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ARCN 246 Archaeological Methods and Lab 6 credits
As a field that is truly interdisciplinary, archaeology uses a wide range of methods to study the past. This course provides a hands-on introduction to the entire archaeological process through classroom, field, and laboratory components. Students will participate in background research concerning local places of historical or archaeological interest; landscape surveying and mapping in GIS; excavation; the recording, analysis, and interpretation of artifacts; and the publication of results. This course involves real archaeological fieldwork, and students will have an opportunity to contribute to the history of the local community while learning archaeological methods applicable all over the world.
During registration, students will register for both the lecture and a corresponding lab section, which will appear on the student's academic transcript in a single entry.
Sophomore priority
- Spring 2027
- LS, Science with Lab QRE, Quantitative Reasoning
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ARCN 246.01 Spring 2027
- Faculty: Elizabeth Davis 🏫 👤
- M, WAnderson Hall 121 9:50am-11:00am
- M, WAnderson Hall 122 9:50am-11:00am
- FAnderson Hall 121 9:40am-10:40am
- FAnderson Hall 122 9:40am-10:40am
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ARCN 246.52 Spring 2027
- Faculty: Elizabeth Davis 🏫 👤
- Size:12
- TAnderson Hall 121 1:00pm-5:00pm
- TAnderson Hall 122 1:00pm-5:00pm
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ARCN 246.57 Spring 2027
- Faculty: Elizabeth Davis 🏫 👤
- Size:12
- TAnderson Hall 121 8:00am-12:00pm
- TAnderson Hall 122 8:00am-12:00pm
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ARTS 113 Field Drawing 6 credits
A beginning drawing course for students who are interested in developing their skills in drawing from nature, to better see and understand their surroundings. Class material covers line, form, dimension, value, perspective, and space using a variety of drawing materials. Subject matter includes specimens, plant forms, and the landscape. Students will use a portable sketchbook, and classes during the second part of the term are primarily outside. Locations include the Arb and field trips; access to these sites does include walking on unpaved paths and uneven terrain.
X seats held for Art and Art History majors until the day after X priority registration.
Sophomore Priority
This course has a current ACE component that collaborates with Sharing Our Roots Farm, using drawing as a way to engage with local farming and conservation. No extra contact time is required.
- Fall 2026, Spring 2027
- ARP, Arts Practice
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ARTS 113.01 Fall 2026
- Faculty: Eleanor Jensen 🏫 👤
- Size:17
- T, THWeitz Center 242 9:00am-11:30am
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ARTS 113.02 Fall 2026
- Faculty: Eleanor Jensen 🏫 👤
- Size:17
- T, THWeitz Center 242 1:15pm-3:45pm
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ARTS 113.01 Spring 2027
- Faculty: Eleanor Jensen 🏫 👤
- Size:17
- T, THWeitz Center 242 9:00am-11:30am
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ARTS 113.02 Spring 2027
- Faculty: Eleanor Jensen 🏫 👤
- Size:17
- T, THWeitz Center 242 1:15pm-3:45pm
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Sophomore Priority
This course has a current ACE component that collaborates with Sharing Our Roots Farm, using drawing as a way to engage with local farming and conservation. No extra contact time is required.
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ARTS 230 Ceramics: Throwing 6 credits
This course is focused on the creative possibilities of the pottery wheel as a means to create utilitarian objects. Students are challenged to explore conceptual ideas while maintaining a dedication to function. An understanding of aesthetic values and technical skills are achieved through studio practice, readings, and demonstrations. Basic glaze and clay calculations, high fire and wood kiln firing techniques, and a significant civic engagement component, known as the Empty Bowls Project, are included in the course.
X seats held for Art and Art History majors until the day after X priority registration.
- Spring 2027
- ARP, Arts Practice
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Student has completed any one of the following course(s): ARTS 130 or ARTS 236 with a grade of C- or better.
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ARTS 230.01 Spring 2027
- Faculty: Kelly Connole 🏫 👤
- Size:8
- M, WBoliou 046 8:30am-11:00am
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Two seats held for Art and Art History majors until the day after junior priority registration.
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ARTS 230.02 Spring 2027
- Faculty: Kelly Connole 🏫 👤
- Size:14
- M, WBoliou 046 12:30pm-3:00pm
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Four seats held for Art and Art History majors until the day after junior priority registration.
