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2025-2026

Archway Curriculum

The Archway Curriculum integrates learning across disciplinary boundaries, enhances learning through non-classroom experiences, and weaves skill development throughout the academic program. Students will have frequent opportunities to develop fundamental skills in communicating effectively and thinking critically. Through this curriculum, students will be exposed to a broad range of topics and perspectives, enhancing their understanding of the world.

  • Except for the Archway Seminar, any course in the Archway Curriculum may count in a major or minor, as appropriate.
  • Any course that is listed in multiple areas within Archway Curriculum may be counted by a student in all the applicable areas.
  • Students may take only one course pass/fail (grade of P*) in the Archway Curriculum. That course must be in the Foundational Literacies. [Note: if the course is also used for student's major or minor, taking the course pass/fail is not allowed.]
  • For students entering Nebraska Wesleyan with a baccalaureate degree from an accredited institution, the Archway Curriculum is waived.
  • Further information about the goals and purpose statements for each Archway Curriculum area can be found here.

FIRST-YEAR CURRICULUM

Archway Seminar

The Archway Seminar is designed to develop and exercise college-level skills in areas such as critical inquiry, receptive and critical reading, doing research, collaborating with others, multi-stage writing, public speaking, and academic integrity. Your instructor will also serve as your academic advisor, to help you develop a productive relationship with NWU, understand the purpose of its and your program of study, and help you take charge of your learning process. It serves as a launching point for your career as a college student.

Students will take one of the following courses in their first semester:

First-Year Writing

A major goal of the Archway Curriculum is to help you develop your skills as a writer. In your first-year writing courses you will work on fundamental writing skills, learning how to use writing to analyze, persuade, and communicate effectively. You will work on productive writing habits, particularly how to state and edit your writing to achieve your desired results. First-Year Writing serves as the gateway to the other Writing Instructive courses you will take at NWU.

Students will, within their first year, take ENG 1030FYW Writing and the Creative Arts for 4 credit hours, or take two of the following courses:

FOUNDATIONAL LITERACIES

Modern Language Literacy

Through the study of another modern language, students will develop their proficiency in that language. Language study is an essential ingredient of the Archway Curriculum, developing an understanding of how languages function, the ability to communicate using another language, and gaining a unique perspective on another culture. It builds and enhances communication skills, which is a major goal of the Archway Curriculum.

Students with previous language study will complete a language assessment to be placed in the appropriate language class. The Modern Language Literacy requirement can be met in the following ways:

Modern Language Literacy requirement waived for:

  • students who have completed the fourth-year high school language course in a modern language with grades of "B" or higher in each semester of language study, or a grade of "A" in both semesters of the fourth year, or
  • native speakers of language other than English who have fulfilled the TOEFL/APIEL/IELTS admission standard.

Note: Native speakers of a language other than English (who were not required to take the TOEFL/APIEL/IELTS) may petition the Executive Committee for a language waiver. You can find out more about the Executive Committee petitions on the Registrar's Office forms page.

Mathematical Problem Solving

Learning to use effectively the tools of mathematics develops skills of critical thinking and trains the mind to think rationally. By learning to make and test conjectures, critique reasoning, use and interpret information in mathematical form, develop strategies for solving problems using mathematical forms and reasoning, communicate your results, and persevere in solving complex problems, you develop skills fundamental to the larger goals of the Archway Curriculum related to communication and critical inquiry.

Students will choose at least 3 credits from the following courses:

Scientific Investigations

Through both natural and social science inquiry, students learn fundamental concepts and methods of science, including their limits, and how to explore issues of contemporary society using ethically the tools of science. Students will learn to pose hypotheses, collect and interpret data, and communicate the results of scientific research. Scientific inquiry develops fundamental skills of critical thinking and inquiry that are at the heart of the Archway Curriculum.

Natural Science Laboratory:

Students will take at least 4 credits (including a lab) from the following courses:

Social Science:

Students will take at least 3 credits from the following courses:

Creative and Performing Arts

In learning to create art, students develop the ability to express themselves through a creative medium, become self-reflective and critical of work they and others produce, enhance their ability to innovate, experiment, and imagine, and gain connection to the tradition of artistic creative across different communities and cultures. Developing your creative potential connects with larger goals of the Archway Curriculum in areas of communicating, critical inquiry, and diversity.

