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Qualifying Courses

All CTI courses will count as electives for the CTI Certificate, in addition to the courses listed below.

  • AFR     351F      BLACK POLITICAL THOUGHT
  • ANS     320F     CLASSICAL CHINESE PHILOSOPHY
  • ANS     320E     MYTH, LEGEND, AND FOLKLORE IN CHINA
  • ANS     340U     DEVOTIONAL LITERATURE OF INDIA
  • ANS     361       CLASCL CHI PHIL CONTEMP TIMES
  • ANS     361       MYTH, LEGEND, AND FOLKLORE IN CHINA
  • ANS.    361       THE BHAGAVAD GITA: INT AND ETH
  • ANS     372       DECODING CLASCL CHINESE POETRY
  • ANS     379       CUL MEMORY/CLASSIC CHINESE NOV
  • AHC     325       ROOTS OF DEMOCRACY
  • ARH     327N     ART/POLITICS IMPERIAL ROME (fulfills VAPA)
  • ARH     327S      ART/POLITICS REPUBLICAN ROME (fulfills VAPA)
  • ARH     330J       GOTHIC CATHEDRAL: AMIENS (fulfills VAPA)
  • ARH     332K      NORTH RENAIS ART 1350-1500 (fulfills VAPA)
  • ARH      333L     NORTHERN BAROQUE ART: THE AGE OF REMBRANDT AND RUBENS
  • CTI       303       COMPETING VISIONS OF THE GOOD LIFE
  • CTI       305G    INTRODUCTION TO THE OLD TESTAMENT
  • CTI       305N    INTRODUCTION TO THE NEW TESTAMENT
  • CTI       306D    HISTORY OF THE RELIGIONS OF ASIA
  • CTI       307E    WESTERN CIVILIZATION IN MEDIEVAL TIMES
  • CTI       307M   WESTERN CIVILIZATION IN MODERN TIMES
  • CTI       310      INTRODUCTION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
  • CTI       320       THE CLASSICAL QUEST FOR JUSTICE
  • CTI       321       THE THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN POLITICS
  • CTI       321F      SPINOZA AND MODERNITY
  • CTI       322        CRITICS OF MODERN LIBERALISM
  • CTI       323        MIGHT AND RIGHT AMONG NATIONS
  • CTI       324        POLITICS AND LITERATURE
  • CTI       325        MORALITY AND POLITICS
  • CTI       326C      CONSTITUTIONAL INTERPRETATION
  • CTI       326J       AFRICAN AMERICAN SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THOUGHT
  • CTI       326L      CIVIL LIBERTIES
  • CTI       326R     REGIME PERSPECTIVES ON AMERICAN POLITICS
  • CTI       326S      STRUCTURE OF INDIVIDUAL LIBERTIES 
  • CTI       326T      THE TRAGICOMEDY OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
  • CTI       327C      ARCHAIC GREECE: SOCIETY AND CULTURE
  • CTI       327D     THE HISTORY OF ROME: THE REPUBLIC
  • CTI       328D      DEATH AND THE AFTERLIFE IN GRAECO ROMAN ANTIQUITY
  • CTI       329         THE ANCIENT HISTORIANS
  • CTI       330J        JERUSALEM AND ATHENS
  • CTI       330M     MACHIAVELLI: POLITICS AND CULTURE
  • CTI       330R      THE POLITICAL THOUGHT OF THE REFORMATION
  • CTI       331        ORIGINS OF LIBERALISM
  • CTI       332        THE SACRED AND THE SECULAR IN MODERN EUROPEAN THOUGHT
  • CTI       333         ROUSSEAU AND HIS LEGACY
  • CTI       335C      HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY
  • CTI       335E       HEGEL AND THE FORMATION OF MODERN EUROPEAN IDENTITY
  • CTI       335M      MARX AND MARXIST THEORY
  • CTI       335W      WOMEN IN THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
  • CTI       338         THE QUESTION OF RELATIVISM
  • CTI       340         ANCIENT EPIC
  • CTI       341         MORAL AGENCY IN GREEK TRAGEDY 
  • CTI       342         SATAN AND THE IDEA OF EVIL 
  • CTI       343         LOVE IN THE EAST AND WEST 
