In-Person Classes
2025 In-Person Summer GE Courses
Looking for a course to take on-campus? Here's the list for you.
First Summer Session
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• GE-B, Humanistic Inquiry
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GE-B
May 21 – July 1, 2025
MWF, 1-3:50 p.m., THH 121
Elda Maria Roman
Study of prose written in English since 1945, principally fiction of the past two decades.
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GE-B
May 21 – July 1, 2025
MTWTh, 9-10:50 a.m., MHPB 7B
Zlatan Damnjanovic
Exploration of the philosophical and religious implications of major scientific revolutions, such as those of Copernicus, Galileo, and Darwin. (Duplicates credit in former PHIL 220g.)
• GE-D, Life Sciences
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GE-D
May 21 – July 1, 2025
MTWTh, 10 a.m. – 12:05 p.m., ZHS 163
Multiple Instructors
In-depth survey of key topics related to advances in our knowledge of the diversity of life and evolution; origin of life; eukaryotes/prokaryotes; ecology.
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GE-D
May 21 – July 1, 2025
TWThF, 10 a.m. – 12:05 p.m., HNB 100
Rita Barakat
In-depth survey of key topics related to advances in our knowledge of cellular biology and physiology; cell composition/metabolism; gene action; organism structure and function. Recommended preparation: high school chemistry; BISC 120L or BISC 121L.
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GE-D
May 21 – July 1, 2025
TTh, 9 a.m. – 12:40 p.m., GFS 222
Clayton Stephenson
Introduction to psychological science, including historical and contemporary approaches. Behavior examined from biological, cognitive, social, developmental, and personality perspectives. Disorders and treatments.
• GE-E, Physical Sciences
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GE-E
May 21 – July 1, 2025
MTWTh, 10 a.m. – 12:05 p.m., ZHS 252
Sylvain Barbot
Geologic structure and evolution of planet earth. Principles of plate tectonics, rocks and minerals, processes of mountain building, continent and ocean formation, earthquakes, volcanism, development of landforms by running water and glaciers. Lecture, 3hours; laboratory, 2 hours. One all-day or two-day field trip required.
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GE-E
May 21 – July 1, 2025
MTWTh, 12-1:50 p.m., SLH 200
Fundamental laws and principles of physics emphasizing areasrelated to life sciences. Prerequisite for Biological Sciences,Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy. Lecture, 4 hrs.; Lab, 3 hrs.
• GE-F, Quantitative Reasoning
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GE-F
May 21 – July 1, 2025
TTh, 9 a.m. – 12:40 p.m., SGM 601
Canan Ipek
Introduction to the use of statistics in psychology: basic ideas in measurement; frequency distributions; descriptive statistics; concepts and procedures in statistical inference.
Second and Special Summer Sessions
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• GE-B, Humanistic Inquiry
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GE-B
July 2 – Aug. 12, 2025
Last Day to Register: July 10, 2025TTh, 9 a.m. – 12:20 p.m., THH 121
Thomas Gustafson
An exploration of the culture, vibrance, heritage, mythology, variety, and pathology of a city that was born in hopes and captured the worlds imagination. Duplicates credit in ARLT 101g.
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GE-B
July 2 – Aug. 12, 2025
Last Day to Register: July 10, 2025OFF CAMPUS
Andrew Chater
Literary travel using novels to explore regional culture and unify the study of literature, history, geography, politics and social studies.
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GE-B
July 2 – Aug. 12, 2025
Last Day to Register: July 10, 2025TWTh, 1-3:50 p.m., THH 110
Brighde Mullins
Literary studies in the relationship between fiction and drama and their adaptation as films.
• GE-C, Social Analysis
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GE-C
July 2 – Aug. 12, 2025
Last Day to Register: July 10, 2025
MW, 10 a.m. – 2:10 p.m., SGM 226
Miranda Barone
Scientific perspective of close relationships: intimate relationships, friendships and others, evolutionary and biological bases of attraction and love, historical, social , cultural influences. Prerequisite: PSYC 100. (Duplicates credit in PSYC 359.)
• GE-E, Physical Sciences
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GE-E
May 19 – June 20, 2025
MTWTh, 9-11:30 a.m., GFS 106
Jessica Parr
Fundamental principles and laws of chemistry; laboratory work emphasizes quantitative procedures. Prerequisite to all more advanced courses in chemistry. Lecture, 3 hours; laboratory and discussion, 4 hours. Quiz, 1 hour.
• GE-F, Quantitative Reasoning
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GE-F
May 21 – July 8, 2025
MTWThF, 10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m., KAP 163
Derivatives and extrema. The definite integral and u-substitutions. Functions of several variables and their extrema; constrained optimization.
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GE-F
May 21 – July 8, 2025
MTWThF, 1-2:50 p.m., KAP 147
Limits; continuity, derivatives and applications; antiderivatives; the fundamental theorem of calculus; exponential and logarithmic functions.
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GE-F
May 21 – July 8, 2025
MTWThF, 1-2:50 p.m., KAP 148
A continuation of MATH 125: trigonometric functions; applications of integration; techniques of integration; indeterminate forms; infinite series; Taylor series; polar coordinates.
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GE-F
May 21 – July 8, 2025
MTWThF, 1-2:50 p.m., KAP 163
Vectors, vector valued functions; differential and integral calculus of functions of several variables; Green’s theorem, Divergence theorem, Stoke’s theorem.