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ARTH 101 Introduction to Art History I 6 credits
An introduction to the art and architecture of various geographical areas around the world from antiquity through the “Middle Ages.” The course will provide foundational skills (tools of analysis and interpretation) as well as general, historical understanding. It will focus on a select number of major developments in a range of media and cultures, emphasizing the way that works of art function both as aesthetic and material objects and as cultural artifacts and forces. Issues include, for example, sacred spaces, images of the gods, imperial portraiture, and domestic decoration.
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ARTH 101.01 Winter 2027
- Faculty: Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤 · Jessica Keating 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WBoliou 104 9:50am-11:00am
- FBoliou 104 9:40am-10:40am
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ARTH 102 Introduction to Art History II 6 credits
An introduction to the art and architecture of various geographical areas around the world from the fifteenth century through the present. The course will provide foundational skills (tools of analysis and interpretation) as well as general, historical understanding. It will focus on a select number of major developments in a range of media and cultures, emphasizing the way that works of art function both as aesthetic and material objects and as cultural artifacts and forces. Issues include, for example, humanist and Reformation redefinitions of art in the Italian and Northern Renaissance, realism, modernity and tradition, the tension between self-expression and the art market, and the use of art for political purposes.
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ARTH 102.01 Spring 2027
- Faculty: Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤 · Jessica Keating 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WBoliou 104 9:50am-11:00am
- FBoliou 104 9:40am-10:40am
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ARTH 172 Modern Art: 1890-1945 6 credits
This course explores developments in the visual arts, architecture, and theory in Europe and America between 1890 and 1945. The major Modernist artists and movements that sought to revolutionize vision, culture, and experience, from Symbolism to Surrealism, will be considered. The impact of World War I, the Great Depression, and the rise of fascism will be examined as well for their devastation of the Modernist dream of social-cultural renewal. Lectures will be integrated with discussions of artists’ theoretical writings and group manifestoes, such as those of the Futurists, Dadaists, Surrealists, Constructivists, and DeStijl, in addition to select secondary readings.
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ARTH 172.01 Winter 2027
- Faculty: Ross Elfline 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THBoliou 161 10:10am-11:55am
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ARTH 240 Art Since 1945 6 credits
Art from abstract expressionism to the present, with particular focus on issues such as the modernist artist-hero; the emergence of alternative or non-traditional media; the influence of the women’s movement and the gay/lesbian liberation movement on contemporary art; and postmodern theory and practice.
- Winter 2027
- IDS, Intercultural Domestic Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis WR2, Writing Rich 2
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): One Art History (ARTH) course with a grade of C- better.
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ARTH 240.01 Winter 2027
- Faculty: Ross Elfline 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THBoliou 161 1:15pm-3:00pm
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ARTH 245 Modern Architecture 6 credits
This course will trace major trends in western architecture from the dawn of the Industrial Revolution to the dawn of the Cold War, concentrating especially on the decades from the 1870s through 1950s. We will discuss technological developments and stylistic issues in different cultural and political contexts, such as Chicago after the Great Fire and Berlin after the Great War. We will consider critiques of modern material culture, from the Arts & Crafts movement to Soviet Constructivism, analyze styles from Art Nouveau to Art Deco, and consider new building typologies such as train stations, department stores, and skyscraping office buildings.
- Fall 2026
- LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ARTH 245.01 Fall 2026
- Faculty: Baird Jarman 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FBoliou 161 2:20pm-3:20pm
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ARTH 247 Architecture Since 1950 6 credits
This course begins by considering the international triumph of architecture’s Modern Movement as seen in key works by Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and their followers. Soon after modernism’s rise, however, architects began to question the movement’s tenets and the role that architecture as a discipline plays in the fashioning of society. This course will examine the central actors in this backlash from Britain, France, Italy, Japan, the United States and elsewhere before exploring the architectural debates surrounding definitions of postmodernism. The course will conclude by considering the impact of both modernism and postmodernism on contemporary architectural practice.
- Spring 2027
- LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ARTH 247.01 Spring 2027
- Faculty: Ross Elfline 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THBoliou 161 10:10am-11:55am
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ARTH 341 Art and Democracy 6 credits
What does it mean to say that a work of art is “democratic?” For whom is art made? And who can lay claim to the title “artist?” These questions animate contemporary art production as artists grapple with the problems of broadening access to their works and making them more socially relevant. In this course we will consider the challenges involved in making art for a sometimes ill-defined “public.” Topics to be discussed include: activist performance art, feminism, public sculpture, the Culture Wars, queer visual culture, and the recent rise of social practice art.