Students will take at least 3 credits from the following courses:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

In our diverse and interconnected world, solving the problems facing all of humanity will require the minds, voices, and actions of individuals from every background. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) courses help students develop the foundation of knowledge and the critical self-awareness they will need to be effective agents of change. DEI courses explore themes including but not limited to gender and gender identity, sexuality, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, linguistic background, age, disability, religion, and injustices in the exercise of power and privilege.

To fulfill the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) requirement, students must complete:

  • One course designated as DEI–Global
  • One course designated as DEI–U.S.

Important:
These courses must be taken from different disciplines.

DEI-Global:
DEI-U.S.:

ESSENTIAL CONNECTIONS

Writing-Instructive Courses

Writing instructive courses build your writing skills. You will learn to use writing to process course content, communicate using different disciplinary conventions, critique and edit your and other's writing, and produce polished finished work. Developing effective communication through writing is a core goal of the Archway Curriculum.

Students must take three Writing-Instructive courses from the following:
At least one course must be at the 3000-level or 4000-level.

Students who transfer to Nebraska Wesleyan with 45 or more credits have one Writing-Instructive course waived. An upper-level course is still required.

Discourse- and Speaking-Instructive Courses

Speaking/Discourse instructive courses develop your capacity to speak effectively in public and engage in productive collaborative discourse with others. You will learn to listen productively, and exchange ideas respectfully. In evaluating and respond to others, you will learn to think critically. Building oral communication skills is a core goal of the Archway Curriculum.

Students must choose either three Speaking-Instructive or two Speaking-Instructive and one Discourse-Instructive course from the following:
At least one course must be at the 3000-level or 4000-level.

Students who transfer to Nebraska Wesleyan with 45 or more credits have one Speaking-Instructive course waived. An upper-level course is still required. 

Discourse-Instructive:
Speaking-Instructive:
Experiential Learning

Through Experiential Learning, students integrate and apply knowledge and skills beyond the classroom and connect their experiences back to their classroom studies. Experiential learning develops and enhances skills of communication, collaboration, and critical problem solving, as well as intercultural and interpersonal competence and personal and social responsibility. Experiential learning pulls together and integrates learning and connects all the goals of the Archway Curriculum.

Students must complete one Exploratory Experiential Learning activity (which usually requires at least 20 hours within the first two years at Nebraska Wesleyan University) and one Intensive Experiential Learning activity (which usually requires at least 45 hours and is usually taken within the last two years at Nebraska Wesleyan University), or may choose to complete two Intensive Experiential Learning activities. Courses that contain these experiential activities are as follows:

Students who transfer to Nebraska Wesleyan with 45 or more credits have the Exploratory Experiential Learning activity requirement waived. 

Exploratory:
Intensive:

INTEGRATIVE CORE

The Integrative Core, where you take multiple courses in specific "threads", allows you to explore a theme from multiple disciplinary perspectives. In doing so, you develop and enhance your ability to think using multiple perspectives, understand a theme with a breadth and depth of understanding, and make connections across course boundaries. The Integrative Core embodies the larger goal of the Archway Curriculum to integrate learning across disciplines.

Students will take either two 9-hour or one 18-hour of the following thematically integrated thread(s) of courses.

In each thread, students must take at least one course from the 2000 level or above.

Courses in a 9-hour thread must be from a minimum of two departments. Courses in an 18-hour thread must be from a minimum of four departments.

Students who transfer to Nebraska Wesleyan with 45-74.5 or more credits need only one 9-hour thread. The Integrative Core requirement is waived for students who transfer in with 75 or more credits.

Chaos

How does change occur? How does the new come into being? The Chaos thread explores how innovation happens in the arts, in the sciences, and in social institutions, as well as in nations, communities, and individuals. The courses in the thread will look at how existing practices, beliefs, systems, and narratives come under critique, and how their assumptions are challenged; how alternatives to these practices, beliefs, systems, and narratives emerge, and how these alternatives engage the status quo; and how that engagement can lead, or fail to lead, to transformation.

