GEP Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Requirement聽 (5 credit hours)
- A total of five credit hours from the university approved GEP Interdisciplinary Perspectives course list.
- Special Note:聽 If a student changes a General Education course except for HES courses from a letter grade to credit-only (S/U), then the course will not satisfy the GEP requirements.聽 Consult your academic advisor if you have questions.
Double-counting
- A course taken to satisfy a Major requirement may also satisfy this requirement if the course is on the approved GEP Interdisciplinary Perspectives course list.
- 聽A course that satisfies the Interdisciplinary Perspectives requirement may also satisfy the Global Knowledge or U.S. Diversity co-requisite if the course also exists on either university approved GEP co-requisite course list.
- Note: Double-counting with U.S. Diversity applies to students matriculated prior to Fall 2023. Students matriculated after Fall 2023 may only double-count Global Knowledge.
Rationale
Interdisciplinary study provides students with the opportunity to synthesize knowledge and skills, to make connections between fields of study, to consider more than one disciplinary approach or methodology, and to bring to bear the insights from two or more disciplines in examining and/or responding to complex problems.
Category Objectives
Each course in Interdisciplinary Perspectives category will provide instruction and guidance that help students to:
- Distinguish between the distinct approaches of two or more disciplines; and
- Identify and apply authentic connections between two or more disciplines; and
- Explore and synthesize the approaches or views of the two or more disciplines.
Interdisciplinary Course Criteria
Topic Coverage
An interdisciplinary course may be based around a broad topic, such as an idea, theme, problem, region, institution, era or issue. The complexity of such topics may mean that they can be more adequately addressed using an interdisciplinary approach rather than through a single disciplinary point of view.聽 Instructors should help students to integrate the multiple points of view into a cohesive understanding. The multiple disciplines may come from any college or from across colleges.
Rigor
The courses must include sustained, rigorous and substantive instruction that focuses on the content and approaches of two or more disciplines.
Methods of Delivery are flexible and must include one of the following approaches
- Teams of faculty or experts from different disciplines. In team-based courses all faculty are responsible for the course and contribute to components of the class.
- Individual faculty members teaching a single course. The instructor need not be an expert in multiple disciplines; the purpose of these courses is not to train students in multiple disciplines. The role of the instructor is to guide students in seeing the value in using multiple disciplinary perspectives in addressing specific themes, topics, issues, cultures or problems through an informed and rigorous exploration of these perspectives.
Participation
All colleges and departments are encouraged to participate in the development of appropriate courses for the Interdisciplinary Perspectives list and submit new or revised courses to CUE for approval.
| Code | Title | Hours | Counts towards |
|---|---|---|---|
| 础贰颁听245 | Practicing Conservation Ecology | 3 | GK |