Extra Time Required: There are two evening film screenings for this course, as well as one field trip to the Twin Cities (the Walker Art Center and/or a local arts organization in the Twin Cities).
- Fall 2026
- IDS, Intercultural Domestic Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Student has completed any two courses in ARTH with grades of C- or better.
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ARTH 341.01 Fall 2026
- Faculty: Ross Elfline 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THBoliou 161 10:10am-11:55am
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CAMS 214 Film History III 6 credits
This course is designed to introduce students to recent film history, 1970-present, and the multiple permutations of cinema around the globe. The course charts the development of national cinemas since the 1970s while considering the effects of media consolidation and digital convergence. Moreover, the course examines how global cinemas have reacted to and dealt with the formal influence and economic domination of Hollywood on international audiences. Class lectures, screenings, and discussions will consider how cinema has changed from a primarily national phenomenon to a transnational form in the twenty-first century.
Extra Time required for evening Screenings.
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CAMS 214.01 Spring 2027
- Faculty: Jay Beck 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 133 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 133 1:10pm-2:10pm
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CCST 259 Creative Travel Writing Workshop 6 credits
Travelers write. Whether it be in the form of postcards, text messages, blogs, or articles, writing serves to anchor memory and process difference, making foreign experience understandable to us and accessible to others. While examining key examples of the genre, you will draw on your experiences off-campus for your own work. Student essays will be critiqued in a workshop setting, and all work will be revised before final submission. Some experimentation with blended media is also encouraged. This course was formerly listed as CCST 270.
CCST 259 is cross listed with ENGL 259.
- Winter 2027
- ARP, Arts Practice IS, International Studies WR2, Writing Rich 2
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Student has enrolled in any of the following course(s): Any Carleton OCS course or Non-Carleton OCS course with a grade of C- or better.
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CCST 259.01 Winter 2027
- Faculty: Peter Balaam 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- WLanguage & Dining Center 302 1:50pm-4:50pm
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ENGL 135 Imperial Adventures 6 credits
Indiana Jones has a pedigree. In this class we will encounter some of his ancestors in stories, novels and comic books from the early decades of the twentieth century. The wilds of Afghanistan, the African forest, a prehistoric world in Patagonia, the opium dens of mysterious exotic London–these will be but some of our stops as we examine the structure and ideology and lasting legacy of the imperial adventure tale. Authors we will read include Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Rudyard Kipling and H. Rider Haggard.
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ENGL 212 Adventures in Special Collections 3 credits
This interdisciplinary course gives students hands-on experience working in Special Collections. Carleton’s extraordinary holdings include rare and ancient books, manuscripts, artists’ books, private press specimens, first editions, and other artifacts and ephemera. Students will investigate the hidden lives of these objects and learn about material culture, conservation, curation, descriptive bibliography, book history, and the cultural, political, and ethical challenges that shape collection and stewardship.
1st Five Weeks
- First Five Weeks, Winter 2027
- HI, Humanistic Inquiry IS, International Studies
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ENGL 212.01 First Five Weeks, Winter 2027
- Faculty: Pierre Hecker 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLibrary 344 1:15pm-3:00pm
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ENGL 259 Creative Travel Writing Workshop 6 credits
Travelers write. Whether it be in the form of postcards, text messages, blogs, or articles, writing serves to anchor memory and process difference, making foreign experience understandable to us and accessible to others. While examining key examples of the genre, you will draw on your experiences off-campus for your own work. Student essays will be critiqued in a workshop setting, and all work will be revised before final submission. Some experimentation with blended media is also encouraged. This course was formerly listed as CCST 270.
CCST 259 is cross listed with ENGL 259.
- Winter 2027
- ARP, Arts Practice IS, International Studies WR2, Writing Rich 2
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Student has enrolled in any of the following course(s): Any Carleton OCS course or Non-Carleton OCS course with a grade of C- or better.
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ENGL 259.01 Winter 2027
- Faculty: Peter Balaam 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- WLanguage & Dining Center 302 1:50pm-4:50pm
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ENGL 350 The Postcolonial Novel: Forms and Contexts 6 credits
Authors from the colonies and ex-colonies of England have complicated our understandings of the locations, forms and indeed the language of the contemporary English novel. This course will examine these questions and the theoretical and interpretive frames in which these writers have often been placed, and probe their place in the global marketplace (and awards stage). We will read a number of major novelists of the postcolonial era from Africa, South Asia, the Caribbean and the diaspora as well as some of the central works of postcolonial literary criticism.
