Students take one credit-bearing course (at least 3 credits) and, in doing so, meet one goal.
- Analyze the degree to which forms of human difference shape a person's experiences of and perspectives on contemporary issues.
- Analyze a contemporary global issue from a multidisciplinary perspective.
- Analyze the relationship that science and technology have to a contemporary social issue.
- Analyze contemporary issues of social justice.
The Contemporary Challenge learning goals must be fulfilled by taking classes at Rutgers New Brunswick; transfer and AP courses are not certified to meet these learning goals.
SEBS Core courses taught each semester are available to view in the Schedule of Classes. After selecting a semester, New Brunswick, and Undergraduate and hitting "Continue", choose the tab on the left labeled "Core Code". The dropdown list will show each of the SEBS Core codes. After selecting one of the options, courses will appear from all departments that fulfill that SEBS Core goal.
| Course # | Course Title | Credits | Core Codes |
|---|---|---|---|
| African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures | |||
| 01:013:204 | Introduction to Discourse Analysis | 3 | CC, SCL |
| 01:013:205 | Cultural Forces in International Politics | 3 | CC |
| 01:013:285 | Language and Globalization | 3 | CC |
| 01:013:305 | African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages in Peril | 3 | CC, ITR |
| 01:013:307 | Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures and Theories | 3 | CC, AHo or AHp |
| American Studies | |||
| 01:050:102 | Introduction to Race and Ethnicity in America | 3 | CC |
| 01:050:210 | The American Dream | 4 | CC, AHp |
| 01:050:223 | Learning from the Past: Early America and the 21st Century | 3 | CC, HST |
| 01:050:316 | Twenty-First Century Writing | 3 | CC, AHp |
| Anthropology | |||
| 01:070:111 | Extinction | 4 | CC, NS, SCL |
| 01:070:223 | Anthropology of Latin America | 3 | CC |
| 01:070:225 | Gender in Global Perspective | 3 | CC |
| 01:070:242 | Anthropology of the Middle East | 3 | CC |
| 01:070:248 | Anthropology of China | 3 | CC |
| 01:070:283 | French Gastronomy and Global Food Culture | 3 | CC, HST |
| 01:070:303 | Wealth and Culture | 3 | CC |
| 01:070:324 | Globalization, Sex, and Families | 3 | CC |
| 01:070:372 | Body Politics (formerly Anthropology of the Body) | 3 | CC |
| Art History | |||
| 01:082:101 | Building the Future: An Introduction to Architecture | 3 | CC, AHp |
| 01:082:118 | Looking at 21st Century World History | 3 | CC, HST |
| Asian Studies | |||
| 01:098:250 | Global East Asia | 4 | CC, HST or SCL |
| 01:098:255 | Heroism | 3 | CC, AHp |
| Biochemistry | |||
| 11:115:100 | Molecules of Life: Biochemistry for Everyone | 3 | CC, NS |
| Biological Sciences | |||
| 01:119:150 | Biology, Society, and Biomedical Issues | 3 | CC, NS |
| 01:119:154 | Genetics, Law, and Social Policy | 3 | CC, NS |
| 01:119:155 | Human Genetics | 3 | CC, NS |
| 01:119:156 | Genetics, Evolution and Human Health | 3 | CC, NS |
| 01:119:160 | Biology, Society, and Ecological Issues | 3 | CC, NS |
| Chemistry | |||
| 01:160:127 | Impact of Chemistry | 3 | CC, NS |
| Cinema Studies | |||
| 01:175:321 | World Cinema II | 3 | CC, AHp |
| Cognitive Science | |||
| 01:185:253 | Human Nature and Human Diversity | 4 | CC, AHo |
| Communication | |||
| 04:192:346 | Intercultural Communication | 3 | CC, WCd |
| 04:192:354 | Mediated Communication Theory | 3 | CC, WCd |
| 04:192:380 | Public Speaking | 3 | CC, ITR |
| 04:192:432 | Mediated Communication in Society | 3 | CC |
