# Course Clusters

**Source**: https://college.uchicago.edu/academics/course-clusters
**Parent**: https://college.uchicago.edu/academics/physical-sciences-collegiate-division

The Course Cluster Program builds on the pedagogical approach and multidisciplinary perspective of the College Core Curriculum. It is designed to expose students to ideas from the vantage point of different disciplines across the humanities, social, physical, and biological sciences; to stimulate and cultivate the student’s intellectual curiosity and sense of academic adventure; to help students structure their electives without imposing programmatic strictures and limiting the freedom of intellectual exploration. The only prerequisite of Cluster courses is that they have no prerequisites and are not designed primarily for minors/majors (even though they can count towards major requirements).

For more information on each of these courses, visit the [College Catalog](http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/).

## 2018-2019 Course Clusters

Chicago can be explored from nearly any academic perspective or discipline. Through courses that explore aspects of Chicago's ecology, culture, politics, history, social structure, and economic life, students deepen their knowledge of frameworks and approaches relevant to the study of Chicago and other cities.

Students interested in a more immersive, interdisciplinary experience of the city should consider applying to the [Chicago Studies Quarter](http://chicagostudies.uchicago.edu/), offered annually in the Spring.

**Autumn 2018**

- [ARTH 17410. Frank Lloyd Wright in Chicago and Beyond](http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/thecollege/search/?caturl=%2Fthecollege&P=ARTH+17410), Katherine Fischer Taylor
- [ARTH 24190. Imagining Chicago's Common Buildings](http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/thecollege/search/?caturl=%2Fthecollege&P=ARTH+24190), Luke Joyner
- [CRES 21201. Chicago Blues](http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/thecollege/search/?caturl=%2Fthecollege&P=CRES+21201), Michael Dietler
- [ENST 21500. Environmental Justice](http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/thecollege/search/?caturl=%2Fthecollege&P=ENST+21500), Ray Lodato
- [ENST 27155. Urban Design with Nature](http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/thecollege/search/?caturl=%2Fthecollege&P=ENST+27155), Sabina Shakh and Emily Talen
- [PBPL 28501. Process and Policy in State and City Government](http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/thecollege/search/?caturl=%2Fthecollege&P=PBPL+28501), Clayton Harris
- [TAPS 20750. The Adventures of Augie March](http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/thecollege/search/?caturl=%2Fthecollege&P=TAPS+20750), Nora Titone

**Winter 2019**

- [ARTH 17700. 19th Century French Art in the Art Institute](http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/thecollege/search/?caturl=%2Fthecollege&P=ARTH+17700), Martha Ward
- [PBPL 28501. Process and Policy in State and City Government](http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/thecollege/search/?caturl=%2Fthecollege&P=PBPL+28501), Clayton Harris

**Spring 2019**

- [ARTH 2/34170. Research the Chicago Cityscape](http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/thecollege/search/?caturl=%2Fthecollege&P=ARTH+24170), Katherine Fischer Taylor
- [ENST 22300. South Side Ecologies](http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/thecollege/search/?caturl=%2Fthecollege&P=ENST+22300), Alison Anastasio
- [PBPL 28501. Process and Policy in State and City Government](http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/thecollege/search/?caturl=%2Fthecollege&P=PBPL+28501), Clayton Harris
- [TAPS 24500. Chicago Theater: Budgets and Buildings](http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/thecollege/search/?caturl=%2Fthecollege&P=TAPS+24500), Heidi Coleman

Students explore climate change through the varying lenses of historians, political scientists, literary scholars, and philosophers. Courses in the Social Sciences and Humanities Collegiate Divisions complement courses in the Physical and Biological Sciences Collegiate Divisions to contextualize this complex modern problem.