- Fall 2026
- IS, International Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis WR2, Writing Rich 2
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): One English Foundations including (100) course with a grade of C- or better or received a score of 5 on the English Literature and Composition AP exam or received a grade of 6 or better on the English Language A: Literature IB exam AND 6 credits from English courses (100-399) not including Independent Studies and Comps with a grade of C- or better.
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EUST 100 America Inside Out 6 credits
"America" has often served as a canvas for projecting European anxieties about economic, social and political modernity. Admiration of technological progress and democratic stability went hand in hand with suspicions about its–actual and supposed–materialism, religiosity and mass culture. These often contradictory perceptions of the United States were crucial in the process of forming European national imaginaries and myths up to and including an European identity. Accordingly, this course will explore some of the most important examples of the European imagination of the United States–from Michel de Montaigne to Hannah Arendt.
Held for new first year students
- 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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EUST 100.01 Fall 2026
- Faculty: Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤
- Size:14
- M, WLeighton 426 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 426 9:40am-10:40am
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EUST 110 State of the Nation: the Politics of Citizenship 6 credits
This course explores the politics of citizenship in Modern Europe. Students will be introduced to the history of the European nation-state with a special focus on France, Germany and the UK. They will become familiar with basic concepts such as state, nation, ethnic and civic citizenship and how these are used by scholars and practitioners. This historical and conceptual backdrop will prepare them to understand post-war developments in West European politics, most importantly the politics of welfare and migration and their continued salience. Students will be challenged to think critically about larger questions about national and non-national identity and political membership.
EUST 110 is cross listed with POSC 110.
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EUST 110.01 Winter 2027
- Faculty: Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 304 9:40am-10:40am
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EUST 159 “The Age of Isms” – Ideals, Ideas and Ideologies in Modern Europe 6 credits
“Ideology” is perhaps one of the most-used (and overused) terms of modern political life. This course will introduce students to important political ideologies and traditions of modern Europe and their role in the development of political systems and institutional practices from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. We will read central texts by conservatives, liberals, socialists, anarchists and nationalists while also considering ideological outliers such as Fascism and Green Political Thought. In addition the course will introduce students to the different ways in which ideas can be studied systematically and the methodologies available.
- Spring 2027
- IS, International Studies SI, Social Inquiry
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EUST 159.01 Spring 2027
- Faculty: Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 304 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 304 9:40am-10:40am
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FREN 206 Francophone Emotions: Science and Culture 6 credits
Through texts, images, and films coming from different continents, this class will present how various French-speaking communities describe and represent emotions such as love, fear, or anger. Focused on oral and written expression this class aims to strengthen students’ linguistic skills while introducing them to the key themes of French and Francophone studies: colonialism, gender, class, art, and intellectual production. Most importantly, this class will highlight how the sciences and the humanities are interdependent and closely connected.
- Winter 2027
- IS, International Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): FREN 204 with a grade of C- or better or received a score of 4 or better on the French Language and Culture AP exam or received a score of 6 or better on the French: Language B IB exam or received a score of 205 on the Carleton French Placement exam. .
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FREN 206.01 Winter 2027
- Faculty: Sandra Rousseau 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 202 9:50am-11:00am
- FLanguage & Dining Center 202 9:40am-10:40am
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FREN 259 French and Francophone Studies in Paris Program: Hybrid Paris 6 credits
Through literature, cultural texts, and experiential learning in the city, this course will explore the development of both the "Frenchness" and the hybridity that constitute contemporary Paris. Immigrant cultures, notably North African, will also be highlighted. Plays, music, and visits to cultural sites will complement the readings. Offered at both the 200 and 300 levels; coursework will be adjusted accordingly.
Acceptance in the Carleton OCS French and Francophone Studies in Paris program.
- Spring 2027
- IS, International Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Acceptance in the Carleton OCS French and Francophone Studies in Paris program.
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FREN 311 France and the Atlantic World 6 credits
Every year, crowds flock to New Orleans to celebrate Mardi Gras. One tradition, going back centuries, is to wear a costume. In 1730, the Parisian Marc-Antoine Caillot recounts disguising himself as a shepherdess to celebrate Mardi Gras in what was, at that time, the capital of the French colony of Louisiana. This course examines the colonial origins of French language and culture in the Southern United States and Caribbean. Readings such as newspapers and plays will raise questions about the motivations and justifications for settlement in the Americas while music, food, and folktales will guide discussions about its enduring legacy.