| 04:192:446 | Communication and Social Change | 3 | CC, WCd |
| 04:192:478 | Family Communication | 3 | CC, WCd |
| Communication and Information | |||
| 04:189:103 | Information Technology and Informatics | 3 | CC, ITR |
| 04:189:353 | Digital Technology and Disruptive Change | 3 | CC, ITR |
| Comparative Literature | |||
| 01:195:220 | The Global Ecological Imagination | 3 | CC, AHo |
| 01:195:270 | Past Today | 3 | CC, AHo or AHp |
| 01:195:307 | Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures and Theories | 3 | CC, AHo or AHp |
| 01:195:321 | World Cinema II | 3 | CC, AHp |
| Computer Science | |||
| 01:198:142 | Data 101 | 3 | CC, QQ or QR, ITR |
| 01:198:405 | Seminar in Computers and Society | 3 | CC, WCd |
| East Asian Languages and Area Studies | |||
| 01:214:245 | Global East Asia (no longer offered) | 3 | CC, HST or SCL, WCd |
| Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources | |||
| 11:216:115 | Evolution of Sex and Gender in Animals | 3 | CC, NS |
| 11:216:317 | Conservation Ecology | 3 | CC, WCd |
| Economics | |||
| 01:220:120 | Inequality | 3 | CC, SCL |
| English | |||
| 01:354:205 | Cinema Today | 4 | CC, AHp |
| 01:354:321 | World Cinema II | 3 | CC, AHp |
| 01:358:205 | The Coming Apocalypse | 4 | CC, AHp |
| 01:358:275 | The Cultural History of Now | 3 | CC, AHp |
| Environmental and Business Economics | |||
| 11:373:101 | Economics, People, and the Environment | 3 | CC, SCL |
| 11:373:431 | International Trade Policy (was 11:015:431) | 3 | CC |
| Environmental Planning and Design | |||
| 11:573:202 | Environmental Issues in the United States | 3 | CC, SCL |
| Environmental Policy, Insitutions, and Behaviors | |||
| 11:374:101 | Introduction to Human Ecology | 3 | CC, SCL |
| 11:374:115 | Water and Society | 3 | CC, SCL |
| 11:374:175 | Energy and Society | 3 | CC, SCL |
| 11:374:279 | Politics of Environmental Issues | 3 | CC, SCL |
| Environmental Science | |||
| 11:375:101 | Introduction to Environmental Science | 3 | CC, NS |
| 11:375:197 | Environmental Science Literacy | 3 | CC, ITR |
| Environmental Studies | |||
| 01:381:101 | Introduction to Environmental Studies | 3 | CC |
| European Studies | |||
| 01:360:320 | Politics and Social Policy: Lessons from Europe | 3 | CC |
| Food Science | |||
| 11:400:107 | Foods: From Field to Table | 3 | CC |
| French | |||
| 01:420:251 | France and the World - the World in France | 3 | CC, AHp |
| 01:420:271 | Francophilia: Literature and Sexuality in Modern France | 3 | CC, WCD |
| 01:420:283 | French Gastronomy and Global Food Culture | 3 | CC, HST |
| Genetics | |||
| 01:447:354 | Social, Legal and Ethical Implications of the New Genetics | 3 | CC |
| 01:447:356 | Evolutionary Medicine | 3 | CC |
| 01:447:384 | Genetic Analysis I | 4 | CC |
| Geography | |||
| 01:450:101 | Earth Systems | 3 | CC, NS |
| 01:450:102 | Transforming the Global Environment | 3 | CC, NS |
| 01:450:214 | Conservation | 4 | CC, SCL |
| 01:450:250 | Cities | 3 | CC, HST or SCL |
| 01:450:341 | South Asia | 3 | CC |
| 01:450:363 | Geography of Development | 3 | CC |
| 01:450:370 | Climate Change and Society | 3 | CC, ITR |
| Geological Sciences | |||
| 01:460:110 | Sea Change: The Rise and Fall of Sea Level and the Jersey Shore | 3 | CC, NS |
| 01:460:203 | Building and Maintaining a Habitable Planet | 3 | CC, NS |
| 01:460:204 | The Water Planet | 3 | CC, NS |
| 01:460:207 | Oil and Gold: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly | 3 | CC, NS |
| 01:460:222 | Planet Mars, the Next Frontier | 3 | CC, NS |
| 01:460:224 | Geology of the Moons and Planets | 3 | CC, NS |
