Approved Portal and Capstone Courses in the General Studies Program
Approved portal and capstone courses may be offered in the next term after receiving full approval from the GEC and SVCASA.
* NOTE: Multiple portal or capstone topics approved in the same department are designated in this list with 188 followed by a number (01, 02, etc.). This number does not correspond to course sections in the course schedule and is used here to represent distinct topics only.
ACCT 188 - Accounting Numbers and the Business Press
ART 188 - Photography and Cultural Change
BIOL 188 - Extreme Biology
BSAD 188 - Strengths & Skills in the 21st Century Workplace
CDIS 188 - A Look at Sign Language
CHEM 188-01- The Sceptical Chemist
CHEM 188-02 - Napoleon's Buttons
CHEM 188-03 - How do we know things in science?
CHEM 188-04 - Air is for Atmosphere
CJUS 188-01 - Native Americans and Justice
CJUS 188-02 - Women and Children for Sale: The Global Problem of Human Trafficking
CJUS 188-03 - Terrorism
CSIT 188 - Cyber Crime
CSIT 188-02 - Cyber Ethics
CSP 188 - Culture and Ethnic Identity
ECON 188-01 - The Evolution of American Capitalism
ECON 188-02 - Agricultural Issues for Today
ENG 188-04 - What We Talk about When We Talk about War
ENG 188-05 - The Dead Who Will Not Die: Conceiving the Holocaust
ENG 188-06 - Revenge in the Western World
ENG 188-07 - Life Studies: Reading & Writing Autobiography
ENG 188-08 - Old Norse Mythology in History and Popular Culture
FIN 188 - Philosophy of Business and Market Economics
FORL 188 - Paris and Berlin - Tales of Two Great Cities
FSID 188 - Intimate Relationships
GEOG 188-01 - Global Warming and Climate Change
GEOG 188-02 - The Population Paradox
GEOG 188-03 - Noah's Flood and other Scientific Controversies
GEOG 188-04 - Everyday People in the Globalized World
HIST 188-01 - The Viking World
HIST 188-02 - Human Rights Struggles
HIST 188-03 - History of Warfare
HIST 188-04 - Stalin's Terror and Purges
HIST 188-05 - Clashing Civilizations
HIST 188-06 - World Slave Systems
HIST 188-07 - History of Food
HIST 188-08 - Robin Hood: Film and Legend
HIST 188-09 - The Great War: History, Film, Modern Memory
HIST 188-10 - Environmental History
HIST 188-11 - The Worlds of the Bible
ITEC 188 - Energy Gone Green
ITEC 188-02 - Career Decisions: Achieving Success in Today’s Global Economy
MGT 188 - Globalization: Understanding Business within a Global Context
MGT 188-02 - Healthcare Management: Building Clinical and Institutional Trust
MIS 188-01 - The Art and Science of Decision Making
MIS 188-02 - Life is a Game
MKT 188 - Popular Culture and Marketing in a Global Society
MUS 188-01 - Amadeus
MUS 188-02 - Society & the Composer: Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms
MUS 188-03 - Musical Virtuosi
MUS 188-04 - Broadening Global Cultural Awareness through Music
PE 188 - Sport: the New World Religion
PE 188-02 - The World is Fat
PHIL 188 - The Meaning of Life
PHIL 188-02 - The Joy of Sales Resistance
PHYS 188 - Energy, You, and the Modern World
PSCI 188 - Contemporary Political Issues: The Environment
PSCI 188-02 - Contemporary Political Issues: The “Drug War”
PSCI 188-03 - Contemporary Political Issues: Health Policy
PSY 188-01 - Science and Skepticism
PSY 188-02 - Death, Society and the Human Experience
SCM 188-01 - Dare to be Different: Building Career Capital for a Global Market
SOC 188 - Generation Me (formerly called Knowing Self in the World)
SOC 188-02 - Social Problems
SPCH 188 - Speeches That Changed the World
SPCH 188-02 - Global Thinking, Individual Dreams
TE 188-01 - Schooling Across the World
TE 188-02 - Diversity, Democracy, & the American Dream
TE 188-03 - Leadership for Today and Tomorrow
THEA 188 - Why We Wear Clothes - The History of European Dress
BIOL 388 - Brewing Science (see PHYS 388 below)
BIOL 388-02 - Illustrating Science
BIOL 388-03 - Science of Fear
CHEM 388 - Brewing Science (see PHYS 388 below)
CHEM 388-02 / CJUS 388 - Forensic Science
CJUS 388 - Forensic Science (see CHEM 388-02 above)
CSIT 388 - Social Networking
ECON 388 - The Morality of Capitalism
ENG 388 - Jewel in the Crown: The British Empire in History, Politics, and Literature
ENG 388-02 - Ways of World Making: Religion and Film
ENG 388-03 - Censorship and the School Curriculum
GEOG 388 - Brewing Science (see PHYS 388 below)
INTS 388 - Capstone in International Studies
INTS 388-02 - Gender and War in Modern Europe
ITEC 388 - Applied Project Management
JMC 388 / PE 388-02 - Trekking the Historic Cowboy Trail
MGT 388-01 - Project Management
MGT 388-02 - Leaders (Like You) Can Shape History
MGT 388-03 - Superheroes & More: The American Comic Book Industry
MIS 388 - Data Visualization
MKT 388-01 - Emerging Marketing Media
MKT 388-02 - Philanthropy: Learning to Give
MKT 388-03 - Marketing Yourself
MUS 388 - Music, Culture and Gender
PE 388-01 - The Science of Play
PE 388-02 - Trekking the Historic Cowboy Trail (see JMC 388 above)