- Spring 2027
- IS, International Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): One 200 or 300 level FREN course excluding FREN 204 and Independent Studies with a grade of C- or better.
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FREN 311.01 Spring 2027
- Faculty: Katharine Hargrave 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WHasenstab 105 11:10am-12:20pm
- FHasenstab 105 12:00pm-1:00pm
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FREN 359 French and Francophone Studies in Paris Program: Hybrid Paris 6 credits
Through literature, cultural texts, and experiential learning in the city, this course will explore the development of both the "Frenchness" and the hybridity that constitute contemporary Paris. Immigrant cultures, notably North African, will also be highlighted. Plays, music, and visits to cultural sites will complement the readings. Offered at both the 200 and 300 levels; coursework will be adjusted accordingly.
Acceptance in the Carleton OCS French and Francophone Studies in Paris program.
- Spring 2027
- IS, International Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Acceptance in the Carleton OCS French and Francophone Studies in Paris program.
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FREN 360 The Algerian War of Liberation and Its Representations 6 credits
Over fifty years after Algeria’s independence from France, discourses and representations about the cause, the violence, and the political and social consequences of that conflict still animate public life in both France and Algeria. This class aims at presenting the Algerian war through its various representations. Starting with discussions about the origins of French colonialism in North Africa, it will develop into an analysis of the war of liberation and the ways it has been recorded in history books, pop culture, and canonical texts. We will reflect on the conflict and on its meanings in the twenty-first century, and analyze how different media become memorial artifacts.
- Fall 2026
- IS, International Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): One 200 or 300 level FREN course excluding FREN 204 and Independent Studies with a grade of C- or better.
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FREN 360.01 Fall 2026
- Faculty: Sandra Rousseau 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 205 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 205 2:20pm-3:20pm
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GWSS 225 Women’s and Gender Studies in Europe Program: Gender and the Biopolitics of Health across Europe
This course investigates the concept of biopolitics and applies intersectional feminist theories to examine how European states control the biological aspects of human life, including birth, health, mortality, and sexuality. It examines how health serves as a domain of power, shaping the lives and well-being of individuals and populations while reinforcing disparities based on race, class, gender, sexuality, and disability. Analyzing the biopolitics of health across different Western and East Central European political systems, case studies include medicalized childbirth, forced sterilization, immigration policies, and LGBT rights. Critical theories of gender, sexuality, and race are central to the course’s analysis. This course is offered at both the 200 and 300 levels; coursework will be adjusted accordingly.
Acceptance in the Carleton OCS Women's and Gender Studies in Europe program.
Students register either for GWSS 225 or 325. Students without previous Gender Studies course should register for GWSS 225 unless they obtain permission from the instructor. Students who have completed a 100- or 200-level Gender Studies course may choose to register for either GWSS 225 or 325.
- Fall 2026
- HI, Humanistic Inquiry IS, International Studies
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Acceptance in the Carleton OCS Women's and Gender Studies in Europe program.
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GWSS 244 Women’s & Gender Studies in Europe Program: Ethics and Politics of Cross-Cultural Research
This course explores the following questions: What are the ethics and politics of cross-cultural research? What is the relationship between methodology and knowledge claims in feminist research? What are the power interests involved in keeping certain knowledges marginalized/subjugated? How do questions of gender and sexuality, of ethnicity and national location, figure in these debates? We will also pay close attention to questions arising from the hegemony of English as the global language of WGS as a discipline, and will reflect on what it means to move between different linguistic communities, with each being differently situated in the global power hierarchies.
Acceptance in the Carleton OCS Women's and Gender Studies in Europe program.
- Fall 2026
- IS, International Studies SI, Social Inquiry
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Acceptance in the Carleton OCS Women's and Gender Studies in Europe program.
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GWSS 325 Women’s & Gender Studies in Europe Program: Gender and the Biopolitics of Health across Europe
This course investigates the concept of biopolitics and applies intersectional feminist theories to examine how European states control the biological aspects of human life, including birth, health, mortality, and sexuality. It examines how health serves as a domain of power, shaping the lives and well-being of individuals and populations while reinforcing disparities based on race, class, gender, sexuality, and disability. Analyzing the biopolitics of health across different Western and East Central European political systems, case studies include medicalized childbirth, forced sterilization, immigration policies, and LGBT rights. Critical theories of gender, sexuality, and race are central to the course’s analysis. This course is offered at both the 200 and 300 levels; coursework will be adjusted accordingly.