  • CTI       344         EPICS AND HEROES OF INDIA 
  • CTI       344D      DANTE 
  • CTI       344M     ITALIAN MASTERPIECES
  • CTI       345L      LEADERSHIP: KING ARTHUR TO QUEEN ELIZABETH 
  • CTI       346        THE MAJOR WORKS OF DOSTOEVSKY 
  • CTI       347        THE RUSSIAN NOVEL 
  • CTI       348        WAR AND REVOLUTION IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE 
  • CTI       350        MASTERWORKS OF WORLD DRAMA (fulfills VAPA, CEHET)
  • CTI       351        THE IDEA OF THE BEAUTIFUL (fulfills VAPA, CEHET)
  • CTI       352D     EARLY ITALIAN RENAISSANCE ART TO 1470
  • CTI       354        ABRAHAM AND ABRAHAMIC RELIGIONS
  • CTI       354F     THE FIVE BOOKS OF MOSES
  • CTI       354J       THE BOOK OF JOB
  • CTI       354L      LAW AND JUSTICE IN THE BIBLE
  • CTI       354P      BIBLICAL PROPHESY
  • CTI       355        THE BIBLE IN THE COLONIAL AMERICAS
  • CTI       355R      THE AGE OF REFORMATION
  • CTI       355T      DEBATING THE BIBLE IN THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY
  • CTI       357        ISLAMIC THEORY
  • CTI       363        THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND NAPOLEON
  • CTI       365       CLASSICS OF SOCIAL AND SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT (fulfills Core and COLA Social and Behavioral Science)
  • CTI       371       EINSTEIN IN THE AGE OF CONFLICT 
  • CTI       371D    DARWIN ON ORIGIN OF SPECIES
  • CTI       371M    HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS
  • CTI       371N     NEWTON'S PRINCIPIA
  • CTI       371S      SCIENCE AND RELIGION TO NEWTON
  • CTI       372        DARWIN AND THE POLITICS OF EVOLUTION
  • CTI       373        GREAT WORKS IN MEDICINE
  • CTI       374        BIOLOGY, BEHAVIOR, AND INJUSTICE
  • CTI       375        TOPICS IN CORE TEXTS AND IDEAS (TOPICS VARY)
  • CTI       379        CONFERENCE COURSE
  • E          321        SHAKESPEARE
  • E          321P      SHAKESPEARE THROUGH PERFORMANCE (fulfills VAPA, CEHET)
  • E          363        MILTON 
  • E          320L      MAJ WRTRS: RESTORATN/18TH CEN
  • E          358J       THE BIBLE AS LITERATURE 
  • E          363K     CLASSIC TO ROMANTIC
  • EUS     347        EARLY ITALIAN RENAISSANCE ART
  • EUS     347        REMBRT/RUBENS: N BAROQ ART
  • FR        326K     INTRO FR LIT I MID AGES-18TH C (fulfills CEHET)
  • FR        326L     INTRO FR LIT II FR REV-PRESENT (fulfills CEHET)
  • GK       324       EURIPIDES
  • GK       324       SOPHOCLES
  • GK       324       XENOPHON
  • GK       365       ARISTOPHANES
  • GK       365       ARISTOTLE
  • GK       365       PLATO'S SYMPOSIUM
  • GOV    312P     CONSTITUTNL PRINS: CORE TEXTS ((fulfills Core Gov)
  • GOV    335D    NATURAL LAW THEORY 
  • GOV    335M    TOCQUEVILLE'S DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA
  • GOV    335M    LIBERTY/EMPIRE: MACHIAVELLI
  • GOV    335M    XENOPHON AND MACHIAVELLI
  • GOV    335R     INTEL WORLD AMER FOUNDERS
  • GOV    355M    FOUNDATIONS OF CONSERVATISM AND RADICALISM
  • GOV    355M    CITIZENSHIP AND PATRIOTISM
  • GOV    351P     TYRANNY AND POLITICS
  • GOV    351R     KANT AND OUR MODERN AGE
  • GOV    351S     XENOPHON AND MACHIAVELLI
  • GOV    355M    VISIONS OF EMANCIPATION
  • GOV    357M    CONSTITUTNL STRUCTURE OF POWER
  • GOV    379G     JERUSALEM AND ATHENS
  • GOV    379S     HOMER AND PLATO-HONORS
  • GOV    379C     REGIME PERSP ON AMER POLITICS