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ARTS 276 Design Fundamentals, Zines, and Artistic Publications 6 credits
This course will discuss principles of graphic design using a Risograph duplicator, a printing technology that operates similarly to both silkscreen printmaking and a copy machine. The Riso is used to create artwork, zines, and other artistic publications. We will examine creative possibilities for this technology, using both analog techniques and digital publishing software including Adobe Photoshop and Indesign to make printed imagery and narrative works like zines and artists books.
- Fall 2026
- ARP, Arts Practice
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Student has completed any one of the following course(s): ARTS 110 or ARTS 113 or ARTS 114 with grade of C- or better or received a Carleton Studio Arts 110 Requisite Equivalency.
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ARTS 276.01 Fall 2026
- Faculty: Jade Hoyer 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WBoliou 032 12:30pm-3:00pm
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Four seats held for Arts and Art History majors until the day after rising junior priority registration.
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ARTS 336 Advanced Throwing 6 credits
This course focuses on the creative possibilities of throwing on the potter's wheel as a means to create utilitarian and sculptural objects. Students are challenged to explore conceptual ideas at an advanced level. An understanding of aesthetic values and technical skills are achieved through studio practice, readings, and demonstrations. Basic glaze and clay calculations, various firing techniques, and a significant civic engagement component, known as the Empty Bowls Project, are included.
Seats held for Art and Art History majors.
Extra Time Required: Participation in the Empty Bowls Community Meal on a Friday in May.
- Spring 2027
- ARP, Arts Practice
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Student has completed any one of the following course(s): ARTS 230 or ARTS 236 with a grade of C- or better.
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ARTS 336.01 Spring 2027
- Faculty: Kelly Connole 🏫 👤
- Size:6
- M, WBoliou 046 8:30am-11:00am
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Two seats held for Art and Art History majors until the day after junior priority registration.
Extra Time Required: Participation in the Empty Bowls Community Meal on a Friday in May.
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BIOL 310 Immunology 6 credits
This course will examine the role of the immune system in defense, allergic reactions, and autoimmunity. Topics to be covered include the structure and function of antibodies, cytokines, the role of the major histocompatibility complex in antigen presentation, cellular immunity, immunodeficiencies, and current techniques used to study immune responses.
- Winter 2027
- No Exploration QRE, Quantitative Reasoning
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): BIOL 125 with a grade of C- or better or received a score of 5 or better on the Biology AP exam or received a score of 6 or better on the Biology IB exam or received a Carleton Biology 125 Requisite Equivalency or completed Biology A Level Test 1 with a grade of B or better AND BIOL 126 with a grade of C- or better or received a Carleton Biology 126 Requisite Equivalency or completed Biology A Level Test 2 with a grade of B or better AND either BIOL 240 or BIOL 280 with a grade of C- or better.
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BIOL 310.01 Winter 2027
- Faculty: Debby Walser-Kuntz 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WHulings 316 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FHulings 316 1:10pm-2:10pm
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BIOL 372 Seminar: Structural Biology 6 credits
The ability to visualize macromolecules at atomic detail has significantly advanced our understanding of macromolecular structure and function. This course will provide an overview of fundamental experimental methodologies underlying structure determination, followed by primary literature-based discussions in which students will present and critically discuss classic foundational papers as well as examples from the current literature that have advanced our understanding of macromolecule structure and function.
Waitlist Only: Students must waitlist for this course. Final registration determined by the instructor through the manual waitlist process.
- Winter 2027
- No Exploration QRE, Quantitative Reasoning
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): BIOL 125 with a grade of C- or better or received a score of 5 or better on the Biology AP exam or received a score of 6 or better on the Biology IB exam or received a Carleton Biology 125 Requisite Equivalency or completed Biology A Level Test 1 with a grade of B or better AND BIOL 126 with a grade of C- or better or received a Carleton Biology 126 Requisite Equivalency or completed Biology A Level Test 2 with a grade of B or better AND either BIOL 280 or BIOL 380 or BIOC 301 or CHEM 320 with a grade of C- or better.
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CAMS 270 Nonfiction 6 credits
This course addresses nonfiction media as both art form and historical practice by exploring the expressive, rhetorical, and political possibilities of nonfiction production. A focus on relationships between form and content and between makers, subjects, and viewers will inform our approach. Throughout the course we will pay special attention to the ethical concerns that arise from making media about others’ lives. We will engage with diverse modes of nonfiction production including essayistic, experimental, and participatory forms and create community videos in partnership with Carleton’s Center for Community and Civic Engagement and local organizations. The class culminates in the production of a significant independent nonfiction media project.
