Students Entered 2018–19

Pathways provides a set of General Education Requirements that every student must complete to earn a baccalaureate degree. Find below a list of course options that fulfill the respective areas of Pathways for students entering Brooklyn College in fall 2018.

Required Common Core (four courses for a total of 12 credits)

English Composition (two courses)

• ENGL 1010: English Composition I
• ENGL 1012: English Composition II

Mathematical and Quantitative Reasoning (one course)

• CISC 1001: Computing and Quantitative Reasoning
• CISC 1002 /PHIL 2200: The Outer Limits of Reasoning
• MATH 1311: Thinking Mathematically
• MATH 1501: Elements of Statistics with Applications
• An approved STEM variant course: BUSN 3400, ECON 3400, EESC 3800, MATH 1011, MATH 1021 (together with MATH 1026), MATH 1026 (together with MATH 1021), MATH 1201, MATH 1401 (together with MATH 1021), PSYC 3400

Life and Physical Sciences (one course)

• ANTH 1200: Human Origins
• BIOL 1010: Biology: The Study of Life
• CHEM 1007: Chemistry in Modern Life: An Introduction for Non-Majors
• An approved STEM variant course: ANTH 3265, ANTH 3266, ANTH 3470, BIOL 1001, BIOL 1002, BIOL 1501, BIOL 1502, CASD 1178, CLAS 3212, CHEM 1040, CHEM 1100, CHEM 2050, CHEM 2100, HNSC 2300, HNSC 2302, HNSC 2303, KINS 3271, KINS 3275, KINS 3281, KINS 3285

Flexible Common Core (six courses for a total of 18 credits)

No more than two courses

World Cultures & Global Issues (one course)

• AFST 3135: Black Political Identity in a Transnational Context
• ANTH 1105: Comparative Studies in Cultures and Transformation
• ARTD 1035: The Development of the Silk Road
• ARTD 3134: Subject, Creator, Consumer: Women and African Art
• CLAS 1110: Tyranny, Democracy, Empire: Classical Cultures
• CLAS 2104 / ENGL 2004: Literature and Film
• CLAS 3245: Comparative Identity Politics: The Ancient Mediterranean and the Modern World
• ENGL 2007: The Emergence of the Modern
• ENGL 2008: The Quest for Ethnic, Cultural, and National Identities in Literature
• ENGL 2009: Introduction to Literary Studies
• HIST 3005: The Shaping of the Modern World
• JUST 2545: Classical Jewish Texts: Moving Toward Modernity (This course can satisfy either the college option requirement for Exploring Arts and Literature, or the above flexible core requirement, but not both.)
• PRLS 3105: Puerto Rican & Latin@ Cultural Formations

U.S. Experience in Its Diversity (one course)

• AMST 1010: American Identities
• ANTH 3135: The American Urban Experience: Anthropological Perspectives
• ENGL 2001: Literature, Ethnicity, and Immigration
• HIST 3401: American Pluralism to 1877
• HIST 3402: American Pluralism Since 1877
• JUST 3485: Jews of New York
• MUSC 3101: Music in Global America (This course can satisfy either the college option requirement for Exploring Global Connections, or the above flexible core requirement, but not both.)
• POLS 1230: People, Power, and Politics
• PRLS 1001: Introduction to Puerto Rican & Latin@ Studies
• PRLS 3203: Latino/a Diasporas in the United States (This course can satisfy either the college option requirement for Exploring Global Connections, or the above flexible core requirement, but not both.)
• SEED 1001: Critical Issues in U.S. Education
• SPCL 3000: LGBTQ Youth in Educational Contexts
• WGST 1001: Introduction to Women’s Studies: Sex, Gender, and Power

Creative Expression (two courses)

• ARTD 1010: Art: Its History and Meaning
• MUSC 1300: Music: Its Language, History, and Culture
• MUSC 1400: Fundamentals of Music

Individual & Society (one course)