Acceptance in the Carleton OCS Women's and Gender Studies in Europe program.
Students register either for GWSS 225 or GWSS 325. Those who have not taken a previous Gender Studies course should register for GWSS 225, unless they obtain permission from the instructor. Students who have completed a 100- or 200- level Gender studies course, may choose to register for either GWSS 325 or GWSS 225.
- Fall 2026
- HI, Humanistic Inquiry IS, International Studies
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Acceptance in the Carleton OCS Women's and Gender Studies in Europe program.
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HIST 100 Exploration, Science, and Empire 6 credits
This course provides an introduction to the global history of exploration. We will examine the scientific and artistic aspects of expeditions, and consider how scientific knowledge–navigation, medicinal treatments, or the collection of scientific specimens–helped make exploration, and subsequently Western colonialism, possible. We will also explore how the visual and literary representations of exotic places shaped distant audiences’ understandings of empire and of the so-called races of the world. Art and science helped form the politics of Western nationalism and expansion; this course will explore some of the ways in which their legacy remains with us today.
Held for new first year students
- 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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HIST 100.03 Fall 2026
- Faculty: Antony Adler 🏫 👤
- Size:14
- M, WLeighton 301 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 301 9:40am-10:40am
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HIST 141 Europe in the Twentieth Century 6 credits
This course explores developments in European history in a global context from the final decade of the nineteenth century through to the present. We will focus on the impact of nationalism, war, and revolution on the everyday experiences of women and men, and also look more broadly on the chaotic economic, political, social, and cultural life of the period. Of particular interest will be the rise of fascism and communism, and the challenge to Western-style liberal democracy, followed by the Cold War and communism's collapse near the end of the century.
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HIST 141.01 Fall 2026
- Faculty: David Tompkins 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 304 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 304 1:10pm-2:10pm
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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 238 The Viking World 6 credits
In the popular imagination, Vikings are horn-helmeted, blood-thirsty pirates who raped and pillaged their way across medieval Europe. But the Norse did much more than loot, rape, and pillage; they cowed kings and fought for emperors, explored uncharted waters and settled the North Atlantic, and established new trade routes that revived European urban life. In this course, we will separate fact from fiction by critically examining primary source documents alongside archaeological, linguistic and place-name evidence. Students will share their insights with each other and the world through two major collaborative digital humanities projects over the course of the term.
- Winter 2027
- HI, Humanistic Inquiry IS, International Studies
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HIST 238.01 Winter 2027
- Faculty: Austin Mason 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 402 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 402 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 249 Authoritarianism and Populism in Central Europe 6 credits
In light of the war in Ukraine and turbulence in contemporary Europe more broadly, this course engages in an examination of the political, social, and cultural history of Central Europe from 1848 to the present day. We will explore the evolution of state and civil society in the multicultural/multinational regions of the present-day Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Ukraine, as well as eastern Germany and Austria. Much of the course will focus on the common experiences of authoritarianism, anti-Semitism, fascism/Nazism, the Communist era and its dissolution, and the rise of populism in recent decades.
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HIST 249.01 Winter 2027
- Faculty: David Tompkins 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 426 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 426 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 287 From Alchemy to the Atom Bomb: The Scientific Revolution and the Making of the Modern World 6 credits
This course examines the growth of modern science since the Renaissance with an emphasis on the Scientific Revolution, the development of scientific methodology, and the emergence of new scientific disciplines. How might a history of science focused on scientific networks operating within society, rather than on individual scientists, change our understanding of “genius,” “progress,” and “scientific impartiality?” We will consider a range of scientific developments, treating science both as a body of knowledge and as a set of practices, and will gauge the extent to which our knowledge of the natural world is tied to who, when, and where such knowledge has been produced and circulated.
- Winter 2027
- HI, Humanistic Inquiry WR2, Writing Rich 2
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HIST 287.01 Winter 2027
- Faculty: Antony Adler 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 236 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 236 9:40am-10:40am
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HIST 347 The Global Cold War 6 credits
In the aftermath of the Second World War and through the 1980s, the United States and the Soviet Union competed for world dominance. This Cold War spawned hot wars, as well as a cultural and economic struggle for influence all over the globe. This course will look at the experience of the Cold War from the perspective of its two main adversaries, the U.S. and USSR, but will also devote considerable attention to South America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Students will write a 20 page paper based on original research. For History majors, the field will be determined by the student's research project.
