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The following is a list of program-approved courses. You can click on each course to view course descriptions, available sections, course dates, meeting days/times, and other relevant course information. Some courses will require additional permissions and/or prerequisite coursework. Please see course descriptions for details. 

Courses may overlap with your current academic year. Please make sure to check the course meeting dates prior to applying.

*Online Courses will run using synchronous or asynchronous remote instruction formats.

  • Courses run using synchronous remote instruction will have scheduled meeting days and times. Students are expected to connect remotely during those times. These classes typically involve web conferencing.
  • Courses run using asynchronous remote instruction will have no scheduled class sessions. These courses will have a regular schedule of work and assignments due throughout each week but will not require students to be online at a particular time. Rather, the instructor will provide materials—for example, readings, video content, presentations, lectures, assignments, and exams. Students will access these materials and satisfy the course requirements within the time frames specified by the instructor.
Introduction To Western Art History (Pre-history To 1400)
01:082:105 - 3 Credits
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Survey of the major monuments and trends in the history of painting, sculpture, and architecture in the western world from prehistory to 1400.
Session 2
Section: R1
Index: 00217
7/7/2025 - 8/13/2025
Online - Asynchronous
Canvas
Introduction To Western Art History (1400 To The Present)
01:082:106 - 3 Credits
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Survey of the major monuments and trends in the history of painting, sculpture, and architecture in the western world from 1400 to the present.
Session 2
Section: R1
Index: 00220
7/7/2025 - 8/13/2025
Online - Asynchronous
Canvas
Intro To Microeconomics
01:220:102 - 3 Credits
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The market system and alternative mechanisms for determining prices and allocating resources. Economic analysis of monopoly, cartels, wage and price controls, pollution, and other contemporary problems. The role of government in promoting economic efficiency. Only open to students who have completed or are currently enrolled in precalculus.
Session 2
Section: R1
Index: 00854
7/7/2025 - 8/13/2025
MTWTh 10:30am - 12:20pm
In-Person
CAC - Frelinghuysen Hall Room #A1
Intro To Macroeconomics
01:220:103 - 3 Credits
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Determinants of aggregate employment and national income; evaluation of government policies to alleviate inflation and unemployment. Money, banking, and monetary policy. International trade and finance, and the prospects for world economic development. Only open to students who have completed or are currently enrolled in precalculus.
Session 2
Section: R1
Index: 00857
7/7/2025 - 8/13/2025
MTWTh 10:30am - 12:20pm
In-Person
CAC - Murray Hall Room #204
Foundations Of Kinesiology And Health
01:377:140 - 1.5 Credits
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Historical, philosophical, and scientific foundations of the discipline.
Session 2
Section: R3
Index: 01217
7/7/2025 - 8/13/2025
Online - Asynchronous
Canvas
Transforming The Global Environment
01:450:102 - 3 Credits
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This introductory geography course explores how human activities and natural systems interact with each other to profoundly transform the environment. Environmental geography begins with recognition that what we call “natural resources” is socially constructed. In other words, something may become a resource if humans make it so through a variety of economic, cultural, and technological filters. It is not possible to understand environmental problems Without understanding the demographic, cultural, political, and economic processes that lead to increased resource consumption and waste generation. Students will uncover that environmental transformations occur at individual, community, regional, national, and global scales. In this course we will examine aspects of the Earth’s physical geography such as biomes, climate systems, renewable energy, and air quality, as well as components of our human geography such as urban environmental footprints, sustainability, food resources, and population change.
Session 2
Section: R1
Index: 01367
7/7/2025 - 8/13/2025
Online - Asynchronous
Canvas
Human Geography: Space, Place, and Location
01:450:103 - 3 Credits
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This introductory geography course explores human geography, a discipline that studies people and places. Specifically, students will learn how people organize space and society, how we interact with each other in places and across space, and how we make sense of others and ourselves in our local areas, regions, and the world. In this course we will cover a range of topics such as language, religion, development, migration, and the unequal distribution of power. We will pay particular attention to key geographic approaches to contemporary globalization,specifically, how global processes are unevenly distributed and differently manifested across the world.
Session 2
Section: R1
Index: 01369
7/7/2025 - 8/13/2025
Online - Asynchronous
Canvas
US History 1945-Present
01:512:306 - 3 Credits
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U.S. history emphasizing the cold war, McCarthyism, and the major political, social, and economic trends of the 1960s and 1970s.
