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May 09, 2025

2023-2024 Winona Undergraduate Catalog

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All of the following

Students must take all of the following courses:

INT101 First Year Experience Anchor Course (taken the 1st semester)
TH111 Thinking Theologically (recommended in the 1st year)
E130 First Year Writing (recommended in the 1st year)
COM202 Communication Fundamentals or COM204 Public Speaking for the Professional
INT499 Capstone (requires senior status)

Theology

One of the following:

TH250 Christian View of the Human Person
TH260 Foundations in Catholic Theology
TH317 The Search for Truth
TH322 The Virtuous Life
TH331 Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution: Lessons and Texts
TH335 Global Health Ethics: Sustainability and the Common Good or HH335 Global Health Ethics: Sustainability and the Common Good

Philosophy

One of the following:

PH305 Health Care Ethics and Policy
or HH305 Health Care Ethics
PH320 Philosophy of Education
PH345 Philosophy of the Person
PH346 Ethical Issues in the Sciences
PH347 Environmental Ethics
PH362 Business Ethics
PH370 Philosophy of Art
PH380 Tolkien
PH385 Political Philosophy
PH389 Philosophy of Religion

Literature

One of the following:

E170 Romance Literature
E171 Sports Literature
E172 Readers and Writers
E173 Literature and Film
E174 Dystopian Literature
E175 Introduction to Literature
E176 The Graphic Novel
E177 Holocaust Literature
E178 Gothic Literature
E179 Fantasy Literature
E180 Mystery and Detective Fiction
E195-204 Special Topics in English
E251 Textual Analysis
E252 Contextual Analysis
E304 Power, Conflict, and Protest in American Literature and Culture
E305 Race and Ethnicity in American Literature and Culture
E315 Christianity and Its Others
E321 Storytelling for Impact
E326 Short Fiction Writing
E329 Poetry Writing
E331 The Romantics and Their World
E333 Shakespeare
E351 British Modernism: Its Origin and Its Ends
E352 The Edge of Empire
E360 Literature on Location
E361 Dante’s Commedia
E365 Recent Prize-winning Fiction
E373 Post-Colonial Fictions
E381 The Adventures of the Writer in World Literature
E383 Geographies of Identity
E390 Women’s Narrative
E391 African American Perspectives
E393 Health Narratives or HH393 Health Narratives
E425 Writing in the First Person
SP301 Advanced Spanish Conversation
SP332 Civilization/Culture Latin America
SP401 Medieval/Renaissance Spanish Literature
SP402 18th–20th Century Spanish Literature
SP403 Latin American Literature through the 18th Century
SP404 19th–20th Century Latin American Literature
SP405 Don Quijote
SP407 El Fútbol in Latin American Literature
SP408 Magical Realism
SP414 Themes in Latin American Cinema
SP420-424 Special Topics

Mathematics

One of the following:

M149 Calculus I with Precalculus (part 2)
M151 Calculus I
M200 Introduction to Data Science
ST132 Reasoning with Statistics
ST232 Introduction to Probability and Statistics

Sciences

Six (6) credits from the following (must include at least one lab):

B100 Introduction to Watershed Ecology and Management
B105 Environmental Biology
B150 Biological Connections
B200 Human Biology
B210 Introduction to Mammalogy with Laboratory
B212 General Biology I: Cellular and Molecular Biology
B214 General Biology II: Form and Function of Animals and Plants
B216 General Biology III: Ecology, Evolution and Biological Diversity
B253 General Microbiology
B260 Human Anatomy and Physiology I
B270 Human Anatomy and Physiology II
B300 Current Scientific Issues
B301 Ecology with Laboratory
B310 Genetics with Laboratory
B315 GIS Theory and Applications with Laboratory
B320 Conservation Biology
B321 Global Change Biology
B350 Heredity and Society
B365 Biodiversity of Belize
C110 World of Materials with Laboratory
C131 General Chemistry I
C142 General Chemistry II
C150 General, Organic, and Biochemistry
C341 Quantitative Chemical Analysis with Laboratory
CS101 Computer Science Fundamentals
CS110 Introduction to Programming
CS307 Introduction to Cybersecurity
CS310 Introduction to Web Programming
CS320 Computer Architecture
CS355 Database Engineering
P111 The Earth and the Solar System
P113 Physics of Sound and Music
P155 Foundations of Physics
P180 College Physics I
P190 College Physics II
P201 Introductory Physics I
P211 Introductory Physics II
P221 Global Climate Change
P304 Introduction to Modern Physics with Laboratory

Social Sciences

One of the following:

APSY300 General Psychology (Bachelor Completion course offered through the Twin Cities campus)
CJ111 Introduction to Criminal Justice
CJ452 Victimology
EC261 Principles of Microeconomics
EC262 Principles of Macroeconomics
GE305 Introduction to Geography
HS111 Introduction to Human Services
HS352 Public Policy or PS370 Public Policy
LOND329 British Politics
PS102 American National Government
PS317 International Political Economy
PS320 Comparative Politics
PY111 General Psychology
S110 Sociological Imagination

History, Art, & Communication

One of the following:

AR101 Art Appreciation
AR103 2D Foundations
AR104 3D Foundations
AR122 Drawing I
AR211 Ceramics I
AR260 Intro to Italian Art and Culture
AR360 Art History
COM111 Introduction to Mass Communication
COM201 Beginning Newswriting
COM250 Intercultural Communication
COM270 Persuasion and Advocacy
COM331 Public Affairs Journalism
COM350 Multimedia Production
COM360 Ethical Communication and Leadership
COM375 Organizational Communication
FPA311 Arts and Healing or HH311 Arts and Healing
H111 Global History to 1500
H112 Global History since 1500
H113 U.S. History to 1865
H114 U.S. History since 1865
H151 A Multicultural History of America
H152 The Modern World
H251 Histories of Religion
H252 Topics in Film and History
H305 Race, Slavery, and Revolution in the Atlantic World
H306 The Americas in the Age of Coke
H315 The Wars in Korea and Vietnam
H319 The History of the Palestinian- Israeli Conflict
H325 Histories of Medicine or HH325 Histories of Medicine
H335 American Environmental History
H336 American Business History
H357 The History of Rock and Roll
H366 Monsters of the Machine Age
H367 Europe in the Era of World War 1914–1945
H381 Revolutionary Russia
H388 Korean Civilization
H389 Gender in East Asia
H390 Modern China
LOND301 Art in London
MU150 Experiencing Music
MU160 Music Theory I
MU171 Piano Class
MU300 Introduction to Music Technology
MU344 World Music and Culture
TA160 Theatre Appreciation
TA270 Scene Design
TA301 Theatre in London
TA302 Modern Movies
TA305 Dress and Fashion
TA322 Theatre History and Dramatic Literature to 1700
TA323 Theatre History and Dramatic Literature since 1700
TA360 London Page to the Stage
TA475 Dramatic Theory, Criticism, and Research

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