| 础贰颁听380 | Water Resources: Global Issues in Ecology, Policy, Management, and Advocacy | 3 | GK |
| 础贰贰听208 | Agricultural Biotechnology: Issues and Implications | 3 | |
| 础贵厂听344 | Leadership in African American Communities | 3 | USD, , I, USD |
| 础贵厂听444 | African American and African Women Leaders | 3 | USD, , I |
| 础狈厂听208 | Agricultural Biotechnology: Issues and Implications | 3 | |
| 础狈罢听261 | Technology in Society and Culture | 3 | GK, SS |
| 础狈罢听471 | Understanding Latino Migration | 3 | GK, SS |
| 础狈罢听571 | Understanding Latino Migration | 3 | GK, SS |
| 础搁贰听336 | Introduction to Resource and Environmental Economics | 3 | |
| 础搁厂听257 | Technology in the Arts | 3 | |
| 叠础贰听210 | Leadership and Ethics in Science, Technology, and Agriculture | 3 | SS |
| 叠颁贬听220 | Role of Biotechnology in Society | 3 | |
| 叠滨翱听227 | Understanding Structural Diversity through Biological Illustration | 3 | NS |
| 叠滨翱听230 | The Science of Studying Dinosaurs | 3 | NS |
| 叠滨罢听100 | Current Topics in Biotechnology | 4 | NS |
| 叠滨罢听214 | Biotechnology and Sustainability | 3 | |
| 颁贬听345 | Chemistry and War | 3 | |
| 颁翱惭听215 | The Struggle of the Free Press: Fake News & Conspiracy Theories | 3 | GK |
| 颁翱惭听289 | Science Communication and Public Engagement | 3 | HUM, SS |
| 颁翱厂听100 | Science of Change | 2 | |
| 颁厂听224 | Seeds, Biotechnology and Societies | 3 | GK |
| 颁厂听230 | Introduction to Agroecology | 3 | GK |
| 颁厂颁听110 | Computer Science Principles - The Beauty and Joy of Computing | 3 | |
| 颁厂颁听281 | Foundations of Interactive Game Design | 3 | |
| 顿听100 | Design Inquiry I: Methods and Processes | 3 | |
| 顿听101 | Design Inquiry II: Methods and Processes | 3 | |
| 顿础狈听232 | Dance on Screen | 3 | VPA |
| 顿础狈听332 | Dance and Technology | 2 | |
| 顿厂础听201 | Introduction to R/Python for Data Science | 1 | |
| 贰听102 | Engineering in the 21st Century | 2 | |
| 贰听480 | Namibia Wildlife Aerial Observatory | 6 | GK |
| 贰颁听336 | Introduction to Resource and Environmental Economics | 3 | |
| 贰颁滨听305 | Equity and Education | 3 | USD, , I, USD |
| 贰贰顿听414 | Ethics for Engineering Education | 3 | |
| 贰贰顿听514 | Ethics for Engineering Education | 3 | |
| 贰滨听201 | Exploring Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurial Thinking | 3 | |
| 贰滨听331 | Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurial Thinking I: Skills and Planning Basics | 3 | |
| 贰惭础听110 | Introduction to Arts Entrepreneurship | 3 | |
| 贰惭础听365 | Foundations in Arts Entrepreneurship | 3 | |
| 贰惭础听370 | Practical Arts Entrepreneurship | 3 | |
| 贰惭厂听450 | Teaching Environmental Education | 3 | |
| 贰惭厂听550 | Teaching Environmental Education | 3 | |
| 贰狈骋听215 | The Struggle of the Free Press: Fake News & Conspiracy Theories | 3 | GK |
| 贰狈骋听232 | Literature and Medicine | 3 | HUM |
| 贰狈骋听308 | Contemporary Issues in Ecofeminism | 3 | HUM |
| 贰狈骋听329 | Language and Globalization | 3 | HUM, GK |
| 贰狈骋听339 | Literature and Technology | 3 | HUM |
| 贰狈骋听340 | Literature, Art, and Society | 3 | HUM |
| 贰狈骋听341 | Literature and Science | 3 | HUM |
| 贰狈骋听342 | Literature of Space and Place | 3 | HUM, USD, , I, USD |
| 贰狈骋听376 | Science Fiction | 3 | |
| 贰狈骋听425 | Analysis of Scientific and Technical Writing | 3 | |
| 贰狈罢听201 | Insects and People | 3 | NS |
| 贰狈罢听207 | Insects and Human Disease | 3 | GK, NS |
| 贰狈痴听101 | Exploring the Environment | 2 | |
| 贰狈痴听250 | Diversity and Environmental Justice | 3 | USD, , I, USD |
