Course Designations

Appendix III: Topics-Qualified Courses

For information on the Topics requirement, please see the section of this Bulletin with the same name, which can be found under "Degree Requirements."

Students can use COLL E103 or S103 to satisfy one course in the Arts and Humanities distribution area, COLL E104 or S104 to satisfy one course in the Social and Historical Studies distribution area, and COLL E105 or S105 to satisfy one course in the Natural and Mathematical Sciences distribution area. Other Topics-qualified courses are offered with departmental headings and with distribution credit as indicated. For updates on courses that satisfy this requirement, please see the College Web site at http://www.indiana.edu/~college/undergrad/topics/course.shtml. Topics-qualified courses are offered only in the College of Arts and Sciences on the Indiana University Bloomington campus.

Intensive Freshman Seminars (COLL S103, S104, S105) are open to freshmen only.

African American and African Diaspora Studies
  • A150 Survey of the Culture of Black Americans A & H, CSA
Astronomy
  • A102 Gravity, the Great Attractor: Evolution of Planets, Stars, and Galaxies N & M
College of Arts and Sciences
  • E103 Topics in Arts and Humanities A & H
  • E104 Topics in Social and Historical Studies S & H
  • E105 Topics in Natural and Mathematical Sciences N & M
  • S103 Freshman Seminar in Arts and Humanities A & H
  • S104 Freshman Seminar in Social and Historical Studies S & H
  • S105 Freshman Seminar in Natural and Mathematical Sciences N & M
Collins Living-Learning Center
  • S103 Collins Living-Learning Center Freshman Seminar A & H
East Asian Languages and Cultures
  • E160 The Daoist Body A & H, CSA
  • E180 Cross-Cultural Experiences of War: East Asia and the United States S & H, CSA
Folklore and Ethnomusicology
  • F205 Folklore in Video and Film A & H
Geological Sciences
  • G121 Meteorites and Geological Processes in Planets N & M
  • G141 Earthquakes and Volcanoes N & M
  • G188 Volcanoes of the Eastern Sierra Nevada: Geology and Natural Heritage of the Long Valley Caldera N & M
  • S121 Meteorites and Geological Process in Planets, Honors N & M
Global Village Living-Learning Center
  • S103 Global Village Living-Learning Center Freshman Seminar A & H
  • S104 Global Village Living-Learning Center Freshman Seminar S & H
  • S105 Global Village Living-Learning Center Freshman Seminar N & M
History
  • B204 Medieval Heroes S & H, CSA
Hutton Honors College
  • H203 Interdepartmental Colloquia A & H
  • H204 Interdepartmental Colloquia S & H
  • H205 Interdepartmental Colloquia N & M
  • H211 Ideas and Experience I A & H
  • H212 Ideas and Experience II S & H
 Liberal Arts and Management Program
  • S104 Liberal Arts and Management Program Freshman Seminar S & H
 Linguistics
  • L111 Dialect and Language Variation S & H
  • L112 Language and Politics S & H
  • L113 Language and Gender S & H
  • L114 Language and Religion A & H
Philosophy
  • P135 Introduction to Existentialism A & H
 Physics
  • P111 Physics of Extraterrestrial Life and Death N & M
  • P120 Energy and Technology N & M
  • P125 Energy in the Twenty-first Century N & M
  • P150 How Things Work N & M
  • P151 Twenty-first-Century Physics N & M
 Religious Studies
  • B210 Introduction to Buddhism A & H, CSA
Slavic Languages and Literatures
  • R123 Masterworks of Russian Short Fiction A & H
Telecommunications
  • T193 Passport to Cyberia: Making the Virtual Real A & H