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Here you’ll find a list of available courses that earn elective credit. These courses might enhance or supplement your major and General Education courses by teaching you new skills, letting you continue to develop a hobby or interest, or helping you explore new opportunities.

2- and 3-Semester Hour Electives

1 Semester-Hour Electives

BIOL 1808 Ways of Knowing Science
BUS 2300 Searching for Business Information - online
CCP 1300 Major and Career Explorations
CCP 2004 Internships: Search, Secure, and Succeed - online
CINE 2627 Film Club Bodies in Motion: A Century of Stunts and Choreography
CSI 1180 College Transition
CSI 1213 Special Topics I (choose from Digital and Social Media for Personal Success; Media Well-Being: Effective Use of Artificial Intelligence for Student Success; or Edutainment Media for Academic Success)
ENGL 2030 Literary Readings Attendance
First-Year Seminars (topics vary by section)
GHS 3034 Doing Harm by Doing Good
HONR 1100 Honors Primetime (topics vary by section)
HPAS 1000 Healthy Relationships, Sexuality & You
HPAS 1001 Alcohol and Your College Experience
HPAS 1005-1610 Health and Physical Activity Skills (many different options – see MyUI)
HRTS 2907 Literature and Human Rights: One Community, One Book - online
IS 2500 Working Internationally: Global Business and Communication
LLS 1100-1680 Lifetime Leisure Skills (many different options, e.g. camping, canoeing, team building, scuba, kickboxing – see MyUI) 

LS 2013 Strengths-Based Leadership
MILS 1095 Advanced Military Fitness Training
MUS 1001 Group Piano I: Non-Music Majors
MUS 1010 Recital Attendance for Non-Majors
MUS 1020 Performance Instruction for Non-Majors (many different options – see MyUI) 
MUS 1160 University Band
MUS 1165 Hawkeye Marching Band (audition required, held during summer)
MUS 1176 Voxman Chorale (audition required, held first two days of classes; soprano, alto range)
MUS 1180 Campus Symphony Orchestra 
MUS:3160 Symphony Band (audition required, held during first week of classes)
MUS:3160 Concert Band (audition required, held during first week of classes)
MUS 3162 All University Steel Band
MUS 3172 Camerata Singers (audition required, held first two days of classes)
PSY 1010 Learning about Learning - online
RHET 1010 Writing for Academic Success (see advisor) 
SEES 2010 Interdisciplinary Environmental Seminar: Discovering Research, Exploring Careers, Building Connections
WRIT 1600 Fast Fixes: Improved Writing in 6 Weeks (must have Rhetoric completed, various topics)