Extra Time
- Fall 2026
- ARP, Arts Practice IDS, Intercultural Domestic Studies
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): CAMS 111 with grade of C- or better.
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CAMS 270.01 Fall 2026
- Faculty: Laska Jimsen 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 133 10:10am-11:55am
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EDUC 234 Educational Psychology 6 credits
Human development and learning theories are studied in relation to the teaching-learning process and the sociocultural contexts of schools. Three hours outside of class per week are devoted to observing learning activities in public school elementary and secondary classrooms and working with students.
Extra Time Required: For classroom time in public schools
- Fall 2026
- SI, Social Inquiry
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EDUC 234.01 Fall 2026
- Faculty: Ziye Wen 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLibrary 344 10:10am-11:55am
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EDUC 275 Inclusion or Refusal?: Educational Justice Models 6 credits
This era of local, state, and national pushback against policies and practices of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” provides us with an opportune moment to examine the possibilities and limitations of this framing as a pathway for educational justice. Drawing on critiques of liberal frameworks of educational equity by Indigenous scholars and scholars of color, this course will ask what educational justice might look like beyond representation and belonging, especially in higher educational institutions.
Recommended Preparation: One 100-level Educational Studies course.
Extra Time Required: There will likely be off-campus site visits to schools and/or engagement with relevant campus programming around the topic.
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EDUC 275.01 Fall 2026
- Faculty: Anita Chikkatur 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- T, THWillis 114 1:15pm-3:00pm
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Extra Time Required: There will likely be off-campus site visits to schools and/or engagement with
relevant campus programming around the topic.
Recommended Preparation: One 100-level Educational Studies course.
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EDUC 338 Multicultural Education 6 credits
This course focuses on the respect for human diversity, especially as these relate to various racial, cultural and economic groups, and to women. It includes lectures and discussions intended to aid students in relating to a wide variety of persons, cultures, and life styles.
Extra Time Required: For field trips and campus events.
- Spring 2027
- IDS, Intercultural Domestic Studies SI, Social Inquiry
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): One 100 or 200 level Educational Studies (EDUC) course with grade of C- or better.
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EDUC 338.01 Spring 2027
- Faculty: Anita Chikkatur 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WWillis 114 9:50am-11:00am
- FWillis 114 9:40am-10:40am
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Extra Time Required: For field trips and campus events.
Prerequisites: Student has completed any of the following course(s): One 100 or 200 level Educational Studies (EDUC) course with grade of C- or better.
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EDUC 395 Senior Seminar 6 credits
This is a capstone seminar for educational studies minors. It focuses on a contemporary issue in American education with a different topic each year. Recent seminars have focused on the school to prison pipeline, youth activism, intellectual freedom in schools, and gender and sexuality in education. Senior seminars often incorporate off campus work with public school students and teachers.
Extra Time required.
- Spring 2027
- No Exploration
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Student is an Educational Studies minor.
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EDUC 395.01 Spring 2027
- Faculty: Anita Chikkatur 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWillis 114 12:30pm-3:00pm
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Extra Time required.
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ENGL 255 The Poetics of Disability 6 credits
Scholar Michael Davidson has suggested that “perhaps the closest link between poetry and disability lies in a conundrum within the genre itself: poetry makes language visible by making language strange.” In this class we will read a wide range of poets who tackle ideas of normalcy and “ability” by centering disability consciousness and culture. We will engage with poetry’s capacity as a genre to destabilize our assumptions and generate new imaginaries. Alongside contemporary U.S. poetry, we will study contemporary theory in the field of disability studies in order to better understand the critical conversations around the meaning, nature, and consequences of disability.
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ENTS 115 Introductory Methods for Climate Action 6 credits
Global climate change manifests in ways such as increasingly severe droughts, heat waves, and flooding. Reducing emissions and addressing amplified and unjust impacts requires place-based interdisciplinary solutions that intersect with campus and community development. This course provides a practical toolkit of methods for climate action and justice. Students will learn foundational skills like analyzing climate trends, benchmarking data, and facilitating listening sessions. With tips from campus and regional sustainability experts, and practicums to build skills, students move beyond the analysis of existing climate plans to practicing the strategies required to build or fulfill them
Sophomore Priority
Extra Time Required: Participation in a public event in Northfield for reciprocal climate learning. If unable to participate, an alternative experience in which students engage their peers on campus will be arranged.