Session 2
Section: R1
Index: 08670
7/7/2025 - 8/13/2025
Online - Asynchronous
Canvas
Global Awareness
01:558:101 - 3 Credits
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This course will deepen students’ global awareness by introducing them to an interdisciplinary approach to international and global studies, and drawing on real-world examples from diverse cultural regions to illustrate 21st Century trends and challenges. Using analytical tools from a variety of social sciences and humanities traditions, students will learn about our increasingly interconnected world, with a particular focus on the transnational flows of people, goods and ideas associated with economic, political and cultural globalization. This course is particularly well suited for students who plan on pursuing majors or minors in international and global studies, geography, anthropology, sociology, area studies, economics, political science, public policy, and women's and gender studies.
Session 2
Section: R1
Index: 01530
7/7/2025 - 8/13/2025
Online - Asynchronous
Canvas
Courses in Mathematics
01:640:XXX - 3 Credits
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The Department of Mathematics will approve high school students (ages 16-18) to take 200-level or above math courses on a case-by-case basis. Contact advisor@math.rutgers.edu to request permission to register. Students should apply to the summer scholars program once permission has been granted. Please be aware that courses 01:640:001 -01:640:198 are not available to high school students.
Session 1
Section: NA
Index: NA
Varies by course
In-Person
200-level course options
Logic, Reasoning, And Persuasion
01:730:101 - 3 Credits
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Development of skills in reasoning. Consideration of what an argument is, how arguments go wrong, what makes an argument valid. Application of techniques for clarifying meaning, evaluating, and constructing arguments.
Session 2
Section: R1
Index: 01954
7/7/2025 - 8/13/2025
Online - Asynchronous
Canvas
Introduction To Philosophy
01:730:103 - 3 Credits
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Examination of fundamental philosophical issues such as the meaning and basis of moral judgments, free will and determinism, theism and atheism, knowledge and skepticism, consciousness and the brain.
Session 2
Section: R1
Index: 01957
7/7/2025 - 8/13/2025
Online - Asynchronous
Canvas
Introduction To Ethics
01:730:107 - 3 Credits
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Exploration of basic issues in ethical theory and metaethics. Topics may include consequentialism, deontology, virtue theory, constructivism, value relativism, the objectivity of values, value skepticism, free will, and the nature of the values and practical reasons.
Session 2
Section: R1
Index: 01961
7/7/2025 - 8/13/2025
Online - Asynchronous
Canvas
Introduction To Logic
01:730:201 - 3 Credits
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Introduction to formal logic, covering truth functional propositional logic and quantification theory. Emphasis on developing symbolic techniques for representing and evaluating arguments.
Session 2
Section: R1
Index: 01966
7/7/2025 - 8/13/2025
Online - Asynchronous
Canvas
Introduction To International Relations
01:790:102 - 3 Credits
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This course is designed to introduce students to the theories, concepts, and ideas used in social science efforts to understand international politics. As such, it stresses theory and inference and uses historical examples and contemporary events only as illustrations to illuminate behavior in larger classes of events. We will begin the overview with the dominant theoretical paradigms in international relations and study the causes and consequences of military conflict and war. We will then explore major issues in international political economy. We will conclude the semester with a discussion of contemporary issues, including human security, environmental issues, and border politics.
Session 2
Section: R1
Index: 02148
7/7/2025 - 8/13/2025
Online - Asynchronous
Canvas
Comparative Politics
01:790:103 - 3 Credits
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Comparative politics is sometimes seen as an amorphous area of study within political science. American politics, as the adjective "American" clearly indicates, answers questions about political science in the American context. In contrast, deciphering what, for political scientists, the adjective "comparative" means is a less straightforward task. Saying that comparative politics scholars compare things may be the painfully obvious answer but it still leaves unanswered just what is meant when we say "comparative politics." This course is designed as an introduction to the key topics and debates within comparative politics.
Session 2
Section: R1
Index: 02149
7/7/2025 - 8/13/2025
Online - Asynchronous
Canvas
American Government
01:790:104 - 3 Credits
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This course explores the structure and interplay of the various institutions and sub-institutions of the American federal government, providing a cursory introduction to the ideas and institutions that shape politics in contemporary America. Our lectures will focus on three thematic areas: the Constitution: reach, scope, and interpretation, Modern American institutions, and the political behavior of a presumably engaged citizenry. We will study the strategies, roles, and limitations of both governmental elites and ordinary citizens, with particular emphasis on how they communicate and interact within the constitutional to shape the achievement of the “common good”. To a lesser extent, we will examine documents from America’s formative period and discuss insights from the modern discipline of political science. This will allow us to examine important social and political phenomena from a variety of perspectives. Ultimately, the goal of this course is to help each student arrive at a deeper, more comprehensive understanding of the forces that shape American government and politics, so that they may be both a more discerning student and critic of the system and a more informed and reflective participant in it.
