Theme R: Revolutionary Ideas and Innovations

Goal 1: Students will be able to identify and critically evaluate major consequences and implications of a revolutionary idea or innovation. Revolutionary ideas may be economic, social, ethical, cultural, political, and/or scientific, among others.

Outcome 1A: Students will be able to identify and critically evaluate major consequences and implications of a revolutionary idea or innovation beyond the field.
Outcome 1B: Students will critically evaluate the major consequences and implications of a revolutionary idea or innovation beyond the field.

For a course to be approved it must:

  1. Demonstrate 'revolutionary ideas and innovations' as an organizing principle of the course.
  2. Include assignments that contribute to at least 40% of the student's grade that address understanding and evaluation of revolutionary ideas and innovations.
  3. For a lower-division Theme course, EITHER have an explicit course connection to a foundational skill OR reinforce a foundational skill.
  4. For an upper-division Theme course, reinforce at least two foundational skills. Area B Courses must reinforce quantitative reasoning skills and one other skill; Area C and D Courses must reinforce critical thinking and one other skill.
  5. Rubrics used to evaluate learning outcomes will be made available to students and incorporate the essential dimensions identified by GECCo.
ANTH 1118 - Introduction to Archeology MUS 1039 – Jazz Appreciation

ART 2508 – Survey of Western Art I, Prehistory to 1400

PHIL 3268 – Marxism

ART 2608 – Survey of Western Art II, 1400 to Present

PHIL 3358 - Phil, Technology & Our Future

ART 3618 - Rev Art of the 19th Century

PLSI 3228 - Pol & Religion in the U.S

ART 3648 – History of Photography

PSYC 3248 - Observ. in Studying the Brain 

COMM 3028 - Video Game Analysis

PSYC 3678 - Ppl., Ethics, & Other Animals

COMM 3048 – Art of Film

RS 1128 – A History of God

COMM 3078 – Mass Media & Society

RS 1138 – Religions of Asia

COMM 3098 - World Film History

RS 3208 - Explorations in Scripture

ECON 3118 - The Pacific Rim Economies

RS 3518 - The American Dream

ENGL 2208 - American Lit Survey I

RS 3538 – Religion and Human Rights

ENGL 2308 - British Lit Survey I

SCI 3019 - Rev Ideas in Human Biology

ENGL 4708 – Studies in Fiction

 SCI 3119 - Rev Ideas in Chemistry

ETHS 1208 - Introduction to Ethnic Studies

SCI 3209 – Computers and Society

HIST 1418 – World History, Pre-History to 1500

SCI 3319 – California Geology and Society

HIST 1428 – World History Since 1500 CE

 SCI 3609 – An Introduction to the Modern Cosmos
HIST 4248 - Film & Identity in History  SOC 4038 – Technology and Society

HIST 4638 – Building an Empire: History Rome

SOC 4068 - The Civil Rights Movement