Students in the Chaos thread will learn about the evaluative and critical tools that have in the past been and are in the present being used, in a wide range of political and cultural contexts, to critique existing practices, beliefs, systems, and narratives.  Students will be encouraged not only to be open to the new and unfamiliar, but also to recognize the integrity of the otherness of the new and unfamiliar, resisting the urge to re-model it in the image of the already-known with which they are comfortable. The ultimate goal is to enlarge the student’s pictures of the world.

This thread can be 9 or 18 hours.

Students must take at least one course from the 2000 level or above.

Courses in a 9-hour thread must be from a minimum of two departments. Courses in an 18-hour thread must be from a minimum of four departments.

Select Additional Courses to Meet Thread Requirements 
ART 3010 Art + Activism3 hours
COMM 3800 Communication through Dialogue4 hours
CRIM 2210 Probation and Parole4 hours
CRIM 3130 Law and Society4 hours
ENG 3020 Studies in Writing: Risk Fiction4 hours
ENG 3050 Studies In Writing: Hybrid Genres4 hours
GEND 2850 Sex and the Arts4 hours
HIST 3030/HIST 4030 Founding of the Americas4 hours
HIST 3700/HIST 4700 Revolutions in Latin America4 hours
IDS 3200 Experiential Learning - Chaos Thread1-2 hours
MUSIC 1140 Cover Band/Rock Band3 hours
MUSIC 1820 Soundtrack of Life4 hours
MUSIC 2630 Music Theory IV3 hours
PHIL 1100/PHIL 1100FYW Introduction to Philosophy3-4 hours
PHIL 3300 Radical Philosophies4 hours
POLSC 2640 Terrorism and Political Violence4 hours
POLSC 3800 Global Revolution & Rebellion4 hours
PSYCH 33002 hours
RELIG 2800 Apocalyptic Imagination in America3 hours
SOC 3130 Law and Society4 hours
SOC 3920 Social Theory4 hours
Democracy

Democracy is both one thing—a form of government based on the principle of popular sovereignty—and many things: a wide array of structures and institutions, a development in human history, an animating spirit in culture and the fine arts, a philosophical ideal, a source of conflict. This thread seeks to acknowledge that multiplicity by including the perspectives on democracy of several different disciplines, ranging over both its abstract principles and its immediate, lived realities, over both its grounds of possibility and its varied realizations. At the same time, the thread seeks to honor democracy as a unified phenomenon, an ongoing, still-emerging answer to the question of how societies and communities can best sustain themselves. The thread aspires to assist in the production of what every democracy indispensably needs: informed, engaged participants.

This thread can be 9 or 18 hours.

Students must take at least one course from the 2000 level or above.

Courses in a 9-hour thread must be from a minimum of two departments. Courses in an 18-hour thread must be from a minimum of four departments. 

Required Thread Courses 

Select one of these required courses:

3-4 hours
Select Additional Courses to meet Thread Requirements 
COMM 2600 Mass Media4 hours
CRIM 1010 Introduction To Criminal Justice4 hours
EDUC 1010 Introduction to Education in the United States2 hours
EDUC 2850 Education in a Pluralistic Society3 hours
ENG 2070 Introduction to U.S. Literature4 hours
ENG 2630 Journalism And Free Speech4 hours
HIST 1020/HIST 1020FYW United States Society and Culture Since 18774 hours
HIST 2420 Liberalism & Conservatism In Amer Hist4 hours
IDS 3150 What If, Why Not?2 hours
IDS 3210 Experiential Learning - Democracy Thread1-2 hours
MATH 1010 Mathematics and Democracy3 hours
MUSIC 3550 Secondary Vocal Music Methods3 hours
PHIL 2040 The Origin of Western Democratic Thinking: Ancient Greece3 hours
PHIL 2400 Social-Political Philosophy4 hours
POLSC 1010/POLSC 1010FYW United States Government and Politics4 hours
POLSC 2030 Elections4 hours
POLSC 2200 Race and Politics4 hours
POLSC 2400 Congress4 hours
POLSC 3300 Public Opinion4 hours
RELIG 2340 Religious Diversity in the United States3 hours
SPED 3570 Legal Issues in Special Education2 hours
THTRE 2010 Dramatic Literature: Pulitzer Prize3 hours
THTRE 2020 Dramatic Literature: Tony Awards3 hours
THTRE 2030 Dramatic Literature: American Comedy3 hours
THTRE 2060 Dramatic Literature: Banned and Censored3 hours
THTRE 3680 Musical Theatre History3 hours
THTRE 3800 World Theatre History I3 hours
THTRE 3810 World Theatre History II3 hours

Note: Effective fall 2018 HIST 1010/HIST 1010FYW counts toward the Innovation thread. Students who took the course previously may count the course toward the Democracy thread.