| 贰厂听100 | Introduction to Environmental Sciences | 3 | GK |
| 贰厂听150 | Water and the Environment | 3 | GK |
| 贰厂听200 | Climate Change and Sustainability | 3 | GK |
| 贰厂听300 | Energy and Environment | 3 | GK |
| 贰厂听449 | Human Dimensions of Natural Resources in Australia/New Zealand | 3 | GK |
| 贰厂听450 | Sustaining Natural Resources in Australia/New Zealand | 3 | GK |
| 贵叠听476 | Environmental Life Cycle Analysis | 3 | |
| 贵叠听480 | The Sustainable Bioeconomy | 3 | |
| 贵叠听576 | Environmental Life Cycle Analysis | 3 | |
| 贵叠听580 | The Sustainable Bioeconomy | 3 | |
| 贵翱搁听248 | Forest History, Technology and Society | 3 | |
| 贵翱搁听414 | World Forestry | 3 | GK |
| 贵奥听221 | Conservation of Natural Resources | 3 | GK, NS |
| 骋滨厂听205 | Spatial Thinking with GIS | 3 | |
| 骋狈听301 | Genetics in Human Affairs | 3 | NS |
| 骋翱贬听201 | Foundations of Global One Health | 3 | GK |
| 骋翱贬听302 | Global One Health Applications | 3 | GK |
| 贬础听240 | Introduction to Visual Culture | 3 | GK, HUM |
| 贬滨听240 | Introduction to Visual Culture | 3 | GK, HUM |
| 贬滨听305 | Frauds and Mysteries of the Past | 3 | HUM |
| 贬滨听318 | Environmental History of Cuba: Prehistory to the Present | 3 | |
| 贬滨听321 | Scientific Revolution and European Society, 1500-1800 | 3 | GK, HUM |
| 贬滨听322 | Rise of Modern Science | 3 | |
| 贬滨听323 | Science, American Style | 3 | |
| 贬滨听341 | Technology in History | 3 | |
| 贬滨听342 | Global Environmental History | 3 | GK, HUM |
| 贬滨听344 | Dinomania: Dinosaurs in Culture and Science | 3 | |
| 贬滨听346 | The Civil War Era in Popular Culture | 3 | HUM, USD, , I, USD |
| 贬滨听361 | Global History of American Food and Drink | 3 | GK, HUM |
| 贬滨听382 | History of Capitalism in America | 3 | HUM, USD, , I, USD |
| 贬滨听383 | Law in the American Story | 3 | HUM, USD, , I |
| 贬滨听440 | American Environmental History | 3 | |
| 贬滨听481 | History of the Life Sciences | 3 | |
| 贬滨听482 | Darwinism in Science and Society | 3 | |
| 贬滨听483 | Science and Religion in European History | 3 | GK |
| 贬滨听484 | Science in European Culture | 3 | GK |
| 贬滨听485 | History of American Technology | 3 | |
| 贬滨听540 | American Environmental History | 3 | |
| 贬滨听581 | History of the Life Sciences | 3 | |
| 贬滨听582 | Darwinism in Science and Society | 3 | |
| 贬滨听583 | Science and Religion in European History | 3 | GK |
| 贬滨听584 | Science in European Culture | 3 | GK |
| 贬滨听585 | History of American Technology | 3 | |
| 贬翱狈听210 | How We Argue | 2 | HUM |
| 贬翱狈听293 | Honors Special Topics - Interdisciplinary Perspectives/Global Knowledge | 3 | GK |
| 贬翱狈听296 | Honors Special Topics - Interdisciplinary Perspectives | 3 | |
| 贬翱狈听297 | Honors Special Topics - Interdisciplinary Perspectives/US Diversity | 3 | USD |
| 贬翱狈听310 | The Creative Process in Science: Realities, Comparisons, and Culture Perceptions | 3 | USD |
| 贬翱狈听311 | Words through Space and Time | 3 | GK |
| 贬翱狈听312 | Outbreak | 3 | |
| 贬翱狈听313 | Reading Machines | 3 | |
| 贬翱狈听340 | Religion and Freedom | 3 | |
| 贬翱狈听341 | Time Travel | 3 | HUM |
| 贬翱狈听345 | On the Human | 3 | HUM |
| 贬翱狈听347 | Freedom and the Self | 3 | HUM |
| 贬翱狈听348 | Emotion and Reason | 3 | |
| 贬翱狈听355 | Feelings of/from Technology: Analog Bodies in Digital Spaces | 3 | GK |
| 贬翱狈听356 | Sweet: A Global History of Sugar | 3 | GK |
| 贬翱狈听358 | Listening to Climate Change | 3 | GK |
| 贬翱狈听359 | Music Beyond Binaries | 3 | GK |
| 贬翱狈听360 | Music and Resistance | 3 | GK |
