Brooklyn College General Education and Core Curriculum

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    Lower Tier Core Courses

    ARTS AND LITERATURES

  • CORC 1110: Classical Cultures
  • CORC 1120: Introduction to Art
  • CORC 1130: Music: Its Language, History, and Culture

    • PHILOSOPHICAL AND SOCIAL INQUIRY

  • CORC 1210: Knowledge, Reality, and Values
  • CORC 1220: Shaping of the Modern World
  • CORC 1230: People, Power, and Politics

    • SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY

  • CORC 1311: Thinking Mathematically
  • CORC 1312: Computing: Nature, Power, and Limits
  • CORC 1321: Biology for Today's World
  • CORC 1322: Science in Modern Life: Chemistry
  • CORC 1331: Physics: The Simple Laws That Govern the Universe
  • CORC 1332: Geology: The Science of Our World

    Upper Tier Core Courses

    EXPLORING LITERATURE

  • CORC 3101: Literature, Ethnicity, and Immigration
  • CORC 3102: Ideas of Character in the Western Literary Tradition
  • CORC 3103: Italian American Literature and Film
  • CORC 3104: Literature and Film
  • CORC 3105: Philosophical Issues in Literature
  • CORC 3106: Text/Context: Special Topics
  • CORC 3107: The Emergence of the Modern
  • CORC 3108: The Quest for Ethnic, Cultural, and National Identities in Literature
  • CORC 3109: The Self and Society
  • CORC 3110: Literature of the African Diaspora
  • CORC 3111: Classical Jewish Texts: Moving Toward Modernity

    • EXPLORING GLOBAL CONNECTIONS

  • CORC 3201: Art and Archaeology of Late Period Egypt, 1070 B.C.-A.D. 642
  • CORC 3202: Classical Philosophies of India and China
  • CORC 3203: Latin@ Diasporas in the United States
  • CORC 3204: The Global Spanish-Speaking Community: From Imperial Conquests to Latino Diasporas
  • CORC 3205: The Jewish Diaspora
  • CORC 3206: The Development of the Silk Road
  • CORC 3207: The Caribbeanization of North America
  • CORC 3208: Comparative Studies in Cultures and Transformation
  • CORC 3209: After Alexander: A Confluence of Cultures
  • CORC 3210: Islamic Perspectives on Modernity, Politics, and Culture
  • CORC 3211: Black Political Identity in a Transnational Context
  • CORC 3212: Mathematics of Non-Western Civilizations

    • EXPLORING SCIENCE

  • CORC 3301: Cosmology
  • CORC 3302: Energy Use and Climate Change
  • CORC 3303: Exploring Robotics
  • CORC 3304: Exploring the Earth System
  • CORC 3305: Exploring Scientific Issues: Methodology, Theory, and Ethics in the Sciences
  • CORC 3306: Scientific Revolutions
  • CORC 3307: Studies in Forensic Science
  • CORC 3308: The Making of the Atomic Bomb
  • CORC 3309: Climate Change: Torn Between Myth and Fact
  • CORC 3310: Paradoxes of Reason
  • CORC 3311: Society and the Ocean
  • CORC 3312: Mathematics of Non-Western Civilizations