Gender and Sexuality

Students in the Gender and Sexuality thread will encounter scholarship and theoretical perspectives on gender and sexualities, including masculinity studies, feminisms, and queer studies. The thread will provide resources from various contexts and disciplines to analyze gender, including gender identity, expression, and performance. Students completing the thread should be able to examine the relationship between cultural expectations of feminine, masculine, or androgynous behaviors and the realities of gendered lives. The Gender and Sexuality thread aims that male, female, and gender nonconforming students will make connections between classroom material and their own experience. 

This thread can be 9 or 18 hours.

Students must take at least one course from the 2000 level or above.

Courses in a 9-hour thread must be from a minimum of two departments. Courses in an 18-hour thread must be from a minimum of four departments.  

Select Courses to Meet Thread Requirements 
ENG 2200 4 hours
ENG 30304 hours
ENG 34104 hours
ENG 3730 Shakespeare and Gender2 hours
GEND 2970 Gender Studies Internship1-8 hours*
GEND 3000 Gender Advocacy4 hours
GEND 3970 Internship1-8 hours*
GEND 4970 Gender Studies Internship1-8 hours*
HIST 23704 hours
HIST 3530/HIST 4530 Queens, Crusaders, and Wonder Women4 hours
HIST 3540/HIST 4540 History of Sexualities4 hours
HIST 3550/HIST 4550 Gender & The Wild West4 hours
IDS 3220 Experiential Learning - Gender/Sexuality Thread1-2 hours
MUSIC 2830/MUSIC 3830 Music History I: Gender Equity4 hours
PHIL 23003 hours
PHIL 32703 hours
POLSC 27004 hours
PSYCH 25504 hours
PSYCH 26504 hours
RELIG 2300/3 hours
SOC 1350/SOC 2350 Sociology of the Family4 hours
SOC 23804 hours
SOC 3260 Thinking SocioLogically: Gender2 hours
SOC 33804 hours
SOCWK 23503 hours
THTRE 20503 hours
Going Global

Students in the Going Global thread explore what it means to live in an interconnected world, acquiring the necessary skills to understand, critically analyze, and actively engage in that world.

This thread can be 9 or 18 hours.

Students must take at least one course from the 2000 level or above.

Courses in a 9-hour thread must be from a minimum of two departments. Courses in an 18-hour thread must be from a minimum of four departments.

