Sample Core Science Courses

The following are sample Core Science courses, and may not be available every semester.

  • CORE 101S - Energy and Sustainability
  • CORE 102S - Molecules, Energy, and Environment
  • CORE 103S - Remote Sensing of the Environment
  • CORE 105S - The Science and Potential Implications of Nanotechnology
  • CORE 106S - Saving the Appearances: Galileo, the Church, and the Scientific Endeavor
  • CORE 108S - The Story of Colorants
  • CORE 109S - In Data We Trust: The Promise and Perils of a Data-Driven Society
  • CORE 110S - Discovering Biology: Hormones
  • CORE 110S - Discovering Biology: Evolution
  • CORE 111S - The Artful Brain: An Exploration in Neuro-aesthetics
  • CORE 112S - Science of Relationships
  • CORE 113S - How to Build a Baby
  • CORE 114S - Ecology, Ethics, and Wilderness
  • CORE 115S - Language Acquisition
  • CORE 120S - Earth Resources
  • CORE 122S - Life in the Universe: A Cosmic Perspective
  • CORE 123S - Climate Change and Human History
  • CORE 124S - Cells and Human Development
  • CORE 128S - Global Change and You
  • CORE 129S - Dangerous Earth: Science of Geologic Disasters
  • CORE 131S - Scientific In-queery: LGBTQ Perspectives in Research
  • CORE 132S - Mathematical (Counter) Culture
  • CORE 134S - The Sixth Extinction
  • CORE 138S - The Advent of the Atomic Bomb
  • CORE 139S - Election Methods and Voting Technology
  • CORE 140S - Language and Cognition
  • CORE 143S - Introduction to Statistics
  • CORE 146S - The Good Life: Perspectives from Psychological Science
  • CORE 147S - Emerging Global Challenges: Science, Technology, and Culture
  • CORE 153S - Acid Rain: A Persistent Environmental Problem
  • CORE 156S - Drugs, Brain, and Behavior
  • CORE 158S - Molecules that Rock Your World
  • CORE 162S - Foodwise
  • CORE 163S - This Old Earth: Scientific and Cultural Perspectives on the Discovery of Deep Time
  • CORE 166S - The Air Up There
  • CORE 168S - Stem Cells, Gene Therapy, and Bionics: The Making and Remaking of the Human Body
  • CORE 170S - Media Effects
  • CORE 172S - The Biology of Women: Sex, Gender, Reproduction, and Disease
  • CORE 176S - Natural Disasters: Science, Media and Movies
  • CORE 177S - Critical Analysis of Health Issues: Cancer
  • CORE 178S - Water
  • CORE 179S - Living and Dying in an Unequal World
  • CORE 180S - The Science of Music
  • CORE 181S - Cooperation & the Environment
  • CORE 182S - From Paintings to Pixels
  • CORE 183S - The Science Fiction Effect: Popular Science Writing and Science Fiction in Public Discourse
  • CORE 184S - Fire
  • CORE 185S - Balderdash, Codswallop and Malarkey
  • CORE 186S - The Rhetoric of Science
  • CORE 188S - It’s a Dog Life
  • CORE 189S - Sleep
  • CORE 191S - The Archeology of Food
  • CORE 192S - The Anthropocene: Earth Systems With and Without Us
  • CORE 194S - Electrons and Our Civilization
  • CORE 195S - Networks: Friends, Terrorists, and Epidemics
  • CORE 196S - Environmental Science and Storytelling
  • CORE 197S - Ethics, Algorithms, & AI
  • FSEM 122 - Talking Climate
  • FSEM 125 - Bias in Humans and Machines
  • FSEM 129 - Poisons
  • FSEM 140 - Mind and Brain in Meditation
  • FSEM 141 - Willpower: Science of Self-Control