  • GSD     360      GERMAN SCHOLARS: US EXILE
  • HIS      317L     THE ERA OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION (fulfills Core history)
  • HIS      322D    THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION OF THE 17TH CENTURY 
  • HIS      343       THE AGE OF REFORMATION
  • HIS      322M   HISTORY OF MODERN SCIENCE (fulfills CEHET)
  • HIS      334L     AMER REV/FND OF US, 1763-1800 (fulfills Core history)
  • HIS      343G    ITAL RENAISSANCE, 1350-1550 (fulfills CEHET)
  • HIS      345J      THE COMING OF THE CIVIL WAR 1829-1861 (fulfills Core History, carries CD flag)
  • HIS      350R    DEBATING THE AMER REVOLUTION (fulfills Core history)
  • HIS      350R    HAMILTON/JEFFERSON IN CNTXT (fulfills Core history)
  • HIS      355S     US CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY (fulfills Core history)
  • HIS      356S     AMER PRES 1789 TO PRESENT (fulfills Core history)
  • HIS      364E    THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS (fulfills CEHET)
  • HIS      365G    HIST OF AMERICAN PRESIDENCY (fulfills Core history)
  • ITL       321        INTRO TO ITALIAN LITERATURE (fulfills CEHET)
  • LAH     305       REACTING TO THE PAST (fulfills CEHET)
  • LAH     350       IN SEARCH OF MEANING
  • LAH     350       RHETORIC OF GREAT SPEECHES
  • LAH     350       SHAKESPEARE
  • LAT     323       CICERO AND CATULLUS
  • LAT     323       HORACE, ODES, AND SATIRE
  • LAT     365       SENECA
  • MES     342      BIBLICAL POETRY
  • MES     342       MAJOR ISLAMIC TEXTS (fulfills CEHET)
  • MES     342       SHOCK OF MODERNITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST 
  • MES     342      THE ARABIAN NIGHTS (fulfills CEHET)
  • PHL     301L     EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY (fulfills CEHET)
  • PHL     322K     HISTORY OF ETHICS 
  • PHL     329K     HIST OF ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY (fulfills CEHET)
  • PHL     329L     EARLY MODRN PHL DESCARTES-KANT (fulfills CEHET)
  • PHL     329M    PLATO'S REPUBLIC
  • PHL     329P     KANTS CRITIQUE PURE REASON
  • PHL     334K     MARTIN HEIDEGGER
  • PHL     361K     PHILOSOPHY IN LITERATURE (fulfills CEHET)
  • PHL     365       SPINOZA'S PHILOSOPHICAL SYSTEMS
  • PHL     366K     EXISTENTIALISM (fulfills CEHET)
  • PHL     375M    KANT'S MORAL THEORY
  • PHL     610QA  PROBS OF KNOWLEDGE & VALUATION
  • R S       304       JUDAISM/CHRIST/ISLAM-AN INTRO (fulfills CEHET)
  • R S       321       HIST OF HINDU RELIG TRADITN (fulfills CEHET) 
  • R S       306D    ROOTS RELIGIOUS TOLERATION
  • R S       356M   CHRISTIAN QUEST FOR MEANING
  • RHE     330D    ARGUING WITH LIBERALS (fulfills CEHET)
  • RHE     330D    CICERO, RHET & ANCIENT ROME (fulfills CEHET)
  • RHE     330D    PHILOSOPHY VS. RHETORIC (fulfills CEHET)
  • SOC     379M   SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY (fulfills CEHET)
  • T C       302       INTRO TO GREEK POLIT THOUGHT
  • UGS     302      CLASSICAL PHILOSOPHY & LIT (fulfills First Year Signature Course)
  • UGS     303      DISCOVERY OF FREEDOM (fulfills First Year Signature Course)
  • UGS     303      JUSTICE AND THE HUMAN GOOD (fulfills First Year Signature Course)
  • UGS     303      JUSTICE, LIBERTY, HAPPINESS (fulfills First Year Signature Course)
  • UGS     303      THE CHALLENGE OF THE GREEKS (fulfills First Year Signature Course)

 

Updated  10/24/2024