Required Thread Course 
POLSC 1100 Introduction to International Politics or
HIST 1110 World Civilizations		4 hours
Select Courses to Meet Thread Requirements 
ARH 1030FYW Survey of Non-Western Art History4 hours
ARH 1040FYW Survey of Western Art History4 hours
BUSAD 4300 International Marketing3 hours
BUSAD 4400 International Finance3 hours
ECON 1530 Macroeconomic Principles3 hours
ECON 4570 International Trade3 hours
ECON 4580 Economic Development3 hours
HIST 2110 Introduction to Latin America4 hours
HIST 3100/HIST 4100 Pirates, Corsairs, And Buccaneers4 hours
HIST 3860/HIST 4860 Japanese Popular Culture, Past and Present4 hours
IDS 3230 Experiential Learning - Going Global Thread1-2 hours
INTST 3500 Rwandan Culture Through Film and Literature4 hours
MFREN 2030 Perspectives in Language and Culture4 hours
MFREN 2040 Connections in Language and Culture4 hours
MFREN 3040 Connections In French Language and Culture4 hours
MFREN 3280 French & Francophone Cultures I/MFREN 42802 hours
MFREN 3290 French/Francophone Cultures II/MFREN 42902 hours
MFREN 3430 Francophone Literatures/MFREN 44304 hours
MFREN 3480 Topics In French Literature I/MFREN 44802 hours
MFREN 3490 Topics In French Literature II/MFREN-44902 hours
MGRMN 2030 Perspectives in Language and Culture4 hours
MGRMN 2040 Connections in Language and Culture/MGRMN 3040 Connections In German Language and Culture4 hours
MGRMN 3280 Cultures Of German-speaking World I/MGRMN 42802 hours
MGRMN 3290 Cultures Of German-speaking World II/MGRMN 42902 hours
MGRMN 3610 German Film and Society/MGRMN 46104 hours
MGRMN 3620 German Media/MGRMN 46204 hours
MJPAN 2030 Perspectives in Language and Culture2-5 hours
MJPAN 2040 Connections in Language and Culture2-5 hours
MLANG 2610 Global Culture Through Film2 hours
MLANG 3020 Engaging in Study Abroad1 hour
MSPAN 2020 Spanish Stage 4: Global Connections4 hours
MSPAN 3280 Culture Of Spanish: Speaking World I/MSPAN 42802 hours
MSPAN 3290 Cultures Of Spanish: Speaking World II/MSPAN 42902 hours
MSPAN 3410 Readings in Spanish Literature/MSPAN 44104 hours
MSPAN 3470 Latina/o Literature and Film/MSPAN 44704 hours
MSPAN 3480 Literature In Spanish-spk World I/MSPAN 44802 hours
MSPAN 3490 Literature In Spanish-speaking Wrld II/MSPAN 44902 hours
MSPAN 3500 Media and Culture of Mexico I/MSPAN 45002 hours
MSPAN 3510 Media and Culture of Mexico II/MSPAN 45102 hours
MSPAN 3600 Introduction to Translation I/MSPAN 46002 hours
MSPAN 3610 Introduction to Translation II/MSPAN 46102 hours
MSPAN 3620 Introduction to Literary Translation/MSPAN 46204 hours
MSPAN 3700 Advanced Spanish Through Literature and Film/MSPAN 47004 hours
POLSC-2650POLSC-2650
POLSC 3730 Authoritarian Regimes4 hours
Human Health and Disease

The Constitution of the World Health Organization famously defines health as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity” (http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.36.9.1041). The next sentence is less often quoted: “The enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being without distinction of race, religion, political belief, economic or social condition.” Clearly the situation of many people around the globe falls short of these ideals, and large numbers of people continue to become sick and die as a result of preventable problems like malnutrition, infectious disease, and lack of access to basic health care. Moreover, a large percentage of people in more developed countries like the United States suffer from health problems related to excess (e.g. obesity, diabetes, hypertension).  Students make personal decisions every day that can affect their physical health and virtually all other aspects of their lives.

In the Human Health and Disease thread we seek to increase student’s awareness of the range of problems that affect their own health as well as the health of humans in their local and global communities. Students in this thread will identify and think deeply about the “big questions” related to human health, and to learn how solutions to these complex problems may require thinking across disciplines and a worldwide perspective.  We expect that students who successfully complete this thread will emerge with a more nuanced, diverse, and humane perspective on the multidisciplinary issues related to human health.

This thread can be 9 or 18 hours.

Students must take at least one course from the 2000 level or above.

Courses in a 9-hour thread must be from a minimum of two departments. Courses in an 18-hour thread must be from a minimum of four departments.  

Required Thread Course 

Must take one of the following:

IDS 1500 Introduction to Global Human Health or
NURS 3040 Global Health or
HHP 1260 Human Health and Wellness