Session 2
Section: R1
Index: 02152
7/7/2025 - 8/13/2025
Online - Asynchronous
Canvas
Introduction to Gender, Race, and Sexuality
01:988:101 - 3 Credits
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In this course we will be thinking about the ways that race, gender and sexuality structure our social worlds and intimate lives. We will ask what it means to describe these categories as ‘socially constructed’ and consider the mechanisms through which they are produced and reproduced. At the same time we will pay careful attention to the material ways in which power is organized and distributed through these categories. Assuming that these are not ‘natural’ categories we will look at the work that goes into making them appear so, and consider the ways in which their meanings and efficacy change over time. In the latter weeks of the course we will begin to think more about the value and pitfalls of using identity categories as analytical frameworks and organizing platforms. The course is invested in an interdisciplinary approach and as such we will broach these questions by engaging a cross section of academic, literary, popular culture and activist texts. The course is designed to be not only an academic endeavor, but also an attempt to bridge our academic, personal and political investments, as such I encourage you to bring your life experiences and political investments into the course and classroom as a valuable set of knowledges that we will attempt to build upon and challenge.
Session 2
Section: R1
Index: 02787
7/7/2025 - 8/13/2025
Online - Asynchronous
Canvas
Introduction To Media Systems And Processes
04:189:102 - 3 Credits
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Historical development of mass media institutions and the role of media in society. Particular attention to news, government regulation, effects, economics, emerging technologies, and audience dynamics.
Session 2
Section: R2
Index: 02856
7/7/2025 - 8/13/2025
Online - Asynchronous
Canvas
Public Speaking
04:192:380 - 3 Credits
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Principles of public speaking; practice in composition, delivery, and criticism of informative, persuasive, and entertaining speeches.
Session 2
Section: R1
Index: 02926
7/7/2025 - 8/13/2025
TTh 1:00pm - 5:00pm
In-Person
CAC - School of Comm. Room #101
Art Appreciation Online
07:080:131 - 3 Credits
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Do you appreciate art but cannot find the words to talk about it? Are there events in paintings or sculpture that you can feel but don’t know how to express? The online course in Art Appreciation is an opportunity to look at many pieces of artwork and to learn “art talk.” Travel around the world on your computer to look at all kinds of fine art. This is not an Art History course. The emphasis is on looking and understanding what you see.
Session 2
Section: R1
Index: 03192
7/7/2025 - 8/13/2025
Online - Asynchronous
Canvas
Visual Thinking I-B
07:081:228 - 4 Credits
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Color considered primarily as pigment; some attention given to color as light and an introduction to color printing processes. Approaches to color relationship, theories of organization of color on both scientific and aesthetic levels.
Session 2
Section: R1
Index: 03210
7/7/2025 - 8/13/2025
MWTh 6:00pm - 9:25pm
In-Person
Downtown NB - Civic Square Building Room #407
Theater Appreciation Online
07:965:230 - 3 Credits
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Students attend a wide spectrum of theater offerings including Broadway, off-Broadway, off-off-Broadway, regional, educational, and community events, and, through viewing those theatrical productions and online lectures, gain an appreciation of performance and everything that goes into producing theater.
Session 1
Section: K1
Index: 03636
5/27/2025 - 8/13/2025
Online - Asynchronous
Canvas
Experiments with Green Fluorescent Protein
11:115:110 - 3 Credits
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An introduction to protein biochemistry and protein purification using green fluorescent protein (GFP) as a teaching tool. Additional Lab Fee: $55. Requires departmental permission to register. Contact nk353@sebs.rutgers.edu to request a Special Permission Number (SPN). 
Session 2
Section: Q1
Index: 04001
7/7/2025 - 8/1/2025
MTWTh 8:00am-10:45am
In-Person
C/D - Hickman Hall Room #207
Marketing For Entrepreneurs And Small Business
33:382:202 - 3 Credits
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Extensive overview of marketing: the process of creating goods and services in response to consumer wants and needs. Study of the marketing function in business firms and nonprofit organizations. Consumer behavior, marketing research, industrial marketing, pricing, channels of distribution, and promotion.
Session 2
Section: R1
Index: 07417
7/7/2025 - 8/13/2025
MW, 1:00pm-4:40pm with asynchronous component
Online - Synchronous
Canvas

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