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Examples of courses that would fulfill college distribution requirements
This is just to get you started. Some may not be offered this semester. Check here to find more courses that you may
have always wanted to take: http://registrar.sas.cornell.edu/courses/roster/FA15/. As Ezra Cornell claimed, you should
be able to find “instruction in any study” at Cornell.
When selecting a course, ask yourself the following questions:
1) Does the course fit one of the categories of the distribution requirements?
2) Is there any prerequisite? (If yes, it may not be right for a freshman.)
3) How many credit hours?
Fulfilling the College Social Science Requirements (Category B)
Good for Freshmen
PSYCH 1101 Introduction to Psychology: The Frontiers of Psychological Inquiry
SOC 1101 & DSOC 1101 Introduction to Sociology (you can only take ONE of these two classes and have it
count for credit)
SOC 1290 American Society through Film
ECON 1110 Introductory Microeconomics
ECON 1120 Introductory Macroeconomics
ANTHR 2400 Cultural Diversity and Contemporary Issues
ANTHR 2450 The Anthropology of Food and Cuisine
GOVT 1111 Introduction to American Government
GOVT 1313 Introduction to Comparative Government and Politics
Good for Transfer Students: The following require a basic course in Sociology, Anthropology, or Political
Science
ANTHR 2472 Engaging Other Cultures: Learning How to Learn about Cultural Differences
ANTHR 3305 Anthropology of Parenting
ANTHR 3405 - Multicultural Issues in Education
BSOC/STS 2061 Ethics & the Environment
DSOC 2201 Society and Natural Resources
DSOC 2650 Latinos in the United States
DSOC 2750 Immigration and a Changing America
DSOC 3700/SOC 3710 Comparative Social Inequalities
SOC 2100 What Is Science?
SOC 2160 Health and Society
SOC 2460 Drugs and Society
SOC 3570 Schooling, Racial Inequalities, and Public Policy
Advanced courses that require some background in Psychology
PSYCH 2090 Developmental Psychology (if you are transferring from Cornell Arts & Sciences and already have
taken this class, you can substitute it for HD1150, but then you cannot count it as a social science distribution
class)
PSYCH 2140 Cognitive Psychology
PSYCH 2800 Introduction to Social Psychology
PSYCH 3850 Psychology of Emotion
Courses That Fulfill the College Humanities Requirement (Category D)
AMST/HIST 1312 History of Rock Music
AMST/HIST 1531 Introduction to American History II
AMST 2020 Popular Culture in the United States, 1950-present (fills up fast)
AMST 2060/ENGL 2060 The Great American Cornell Novel
ENGL 2080 Shakespeare and the 20th Century
ENGL 2150 The American Musical
ENGL 2680 Culture and Politics of the 1960s
ENGL 3390 Jane Austen
HIST 1590 - History and Popular Culture
HIST 2111 Black History Topics through Film
HIST 2512 Black Women in the 20th Century
(more on other side)
Statistics (Quantitative Requirement E) – choices for HD majors
AEM 2100, BTRY 3010, ILRST/STSCI 2100, MATH 1710, PAM 2100, PSYCH 3500
PAM 2100 will fulfill the statistics requirement AND count toward the 9 credits outside the major AND count
toward the 43 credits in Human Ecology
NOTE: PAM 2101 is for PAM majors only
The College Requires 9 Credits in Human Ecology outside Your Major
(Note that some classes have prerequisites)
DEA 1500 Introduction to Human-Environmental Relations (great class)
DEA 2700 Healthy Places
NS 1150 Nutrition, Health, and Society
NS 2450 Social Science Perspectives on Food and Nutrition
NS 3150 Obesity and the Regulation of Body Weight
PAM 2030 Population and Public Policy
PAM 2220 Controversies about Inequality
PAM 2350 The U.S. Health Care System
PAM 2550 Waiting for Superman? Perspectives on the “Crisis” in American K-12 Education (Prerequisites:
PAM 1110 and PAM 2100/2101)
PAM 3360 Evolving Families: Challenges to Family Policy (better if you have some background in sociology)
PAM 3370 Race and Policy (better if you have some background in sociology)
PAM 3800 Human Sexuality (can be hard to get into)
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