It’s almost time for class registration and classes are filling up quickly. You open up your laptop to desperately search for anything you can find on Scheduler to fulfill your Bachelorette Core requirements and you find…these classes.
What do some of these even mean? Can you really take a class about beer? Watch a Disney movie for homework? Check out some of the interesting and unique classes that Oregon State has to offer below!
PS 110 – Governing After a Zombie Apocalypse
Baccorlette Core it fulfills: Difference, Power, and Discrimination (CPDP)
Current Professor: Rorie Solberg
Description on Scheduler: Constitution-writing in a post-apocalyptic world. Students write a constitution that addresses issues of difference, power, and discrimination. (Bacc Core Course)
What terms it was offered this year: Fall (in person and Ecampus), Winter (Ecampus), Spring (in person, but for Honors College), and Summer (Ecampus only)
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GEO 100 – Natural Disasters: Hollywood Versus Reality
Baccorlette Core it fulfills: Perspectives – Physical Science (CPPS)
Current Professors: Ben Stanley, Andrea Balbas, and Pieter-Ewald Share (depends on the term and modality taught varies)
Description on Scheduler: Introduces natural hazards, as seen through the lens of popular media and compared to foundational concepts in the physical sciences. Explores the causes and consequences of natural disasters via exercises and activities designed to develop students’ skills in critical thinking, scientific analysis and problem solving.
What terms it was offered this year: Fall (Ecampus only), Winter (in person only), Spring (in person and Ecampus), and Summer (Ecampus only)
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WGSS 225 – Disney: Gender, Race, Empire
Baccorlette Core it fulfills: Difference, Power, and Discrimination (CPDP)
Current Professor: Kryn Freehling, Shaina Khan, and others (depends on the term)
Description on Scheduler: Explores constructions of gender, race, class, sexuality, and nation in the animated films of Walt Disney; introduces concepts in film theory and criticism, and develops analyses of the politics of representation.
What terms it was offered this year: Fall (in person and Ecampus), Winter (in person and Ecampus), Spring (in person and Ecampus), and Summer (Ecampus only)
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MUS 109 – Native American Flute
Baccorlette Core it fulfills: Perspectives – Cultural Diversity (CPCD)
Current Professor: Jan Looking Wolf Reibach
Description on Scheduler: Examines the history, culture, and styles of the Native American Flute. Practices music making with the Native American Flute with an emphasis on self-expression. Compares indigenous oral tradition to current trends and personal experiences.
What terms it was offered this year: Fall, Winter, Spring, and Summer with one section in person.
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WLC 220 – Francophone Cultures in Film: Colonial Wars and Independence Movements in Francophone Films
Baccorlette Core it fulfills: Perspectives – Cultural Diversity (CPCD)
Current Professor: Nabil Boudraa
Description on Scheduler: Explores the diverse cultures within the Francophone world through the lens of cinema. Includes engaging films that depict the socio-historical, political, economic, and cultural contexts of French-speaking regions, focusing particularly on the themes of colonialism, decolonization, and post-colonialism. Examines various regions, including North and Sub-Saharan Africa, and Vietnam, providing a comprehensive understanding of the impact of colonial and independence movements. Taught in English.
What terms it was offered this year: Fall (in person and Ecampus)
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PHL 203 – The Meaning of Existence
Baccorlette Core it fulfills: Perspectives – Western Culture (CPWC)
Current Professor: Marta Kunecka and Stephanie Jenkins
Description on Scheduler: Focuses on core themes and figures in existentialism. Critically examines different philosophical approaches to the significance of human life, death, meaning, and freedom. Applies existential concepts to the interpretation of art and contemporary case studies.
What terms it was offered this year: Spring (in person only), Winter (Ecampus only), and Summer (Ecampus only)
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WR 250 – Podcast Storytelling
Baccorlette Core it fulfills: Writing II (CSW2)
Current Professor: Kristin Griffin
Description on Scheduler: Focuses on the skills needed to write, record, and produce informative and engaging podcasts. Students develop themes, write scripts, conduct interviews, and learn to make thoughtful editing decisions in the production of audio podcasts.
What terms it was offered this year: Fall (in person only), Spring (in person only), and Winter (in person and Ecampus)
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HST 417 – History of Beer and Brewing
Baccorlette Core it fulfills: Synthesis – Science, Technology, & Society (CSST)
Current Professor: John Bawden
Description on Scheduler: History of beer and brewing from the beginnings of civilization through the modern microbrewery movement.
What terms it was offered this year: Fall (in person only), Winter (Ecampus only), and Spring (in person only)
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TOX 360 – The World of Poisons
Baccorlette Core it fulfills: Synthesis – Science, Technology, & Society (CSST)
Current Professors: Manuel Garcia-Jaramillo and Craig Marcus
Description on Scheduler: Provides a basic understanding of how we are exposed and respond to chemicals, examples of human diseases associated with toxic insult, the role of technology and the interface of society and toxicology in risk perception and legislation.
What terms it was offered this year: Fall and Spring (in person only)
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NMC 427 – Digital Pornography
Baccorlette Core it fulfills: Synthesis – Science, Technology, & Society (CSST)
Current Professor: Alina Padilla-Miller
Description on Scheduler: Exploration of the prominent role pornography plays in digital communication innovation globally including the examination of social consequences; diffusion of technology, business models and economic impact; legal, ethical, and moral issues; and community health and well-being.
What terms it was offered this year: Spring and Summer (Ecampus only)
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WSE 392 – Bamboolooza: The Fascinating World of Bamboo
Baccorlette Core it fulfills: Synthesis – Science, Technology, & Society (CSST)
Current Professors: Janine Wang, Razia Sultana Popy, and Seema Mangla
Description on Scheduler: An exploration of the world of bamboo and its application to renewable products. This course provides an in-depth understanding of a renewable material bamboo from its native form to processed products. Additionally, this course discusses the utilization and perception of bamboo in different societies of the world. Taught via Ecampus only.
What terms it was offered this year: Fall, Winter, and Spring (Ecampus only)
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Interested in what other classes you can find? Go to your Scheduler and filter classes for different Bachelorette Core requirements and see what you can find!
Some of these classes may change depending on the availability of professors and interest students have in the class, so please note that some of this information may vary or change.