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HIST 347.01 Spring 2027
- Faculty: David Tompkins 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 202 10:10am-11:55am
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MUSC 111 Music History before 1800 6 credits
An introduction to styles, composers, instruments and musicians in music before 1800. Using case studies, we will consider a wide range of music making in both vernacular and art music traditions, engaging carefully with histories of music, race, gender, and class. Key questions of the course involve the role of music in society, movements and epochs, and best practices for studying music of the period. We will examine and analyze different forms of notation (and non-notation), experience relationships between music and dance, and gain hands-on experience with objects used to create and document earlier forms of music.
Previously listed as MUSC 211: Music and Its Social Ecosystems Antiquity-1800.
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MUSC 111.01 Winter 2027
- Faculty: Andy Flory 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center M215 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center M215 12:00pm-1:00pm
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MUSC 112 Music History After 1800 6 credits
An introduction to the styles, composers, instruments and musicians in music after 1800, including Beethoven, John Cage, and Nina Simone, and music from classical, jazz, and popular music traditions. We will engage with broader histories of music, race, gender, and class. The course will examine the role of music in society, the musical characteristics of different historical eras, and best practices for studying music from different times and places. We will learn to listen analytically to music of the last 200 years, utilize primary sources, explore the relationships between music and politics, and gain hands-on experience with the objects used to create and document music.
Previously listed as MUSC 215: Western Music and its Social Ecosystems, 1830-Present.
- Spring 2027
- LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis WR2, Writing Rich 2
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MUSC 112.01 Spring 2027
- Faculty: Brooke Okazaki 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 230 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 230 12:00pm-1:00pm
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POSC 110 State of the Nation: the Politics of Citizenship 6 credits
This course explores the politics of citizenship in Modern Europe. Students will be introduced to the history of the European nation-state with a special focus on France, Germany and the UK. They will become familiar with basic concepts such as state, nation, ethnic and civic citizenship and how these are used by scholars and practitioners. This historical and conceptual backdrop will prepare them to understand post-war developments in West European politics, most importantly the politics of welfare and migration and their continued salience. Students will be challenged to think critically about larger questions about national and non-national identity and political membership.
EUST 110 is cross listed with POSC 110.
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POSC 110.01 Winter 2027
- Faculty: Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 304 9:40am-10:40am
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POSC 120 Democracy and Dictatorship 6 credits
An introduction to the array of different democratic and authoritarian political institutions in both developing and developed countries. We will also explore key issues in contemporary politics in countries around the world, such as nationalism and independence movements, revolution, regime change, state-making, and social movements.
- Fall 2026, Winter 2027, Spring 2027
- IS, International Studies SI, Social Inquiry WR2, Writing Rich 2
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POSC 120.01 Fall 2026
- Faculty: Huan Gao 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 236 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 236 1:10pm-2:10pm
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POSC 120.01 Winter 2027
- Faculty: Alfred Montero 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WHasenstab 002 8:30am-9:40am
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POSC 243 Women’s & Gender Studies in Europe Program: Socio-Political Systems and Gender Issues Across Europe
This course examines the role of activism centered on gender, race, sexuality, and disability in shaping political life across the Netherlands, Germany, and the Czech Republic. While the main emphasis is on current activism and politics, discussions are anchored in relevant historical contexts. Students investigate the impact of Europe’s colonial heritage on minorities, the ongoing legacies of World War II, the Cold War, and the EU expansion into Eastern Europe. Topics include reproductive rights, LGBT politics, homonationalism, “anti-genderism,” sex work, immigration, challenges faced by women of color and Jewish people in Europe, the legacy of state socialism in Eastern Europe.
Acceptance in the Carleton OCS Women's and Gender Studies in Europe program.
- Fall 2026
- IS, International Studies SI, Social Inquiry
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Acceptance in the Carleton OCS Women's and Gender Studies in Europe program.
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POSC 247 Comparative Nationalism 6 credits
Nationalism is an ideology that political actors have frequently harnessed to support a wide variety of policies ranging from intensive economic development to genocide. But what is nationalism? Where does it come from? And what gives it such emotional and political power? This course investigates competing ideas about the sources of nationalism, its evolution, and its political uses in state building, legitimation, development, and war. We will consider both historic examples of nationalism, as well as contemporary cases drawn from Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the United States.
