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Course History

ABCS has experienced considerable growth since the Netter Center’s founding in 1992:

  • 1991-92: 4 courses, 3 faculty & 100 students
  • 1995-96: 20 courses, 19 faculty, & 500 students
  • 2000-01: 38 courses, 34 faculty, & 925 students
  • 2005-06: 53 courses, 44 faculty, & 1446 students
  • 2010-11: 62 courses, 50 faculty & 1679 students
  • 2016-17: 70 courses, across 31 departments and programs and 8 schools, & approximately 1700 students

 

View descriptions of ABCS courses from previous academic years:

Academic Year 2016-2017

Academic Year 2015-2016

Academic Year 2014-2015

Academic Year 2013-2014

Academic Year 2012-2013

Academic Year 2011-2012

Academic Year 2010-2011

Academic Year 2009-2010

Academic Year 2008-2009

Academic Year 2007-2008

Academic Year 2006-2007

Academic Year 2005-2006

Academic Year 2004-2005

Academic Year 2003-2004

"The main results of the inquiry . . . are therefore presented to the public, not as complete or without error, but as possessing on the whole enough reliable matter to serve as the scientific basis of further study, and of practical reform."

W.E.B. Du Bois (1899)