| 贬翱狈听370 | Contemporary British Voices | 3 | GK |
| 贬翱狈听390 | Music and the Celtic World | 3 | GK, VPA |
| 贬厂厂听120 | Introduction to Humanities & Social Sciences | 2 | |
| 滨顿听244 | History of Industrial Design | 3 | HUM |
| 滨顿厂听201 | Environmental Ethics | 3 | GK |
| 滨顿厂听203 | Humans and the Environment | 3 | |
| 滨顿厂听210 | Introduction to American Studies | 3 | USD, , I, USD |
| 滨顿厂听220 | The Science and Art of Happiness | 3 | GK, USD |
| 滨顿厂听310 | Animals in the Global Community | 3 | GK |
| 滨笔骋贰听295 | Interdisciplinary Perspectives Special Topics | 1-3 | |
| 滨笔骋碍听295 | Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Global Knowledge Special Topics | 2-3 | GK |
| 滨笔鲍厂听295 | Interdisciplinary Perspectives and U.S. Diversity Special Topics | 2-3 | USD |
| 滨厂听200 | Introduction to International Studies | 3 | GK |
| 滨厂听250 | Globalizing North Carolina | 3 | USD, , I, USD |
| 滨厂听471 | Understanding Latino Migration | 3 | GK, SS |
| 滨厂听571 | Understanding Latino Migration | 3 | GK, SS |
| 尝础搁听445 | Sustainable Design and Development | 3 | |
| 尝厂颁听101 | Critical and Creative Thinking in the Life Sciences | 2 | |
| 惭听380 | Doing Business Globally | 3 | |
| 惭础贰听398 | Relativistic Dynamics: An Evolution in Space, Time, and Matter | 3 | |
| 惭叠听200 | The Fourth Horseman: Plagues that Changed the World | 3 | NS |
| 惭贰础听100 | Earth System Science: Exploring the Connections | 4 | GK, NS |
| 惭贰础听260 | Human Dimensions of Climate Change | 3 | |
| 惭滨贰听201 | Introduction to Business | 3 | |
| 惭滨贰听309 | Entrepreneurship Skills for Non-Majors | 3 | |
| 惭鲍厂听200 | Understanding Music: Global Perspectives | 3 | GK, VPA |
| 惭鲍厂听212 | Music of North Carolina | 3 | HUM, USD, I, IP |
| 惭鲍厂听340 | From Wax Cylinders to AI: Music Technology in Modern History | 3 | HUM |
| 惭鲍厂听350 | Music of Asia | 3 | GK, VPA |
| 狈贰听290 | Introduction to Health Physics | 3 | NS |
| 狈贰听291 | Introduction to Health Physics Laboratory | 1 | NS |
| 狈搁听203 | Humans and the Environment | 3 | |
| 狈厂听420 | Naval Leadership and Ethics | 3 | HUM |
| 狈罢搁听210 | Introduction to Community Food Security | 3 | USD |
| 狈罢搁听211 | Eating through American History | 3 | |
| 笔叠听208 | Agricultural Biotechnology: Issues and Implications | 3 | |
| 笔叠听213 | Plants and Civilization | 3 | |
| 笔叠听219 | Plants in Folklore, Myth, and religion | 3 | |
| 笔颁颁听201 | Impact of Industry on the Environment and Society | 3 | |
| 笔颁颁听274 | Introduction to Forensic Science | 3 | |
| 笔贬滨听210 | Puzzles and Paradoxes | 3 | HUM |
| 笔贬滨听212 | Ethical Problems in the Law | 3 | HUM |
| 笔贬滨听227 | Data Ethics | 3 | HUM |
| 笔贬滨听312 | Philosophy of Law | 3 | HUM |
| 笔贬滨听325 | Bio-Medical Ethics | 3 | HUM |
| 笔贬滨听331 | Philosophy of Language | 3 | HUM |
| 笔贬滨听332 | Philosophy of Psychology | 3 | HUM |
| 笔贬滨听340 | Philosophy of Science | 3 | HUM |
| 笔贬滨听347 | Neuroscience and Philosophy | 3 | HUM |
| 笔贬滨听425 | Introduction to Cognitive Science | 3 | HUM |
| P贬滨听440 | The Scientific Method | 3 | HUM |
| 笔贬滨听447 | Philosophy, Evolution and Human Nature | 3 | HUM |
| 笔翱听212 | Poultry and People: Why did the chicken cross the world? | 3 | |
| 笔翱听325 | Aspects of Animal Welfare | 3 | |
| 笔翱听411 | Agrosecurity | 3 | |
| 笔笔听232 | Big Data in Your Pocket: Call it a Smartphone | 3 | |
| 笔笔听241 | The Worm's Tale: Parasites In Our Midst | 3 | |
| 笔搁罢听203 | Humans and the Environment | 3 | |
| 笔搁罢听261 | Nature, Health, and Wellness | 2 | |
| 笔搁罢听449 | Human Dimensions of Natural Resources in Australia/New Zealand | 3 | GK |