- Fall 2026
- IS, International Studies SI, Social Inquiry
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POSC 247.01 Fall 2026
- Faculty: Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THHasenstab 105 1:15pm-3:00pm
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POSC 255 Post-Modern Political Thought 6 credits
The thought and practice of the modern age have been found irredeemably oppressive, alienating, dehumanizing, and/or exhausted by a number of leading philosophic thinkers in recent years. In this course we will explore the critiques and alternative visions offered by a variety of post-modern thinkers, including Nietzsche (in many ways the first post-modern), Heidegger, Foucault, and Derrida.
- Fall 2026
- HI, Humanistic Inquiry
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POSC 255.01 Fall 2026
- Faculty: Mihaela Czobor-Lupp 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THHasenstab 105 10:10am-11:55am
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POSC 265 Public Policy and Global Capitalism 6 credits
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to comparative and international public policy. It examines major theories and approaches to public policy design and implementation in several major areas: international policy economy (including the study of international trade and monetary policy, financial regulation, and comparative welfare policy), global public health and comparative healthcare policy, institutional development (including democratic governance, accountability systems, and judicial reform), and environmental public policy. Recommended Preparation: STAT 120 is strongly recommended.
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POSC 265.01 Spring 2027
- Faculty: Alfred Montero 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- FHasenstab 002 8:30am-9:30am
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POSC 268 Global Environmental Politics and Policy 6 credits
Global environmental politics and policy is the most prominent field that challenges traditional state-centric ways of thinking about international problems and solutions. This course examines local-global dynamics of environmental problems. The course will cover five arenas crucial to understanding the nature and origin of global environmental politics and policymaking mechanisms: (1) international environmental law; (2) world political orders; (3) human-environment interactions through politics and markets; (4) paradigms of sustainable development; and (5) dynamics of human values and rules.
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POSC 268.01 Spring 2027
- Faculty: Tun Myint 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THHasenstab 109 10:10am-11:55am
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POSC 283 Separatist Movements 6 credits
This course explores the emergence and resolution of separatist movements around the world. While separatist movements are often associated with the violent dissolution of states, not all separatist movements result in violence and not all separatist movements seek independence. We will investigate the conditions under which separatist pressures are most likely to develop and when such pressures result in actual separation. We will contrast the tactics of movements, from peaceful approaches in places like contemporary Quebec or Scotland, to peaceful outcomes like the “velvet divorce” of Czechoslovakia, to violent insurrections in places like the Philippines, Spain, and Northern Ireland.
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POSC 359 Cosmopolitanism 6 credits
Stoic philosophers saw themselves as citizens of the world (cosmopolitans), a position that Kant enthusiastically revived in the eighteenth century. After the end of the Cold War cosmopolitanism was back in fashion. Even the favorite drink of the girls on TV’s Sex and the City was called Cosmopolitan. However, today it seems that nationalism and xenophobia are making a powerful comeback. Is cosmopolitanism dead? This course explores the promises and dangers of globalization, as well as the inexhaustible attraction of nationalism. The attempt is to show that the escape from the unsettling complexity of globalization is not within tribalistic nationalism, but rather in the cosmopolitan transformation of identity, as well as of the sense of being at home and of belonging.
- Spring 2027
- HI, Humanistic Inquiry
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POSC 359.01 Spring 2027
- Faculty: Mihaela Czobor-Lupp 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 231 10:10am-11:55am
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RELG 329 Modernity and Tradition 6 credits
This seminar explores the nature of religious traditions and their role in the modern world. If traditions change over time and are marked by diversity and debate, what holds them together, and who decides? If modernity is associated with a process of secularization, what status do religious actors have in the public sphere? As we engage contested definitions and assessments of modernity and secularism, we explore how traditions and societies wrestle with difference, pluralism, and truth. Case studies examine the role of ritual and practice in negotiating identity, as well as questions of ethics, law, gender, and politics.
12 seats held for Religion majors and minors until the day after junior priority registration
- Fall 2026
- HI, Humanistic Inquiry WR2, Writing Rich 2
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RELG 329.01 Fall 2026
- Faculty: Lori Pearson 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 303 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 303 2:20pm-3:20pm
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12 seats held for Religion majors and minors until the day after rising junior priority registration.