2-3 hours
Select Additional Courses to meet Thread Requirements 
ATTR 5330 Health Assessment/ATTR 5330X Health Assessment4 hours
BIO 3000 An Introduction to Biomedical Ethics2 hours
BIO 3160 Medical Botany3 hours
BIO 3170 Medical Botany Lab1 hour
BIO 4700 Pathophysiology3 hours
BIO 4750 Immunology3 hours
CHEM 2500 Introduction to Neuroscience3 hours
COMM 2550 Health Communication3 hours
ENG 2250 Topics in World Literature: Health and Illness4 hours
HHP 2000 Mindfulness and Stress2 hours
HHP 2010 Drugs in Modern Society3 hours
HHP 2020 Consumer, Community, and Environment Health Issues3 hours
HHP 2030 Human Sexuality3 hours
HHP 2040 Stress and Disease Management2 hours
HHP 2250 The History of Public Health3 hours
HHP 2500 Basic Human Nutrition2 hours
HHP 2720 Introduction to Massage Therapy3 hours
HHP 2800 Clinical Exercise Physiology2 hours
HHP 3330 Health Assessment3 hours
HHP 4350 Public Health Studies I: Current Topics and Politics3 hours
HIST 2660 Disease in History4 hours
IDS 2050 Give To Learn3 hours
IDS 3290 Experiential Learning - Human Health and Disease Thread1-2 hours
MUSIC 2720 Resilience and Wellbeing4 hours
NURS 2700 Mental Health2 hours
NURS 2710 Pathophysiology for Traditional BSN Students4 hours
NURS 3340 Health Care Ethics3 hours
NURS 4450 Community Health Nursing For Traditional BSN Students2 hours
PSYCH 2150 Psychopharmacology4 hours
PSYCH 2450 Health Psychology4 hours
PSYCH 2700 Psychological Disorders4 hours
PSYCH 3370 Adult Development and Aging4 hours
PSYCH 3750 Cultural Psychology4 hours
SOC 3220 Thinking SocioLogically: Medical Sociology2 hours
SOCWK 2410 Loss, Death and Grief3 hours
SOCWK 3450 Health Care Practice3 hours
Humans in the Natural Environment

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”  --John Muir

This thread models the interconnectedness of the living community by asking students to examine scientific constructs and cultural interpretations of the natural environment from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, and in global historical, social, and political contexts.  By exploring themes of connection, expression, change, resilience, accountability, and sustainability, and through community engagement and active participation in natural settings, students should develop a sense of agency and urgency in helping to address vital environmental issues. 

This thread is 9 hours.

Students must take at least one course from the 2000 level or above.

Courses in a 9-hour thread must be from a minimum of two departments.

Select Courses to Meet Thread Requirements 
BIO 1300 Introduction to Environmental Science4 hours
BIO 2300 Ecology and Evolution4 hours
BIO 3500 Conservation Biology4 hours
BIO 3530 Principles of Marine Biology and Oceanography3 hours
BIO 4210 Ecology4 hours
HIST 2610 Environmental History4 hours
IDS 3240 Experiential Learning - Environmental Thread1-2 hours
PHYS 1200 Energy and the Global Environment4 hours
POLSC 2720 Environmental Politics4 hours
POLSC 2730 The Politics Of Public Lands4 hours
SOC 2530 Population and Environment4 hours
SOC 3210 Thinking SocioLogically: Environment2 hours
SOC 3530 Environment, Food, and You4 hours
Identity

Identity is many things—some as private and personal as a memory, some as anonymous as a Social Security number. Identity might mean belonging to a nation, to a religion, or to a generation, yet it could also be as specific as a certain sweater, a certain song. In the “Identity: Who Are You?” thread, students will explore how a variety of academic disciplines analyze and understand human identity. Students will investigate not only the construction of personal identity, but also how personal identities are constituted within social, political, cultural, and religious contexts.  Students completing the thread will have resources for better understanding their own identities and the identities of others.

This thread can be 9 or 18 hours.

Students must take at least one course from the 2000 level or above.

Courses in a 9-hour thread must be from a minimum of two departments. Courses in an 18-hour thread must be from a minimum of four departments. 

Required Thread Course 
HIST 2200/IDS 1200/IDS 1200FYW/IDS-12104 hours
Select Additional Courses to meet Thread Requirements 
COMM 1250 Introduction to Communication Studies4 hours
CRIM 2140 Juvenile Justice4 hours
EDUC 1680 Literature for Children and Youth3 hours
EDUC 2690 Young Adult Literature3 hours
ENG 1040FYW Writing and Identity2 hours
ENG 2220 Topics in World Literature: Nation and Identity4 hours
ENG 3170 Advanced Fiction Writing: Finding Your Voice4 hours
ENG 3190 Advanced Topics in Poetry Writing4 hours
ENG 3740 Shakespeare and Identity2 hours
ENG 3800 African-American Literature4 hours
HIST 2170 Body, Mind, Spirit: The Understanding of the Self in Western Culture4 hours
HIST 2200 Race & Ethnicity At Nwu4 hours
HIST 2810 Introduction to East Asian History4 hours
HIST 3350/HIST 4350 Nazi Germany4 hours
HIST 3850/HIST 4850 Twilight of the Samurai: Early Modern Japan4 hours
IDS-2040IDS-2040
IDS 3250 Experiential Learning - Identity Thread1-2 hours
MLANG 2500ID Faculty Led Trip: Identity Thread0-4 hours
MUSIC 2810 World Music Cultures3 hours
PSYCH 2350 Lifespan Development4 hours
PSYCH 3400 Social Psychology4 hours
PSYCH 3700 Cognitive Psychology4 hours
RELIG 2350 Judaism, Christianity and Islam3 hours
RELIG 3200 Constructing Religious Identity3 Hours
SOC 3520 Group Dynamics4 hours
SOCWK 1200 Life Lessons3 hours
SPED 2070 Understanding Human Differences3 hours
SPED 3070 Methods for Teaching Secondary Students with Disabilities3 hours
THTRE 4890 Senior Showcase1 hours
Innovation

