurasian, and Russian Culture
EEER 11.01 After Communism, Before Freedom: Post-Soviet Politics, Society, and Culture in Russia
EEER 11.02 Media and Mind Control
EEER 34 Romanticism and Romance in Eastern Europe
EEER 38.01 Horror, Laughter, Fear, Rage: Emotions in Literature and Culture
EEER 51 Eastern Europe in the Modern World
EEER 71.03 Ukrainian Theater Workshop: Translation and Performance
ECON 48 Microeconomic Policies and Economic Growth
ENGS 15.14 Human-Centered Design Capstone Studio
ENGS 15.15 Design Survivor
ENGS 15.16 Designing with Emerging Technologies
ENGS 85.16 Energy and Climate Systems Analysis and Decision Making
ENGS 85.17 Biophotonics: Principles and Applications in Biomedicine
ENGL 51.05 Shakespeare and Marlowe
ENGL 51.06 Shakespeare for Page and Stage
ENGL 53.58 Reading Romantasy
ENVS 80.21 Fungi: Science and Science Fiction
ENVS 80.22 Sustainable Futures
ENVS 80.23 Soils and Society
FILM 4 Introduction to Thinking About Media
FILM 5 Intro to Making Media
FREN 18 FoodPorn: Media and Other Pleasures
FREN 26 French Film
ITAL 27.05 IMPEGNO! Italian Imagination and the Role of Intellectuals (1945–Today)
GEOG 14 Weather and Climate of New England
GEOG 17 Decarbonize Your Life
GEOG 40.07 Latin America and the Invention of Nature
GEOG 58 GeoAI
GEOG 80.14 Advanced Topics in Climate Science
GERM 82.13 Literature as an Archive: Memory & Human Rights (in German)
GERM 82.14 Topics in German Creative Writing: Kids Only? Writing Children's Literature (in German)
GOVT 50.26 The Dictator's World
GOVT 50.27 International Law
GOVT 50.28 Dissent and Democracy in the World
GOVT 83.35 Inequality and U.S. Social Welfare Policy
GOVT 86.62 Black Conservatism in Context: An Intellectual History
GOVT 86.63 Ethics and Politics in the Bible
GOVT 86.64 Political Economy of Social Change
GOVT 86.65 Friendships: Personal and Political
GOVT 86.66 Race, Nation, and Sovereignty in Black Political Thought: Between Optimism and Pessimism
GOVT 86.67 No Crowns, No Cap: The Libertarian Tradition from the Bible to Black Political Thought
HIST 5.06 Empire and Decolonization in South Asia
HIST 71.02 Law, Order, and Conquest in Islamic History
HIST 96.36 Research in the History of American Capitalism: Energy, Environment, Innovation, Enterprise
HIST 96.43 Histories of Pornography
HIST 96.44 Research in the History of Religion and Politics in the Americas
HUM 3.10 Freud: Psychoanalysis, Literature and the Case Study
JWST 6.01 Revelation and Interpretation in Rabbinic, Philosophical, and Mystical Literature
JWST 9 Jews and Judaism in the Americas
JWST 11.04 The Book of Exodus: Text, History, Memory, and Reception
JWST 11.05 From Persia To Rome: Ethnicity in Ancient Empires
JWST 12.03 Irish and Jewish Identities: Crossovers in Culture
JWST 12.04 Exile and Hope in Yiddish and Hebrew Literature
JWST 28.02 The Dead Sea Scrolls
KOR 21 Second-Year Course in Korean 1
KOR 22 Second-Year Course in Korean 2
LACS 20 Courses on North America
LACS 20.18 Divas, Lovers, and Sissies
LACS 25 Cross-listed Courses on North America
LACS 30 Courses on Latin and Central America
LACS 30.09 Beauty Matters
LACS 30.23 Ethnography and Research Design
LACS 30.24 Asiantowns Across the Americas
LACS 35 Cross-listed Courses on Latin and Central America
LACS 40 Comparative Courses
LACS 40.05 Sports in the Americas
LACS 45 Cross-listed Comparative Courses
LACS 80 Senior Seminar Courses
LING 11.27 History and Structure of Sanskrit
LING 11.28 Gothic, Germanic, and Indo-European
LING 11.29 Writing Systems
LING 80.11 Conversation Management: Discourse Markers and the Like
MES 12.19 Covering the Middle East: From News Reporting to Long-Form Non-fiction
MES 15.05 A Cultural History of Islam and the Muslim World
MES 17.23 Law, Order, and Conquest in Islamic History
MES 17.24 Revelation and Interpretation in Rabbinic, Philosophical, and Mystical Literature
MUS 37.01 Songwriting 2: Songwriter's Workshop
MUS 41.02 Songs in the Key of Life
MUS 50.51 World Music Performance Lab
MUS 50.52 World Music Performance Lab
MUS 50.53 World Music Performance Lab
MUS 52.05 Advanced Conducting
NAIS 12 The Archaeology of Native American Sports and Games
NAIS 33 Indigenous Futurisms
PHIL 19.08 Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud
PHIL 50.42 Current Research in Ethical Theory
PHIL 50.43 Origins of Analytic Philosophy
PHIL 80.31 Feminist Aesthetics
PSYC 51.17 Models of Language and Conversation
PSYC 53.16 Are We Free? Evolution, Neuroscience and the Problem of Human Meaning
PSYC 53.17 Media Psychology
PSYC 53.18 Negotiations
PSYC 83.10 Conversation
PSYC 87.03 Individual Differences
REL 17.01 Introduction to African American Religion
REL 25.01 Are We Free? Evolution, Neuroscience and the Problem of Human Meaning
REL 57.09 The Book of Exodus: Text, History, Memory, and Reception
SPAN 53.04 Spanish for Education: Theories, Methods, and Practices in Language Pedagogy
SPAN 55.16 Hemingway in Cuba
SPAN 73.14 Embodying Care: Immigration, Health, and the Medical Humanities
INTS 80.07 Geopolitics of Energy and Natural Resources
INTS 80.08 Military Intervention and Stabilization Operations
INTS 80.09 The Processes of International Negotiations
PBPL 25 The Politics of Climate Change
PBPL 27.02 Comparative Borderlands in the Americas
PBPL 82.12 Inequality and U.S. Social Welfare Policy
PBPL 84.03 Science, Statistics, and Health Communication
PBPL 84.05 Unstalling the Stalled Revolution: Gender (In)equality at Work and at Home
THEA 10.36 Acting Shakespeare: The Two Gentlemen of Verona
THEA 10.40 Madness Onstage and Across Media
THEA 10.42 History and Practice of Burlesque
THEA 10.75 Ukrainian Theater Workshop: Translation and Performance
WGSS 17 The Politics of Fashion
WGSS 23.03 Asian American History
WGSS 31.05 Activism, Violence, and the University
WGSS 57.02 Race, Gender, Sexuality and Artificial Intelligence
WGSS 58.01 War and Visual Culture
WGSS 66.40 Introduction to Asian American Studies