| 笔搁罢听450 | Sustaining Natural Resources in Australia/New Zealand | 3 | GK |
| 笔厂贰听220 | From Papyrus to Plasma Screens: Paper and Society | 2 | |
| 笔厂贰听476 | Environmental Life Cycle Analysis | 3 | |
| 笔厂贰听576 | Environmental Life Cycle Analysis | 3 | |
| 笔厂驰听208 | Psychobiology of Success | 3 | SS |
| 笔厂驰听425 | Introduction to Cognitive Science | 3 | HUM |
| 笔厂驰听432 | Human Sexuality and Intimate Relationships | 3 | SS |
| 笔厂驰听441 | Environmental Psychology | 3 | SS |
| 笔厂驰听442 | Psychology and Law | 3 | SS |
| 搁贰尝听380 | Emotion and Religion | 3 | HUM |
| 搁贰尝听471 | Darwinism and Christianity | 3 | HUM |
| 厂滨笔听112 | Wicked Problems, Wolfpack Solutions: (Y)Our Health | 2 | |
| 厂滨笔听114 | Wicked Problems, Wolfpack Solutions: (Y)Our Changing World | 2 | |
| 厂滨笔听116 | Wicked Problems, Wolfpack Solutions: The Future of Food | 2 | |
| 厂尝颁听202 | CREATE: Carolina Regional Entrepreneurship Albright Team Experience | 3 | |
| 厂尝颁听250 | Critical and Creative Decision Making Models | 3 | |
| 厂尝颁听350 | Leadership and Negotiation | 3 | USD |
| 厂惭罢听201 | Sustainable Materials for Green Housing | 2 | |
| 厂惭罢听232 | Recycling to Create a Sustainable Environment | 2 | |
| 厂惭罢听310 | Introduction to Industrial Ecology | 3 | |
| 厂翱颁听207 | Language and Society | 3 | SS, USD, , I, USD |
| 厂翱颁听261 | Technology in Society and Culture | 3 | GK, SS |
| 厂翱颁听381 | Sociology of Medicine | 3 | |
| 厂厂颁听185 | Land and Life | 3 | |
| 厂罢厂听210 | Women and Gender in Science and Technology | 3 | USD, , I, USD |
| 厂罢厂听214 | Introduction to Science, Technology, and Society | 3 | |
| 厂罢厂听257 | Technology in the Arts | 3 | |
| 厂罢厂听301 | Science and Civilization | 3 | |
| 厂罢厂听302 | Contemporary Science, Technology and Human Values | 3 | GK |
| 厂罢厂听304 | Ethical Dimensions of Progress | 3 | |
| 厂罢厂听310 | Science, Psi, Sasquatch, & Spirits | 3 | |
| 厂罢厂听315 | Feminist Futures | 3 | |
| 厂罢厂听320 | Cycling Cities: STS, the Bicycle and Urban Transportation | 3 | GK |
| 厂罢厂听322 | Technological Catastrophes | 3 | |
| 厂罢厂听323 | World Population and Food Prospects | 3 | GK |
| 厂罢厂听325 | Bio-Medical Ethics | 3 | HUM |
| 厂罢厂听402 | Peace and War in the Nuclear Age | 3 | |
| 厂罢厂听405 | Technology and American Culture | 3 | |
| 厂罢厂听471 | Darwinism and Christianity | 3 | HUM |
| 厂奥听260 | Introduction to Gerontology: An Interdisciplinary Field of Practice | 3 | USD |
| 厂奥听290 | The Development of Social Welfare and Social Work in the U.S. | 3 | USD, , I, USD |
| 鲍厂颁听116 | Introduction to Sustainability for EcoVillage | 1 | |
| 鲍厂颁听260 | Research as a Profession | 2 | |
| 奥骋厂听210 | Women and Gender in Science and Technology | 3 | USD, , I, USD |
| 奥骋厂听215 | Abolitionist Futures | 3 | USD, , I, USD |
| 奥骋厂听308 | Contemporary Issues in Ecofeminism | 3 | HUM |
| 奥骋厂听315 | Feminist Futures | 3 | |
| 奥骋厂听330 | Women and Health | 3 | |
| 奥骋厂听370 | Advanced Studies of Gender in Science | 3 | |
| 奥尝颁尝听225 | Roman Topography | 3 | GK, HUM |
| 奥尝贵搁听212 | French: Language, Culture, and Technology | 3 | GK |
| 奥尝贵搁听320 | Franco-Belgian Comics and Graphic Arts | 3 | VPA, HUM, GK |
| 奥尝骋贰听212 | German Language, Culture, Science, and Technology | 3 | GK |
| 奥尝骋贰听440 | Green Germany: Nature and Environment in German Speaking Cultures | 3 | GK |
| 奥尝厂笔听212 | Spanish: Language, Technology, Culture | 3 | GK |
| 奥笔厂听201 | Sustainable Materials for Green Housing | 2 | |
| 窜翱听233 | Human-Animal Interactions | 3 |