Innovation signifies bold, creative solutions to complex challenges through collaboration across multiple disciplines, bringing together transformational approaches for purposeful application. This thread calls on students to identify, investigate, and solve problems through intentional integration of diverse methods. Students will utilize approaches from the arts, business, science, and the world of ideas to explore, question, disrupt, and enhance society through energized collaboration.

Students will:

  • explore historical, cultural, scientific, creative, and socioeconomic contexts that foster and lead to bold thinking and innovative action;
  • learn fundamental processes, principles, and theories that drive change;
  • develop and experience networking and collaboration opportunities;
  • transform innovative ideas with a positive social impact into proposals for self-sustaining social enterprise;
  • demonstrate behaviors and skills essential for innovation developing their creative capacities by designing, implementing, and assessing projects.

This thread can be 9 or 18 hours.

Students must take at least one course from the 2000 level or above.

Courses in a 9-hour thread must be from a minimum of two departments. Courses in an 18-hour thread must be from a minimum of four departments.

Select Courses to Meet Thread Requirements 
ARH 3300 Renaissance Art4 hours
ARH 3600 Modern Art4 hours
ARH 3800 Contemporary Art4 hours
ART 1070 Introduction to Creative Technology4 hours
BUSAD 3100 Managing Information Systems3 hours
BUSAD 4700 Entrepreneurship3 hours
HIST 1010/HIST 1010FYW Topics in United States History to 1877*3 or 4 hours
HIST 3840/HIST 4840 Meiji - The Making of Modern Japan4 hours
IDS 2030 Innovative Approaches to Wicked Problems2 hours
IDS 2940 Creative Comm Partner Internship1-3 hours
IDS 3300 Experiential Learning - Innovation Thread1-2 hours
IDS 4940 Creative Comm Partner Internship1-3 hours
INNOV 1000 Ideas To Innovation3 hours
INNOV 2000 Problem Solving3 hours
MUSIC 1160 Composing for Film and Video Game3 hours
MUSIC 2710 Music Prod W/digital Audio Workstations3 hours
PHIL 2070 AI Ethics3 hours
PHYS 2400 Introduction to Modern Physics4 hours
PHYS 4000 Quantum Mechanics4 hours
THTRE 1020FYW/THTRE 1030 Script Analysis3 hours
THTRE 1060 Introduction to Musical Theatre2 hours
THTRE 1410 Costume Construction3 hours
THTRE 1420 Makeup Design3 hours
THTRE 2080 Musical Theatre Literature3 hours
THTRE 2730 Costume Design3 hours
THTRE 3160 Theatre Management3 hours

 

Justice

Justice allows people to live together ethically in community and society. But what is justice? Where does it come from? How is it realized? How is it practiced? This thread invites students and faculty to examine how conceptions of justice are woven through various disciplines, focusing on themes such as community, philosophical, social, criminal, legal, and global justice.

This thread can be 9 or 18 hours.

Students must take at least one course from the 2000 level or above.

Courses in a 9-hour thread must be from a minimum of two departments. Courses in an 18-hour thread must be from a minimum of four departments. 