- Spring 2027
- No Exploration QRE, Quantitative Reasoning
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ENTS 395 Senior Seminar in Environmental Studies 6 credits
This Fall seminar will focus on the planning and design of ENTS senior comprehensive exercise projects. Students will prepare a final project proposal in collaboration with campus and/or community partners as applicable, including background research and literature review, detailed study design and methodology, and, if applicable, preliminary assessments and analyses for the project to be completed in Winter with a public presentation in Spring.
Recommended Preparation: Complete all required ENTS core courses.
- Fall 2026
- SI, Social Inquiry
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Student is a ENTS major AND has Senior Priority.
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ENTS 395.01 Fall 2026
- Faculty: Devavani Chatterjea 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 426 1:15pm-3:00pm
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ENTS 400 Integrative Exercise 6 credits
In this course, ENTS majors will work on a team project designing environmental interventions for a real-world setting.
Extra Time Required: Meetings with community members. Occasional site visits.
- Winter 2027
- No Exploration
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Student has completed the following course: ENTS 395 with grade of C- or better.
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GEOL 120 Introduction to Environmental Geology and Lab 6 credits
An introduction to geology emphasizing the physical basis of systems of interest to environmentalists, ecologists, and policy makers. Field trips and laboratories included.
During registration, students will register for both the lecture and a corresponding lab section, which will appear on the student's academic transcript in a single entry.
Extra Time Required: Weekend Field Trips
- Fall 2026
- LS, Science with Lab QRE, Quantitative Reasoning WR2, Writing Rich 2
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Not open to students who have taken another 100-level Geology course.
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GEOL 120.01 Fall 2026
- Faculty: Bereket Haileab 🏫 👤
- M, WAnderson Hall 129 8:30am-9:40am
- FAnderson Hall 129 8:30am-9:30am
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GEOL 120.51 Fall 2026
- Faculty: Bereket Haileab 🏫 👤
- Size:18
- MAnderson Hall 129 2:00pm-6:00pm
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First Year Priority
Any remaining seats on the morning after first year priority registration will become Sophomore Priority.
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GEOL 340 Hydrogeology: Groundwater and Lab 6 credits
The principles of groundwater flow through the subsurface, and the functioning of aquifers. Topics include the properties of porous media, hydraulic head gradients, contaminant transport, and fractured and karstified aquifers. Labs will include working with physical sandbox models and soil columns, as well as an outdoor pumping well test (weather permitting). We will simulate groundwater flow using simple numerical modeling, beginning with an introduction to Python coding, and develop an increasingly complex groundwater model over the course of the term.
Recommended Preparation: Either GEOL 210 (Geomorphology), or previous coding experience.
During registration, students will register for both the lecture and a corresponding lab section, which will appear on the student's academic transcript in a single entry.
- Spring 2027
- LS, Science with Lab QRE, Quantitative Reasoning
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): Two 200 level GEOL courses with grade of C- or better.
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GEOL 340.01 Spring 2027
- Faculty: Chloé Fandel 🏫 👤
- M, WAnderson Hall 123 11:10am-12:20pm
- FAnderson Hall 123 12:00pm-1:00pm
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GEOL 340.54 Spring 2027
- Faculty: Chloé Fandel 🏫 👤
- Size:18
- THAnderson Hall 123 1:00pm-5:00pm
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GERM 100 Seeking Shelter in a Dangerous World 6 credits
Where do I feel at home? What causes me to feel not at home in certain spaces? In the face of transforming societies and environments, can a stable sense of home be preserved—and should it be? In this course, we will study texts from a wide range of geographic locations and cultural backgrounds that investigate the stakes of creating a sense of home within unfamiliar, unwelcoming, and seemingly ruined environments. Ultimately, we will seek ways to think both critically and creatively about human environments, both in cultural texts and in our own reflection on the places we call home.
Held for new first year students
Extra Time Required: Collaboration with community partners may require meetings or civic engagement activities outside of normal class time. Total time for ACE activities plus individual homework will fall within the normal range of homework time required for a Carleton class.
- Fall 2026
- AI/WR1, Argument & Inquiry/WR1 IS, International Studies
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Student is a member of the First Year First Term class level cohort. Students are only allowed to register for one A&I course at a time. If a student wishes to change the A&I course they are enrolled in they must DROP the enrolled course and then ADD the new course. Please see our Workday guides Drop or 'Late' Drop a Course and Register or Waitlist for a Course Directly from the Course Listing for more information.
