Students Entered 2019–20

Pathways provides a set of General Education Requirements that every student must complete to earn a baccalaureate degree. Find below a list of course options that fulfill the respective areas of Pathways for students entering Brooklyn College in fall 2019.

Required Common Core (four courses for a total of 12 credits)

English Composition (two courses)

• ENGL 1010: English Composition I
• ENGL 1012: English Composition II

Mathematical and Quantitative Reasoning (one course)

• CISC 1001: Computing and Quantitative Reasoning
• CISC 1002 /PHIL 2200: The Outer Limits of Reasoning
• MATH 1311: Thinking Mathematically
• MATH 1501: Elements of Statistics with Applications
• An approved STEM variant course: BUSN 3400, ECON 3400, EESC 3800, MATH 1006, MATH 1011, MATH 1012, MATH 1021 (together with MATH 1026), MATH 1026 (together with MATH 1021), MATH 1201, MATH 1401 (together with MATH 1021), PSYC 3400

Life and Physical Sciences (one course)

• ANTH 1200: Human Origins
• BIOL 1010: Biology: The Study of Life
• CHEM 1007: Chemistry in Modern Life: An Introduction for Non-Majors
• EESC 1010: The Dynamic Earth
• An approved STEM variant course: ANTH 3265, ANTH 3266, ANTH 3470, BIOL 1001, BIOL 1002, BIOL 1501, BIOL 1502, CASD 1178, CLAS 3212, CHEM 1040, CHEM 1100, CHEM 2050, CHEM 2100, HNSC 2300, HNSC 2302, HNSC 2303, KINS 3271, KINS 3275, KINS 3281, KINS 3285

Flexible Common Core (six courses for a total of 18 credits)

No more than two courses

World Cultures & Global Issues (one course)

• AFST 3135: Black Political Identity in a Transnational Context
• ANTH 1105: Comparative Studies in Cultures and Transformation
• ARTD 1035: The Development of the Silk Road
• ARTD 3134: Subject, Creator, Consumer: Women and African Art
• CLAS 1110: Tyranny, Democracy, Empire: Classical Cultures
• CLAS 2104 / ENGL 2004: Literature and Film
• CLAS 3245: Comparative Identity Politics: The Ancient Mediterranean and the Modern World (This course is also an Inter-Cultural Competency course.)
• ENGL 2007: The Emergence of the Modern
• ENGL 2008: The Quest for Ethnic, Cultural, and National Identities in Literature
• ENGL 2009: Introduction to Literary Studies
• HIST 3005: The Shaping of the Modern World
• JUST 2545: Classical Jewish Texts: Moving Toward Modernity
• PRLS 3105: Puerto Rican & Latin@ Cultural Formations (This course is also an Inter-Cultural Competency course.)

U.S. Experience in Its Diversity (one course)

• AFST 3265: (Re)presenting Black Men
• AMST 1010: American Identities
• AMST 3212: Decade in Crisis: The 1960s
• ANTH 3135: The American Urban Experience: Anthropological Perspectives
• ENGL 2001: Literature, Ethnicity, and Immigration
• FILM 2124: American Film Comedy
• HIST 3401: American Pluralism to 1877
• HIST 3402: American Pluralism Since 1877
• JUST 3485: Jews of New York
• MUSC 3101: Music in Global America (This course is also an Inter-Cultural Competency course.)
• POLS 1230: People, Power, and Politics
• PRLS 1001: Introduction to Puerto Rican & Latin@ Studies
• PRLS 3203: Latino/a Diasporas in the United States
• SEED 1001: Critical Issues in U.S. Education
• SOCY 1201: Sociology of Hip Hop
• SPCL 3000: LGBTQ Youth in Educational Contexts
• WGST 1001: Introduction to Women’s Studies: Sex, Gender, and Power

Creative Expression (two courses)

• ARTD 1010: Art: Its History and Meaning
• MUSC 1300: Music: Its Language, History, and Culture
• MUSC 1400: Fundamentals of Music

