Sophomore Signature Courses
Take a Flexible Core 200 course - with purpose!
- Meet Peers, Build Friendships
Connect with classmates who are at your stage, facing the same big questions, and ready to explore answers together. - Get Early Career Preparation
Get insider access to career-focused events and tailored opportunities that set you ahead on your journey. - Rely on Personalized Mentorship
Get one-on-one support from professors, advisors, and peer success coaches ready to guide your next steps and future plans.
Love, Sex, and Intimate Relationships
CSL 250-02 with Professor Nancy Yang
- Monday/Wednesday 3:05-4:20pm, In Person
- Registration Code: 40759
- Flexible Core Level 200 – Individual & Society
- Pre-requisite Needed: ENG 101
What does relationship science tell us about love and attraction in couples like Zendaya and Tom Holland or shows like “Love is Blind”? How about your own intimate relationships and those you have observed growing up? How do relationships start, operate, thrive, and (potentially) end in a haze of anger and pain? In this course, you will be introduced to the concepts, principles, and trends in relationship science and learn to apply these to relationships you have observed, read about, and experienced. By examining scholarly articles, non-fiction texts, film clips, and constructing case studies, you will become more critical, analytical, and thoughtful when it comes to intriguing topics like attraction, love, and effective communication.
Interpreting Objects, Text and Culture
ENG 225-01 with Professor Timothy McCormack
- Tuesday 10:50am-12:05pm, Hybrid Asynchronous
- Registration Code: 40741
- Flexible Core Level 200 – Individual & Society
This course teaches students to identify, analyze, and deconstruct the messages and meanings behind everything they see, hear, read, and experience. Furthermore, it argues that, as responsible consumers and creators of culture, it is imperative that they understand, interpret, and critically engage with those messages, including those with which they may disagree. Utilizing a variety of theories and methods, this course enables students not only to understand how the texts and objects they come into contact with (such as advertisements, television shows, newspaper articles, blog sites, clothing, electronic devices, etc.) shape society, but also how, as responsible members of society, they can participate and intervene in this process. Through this analytical work, they will come to understand the impacts such messages have on society as a whole as well as they individuals who inhabit it.