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GERM 100.01 Fall 2026
- Faculty: Seth Peabody 🏫 👤
- Size:14
- M, WWeitz Center 231 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 231 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HIST 116 Intro to Indigenous Histories, 1887-present 6 credits
Many Americans grow up with a fictionalized view of Indigenous people (sometimes also called Native Americans/American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians within the U.S. context). Understanding Indigenous peoples’ histories, presents, and possible futures requires moving beyond these stereotypes and listening to Indigenous perspectives. In this class, we will begin to learn about Indigenous peoples across Turtle Island and the Pacific through tribal histories, legislation, Supreme Court cases, and personal narratives. The course will focus on the period from 1887 to 2018 with major themes including (among others) agency, resistance, resilience, settler colonialism, discrimination, and structural racism.
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HIST 116.01 Spring 2027
- Faculty: Meredith McCoy 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THLeighton 236 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 200 Historians for Hire 2 credits
Designed to give students experiences and skills in public history and history education, this course offers students a choice among projects connected to local organizations and some partners farther afield. Students will have the opportunity to develop skills connected to archiving, building online materials such as maps and websites, and learning historical methods like oral history interviews or exhibit design. Most projects involve close collaborations with local community organizations, allowing students to become more connected with organizations outside of Carleton.
Repeatable: This course is repeatable.
Extra Time Required
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HIST 200.01 Spring 2027
- Faculty: Antony Adler 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- WLibrary 305 12:30pm-1:40pm
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HIST 216 History Beyond the Walls 6 credits
How do we translate the scholarly study of history for a wider audience? What does it mean to do history for, about, and with the public? This course is both theoretical and practical. We will explore the wide variety of ways in which historians preserve and interpret history, with a particular focus on how research is shared with public audiences. We will put these ideas into practice by cocreating a public history project with a community partner; in 2027, that project will include the history of Carleton’s Japanese Garden, which will be celebrating its 50th anniversary.
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HIST 216.01 Winter 2027
- Faculty: Serena Zabin 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 303 1:50pm-3:35pm
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HIST 231 Mapping the World Before Mercator 6 credits
This course will explore early maps primarily in medieval and early modern Europe. After an introduction to the rhetoric of maps and world cartography, we will examine the functions and forms of medieval European and Islamic maps and then look closely at the continuities and transformations in map-making during the period of European exploration. The focus of the course will be on understanding each map within its own cultural context and how maps can be used to answer historical questions. We will work closely with the maps in Gould Library Special Collections to expand campus awareness of the collection.
Extra time is required for a one-time map show in the library which we will schedule at the beginning of term.
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HIST 231.01 Winter 2027
- Faculty: Victoria Morse 🏫 👤
- Size:18
- M, WLeighton 426 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 426 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HIST 301 Indigenous Histories at Carleton 6 credits
Carleton’s new campus land acknowledgement affirms that this is Dakota land, but how did Carleton come to be here? What are the histories of Indigenous faculty, students, and staff at Carleton? In this course, students will investigate Indigenous histories on our campus by conducting original research about how Carleton acquired its landbase, its historic relationships to Dakota and Anishinaabeg people, histories of on-campus activism, the shifting demographics of Native students on campus, and the histories of Indigenous faculty and staff, among others. Students will situate these histories within the broader context of federal Indian policies and Indigenous resistance.
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HIST 301.01 Fall 2026
- Faculty: Meredith McCoy 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 330 3:10pm-4:55pm
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IDSC 258 Consensus or Contentious? Controversies in Science Then and Now 2 credits
Almost every global challenge confronting humankind requires some level of engagement with science and technology. However, finding solutions to our most pressing problems also requires an understanding of how science operates within its social, political, and cultural context. This course will explore the relationship between science and society by examining a series of controversies in science from both the past and the present. We will investigate topics such as biological and social concepts of race, the use of unethically obtained scientific results, the ethics of genomics research, legislation over vaccination mandates, “parachute” science, and climate change denial. Examining the role of science in society will help us understand issues related to the use of evidence, expertise, and the relationship between science and politics. By wrestling with current and historic scientific controversies, we will examine the ways in which scientific disagreements are often as much about values as they are about research methods.