| German | |||
| 01:470:369 | Remembering the Holocaust | 3 | CC |
| History | |||
| 01:506:118 | Looking at 21st Century World History | 3 | CC, HST |
| 01:506:151 | History and the News | 3 | CC, HST |
| 01:506:227 | Health, Culture and Society | 3 | CC |
| 01:506:260 | Wars, Wayfarers and the Wall: A History of the U.S.-Mexican Border | 3 | CC, HST |
| 01:508:110 | Political Islam: Present and Past | 3 | CC, HST |
| 01:508:209 | Jerusalem Contested: A City's History from Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Perspectives | 3 | CC, HST |
| 01:508:226 | War and Violence In Africa | 3 | CC, HST |
| 01:510:370 | Remembering the Holocaust | 3 | CC |
| 01:512:216 | Famous Trials | 3 | CC, HST |
| 01:512:250 | Natives and Newcomers: Immigration and Migration in U.S. History | 3 | CC, HST |
| 01:512:268 | Plantation to White House | 3 | CC, HST or SCL |
| Information Technology and Informatics | |||
| 04:547:111 | The Internet and the Information Environment: A Quantitative Approach | 3 | CC, QR, ITR |
| 04:547:220 | Retrieving and Evaluating Electronic Information | 3 | CC, ITR |
| 04:547:340 | Gender and Technology | 3 | CC, SCL, WCd |
| Interdisciplinary Studies | |||
| 01:556:143 | Energy and Climate Change | 3 | CC, NS |
| 01:556:271 | Immigrant States: Jersey's Global Routes | 3 | CC, SCL |
| International and Global Studies | |||
| 01:558:101 | Global Awareness: An Introduction to International & Global Studies | 3 | CC |
| Japanese | |||
| 01:565:215 | A-Bomb Literature and Film in Japan | 3 | CC, AHp |
| Jewish Studies | |||
| 01:563:100 | Introduction to the Modern Middle East | 3 | CC, HST or SCL, AHo |
| 01:563:280 | Jerusalem Contested: A City's History from Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Perspectives | 3 | CC, HST |
| 01:563:360 | Remembering the Holocaust | 3 | CC |
| Journalism and Media Studies | |||
| 04:567:215 | Gender, Race, and Class in the Media | 3 | CC |
| Labor Studies | |||
| 37:575:110 | Work, Society, and the Quality of Life | 3 | CC, SCL |
| 37:575:215 | Youth and Work | 3 | CC, SCL |
| 37:575:301 | Labor Movements and Democracy (formerly Comparative Labor Movements) | 3 | CC |
| 37:575:302 | Comparative Social and Labor Legislation | 3 | CC |
| 37:575:303 | Black Workers in American Society | 3 | CC, SCL |
| 37:575:307 | Latino Workers in the U.S. | 3 | CC |
| 37:575:309 | Working Women in American Society | 3 | CC, SCL |
| 37:575:320 | Immigrant Workers and Their Rights | 3 | CC |
| 37:575:335 | Women and the Labor Movement in the US and Globally | 3 | CC |
| 37:575:357 | Social Movements, Social Change and Work | 3 | CC |
| 37:575:359 | Organizing for Social Change | 3 | CC |
| 37:575:363 | Labor and the Global Economy | 3 | CC |
| 37:575:364 | Diversity in the Workplace | 3 | CC |
| Landscape Architecture | |||
| 11:550:230 | Environmental Design Analysis | 3 | CC, AHp |
| 11:550:271 | Agriculture and the Landscape | 3 | CC |
| Latin American Studies | |||
| 01:590:101 | Latin America: An Introduction | 3 | CC, HST or SCL |
| Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies | |||
| 01:595:100 | Introduction to Caribbean Studies | 3 | CC |
| 01:595:101 | Introduction to Latino Studies | 3 | CC |
| 01:595:202 | Color-Lines and Borderlands | 4 | CC, AHo |
| 01:595:271 | Immigrant States: Jersey's Global Routes | 3 | CC, SCL |
| 01:595:333 | Caribbean Religion | 3 | CC, SCL |
| Marine and Coastal Sciences | |||
| 11:628:120 | Introduction to Oceanography | 3 | CC, NS |
| 11:628:204 | The Water Planet | 3 | CC, NS |
| 11:628:221 | Human Interactions with the Coastal Ocean | 3 | CC, NS |