**Autumn 2018**

- [ENGL 12520. Climate Change in Literature, Art and Film](http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/thecollege/search/?caturl=%2Fthecollege&P=ENGL+12520), Benjamin Morgan
- [GEOS 23900. Environmental Chemistry](http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/thecollege/search/?caturl=%2Fthecollege&P=GEOS+23900), David Archer
- [GEOS 24220. Climate Foundations](http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/thecollege/search/?caturl=%2Fthecollege&P=GEOS+24220), Elisabeth Moyer
- [PHSC 13400. Global Warming](http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/thecollege/search/?caturl=%2Fthecollege&P=PHSC+13400), David Archer and Douglas MacAyeal

**Winter 2019**

- [GEOS 13900. Biological Evolution](http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/thecollege/search/?caturl=%2Fthecollege&P=GEOS+13900), David Jablonski
- [GEOS 23205. Introductory Glaciology](http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/thecollege/search/?caturl=%2Fthecollege&P=GEOS+23205), Douglas MacAyeal
- [PBPL 24756. Exploring the Resilient City](http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/thecollege/search/?caturl=%2Fthecollege&P=PBPL+24756), Ray Lodato

**Spring 2019**

- [GEOS 22060. What Makes a Planet Habitable?](http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/thecollege/search/?caturl=%2Fthecollege&P=GEOS+22060), Edwin Kite
- [GEOS 24705. Energy: Science, Technology, and Human Usage](http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/thecollege/search/?caturl=%2Fthecollege&P=GEOS+24705), Elisabeth Moyer
- [NEHC 20464. Climate, Culture and Society in the Ancient Near East](http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/thecollege/search/?caturl=%2Fthecollege&P=NEHC+20464), Hervé Reculeau

Journeying through the highs and lows of economic achievement that shaped our current society, students gain the tools to better understand economic history from a wide range of cultures over a broad span of time.

**Winter 2019**

- [HIST 19402. Economic History II: The Early Modern World, c1300-1800](http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/thecollege/search/?caturl=%2Fthecollege&P=HIST+19402), Paul Cheney & Ken Pomeranz

**Spring 2019**

- [HIST 29533. Economic History III: Global Capitalism 1800](http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/thecollege/search/?caturl=%2Fthecollege&P=HIST+29533), Jon Levy

Law and legal systems have played a major role in functioning societies for centuries. Students analyze written evidence to discover how societies from Greece, Rome, Babylonia, Assyria, Israel, Egypt, China, and India instituted and navigated laws.

**Winter 2019**

- [NEHC 20019. Mesopotamian Law](http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/thecollege/search/?caturl=%2Fthecollege&P=NEHC+20019), Martha Roth

Students trace the sources of inequality and mobility, selecting from courses in Economics, History, Political Science, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Public Policy, and other disciplines.

**Winter 2019**

- TBD

**Spring 2019**

- TBD

Through courses in Art History, Geographical Studies, History, Anthropology, Sociology, Comparative Human Development, and other disciplines, students understand the purpose of urban design and learn the reasons behind notable successes and failures.

**Autumn 2018**

- [ARTH 16709. Islamic Art & Architecture, 1100-1500](http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/thecollege/search/?caturl=%2Fthecollege&P=ARTH+16709), Persis Berlekamp
- [ARTH 17410. Frank Lloyd Wright in Chicago and Beyond](http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/thecollege/search/?caturl=%2Fthecollege&P=ARTH+17410), Katherine Fischer Taylor
- [ARTH 24190. Imagining Chicago's Common Buildings](http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/thecollege/search/?caturl=%2Fthecollege&P=ARTH+24190), Luke Joyner
- [ARTH 27420. Modernist Architecture on Campus](http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/thecollege/search/?caturl=%2Fthecollege&P=ARTH+27420), Katherine Fischer Taylor
- [CHDV 20305. Inequality in Urban Spaces](http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/thecollege/search/?caturl=%2Fthecollege&P=CHDV+20305), Micere Keels
- [ENST 27155. Urban Design With Nature](http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/thecollege/search/?caturl=%2Fthecollege&P=ENST+27155), Sabina Shaik & Emily Talen
- [SOSC 25006. How Things Get Done in Cities and Why](http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/thecollege/search/?caturl=%2Fthecollege&P=SOSC+25006), Nicole Marwell

**Winter 2019**

- TBD

**Spring 2019**

- TBD