- Winter 2027
- No Exploration
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IDSC 258.01 Winter 2027
- Faculty: Antony Adler 🏫 👤 · Rika Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- WHasenstab 105 1:50pm-3:00pm
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IDSC 298 FOCUS Sophomore Colloquium 1 credits
This colloquium is designed for sophomore students participating in the Focusing on Cultivating Scientists program. It will provide an opportunity to participate in STEM-based projects on campus and in the community. The topics of this project-based colloquium will vary each term.
Open only to students who completed IDSC 198
- Fall 2026, Winter 2027, Spring 2027
- No Exploration
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): IDSC 198 with a grade of C- or better during their first year.
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IDSC 298.01 Fall 2026
- Faculty: Deborah Gross 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- WAnderson Hall 329 3:10pm-4:20pm
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IDSC 298.01 Winter 2027
- Faculty: Deborah Gross 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- WAnderson Hall 329 3:10pm-4:20pm
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IDSC 298.01 Spring 2027
- Faculty: Deborah Gross 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- WAnderson Hall 329 3:10pm-4:20pm
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MATH 285 Mathematics Practicum 2 credits
This class is a collaborative research project culminating in a written report or paper. Students will use predictive modeling, computer simulations, visualization, and data management to analyze and provide insight into a problem coming from an external community partner.
- Fall 2026, Winter 2027, Spring 2027
- No Exploration QRE, Quantitative Reasoning
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): MATH 101 or MATH 111 or greater with a grade of C- or better or received a score of 4 or better on the Calculus AB AP exam or received a score of 4 or better on the Calculus BC AP exam or received a score of 5 or better on the Mathematics IB exam or received a score of 3 on the Calculus BC AP exam with a Calculus AB subscore of 4 or received a Carleton Math 111 or better Requisite Equivalency.
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NEUR 260 Health Psychology 6 credits
This course will examine how psychological principles can be employed to promote and maintain health, prevent and treat illness, and encourage adherence to disease treatment regimens. Within a biopsychosocial framework, we will analyze behavioral patterns and public policies that influence risk for cardiovascular disease, cancer, chronic pain, substance abuse, and sexually transmitted diseases, among other conditions. Additionally, students in groups will critically examine the effects of local policies on health outcomes and propose policy changes supported by theory and research. A grade of C- or better must be earned in both Psychology 260 and 261 to satisfy the LS requirement.
PSYC 260 is cross listed with NEUR 260.
- Fall 2026
- LS, Science with Lab QRE, Quantitative Reasoning
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): PSYC 110 with a grade of C- or better or received a score of 4 or better on the Psychology AP exam or received a score of 6 or better on the Psychology IB exam.
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NEUR 260.02 Fall 2026
- Faculty: Gisel Flores-Montoya 🏫 👤
- Size:32
- M, WAnderson Hall 121 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FAnderson Hall 121 2:20pm-3:20pm
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PHIL 202 Philosophy Lab: Leading a Pre-Collegiate Philosophy Program 3 credits
In this course, Carleton students will collaborate with local high school students from the Area Learning Center (ALC) to develop and articulate views on philosophical issues of interest to Carleton students and students at the ALC. Our overarching objectives are to promote the joy of doing philosophy and to foster skills among Carleton and ALC students for having good philosophical conversations. These skills include, but are not limited to listening, empathy, intellectual humility, and flexibility.
Meets M/W only
- Spring 2027
- HI, Humanistic Inquiry
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): One Philosophy course excluding Independent Studies or Directed Research courses with a grade of C- or better.
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PHIL 202.01 Spring 2027
- Faculty: Hope Sample 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WLeighton 330 12:30pm-1:40pm
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PHYS 344 Classical and Quantum Optics 6 credits
A junior/senior level course in classical and quantum optics. Includes the phenomena of interference, diffraction and coherence and quantum optical applications, such as unique statistical states of light or the operation of a laser. Modern applications of these areas are studied through such topics as fiber optics telecommunication, optical data storage, or manipulation of atoms by light.
- Fall 2026
- No Exploration QRE, Quantitative Reasoning
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): PHYS 235 AND MATH 134 or MATH 232 with a grade of C- or better or received a Carleton Math 232 or better Requisite Equivalency.
