Know Your Gen Eds
Where in UAccess can you find the courses and requirements you still need to complete for your degree?
Advisement Report.
FTV 352 - 001 Looking at Movies: Film Styles and Genres
This course explores the history and art of film by examining how filmmakers use technology, storytelling, visual style, and genres to create meaning. Students also consider how movies reflect their cultural and historical contexts and explore how films address cultural issues.
Artist
BSM 201 - On Being a Healthcare Professional
This course offers an overview of our health care system in the larger context of our society. It includes the history of different health care fields, communication with patients, health disparities, discussion of health systems and policy issues, and interprofessional and cross-cultural care. This course offers the student an opportunity to gain an understanding of the means by which the health care sector interacts with the society at large. This will include how different components of our society, such as housing and the social determinants of health impact on health care. It is an important course for all students in that all of us interact with the health care system at some time in our lives and the health care sector employs close to 10% of the working US population. This course will provide the students the critical thinking skills to evaluate our health care system as it plays an increasingly important role in political discourse.
Natural Scientist / Social Scientist / Humanist
What email account should you check regularly for important campus updates?
You Catmail via Outlook
Who can help you choose classes and understand your General Education requirements?
Academic Advisor
GEOG 230 - 001: Our Changing Climate
This course explores the physical processes driving climate change, its impacts on natural and human systems, and potential solutions. Students will gain a physical geography perspective on climate change and sustainability.
Natural Scientist
CHN 345 - Buddhists, Bandits, and Beauties: Masterworks of Chinese Fiction from the 1500s to the Digital Age
For centuries, Chinese people have thrilled to the adventures of characters such as the Monkey King, Lord Guan, and Wu Song the tiger killer. All of these stories are found in classic novels printed in sixteenth century. The exciting plots and plain-speech storyteller style of these novels have made them accessible in the original to readers even today. Increasingly, however, such stories have found fame throughout Asia and the world through popular culture and new media adaptations. In this course, we will examine both the originals (in translation) and the modern adaptations. We will explore the historical setting of the sixteenth- century Ming dynasty in which the novels were first created, as well as recent films and other cultural creations based on them. The aim will be to uncover the cultural dynamics that allow for such creativity and fluidity.
Artist / Humanist / Social Scientist
What year did the new general education system go into effect?
2022
*Bonus if you can tell me where this information appears*
How many units or class of Building Connection course work will you need to complete?
6 units or 2 classes.
PHIL 220 - 001: Philosophy of Happiness
This course explores what happiness is and how we can live happier lives. Students will examine philosophical and contemporary perspectives on happiness, including insights from psychology and the social sciences.
Humanist
AFAS 371 - Hip-Hop Cinema
This course provides a strong foundation in the history and development of hip-hop cinema from Africana Studies, Cinema and Cultural Studies perspectives. Major films, theories, and movements are studied in their historical, social, and cultural context, with a particular focus on the aesthetics of visual language and cinematic techniques. Interdisciplinary analysis will allow for viewing hip hop and cinema in revolutionary but academic ways.
Artist / Humanist / Social Scientist
When are assignments for this class normally due?
How many units or class of Exploring Perspective course work will you need to complete?
12 units or 4 classes
*Bonus points for naming each perspective*
EAS 160A5 - 101: Languages and Cultures of East Asia
This course will explore the social, historical, and linguistic aspects of the languages and cultures of East Asia and how they have changed over time, drawing from anthropology, linguistics, sociology, and history.
Social Scientist
ASTR 170A1 - Alien Earths
Thousands of planets have been discovered orbiting nearby stars. How many of these worlds can we expect to be Earth-like? We explore this question from the perspective of astronomers, geologists, and historians. We look back at Earth's geologic history to periods when our planet itself would appear very alien to us today. We study the nearby planets Venus and Mars, which were once more Earth-like than today. We discuss not only the evolution of Earth, Venus, and Mars as habitable worlds but also how human understanding of these planets has evolved. Finally, we apply these perspectives to the search for alien Earths in our galaxy. This interdisciplinary treatment of Earth, its neighboring planets, and planets being discovered around nearby stars allows us to consider the potentially unique position of Earth as a habitable world not only in space but in time.
Natural Scientist / Social Scientist
Name one campus resource or opportunity that you have learned about or we have reviewed in class.
Study Abroad, THINK Tank, UA Research, Handshake, Career Development Office, CAPS, your advisor (etc.).
How many total units of General Education Curriculum will you need to complete for graduation?
32 units of General Education coursework, including the minimum requirements from each category.
ITAL 330D - 001: Empowered Women in Italian Literature & Culture
This course examines representations of Italian women in literature, history, religion, and the visual arts, focusing on gender, education, social class, law, and family.
Humanist
WRIT 307 - Business Writing
Business writing is an Engaged Learning course that provides applied, hands-on experiences with professional business writing. The course explores how to address ethics of communication and how to navigate opportunities and challenges presented when writing business correspondence. Students engage in rhetorical analysis, research, persuasion, reflection, and revision in professional contexts. Students write a variety of workplace genres, including emails, memos, proposals, resumes, cover letters, white papers, and digital web spaces.
Social Science / Humanist / Artist
There are three outlined ways to gain extra credit in the class syllabus, name at least one.
THINK Tank hours, Academic Advising or Office hours.