Pre-Approved General Track Electives

Reminders

  • There may be prerequisites for the courses on this list that will need to be taken.  Please be sure to check the General Catalog for an up to date list of prerequisites. 
  • Any deviation from this list must be pre-approved by the Undergraduate Vice Chair.  There are other subject areas and courses that may be approved as well. Please submit the major modification request form for any elective requests. Please include the course descriptions in the request form. 

Pre-Approved Courses

  • Applied Biological Systems Technology
  • ABT 150 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems 
    ABT 181N Concepts and Methods in Geographic Information Systems 
    ABT 182 Environmental Analysis Using GIS
  • Agricultural Resource Economics
  • ARE 106 Econometric Theory and Applications (duplicates ECN 140)
    ARE 107 Econometrics for Business Decisions
    ARE 136 Managerial Marketing
    ARE 155 Operations Research and Management Science
    ARE 156 Introduction to Mathematical Economics
    ARE 157 Analysis for Operations and Productions Management
    ARE 171 Principles of Finance (duplicates ECN 134)
    ARE 172 Financial Management of the Firm
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • BIM 105 Probability and Statistics for Biomedical Engineers
    BIM 107 Mathematical Methods for Biological Systems
    BIM 116 Physiology for Biomedical Engineers
    BIM 117 Modeling Strategies for Biomedical Engineering
    BIM 142 Principles and Practices of Biomedical Imaging
  • Civil Engineering
  • ECI 153 Deterministic Optimization and Design
    ECI 131 Matrix Structural Analysis
    ECI 114 Probabilistic Systems Analysis for Civil Engineers
    ECI 165 Transportation Policy
    ECI 153 Deterministic Optimization and Design
    ECI 119 Parallel Processing for Engineering Applications
  • Communication
  • CMN 102 Empirical Methods in Communication
    CMN 141 Media Effects: Theory and Research
    CMN 150 Computational Social Science 
    CMN 152 Social Science with Online Data
    CMN 170 Digital Technology and Social Change
    CMN 172 Interpersonal Technologies
  • Community & Regional Development
  • CRD 150 Quantitative Methods in Community Research 
    CRD 151 Community Field Research: Theory and Analysis
  • Computer Science
  • Any class from ECS 120 through ECS 178 (excluding ECS 132).
  • Economics
  • ECN 145 Transportation Economics
    ECN 140 Econometrics
    ECN 135 Money, Banks, and Financial Institutions
    ECN 134 Financial Economics 
    ECN 132 Health Economics
    ECN 122 Theory of Games and Strategic Behavior
    ECN 116 Comparative Economic Systems
    ECN 106 Decision Making
    ECN 103 Economics of Uncertainty and Information
  • Environmental Science and Policy
  • ESP 121 Population Ecology
    ESP 160 The Policy Process
    ESP 168A Methods of Environmental Policy Evaluation
    ESP 168B Methods of Environmental Policy Analysis
    ESP 178 Applied Research Methods
  • Evolution and Ecology
  • EVE 102 Population and Quantitative Genetics
    EVE 180B Experimental Ecology and Evolution in the Field
    EVE 180A Experimental Ecology and Evolution in the Field
    EVE 119 Population Biology of Invasive Plants and Weeds
    EVE 104 Community Ecology
    EVE 103 Phylogeny, Speciation and Macroevolution
  • Food Science & Technology
  • FST 109 Principles of Quality Assurance in Food Processing
    FST 127 Sensory Evaluation of Foods
    FST 117 Design and Analysis for Sensory Food Science
    FST 107 Food Sensory Science
  • Genetics
  • BIS 132 Introduction to Dynamic Models in Modern Biology
    BIS 181 Comparative Genomics
    BIS 183 Functional Genomics
  • Human Development
  • HDE 117 Longevity
    HDE 120 Research Methods in Human Development
    HDE 121 Psychological Assessment
  • Linguistics
  • LIN 127 Text Processing and Corpus Linguistics 
    LIN 177 Computational Linguistics
  • Mathematics
  • Any class from MAT 114 through MAT 185B (excluding MAT 180 and MAT 135A and any other MAT course already in use for the major).
  • Management
  • MGT 180 Supply Chain Planning and Management
    MGT 160 Financing New Business Ventures
    MGT 140 Marketing for the Technology-Based Enterprise
    MGT 120 Managing and Using Information Technology
    MGT 100 Introduction to Financial Accounting
  • Molecular and Cellular Biology
  • MCB 123 Behavior and Analysis of Enzyme and Receptor Systems
    MCB 162 Human Genetics and Genomics
    MCB 182 Principles of Genomics
  • Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior
  • NPB 100L Neurobiology Laboratory
    NPB 166 Math Tools for Neuroscience
    NPB 167 Computational Neuroscience
  • Nutrition
  • NUT 112 Nutritional Assessment
  • Political Science
  • POL 109 Public Policy and the Governmental Process
    POL 170 Political Psychology
    POL 164 Public Opinion
    POL 121 Scientific Study of War
    POL 114 Quantitative Analysis of Political Data
    POL 110 The Strategy of Politics
  • Psychology
  • One of PSC 180A-B-C Research in Psychology
    PSC 104 Applied Psychometrics: An Introduction to Measurement Theory
    PSC 103B Statistical Analysis of Psychological Data
    PSC 103A Statistical Analysis of Psychological Data
  • Public Health Sciences
  • SPH 101 Introduction to Public Health 
    SPH 102 Introduction to Human Epidemiology
  • Sociology
  • SOC 103 Evaluation Research Methods
    SOC 163 Population Health: Social Determinants and Disparities in Health
    SOC 154 Health and Illness
    SOC 170 Population
    SOC 106 Intermediate Social Statistics
  • Science and Technology Studies
  • STS 112 Visualizing Society with Data
  • Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology
  • WFC 122 Population Dynamics and Estimation
    WFC 152 Ecology of Human-Wildlife Conflicts
    WFC 100 Field Methods in Wildlife, Fish, & Conservation Biology