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PHYS 344.01 Fall 2026
- Faculty: Marty Baylor 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WAnderson Hall 036 9:50am-11:00am
- FAnderson Hall 036 9:40am-10:40am
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PHYS 394 Directed Research in Physics 1 – 6 credits
Students work on a research project related to a faculty member's research interests, and directed by that faculty member. Student activities vary according to the field and stage of the project. The long-run goal of these projects normally includes dissemination to a scholarly community beyond Carleton. The faculty member will meet regularly with the student and actively direct the work of the student, who will submit an end-of-term product, typically a paper or presentation.
- Fall 2026, Winter 2027, Spring 2027
- No Exploration
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POSC 293 Politics and Public Policy in Washington, D.C., Program: Practical Experience in DC 6 credits
All students will intern at an office in Washington or participate in some form of sustained civic engagement activity with instructor approval. In the past students have worked for legislators, executive agencies, interest groups and media outlets. Part of this experience involves keeping a weekly journal and writing a reflective summary paper.
Acceptance in the Carleton OCS Politics and Public Policy in Washington, D.C. program.
- Winter 2027
- No Exploration
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Acceptance in the Carleton OCS Politics and Public Policy in Washington, D.C. program AND student has completed any of the following course(s): STAT 120 or any other STATs course with a grade of C- or better.
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PSYC 260 Health Psychology 6 credits
This course will examine how psychological principles can be employed to promote and maintain health, prevent and treat illness, and encourage adherence to disease treatment regimens. Within a biopsychosocial framework, we will analyze behavioral patterns and public policies that influence risk for cardiovascular disease, cancer, chronic pain, substance abuse, and sexually transmitted diseases, among other conditions. Additionally, students in groups will critically examine the effects of local policies on health outcomes and propose policy changes supported by theory and research. A grade of C- or better must be earned in both Psychology 260 and 261 to satisfy the LS requirement.
PSYC 260 is cross listed with NEUR 260.
- Fall 2026
- LS, Science with Lab QRE, Quantitative Reasoning
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): PSYC 110 with a grade of C- or better or received a score of 4 or better on the Psychology AP exam or received a score of 6 or better on the Psychology IB exam.
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PSYC 260.02 Fall 2026
- Faculty: Gisel Flores-Montoya 🏫 👤
- Size:32
- M, WAnderson Hall 121 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FAnderson Hall 121 2:20pm-3:20pm
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RELG 130 Native American Religions 6 credits
This course explores the history and contemporary practice of Native American religious traditions, especially as they have developed amid colonization and resistance. While surveying a broad variety of ways that Native American traditions imagine land, community, and the sacred, the course focuses on the local traditions of the Ojibwe and Dakota communities. Materials include traditional beliefs and practices, the history of colonization, intertribal new religious movements, and contemporary issues of treaty rights, sacred place protections, and language revitalization.
Sophomore Priority
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RELG 130.01 Fall 2026
- Faculty: Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 402 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 282 Samurai: Ethics of Death and Loyalty 6 credits
This course explores the history of samurai since the emergence of warrior class in medieval times, to the modern developments of samurai ethics as the icon of Japanese national identity. Focusing on its connection with Japanese religion and culture, we will investigate the origins of the purported samurai ideals of loyalty, honor, self-sacrifice, and death. In addition to regular class sessions, there will be a weekly kyudo (Japanese archery) practice on Wednesday evening (7-9 pm), which will enable students to study samurai history in context through gaining first-hand experience in the ritualized practice of kyudo.
Extra Time Required: For weekly kyudo (Japanese archery) practice on Wednesday evening (7-9 pm)
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RELG 282.01 Fall 2026
- Faculty: Asuka Sango 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 236 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 236 9:40am-10:40am
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Extra Time for weekly kyudo (Japanese archery) practice on Wednesday evening (7-9 pm)
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SOAN 214 Neighborhoods and Cities: Inequalities and Identities 6 credits
Inequalities and identities are well understood yet too often disconnected from the context of space and place. In this class, we discuss the ways that neighborhoods and cities are sites of inequality as well as identity. Neighborhoods are linked to the amount of wealth we hold; the schools we attend; the goods, services, and resources we have access to; and who our neighbors are. Neighborhoods are also spaces where identities and community are created, claimed, and contested. They can also be sites of conflict as they change through gentrification or other processes that often reflect inequalities of power, resources, and status. In this course, special attention will be paid to how race, gender and sexuality, and immigration shape inequalities and identity in neighborhoods and cities. This course will also include an academic civic engagement component, collaborating with local communities in Minnesota.
