General Education

Public 2026-2027 offerings

70 courses

GENED 1001Stories from the End of the World
GENED 1004Understanding Darwinism
GENED 1006Music From Earth
GENED 1008Power and Identity in the Middle East
GENED 1015Ethics of Climate Change
GENED 1018How to Build a Habitable Planet
GENED 1019The Caribbean Crucible: Colonialism, Capitalism and Post-Colonial Misdevelopment In The Region
GENED 1025Happiness
GENED 1027Climate Change and Human Evolution
GENED 1030The Philosopher and the Tyrant
GENED 1033Negotiation and Conflict Management: From the Interpersonal to the International
GENED 1037Great Experiments that Changed Our World
GENED 1038Sleep
GENED 1042Anime as Global Popular Culture
GENED 1044Deep History
GENED 1046Evolving Morality: From Primordial Soup to Superintelligent Machines
GENED 1050Act Natural
GENED 1052Race in a Polarized America
GENED 1053The Global Heart Disease Epidemic: Stopping What We Started
GENED 1056Human Nature
GENED 1063World Health: Challenges and Opportunities
GENED 1064Brains, Identity, and Moral Agency
GENED 1070Life as a Planetary Phenomenon
GENED 1072Video Commune
GENED 1074The Ancient Greek Hero
GENED 1079Why Is There No Cure for Health?
GENED 1089The Border: Race, Politics, and Health in Modern Mexico
GENED 1091Classical Chinese Ethical and Political Theory
GENED 1093Who Lives, Who Dies: Reimagining Global Health
GENED 1098Natural Disasters
GENED 1099Pyramid Schemes: What Can Ancient Egyptian Civilization Teach Us?
GENED 1104Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to Soft Matter Science
GENED 1105Can We Know Our Past?
GENED 1114Painting's Doubt: A Studio Course
GENED 1115Human Trafficking, Slavery and Abolition in the Modern World
GENED 1116Medical Ethics and History
GENED 1119Law, Politics, and Trade Policy: Lessons from East Asia
GENED 1120The Political Economy of Globalization
GENED 1122The Social Responsibilities of Universities
GENED 1123Islam and Politics in the Modern Middle East
GENED 1131Loss
GENED 1133Is the U.S. Civil War Still Being Fought?
GENED 1140Borders
GENED 1144Mental Health and Mental Illness Through Literature and the Arts
GENED 1156Modern Art and Modernity
GENED 1158Water and the Environment
GENED 1167Climate Crossroads
GENED 1176Sexuality in Literature: From Giovanni's Room to Fun Home
GENED 1178Mexico's Culinary Roots: Archaeology of Food and Culture
GENED 1183The English Language Today, Yesterday, and Tomorrow
GENED 1185The Power and Beauty of Being In Between: The Story of Armenia
GENED 1187AI, Computing and Thinking
GENED 1189U.S. K-12 Schools: Assumptions, Binaries, and Controversies
GENED 1193Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
GENED 1194Philosophy of Technology: From Marx and Heidegger to Artificial Intelligence
GENED 1196Tradition in Everyday Life
GENED 1197Grimm’s Fairy Tales: Echoes of the Past, Reflections of the Present
GENED 1199Learning and Unlearning
GENED 1201Foundations of NeuroAI: Synergies between the sciences of natural and artificial
GENED 1203How the Germans Embraced Hitler: Politics, Culture & the Death of Democracy in Germany, 1918-1945
GENED 1205The Power, Art, and Technology of Writing in East Asia
GENED 1207Whose culture is it anyway? Latin America's Politics of Memory
GENED 1208What Is Love?
GENED 1209Dogs in Science, Society, and the Modern World
GENED 1210Ethics in the Age of AI
GENED 1211Peace in Practice: Conflict, Ambiguity, and Civic Life
GENED 1212Healing the World
GENED 1213Digital Democracy
GENED 1214Solving Genuinely Hard Problems in Science
GENED 1215A Good Life Compass: Learning from Classical India