Table of Contents - Hartwick College

General Chemistry
A course in biology or geology (LAB or SCI)
Ecology and Environment
Historical Geology
Horticulture
Planetology
The Global Environment Genetics
Critical Thinking and Effective Communication
The sheer mass of information will demand more than ever that our
graduates be able to sift and analyze data, apply well-honed intellectual
skills, think profoundly and critically and express their own ideas
effectively.
Requirements:
Competence in writing
Composition
Classical Mythology
Reading Philosophy
A major program
One of 30 majors or an Individual Student Program
A baccalaureate thesis or project
A major research paper or project in the student’s chosen
field
Choices
To prepare for a future in which decision making will be central, our
students must become aware of recurring dilemmas of the human
condition and be willing to deal honestly with the complexities of
personal, social, intellectual and moral issues.
Requirements:
A First-Year Seminar (FYS) such as:
Being a Man: The Masculine
Children’s Lives
Biology of Reproduction
Horror in Film and Story
Understanding Religion
Hollywood and History
A contemporary issues seminar (taken no earlier than January of
the junior year) (CIS) such as:
Globalization
Unruly Women
Understanding Cancer
Origins of War and Peace
Travels to the Third World
Philosophy, Race & Gender
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