Recommended Preparation: The department strongly recommends that Sociology/Anthropology 110 or 111 be taken prior to enrolling in courses numbered 200 or above.
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SOAN 240 Methods of Social Research 6 credits
When sociologists and anthropologists conduct their research, how do they know which method to choose? What assumptions guide their decision? What challenges might they encounter? What are their ethical obligations? In this course, we'll explore a diverse range of methods, from in-depth interviews to large-scale surveys and participant observation fieldwork. Students will also learn how to craft feasible research questions, select the right method, collect and analyze data, and communicate research methods effectively. This course is an essential foundation for SOAN majors, equipping students with the skills and knowledge necessary to succeed in their comps experience.
- Spring 2027
- QRE, Quantitative Reasoning SI, Social Inquiry WR2, Writing Rich 2
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First-year students are ineligible to enroll. Student must have completed the following course(s): One 200- or 300-level SOAN course AND SOAN 110 or SOAN 111 with a grade of C- or better, AND STAT 120 or STAT 250 with a grade of C- or better, or received a score of 4 or better on the Statistics AP exam.
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SOAN 240.01 Spring 2027
- Faculty: Annette Nierobisz 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 231 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 231 9:40am-10:40am
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SPAN 320 Death and Dying Under Capitalism: An Ecological and Humanistic Perspective 6 credits
Within the capitalist system, the concept of dying well (Ars moriendi) has progressively lost its collective sense and meaning, relegated instead to the realm of individual responsibility. Simultaneously, the notion of a dignified death has ceased to be an inalienable right for all individuals, becoming contingent upon inherited privileges and access to private resources. Death, transformed into a taboo, coexists with an apocalyptic culture and a state of eco-anxiety stemming from ecological crises and the looming extinction of numerous species, potentially including humans. Some of our guiding questions will be: What implications does dying under capitalist conditions entail? Can cultural representation do more than merely comply with, comment or oppose these scenarios? Our exploration will encompass a diverse array of texts, films, and workshops featuring various guest speakers.
- Spring 2027
- HI, Humanistic Inquiry IS, International Studies
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): One SPAN course numbered 205 or higher excluding Independent Studies with a grade of C- or better.
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SPAN 320.01 Spring 2027
- Faculty: Palmar Álvarez-Blanco 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 133 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 133 12:00pm-1:00pm
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STAT 285 Statistical Consulting 2 credits
Students will apply their statistical knowledge by analyzing data problems solicited from surrounding communities. Students will also learn basic consulting skills, including communication and ethics.
This course is repeatable, priority will be given first to Statistics majors who have not previously taken the course and then to other students who have not taken the course. Students who have previously taken the course should reach out to the instructor to discuss entry into the course.
12 seats held for Statistics majors until the day after rising junior priority registration.
- Fall 2026, Winter 2027, Spring 2027
- FSR, Formal or Statistical Reasoning QRE, Quantitative Reasoning
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Student has completed the following course(s): STAT 230 with a grade of C- or better. Students who have previously completed STAT 285 must request a course section prerequisite override in order to register for the course.
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STAT 285.01 Winter 2027
- Faculty: Claire Kelling 🏫 👤
- Size:12
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- TCMC 304 10:10am-11:55am
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This course is repeatable, priority will be given first to Statistics majors who have not previously taken the course and then to other students who have not taken the course. Students who have previously taken the course should reach out to the instructor to discuss entry into the course.
12 seats held for Statistics majors until the day after junior priority registration.
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STAT 285.01 Spring 2027
- Faculty: Claire Kelling 🏫 👤
- Size:12
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- TCMC 304 10:10am-11:55am
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This course is repeatable, priority will be given first to Statistics majors who have not previously taken the course and then to other students who have not taken the course. Students who have previously taken the course should reach out to the instructor to discuss entry into the course.
Twelve seats held for Statistics majors until the day after rising junior priority registration.
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STAT 294 Directed Research in Statistics 1 – 6 credits
Students work on a research project related to a faculty member's research interests, and directed by that faculty member. Student activities vary according to the field and stage of the project. The long-run goal of these projects normally includes dissemination to a scholarly community beyond Carleton. The faculty member will meet regularly with the student and actively direct the work of the student, who will submit an end-of-term product, typically a paper or presentation.
Register for this course by submitting the Directed Research form which requires approval from the project faculty supervisor and your adviser.
- Fall 2026, Winter 2027, Spring 2027
- No Exploration