Creative and Critical Think
Interested in an opportunity to practice comprehension, reasoning and evidence-based exploration? Or, do you want to develop your imagination and personal voice, or create new artistic works? Selecting courses from the lists below will help you do just that.
Western Michigan University's current semester courses and descriptions are listed below. Enrolled students can also access descriptions by logging into GoWMU and accessing Degree Works.
Creative and Critical Thinking SLO (CCL)
- AAAS 2000 - Intro to AfAmer/African Stdies
- AAAS 2100 - Forms of Black Consciousness
- ACTY 2100 - Prin Of Accounting I
- ADA 2250 - Drug Use: Per/Soc Impact
- ANTH 1100 - Lost Worlds/Archeol
- ANTH 1200 - Peoples Of The World
- ANTH 3440 - Indigenous North AmericaDI
- ART 1200 - Introduction To Art
- ART 1400 - 2D Studio Experience
- ART 1480 - Direct Encounter/Art
- ART 2200 - Caves to Cathedrals
- ART 2210 - Modern and Postmodern
- ART 2220 - Africa, Oceania, Americas
- BUS 2200 - Intro To Global Business
- CHIN 2800 - Chinese Calligraphy
- CIS 1020 - Intro to Bus Computing
- CLAS 2500 - Power and Morality
- COM 1700 - Interpersonal Comm I
- COM 2000 - Human Communication Theory
- COM 2410 - Film Communication
- DANC 1450 - Experiencing Dance
- ECON 1020 - Economics in Our Daily Lives
- ECON 2010 - Principle Of Microeconomics
- ECON 2020 - Principles Of Macroeconomics
- ECON 3090 - Economics of Gender and RaceDI
- ENGL 1120 - Literary Classics
- ENGL 2080 - Literature In Our Lives
- ENGL 2660 - Writing-Fict/Poetry
- ENGL 3080 - Quest For Self-Honors
- ENGL 3160 - Storytellers
- ENGL 3820 - Lit For The Young Child
- ENVS 1000 - Climate Challenges & Solutions
- ES 2800 - Human Flourishing&Happiness
- FCS 1030 - Lifespan Development
- GRN 1000 - Introduction to Aging Studies
- GWS 1000 - Media And The Sexes
- HIST 1000 - Early Western World
- HIST 1010 - Modern Western World
- HIST 1450 - Heroes/Villains In Mid Ages
- HIST 2100 - American Hist To 1877
- HIST 2110 - Amer Hist Since 1877
- HIST 3015 - History and Film
- HIST 3600 - Medieval World
- HIST 3790 - WWII in US & Japanese HistoryDI
- HNRS 3202 - Modernism in Art and Lit
- HNRS 3204 - Postmodern Dystopias
- HNRS 3701 - Technology in the Arts
- HSV 2250 - Growth, Dev. and Aging
- LANG 1750 - Intercultural Odyssey
- LANG 2500 - The Nature of Language
- MATH 1140 - Essential Quant Reasoning
- MATH 1160 - Finite Math/Applic
- MATH 1180 - Precalculus Math
- MATH 1220 - Calculus I
- MATH 1700 - Calculus I, Sci & Eng
- MATH 2000 - Calculus With Applic
- MATH 2650 - Prob&stat Elem/Mid Sch Tchr
- MDVL 2000 - Voices of the Middle Ages
- MUS 1500 - Music Apprec-Live
- MUS 2220 - Computer Music Design
- MUS 4500 - Mus Apprec: Symphony
- PHIL 2000 - Intro To Philosophy
- PHIL 2010 - Contemp Problems in Ethics
- PHIL 2200 - Critical Thinking
- PHIL 2250 - Deductive Logic
- PHIL 3000 - Ancient-Mdvl Phil
- PHIL 3030 - Existentialist Phil
- PHIL 3120 - Philosophy Of Art
- PHIL 3130 - Philosophy Of Law
- PHIL 3140 - Phil through Comics
- PHIL 3350 - Medical Humanities
- PSCI 1050 - Critical Thinking/Politics
- PSCI 2000 - National Government
- PSCI 2400 - Comparative Politics
- PSCI 2500 - Internatl Relations
- PSY 3601 - Adv Operant Lab
- PSY 4630 - Health Psychology
- SOC 2000 - Prin Of Sociology
- SOC 2100 - Modern Soc ProblemsDI
- STAT 1600 - Statistics And Data Analysis
- STAT 2160 - Business Statistics
- STAT 2600 - Data Analysis Using R
- SWRK 1000 - Intr-Social Service
- SWRK 2100 - Introduction to Social Work: A
- SWRK 3330 - Cult/Ethn/Inst Swrk PracticeDI
- THEA 1000 - Love, Politics & Entertainment
- THEA 1450 - Beginning Acting
- THEA 1700 - Script Analysis
- THEA 3600 - Technology in the Arts
Katelyn
Katelyn is a sales and business marketing major and is planning to apply for an internship at an art museum in the summer. She wanted to develop her creative and critical thinking skills as a complement to her studies and chose the following WMU Essential Studies courses:
- Oral/Digital Communications: EDLD 2000
- Inquiry and Engagement: CLAS 1500
- Personal Wellness: COM 1700
- World Language and Culture: ART 2220
- Artistic Theory and Practice: MUS 1520
- Scientific Literacy with Lab: GEOS 1900