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Class schedules

Featured courses: Autumn 2025

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FABENG 3210 & 3211: Introduction to Humanitarian Engineering

Learn about important issues in sustainability, including large and small scale agriculture, water resources, environmental impacts, waste management, and renewable energy. Fulfills the sustainability theme within the GE Program.

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MUS 2203.03: University Chorus

University Chorus is a choral organization that performs a wide variety of choral literature by composers of all historical periods. Any student who has the ability to match pitch is welcome to join the chorus. University Chorus may be used to fulfill ensemble requirements for the music major or music minor or may be taken as an elective by any student interested in singing. Please contact Paul Sanders if you have questions.

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English 3019: The Language of Place

Rhetoric gives us many tools to interpret the spaces and places we live in and how they affect our sense of “us.” We’ll learn these tools and apply them as a class to the world on campus, in Newark and in Licking County, and then you’ll interpret your choice of your place. There will be a series of short papers, a visual presentation, maybe a minor quiz and lots of class discussion in this seminar of case studies.

COMPSTD 3603: Love in World Literature

This course pairs classic works of Western literature on the broad theme of romantic love with representations of love in contemporary film. This course meets the GE requirements for literary, visual and performing Arts. For English majors, this course fulfills the requirement for pre-1800 literature.

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Ohio Prison Education Exchange Project (OPEEP)

PSYCH 3312: Memory and Cognition

This course surveys selected topics in modern cognitive psychology with an emphasis on memory, learning, categorization, reasoning, knowledge representation, judgment & decision making, and problem solving. Prereq: 1100 or 1100H.

This offering of PSYCH 3312 is an Ohio Prison Education Exchange Project (OPEEP) class with students from Ohio State and students from the Southeastern Correctional Institution, a state prison. The class meets once a week at the prison facility in Lancaster. An application for this course is required. Students are enrolled ONLY by permission of the instructor. Contact Chris Robinson, PhD, at robinson.777@osu.edu if you have any questions.

TLED 2368: Introduction to Children's Literature

This is a survey course in which students study the historical and contemporary elements of literature intended for children, including picture books; traditional tales; novels of realism, and fantasy; nonfiction; poetry; and multicultural books. Prereq: English 1110, or equiv. Not open to students with credit for 467. GE lit course. GE foundation lit, vis and performing arts course.

This offering of EDUTL 2368 is an Ohio Prison Education Exchange Project (OPEEP) class with students from Ohio State and students from the Ohio Reformatory for Women, a state prison. The class meets once a week at the prison facility in Marysville. An application for this course is required. Students are enrolled ONLY by permission of the instructor. Contact Dr. Cris Warner (warner.55) if you have any questions.

AAAS/HIST 2367.04: Black Women Writers

This course will examine the ways in which gender, race, class, and sexual orientation impact Black women’s lives and how Black women in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries have used autobiographies to (re)define and empower themselves and their communities. GEN Foundation: Literary, Visual & Performing Arts, GEN Foundation: Race, Ethnicity & Gender Diversity.

This offering of AAAS/HIST 2367.03 is an Ohio Prison Education Exchange Project (OPEEP) class with students from Ohio State and students from the Ohio Reformatory for Women, a state prison. The class meets once a week at the prison facility in Marysville. An application for this course is required. Students are enrolled ONLY by permission of the instructor. Contact Tiyi Morris, PhD, at morris.730@osu.edu if you have any questions.

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