• CASD 1707: Public Speaking
• CBSE 2001 / SEED 2001: Historical, Philosophical, and Cultural Foundations of Education
• CLAS 2109: The Self and Society
• CLAS 3200 / RELG 3030: Heroes, Gods, Monsters: Classical Mythologies
• ENGL 2002: Ideas of Character in the Western Literary Tradition
• ENGL 2006: Text/Context
• MLAN 2015: Con, Cop, and Mark: Representations of Criminality and Authority
• MLAN 2610: Literature in Translation
• PHIL 2101: Introduction to the Problems of Philosophy
• PHIL 2501: Philosophical Issues in Literature
• SOCY 1200: Sociology of Sport

Scientific World (one course)

• ANTH 1205 / CHEM 1037: Studies in Forensic Science (This course can satisfy either the college option requirement for Exploring Science, or the above flexible core requirement, but not both.)
• ANTH 2205: Forensic Anthropology
• CHEM 1011: Pharmaceutical Research, Development, and Approval
• CHEM 1012: Chemistry in the Arts and Archaeology
• EESC 1010: The Dynamic Earth
• EESC 1050: Society and the Ocean
• PHYS 1005: Physics: The Simple Laws That Govern the Universe
• PHYS 1040: The Making of the Atomic Bomb
• An approved STEM variant course: EESC 1101, LING 2001, PHYS 1100, or PHYS 1150

College Option (four courses for a total of 12 credits)

Part A (two courses)

Choose two courses from two of the three areas listed below. (For example, if you choose one course from Arts & Literature, you must then choose another course from Global Connections or Science.)

Exploring Arts & Literature

• AFST 3247: Literature of the African Diaspora
• CLAS 2113: The Monster Within
• CLAS 2114: The Road to Science Fiction
• CLAS 2117: From Utopia to Dystopia
• ENGL 2003: Italian American Literature and Film
• JUST 2545: Classical Jewish Texts (This course can satisfy either the flexible core requirement for World Cultures & Global Issues, or the above college option requirement, but not both.)
• MLAN 2012: The Animal Self

Exploring Global Connections

• AFST 3349: The Caribbeanization of North America
• CLAS 3209: After Alexander: A Confluence of Cultures
• JUST 3025: The Jewish Diaspora
• MUSC 3101: Music in Global America (This course can satisfy either the flexible core requirement for U.S. Experience in its Diversity, or the above college option requirement, but not both)
• PRLS 3203: Latin@ Diasporas in the United States (This course can satisfy either the flexible core requirement for U.S. Experience in its Diversity, or the above college option requirement, but not both.)
• SPAN 2204: The Global Spanish-Speaking Community: From Imperial Conquests to Latino/a Diasporas

Exploring Science

• ANTH 2216: Scientific Revolutions
• CHEM 1037/ANTH 1205: Studies in Forensic Science (This course can satisfy either the flexible core requirement for Scientific World, or the above college option requirement, but not both.)
• CISC 1003: Exploring Robotics
• EESC 1060: Exploring Issues in Sustainable Water Resources Management
• HNSC 3314: Human Encounters with Death and Bereavement
• MATH 1801: Mathematics of Non-Western Civilizations
• PHYS 1070: Cosmology
• PHYS 1080: Energy Use and Climate Change
• PHYS 1085: Climate Change—Torn Between Myth and Fact
• PHYS 1090: Space-Time, Gravity, and the Quantum: The Role of Einstein in the Birth of Modern Physics

Part B (two courses)

Choose two courses from any combination of the following choices: a course in a language or literature other than English offered by the departments of Classics, Judaic Studies, or Modern Languages and Literatures; or an additional course from the Required Core Life and Physical Sciences area not already used to fulfill the Required Core requirements; or an additional Flexible Core course not already used to fulfill the Flexible Core requirements.

For questions regarding Pathways, speak with an adviser from the Center for Academic Advisement and Student Success.