Individual & Society (one course)

• CASD 1707: Public Speaking
• CBSE 2001 / SEED 2001: Historical, Philosophical, and Cultural Foundations of Education
• CLAS 2109: The Self and Society
• CLAS 3200 / RELG 3030: Heroes, Gods, Monsters: Classical Mythologies
• ECAE 2004: Early Childhood Education Foundations
• ENGL 2002: Ideas of Character in the Western Literary Tradition
• ENGL 2006: Text/Context
• MLAN 2015: Con, Cop, and Mark: Representations of Criminality and Authority
• MLAN 2610: Literature in Translation
• PHIL 2101: Introduction to the Problems of Philosophy
• PHIL 2501: Philosophical Issues in Literature
• RELG 3003 / CLAS 3246: Questions of Text and Truth: Introduction to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
• SOCY 1200: Sociology of Sport

Scientific World (one course)

• ANTH 1205 / CHEM 1037: Studies in Forensic Science
• ANTH 2205: Forensic Anthropology
• CHEM 1011: Pharmaceutical Research, Development, and Approval
• CHEM 1012: Chemistry in the Arts and Archaeology
• CISC 1003: Exploring Robotics
• EESC 1050: Society and the Ocean
• HNSC 1100: Personal and Community Health
• HNSC 1200: Fundamentals of Nutrition
• PHYS 1005: Physics: The Simple Laws That Govern the Universe
• PHYS 1040: The Making of the Atomic Bomb
• PHYS 1070: Cosmology
• PHYS 1080: Energy Use and Climate Change
• An approved STEM variant course: EESC 1101, LING 2001, PHYS 1100, or PHYS 1150

College Option (four courses for a total of 12 credits)

The college option requirement is dependent on whether a student is deemed proficient, or not proficient, in a language other than English.

For students deemed “Proficient” in a language other than English

Choose one course from each of the areas listed below (for a total of 12 credits):

1. A course from a “Language Other Than English” (LOTE), or an Inter-Cultural Competency (ICC) course

If you are deemed proficient in a “Language Other Than English” (LOTE), you may choose an advanced LOTE course in your proficient language (see an adviser for placement), or an introductory LOTE course in a different language; or you may choose an Inter-Cultural Competency (ICC) course listed below:

• AFST 3247: Literature of the African Diaspora
• AFST 3349: The Caribbeanization of North America
• ANTH 1100: Culture and Society
• ANTH 1300: People and Language
• ARTD 3124: Foundations of Islamic Art
• ARTD 3169: Global Contemporary Art
• CASD 1619: Intercultural Communication
• CLAS 3209: After Alexander: A Confluence of Cultures
• CLAS 3245: Comparative Identity Politics: The Ancient Mediterranean and the Modern World
• ITAL 1510: The Italian Cultural Heritage
• JUST 3025: The Jewish Diaspora
• LING 3029 / ENGL 3524 / ANTH 3390: Sociolinguistics
• MLAN 2150: Intercultural Literacy and Competence
• MUSC 3101: Music in Global America
• PRLS 2105: New York Latin@ Culture and the Arts
• PRLS 3105: Puerto Rican and Latin@ Cultural Formations

2. An additional course from one of the following Pathways Flexible Core sections:

• World Cultures and Global Issues
• U.S. Experience in Its Diversity
• Creative Expression
• Individual and Society

3. An additional course from one of the following Pathways Flexible Core sections:

• World Cultures and Global Issues courses
• U.S. Experience in Its Diversity courses

4. An additional course from the following Pathways Required Core section:

• Life and Physical Sciences courses

For students deemed “Not Proficient” in a language other than English

Choose one course from each of the areas listed below (for a total of 12 credits):

1. LOTE

2. LOTE

3. An additional course from one of the following Pathways Flexible Core sections:

• World Cultures and Global Issues
• U.S. Experience in Its Diversity

4. An additional course from the following Pathways Required Core section:

• Life and Physical Sciences