Below is a list courses from the College of Liberal Arts departments planned at OSU-Cascades.
There are additional ART and PSY courses that some students may be eligible to take with correct pre-requisites. For detailed course information check the OSU Catalog.
See the CLA Course Guide for CLA Core planning.
College of Liberal Arts Courses
All course forecast information is subject to change and to be used to create the Liberal Studies Plan of Study and Theme.
All planning information is subject to change
2026-27 projection - subject to change
There are additional ART and PSY courses that some students may be eligible to take with correct pre-requisites.
Fall 2026
ANTH 210: Comparative Cultures (3)
ART 205: Intro to Western Art (3)
ART 209: Global Architecture (3)
ART 366: Art Since 1945 (3)
COMM 111z: Public Speaking (4)
COMM 114: Agrumentation and Discourse (3)
COMM 218z: Interpersonal Comm (4)
COMM 321: Intro to Comm Theory (3)
COMM 372: Visual Rhetoric (3)
ENG 360: Native American Lit (4)
ES 201: Inventing Ethnic America (4)
HST 203: Contesting Freedoms: Making Modern US (4)
NMC 101: Intro to New Media Communication (3)
PS 201: US State and Local Govt (4)
PS 362: Modern Political Thought (4)
PSY 350: Human Development (4) psy 201 or 202 pre-req or approval
PSY 381: Abnormal Psychology (4) psy 201 or 202 pre-req or approval
PSY 488: Psychology of Trauma, Oppression, Resilience (4)
REL 247: Psychology of Religon (4)
SOC 340: Deviant Behavior and Social Control (4)
SSCI 211: Career Exploration in Humanities and Soc Sci (2)
WR 323: Advanced Writing and Argumentation (3)
Winter 2027
Various Art studio 100-200 offered
ART 206: Intro to Western Art (3)
ART 367: History of Design (3)
ART 451: Entrepreneurship in Art (3)
COMM 111z: Public Speaking (4)
COMM 218z: Interpersonal Comm (4)
COMM 226: Intercultural Communication (3)
COMM 323: Community Dialogue (4)
COMM 399: Special Topic: Media Storytelling (4)
ENG 212: Lit of the World (4)
HST 106: World History (3)
NMC 260: New Media Futures (3)
PS 206: Intro to Political Thought (4)
PS 354: International Organization and Global Politics (4)
PSY 360: Social Psychology (4) psy 201/202 pre-req or approval
PSY 381: Abnormal Psychology (4) psy 201/202 pre-req or approval
PSY 426: Psychology of Gender (4)
PSY 499: Special Topic (4)
SOC 204z: Intro to Sociology (4)
SOC 480: Environmental Sociology (4)
SOC 441: Criminology and Penology (4)
WR 224: Intro to Fiction (3)
WR 227Z: Technical Writing
Spring 2027
AMT 461: Designing Futurism (4)
ANTH 352: Anth, Health, and Environment (3)
ANTH 215: Peoples of the World: Africa (3)
ART 209: Global Architecture (3)
COMM 111z: Public Speaking (4)
COMM 114: Argumentation and Discourse (3)
COMM 218z: Interpersonal Comm (4)
COMM 385: Communication in Cyberspace (3)
ENG 254: American Lit: 1900 to Present (4)
PS 205: International Relations (4)
PS 383: Constitutional Law: Civil Rights (4)
PS 475: Environmental Politics & Policy (4)
PSY 330: Brain and Behavior (4) psy 201/202 pre-req or approval
PSY 370: Personality (4) psy 201/202 pre-req or approval
PSY 433: Psychopharmacology (4)
SOC 448: Law & Society (4)
WR 220: Stories of the US-Mexico Border (4)
WR 323: Advanced Writing and Argumentation (3)