CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
This document is a tool approved by the department as a complete and accurate checklist for 2015-2016 Catalogue. Students who
are meeting requirements with other courses than listed below must ask their advisor to file the waiver/substitution form
(http://www.cornellcollege.edu/registrar/gb-resources-faculty). Students are expected to complete the major and minor
requirements that were in effect at the time of Spring registration for their second year of courses. Transfer students who are
admitted with sophomore or higher standing satisfy the requirements in effect when they begin their first course at Cornell.
Students who have withdrawn from Cornell and are later readmitted follow the requirements in effect at the time of their
readmission. Exceptions may be made by the department concerned in response to the student's petition, provided that such
changes are feasible for and agreeable to the department.
Minor: A minimum of 6 course credits including:
1. PHI 202
Completed
________
To Be Completed
________
2. SOC 101 or ANT 101
________
________
3. Any POL 2____ (except POL 282)
________
________
4. STA 201 or PHI 203
________
________
One course concerned with Efforts to Address Societal Issues, such as:
ANT 222 (Applied Anthropology); ECB 261 (Global Environmental Economics); ENG 111 (when the topic
is: Bob Dylan and the Language of Protest); ENG 331 (English Literature: The Romantics); ENG 345 (Late
Nineteenth Century American Literature); ENG 374 (when the advanced topic is: Southern African Art,
Literature, and Culture in Context); ENV 101 (Environmental Perspectives); EST 123 (Introduction to
Ethnic Studies); FRE 351 (Contemporary Literature I: Writing as Political Action); GSS 393 (Global
Feminism); HIS 154 (Making of Modern America); HIS 255 (African American Lives); HIS 354 (U.S.
Social History Since 1940); PHI 109 (Ethics and Climate Change); PHI 224 (Environmental Ethics); PHI
261 (Applied Ethics); POL 282 (Public Policy); POL 330 (Women and Politics); POL 332 (Human Rights);
POL 333 (International Organizations); POL 334 (Seminar: Strategies to Alleviate Poverty); POL 346
(Political Economy of Developing Countries); POL 352 (Education Policy in America); POL 361 (Race, Sex
and the Constitution); POL 363 (Campaigns and Elections); POL 366 (Constitutional Law: Rights and
Liberties); POL 367 (Urban Politics and Policy); POL 368 (Environmental Politics and Policy); POL 371
(Wilderness Politics and Policy); REL 362 (Holocaust and Response); PSY 276 (Multicultural Psychology);
SOC 255 (Media and the Public Mind); SOC 248 (Contemporary Native Americans); SOC 343 (Women:
Oppression and Resistances); SOC 376 (Civil Rights and Western Racism); SOC 348 (Race and Ethnic
Relations).*
5. _______
________
________
*This course may not be double-counted for the student’s designated major and the minor in Civic
Engagement. A student must choose a course in this category specifically and only for the Civic Engagement
Minor.
One Course in Applied Civic Engagement, such as:
CIV 280/380; ENG 370; and HIS 240; HIS 364; PSY 263 (when the topic is: Psychology, Social Justice and
Public Policy); PSY 380; and PSY 395 (Human Services Practicum and Seminar).
6. _______
________
________
A minimum of 25 noncredit hours of civic engagement involvement over the course of at least two
semesters including volunteering, activism, and other civic engagement opportunities. At the end of each
semester, a student is required to submit a reflective essay assessing these experiences in light of their
academic minor program to the Civic Engagement Office, the Civic Engagement Committee and his/her
faculty advisor for the minor. The Civic Engagement Committee will notify the registrar once this
requirement is completed.