| Microbiology | |||
| 11:680:101 | Living in the Microbial World | 3 | CC, NS |
| 11:680:103 | Microbiology of Agricultural Products in New Jersey | 3 | CC, NS |
| Middle Eastern Studies | |||
| 01:685:100 | Introduction to the Modern Middle East | 3 | CC, HST or SCL, AHo |
| 01:685:110 | Political Islam: Present and Past | 3 | CC, HST |
| 01:685:280 | Jerusalem Contested: A City's History from Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Perspectives | 3 | CC, HST |
| 01:685:306 | Multiple Identities of the Middle East | 3 | CC, HST |
| Molecular Biology and Biochemistry | |||
| 01:694:414 | Harnessing Solar Energy | 3 | CC |
| Music | |||
| 07:700:292 | Introduction to World Music | 3 | CC, AHp |
| Nutritional Sciences | |||
| 11:709:255 | Nutrition and Health | 3 | CC, NS |
| Organizational Leadership | |||
| 01:713:308 | Leadership in a Diverse Workplace | 3 | CC |
| Philosophy | |||
| 01:730:252 | Eating Right: The Ethics of Food Choices and Food Policy | 4 | CC, AHo, WCd |
| 01:730:253 | Human Nature and Human Diversity | 4 | CC, AHo |
| Physics | |||
| 01:750:140 | The Greenhouse Effect | 3 | CC, NS |
| Political Science | |||
| 01:790:120 | Inequality | 3 | CC, SCL |
| 01:790:313 | Politcal Economy of East Asia | 3 | CC |
| 01:790:318 | Comparative Public Policy | 3 | CC |
| 01:790:320 | Politics and Social Policy: Lessons from Europe | 3 | CC |
| 01:790:333 | Race, Ethnicity, and Politics | 3 | CC |
| Psychology | |||
| 01:830:123 | Soul Beliefs: Causes and Consequences | 4 | CC, HST |
| Public Health | |||
| 10:832:252 | Health and Social Justice | 3 | CC, SCL |
| Religion | |||
| 01:840:101 | Gods, Myths, and Religions in a Secular Age | 3 | CC, AHo |
| 01:840:105 | Religion and Current Events | 3 | CC, AHo |
| 01:840:125 | Political Islam: Present and Past | 3 | CC, HST |
| 01:840:333 | Caribbean Religion | 3 | CC, SCL |
| Russian | |||
| 01:860:272 | Russia: Between Empire and Nation (formerly 01:860:334) | 4 | CC, AHp |
| Sexualities Studies | |||
| 01:888:290 | Introduction to Critical Sexualities Studies | 3 | CC |
| 01:888:291 | Francophilia: Literature and Sexuality in Modern France | 3 | CC, WCD |
| Sociology | |||
| 01:920:101 | Introduction to Sociology | 3 | CC, SCL |
| 01:920:103 | Sociological Analysis of Social Problems | 3 | CC, SCL |
| 01:920:108 | Minority Groups in American Society | 3 | CC, SCL |
| 01:920:226 | Health, Culture and Society | 3 | CC |
| 01:920:240 | Normality and Abnormality | 4 | CC, SCL, WCd |
| 01:920:273 | War: Critical Perspectives | 3 | CC, SCL |
| Spanish | |||
| 01:940:363 | Bilingualism in the Spanish-Speaking World | 3 | CC |
| 01:940:418 | The Spanish Language in Social Contexts | 3 | CC |
| 01:940:450 | Spanish-American Theater | 3 | CC |
| 01:940:462 | Environment and Literature in Hispanic Culture | 3 | CC |
| Statistics | |||
| 01:960:142 | Data 101 | 3 | CC, QQ or QR, ITR |
| Study Abroad | |||
| 01:xxx:xxx | Study Abroad Program - Full Time (12cr or more in a Fall or Spring term, or 6cr or more in a Summer term) | xx | CC |
| Theater Arts | |||
| 07:965:370 | Global Theater I | 3 | CC, AHo |
| Women's and Gender Studies | |||
| 01:988:101 | Women, Culture, and Society | 3 | CC |
| 01:988:130 | Knowledge and Power: Issues in Women's Leadership | 3 | CC |
| 01:988:235 | Dynamics of Class, Race, and Sex | 3 | CC |
| 01:988:270 | War: Critical Perspectives | 3 | CC, SCL |
| 01:988:309 | Working Women in American Society | 3 | CC, SCL |
| 01:988:317 | Gender and Consumption | 3 | CC |
| 01:988:337 | Globalization, Sex, and Families | 3 | CC |