Foundations Course Library
Below you will find a complete list of all approved Foundations courses. Some are being offered during the current semester, while others will be offered in the future.
Click on a course title to read the description, meet the faculty member teaching the course, and learn other key facts.
Lower-level
- FNDS 1201: Shakespeare on Page, Stage and Screen
- FNDS 1202: Democratizing Democracy: Expanding, Suppressing, Idealizing, and Ignoring the Right to Vote in America
- FNDS 1203: Because Internet: The Language of Digital Media
- FNDS 1204: Fearing the Unknown: Horror Fantasy in Hispanic Fiction (Check out the Fall 2022 class recap)
- FNDS 1205: Understanding Global Cultures
- FNDS 1301: Trauma, Text, & the City
- FNDS 1302 : Art, Power, and Persuasion
- FNDS 1303: Art/France — Art/Japan
- FNDS 1304: American Horror Stories (Check out the Fall 2022 class recap)
- FNDS 1305: Gothic Monsters Next Door
- FNDS 1306: Crossing Boundaries: ‘Passing’ and Social Identity in American History
- FNDS 1307: You Call Them Nobel Prize Laureates? A Worldwide Perspective
- FNDS 1308: Comics, Graphic Novels, Manga and What They Can Do: Understanding Visual Narratives
- FNDS 1309: Let's Talk about Talk!
- FNDS 1310: Cyberpunk, Steampunk, and Science Fiction Culture
- FNDS 1501: Physics for 21st Century Citizens
- FNDS 1601: OK, Boomer: Gen Z Becomes Civically Engaged
- FNDS 1602: Hope and Joy in Queer and Trans Lives
- FNDS 1604: Biology is not Destiny: Exploring the Role Culture has on Human Biology
- FNDS 1605: DIY in Detroit
- FNDS 1607: Real Housewives of Crime: Crime, Law, & Reality TV
- FNDS 1608: School of Rock
- FNDS 1701: To Infinity and Beyond
- FNDS 1702: Infinity Plus One
Lower-level: Practice-Based Learning focused
- FNDS 101/CPBL 101: Exploration in Social and Environmental Justice (Check out the StoryMap documenting the Fall 2022 class)
- FNDS 102/CPBL 102: Exploration in Storytelling (Check out the Fall 2022 class recap)
- FNDS 103/CPBL 103: Exploration in Health (Check out the video recapping the Fall 2022 class)
- FNDS 104/CPBL 104: Exploration in People and Technology
Upper-level
- FNDS 3201: Weeds, Wastelands and the Salvation of the World
- FNDS 3301: Restless Women
- FNDS 3302: Multimedia Art
- FNDS 3303: Vive la Différence: Perspectives on hybrid identities through French language and francophone cultures
- FNDS: 3304: Mysticism and Politics
- FNDS 3401: Reporting on the Middle East: Revising First Drafts of History
- FNDS 3402: Modern Crime: Jack the Ripper
- FNDS 3403: American Voices: Exploring Language and Identity
- FNDS 3603: When Nature Strikes: Dealing with Natural Disasters
- FNDS 3901: Cultures in Contact: The Arab Near East and the West
- FNDS 3902: Who Owns the Past? Power, Politics, and Archaeology
- FNDS 3903: Rules of the Game: How Institutions Work
- FNDS 3910: Make Learning Your Superpower