Select Courses to Meet Thread Requirements 
BUSAD 4600 Business Ethics 3 hours
CRIM 3150 Criminology4 hours
ENG 3710 Shakespeare And Justice2 hours
HIST 2410 Racial Justice in Twentieth Century America4 hours
IDS 1030 Exploring Legal Careers0-1 hours
IDS 3310 Experiential Learning - Justice Thread1-2 hours
PHIL 2020 Ethics4 hours
PHIL 2410 Theories Of Justice4 hours
POLSC 2100 Social Policy4 hours
POLSC 2110 Lobbying and Policy Advocacy4 hours
POLSC 2350 Judicial Politics4 hours
POLSC 2450 State and Local Government4 hours
POLSC 2500 Constitutional Law4 hours
RELIG 2250 Religion, Peace and Social Justice3 hours
SOC 1110 Introduction to Sociology4 hours
SOC 3370 Social Inequality4 hours

 

 

Power

Power is the ability to make things happen. It is impossible to imagine the world without it, and it takes innumerable forms. Some can be precisely measured and analyzed; others are so subtle as to almost defy description. The Power thread will examine the forms power takes in the natural world and in the products of human culture, in relationships between individuals and in relationships between groups and nations.  Drawing on several different academic disciplines, we will seek to understand how this indispensable abstraction has been and is used and abused, gained and lost, asserted and contested in actual concrete circumstances of the past and the present.

This thread can be 9 or 18 hours.

Students must take at least one course from the 2000 level or above.

Courses in a 9-hour thread must be from a minimum of two departments. Courses in an 18-hour thread must be from a minimum of four departments.

Select Courses to Meet Thread Requirements 
ARH 3000 History of Art Museums4 hours
ARH 3100 Ancient Art4 hours
ARH 3410 History Of Architecture4 hours
BUSAD 2500 Principles of Management3 hours
COMM 2400 Communication and Leadership4 hours
COMM 3200 Persuasive Communication4 hours
CRIM 2130 Corrections4 hours
ECON 1540 Microeconomic Principles3 hours
ENG 2050 Introduction to British Literature4 hours
ENG 2520 History of English & Structure of English Language4 hours
ENG 3500 Postcolonial and Global Literature4 hours
ENG 3720 Shakespeare and Power2 hours
HIST 2540 African-American History4 hours
HIST 2560 Indigenous History4 hours
IDS 3270 Experiential Learning - Power Thread1-2 hours
MUSIC 2860/MUSIC 3860 Music History II: Racial Equity4 hours
PHIL 1200FYW Critical Thinking2 hours
POLSC 2550 Political Parties and Interest Groups3 hours
POLSC 2630 Foreign Policy4 hours
PSYCH 2800 Stereotypes, Prejudice & Discrimination4 hours
RELIG 1150 World Religions3 hours
SOC 1330/SOC 2330 Race Relations and Minority Groups4 hours
SOC 3140 Protests & Social Movements4 hours
SOC 3230 Thinking SocioLogically: Race/Ethnicity2 hours
SOCWK 2200 Social Welfare Policy, Services, and Delivery Systems3 hours
Science and Religion

Science and religion both involve questions of knowledge: questions of what we claim to know and how we came to know it, questions of what we do not yet know and whether it can be known. At different times in history, and according to different thinkers, science's claims to knowledge have been seen as complementary to, or in competition with, or in conflict with, or simply of a wholly different kind than those of religion. The Science and Religion thread will combine the perspectives of several different disciplines on these questions of knowledge and belief, both historically and in the present.

This thread can be 9 or 18 hours.

Students must take at least one course from the 2000 level or above.

Courses in a 9-hour thread must be from a minimum of two departments. Courses in an 18-hour thread must be from a minimum of four departments.

Required Thread Course 
IDS 1050FYW/IDS 1060/IDS 1070 Science and Religion Seminar4 hours
Select Additional Courses to meet Thread Requirements 
HIST 2180 Science and Religion in Western Tradition4 hours
IDS 3280 Experiential Learning - Science/Religion Thread1-2 hours
MATH 2200 Foundations of Modern Mathematics3 hours
PHIL 2050 God and Science in Medieval Christian, Jewish, and Islamic Philosophies3 hours
PHIL 2060 God and Science in Early Modern Philosophies from 1600-18993 hours
PHIL 2800 Mythologies Mythologies4 hours
PHIL 3210 Philosophy of Religion3 hours
PHIL 3250 Philosophy of Science3 hours
PHYS 1300 Astronomy4 hours
RELIG 4260 Christian Theology from the Enlightenment to the Mid-Twentieth Century3 hours