Goucher College 2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalogue

Apr 26, 2024

Goucher College 2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalogue PLEASE NOTE: This is an archived catalog. Programs are subject to change each academic year.

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Communication Studies
	COM 409 - Special Topics: Photographic Practices (4 Cr.) (ART 375 ) ART 375/COM 409 is a theme-based course in digital or black and white photography for students who have completed ART 201 /COM 201 , Photography I. The class will provide students an in-depth understanding of a particular topic in contemporary photography. Students will use technical and conceptual knowledge learned in Photography I while developing new techniques and ideas related to the course topic. Work for the class will include prompts/assignments, readings, writing, critiques and self-directed research. A different theme will be offered every semester. Examples of topics include Photography and Narrative, The Extended Photographic Project, and People and Places. A lab fee of $45 will be assessed. Students may repeat the course each time a new topic is offered. Prerequisite: ART 201 or COM 201 . Variable semesters. Program faculty.
	COM 412 - Media Workshop (2 or 4 Cr.) Workshops in television, radio, and new media, emphasizing the development of skills in a particular format. The specific topic is posted before registration. Examples include: Advanced Public Relations; Advanced Television Writing; Animation; and Writing and Producing for Digital Media. Repeatable if topic is different. Prerequisites: varies according to topic, but always includes junior or senior status, by the beginning of the course; or permission of the instructor. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Marcus, Morris, Zurawik.
	COM 415 - Screenwriting (4 Cr.) (GCR Arts area) Critical analysis and practice of writing dramatic material for film and television. Students will craft a complete short script, from premise to polished dialogue, or an outline and complete first act of a feature-length script. Students will also examine the art of screen and television writing from a critical perspective, reading and researching literature in the field. Prerequisites: COM 232 , and sophomore standing or permission of instructor. Spring semester, alternate years. Marcus.
	COM 417 - The Documentary (4 Cr.) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area) An in-depth investigation of the history and theory of the documentary tradition in film, television, and digital forms. Examining both American and international examples, this course looks at major schools, movements, goals, and styles of documentary production. Representative texts are studied for their sociopolitical influences, persuasive techniques, and aesthetic strategies. Prerequisites: two of the required 300-level theory/criticism and history courses, COM 262, and junior or senior status, by the beginning of the semester; or permission of the instructor. Fall semester, alternate years. Marcus.
	COM 421 - The Internet (4 Cr.) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area) What is the internet? It is a technological infrastructure for many forms of communication and information; it is a space for social connection and cultural expression; it is a set of powerful political and economic institutions and structures. This class will critically investigate what it is, how it got that way, and how it can be in the future. We will examine the histories, technologies, discourses, practices, content, and institutions that make up the internet. Prerequisites: at least two of the 300-level required theory/criticism and history courses, COM 262 , and junior or senior status, by the beginning of the semester; or permission of the instructor. Spring semester, alternate years. Kimball.
	COM 425 - Women and Film (4 Cr.) (Cross listed as WGS 325 ) (GCR RPP)(GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area) This course examines films and filmmakers noted for their singular, provocative approaches to screening women. Drawing on feminist and queer theories, we will explore how these films and filmmakers challenge and transgress gender roles and sexual norms while experimenting with cinematic form. Filmmakers to be studied represent a variety of historical periods, nationalities, and film traditions, including classical and contemporary Hollywood, avant-garde cinema, documentary, independent film, and international art cinema. Repeatable if the topic is different. Prerequisites: WGS 330 and junior or senior status; OR COM 341 or COM 342 , and COM 262 , and junior or senior status; or permission of the instructor. Spring semester, alternate years. San Filippo.
	COM 430 - Queer Film and Media (4 Cr.) (Cross-listed as WGS 311) (GCR-RPP)(LER-DIV)(GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area) This course will explore gender and sexuality nonconformity in cinema, television, video, and/or online media. Using readings drawn from queer theory and film criticism, we will examine significant queer auteurs and queer media practices, from activist videos to the New Queer Cinema movement to YouTube mashups. Topics to be considered include the politics of queer representation and visibility; appropriating and revising dominant mainstream images and genres; and queer aesthetics, sensibilities, and fandoms. Prerequisites: Completion of the WEC and WID requirements; and completion of two 200-level WGS courses, or two 300-level COM courses, or one 200-level WGS course and one 300-level COM course; and junior or senior status; OR permission of the instructor. Spring semester, alternate years. San Filippo.
	COM 435 - Global Media (4 Cr.) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area) A comparative survey of the structure, regulation, economics, programming, social uses, reception, and politics of media globally. Questions of international information flow, cultural imperialism, development communications, and international governance are addressed. Diasporic communication, differences in audience reception based on cultural diversity, and the spread and impact of media technologies are also explored. Prerequisites: at least two of the 300-level required theory/criticism and history courses or two 200-level political science courses, COM 262 , and junior or senior status, by the beginning of the semester; or permission of the instructor. Spring semester, alternate years. Kimball.
	COM 440 - Media and Politics (4 Cr.) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area) This course focuses on the ways in which citizens develop knowledge of, engage with, and practice politics through mass media and personal media forms in contemporary American society. Students examine historical and contemporary practices of civic engagement and political organizing through the mainstream media, alternative press, the Internet, cinematic representations, and other means. Students develop an understanding of the power available to citizens for political engagement in the world via mediated communication forms. Prerequisites: at least two of the required 300-level theory/criticism and history courses or two 200-level political science courses, COM 262 , and junior or senior status, by the beginning of the semester; or permission of instructor. Fall semester, alternate years. Marcus.
	COM 460 - Advanced Video Production (4 Cr.) In most semesters, students will work individually or in pairs to write, produce, direct, and edit their own significant project, in either feature or documentary mode. In addition, they will help crew other students’ productions within the class. The course may also be dedicated to one large group project in production, such as a digital limited series. Students will hone their skills in writing, videography, sound, lighting, working with performers, and post-production. Students should have a project in mind at the beginning of the semester, which will be reviewed by the professor. Prerequisites: COM 286 and junior or senior status, by the beginning of the semester; or permission of instructor. Repeatable if format is different. Variable semesters. Marcus.
	COM 493 - Independent Work in Advanced Production (4 Cr.) (formerly COM 393) Semester-long project in video, audio or multimedia production or writing. To qualify, the student must be in good academic standing and have achieved an overall GPA of at least 3.0, have successfully completed at least two production courses, including one at the 300- or 400-level, and have the permission of faculty adviser. The student should have an approved production proposal before registration. Can be taken as Capstone with permission of instructor. Marcus.
	COM 497 - Capstone Project (1 Cr.) Student will complete a major research or production project in conjunction with a 400-level course in the program. Academic adviser and Instructor permission required.
	COM 499 - Independent Study (2 or 4 Cr.) (formerly COM 400) Independent study of the student’s choice. To qualify for an independent study, the student must be in good academic standing and have achieved an overall GPA of at least 3.5, have acquired both college and departmental writing proficiency, be a junior or a senior, have completed the 300-level theory requirements, and have the permission of a faculty adviser and an approved proposal that includes a substantial statement of intent and a preliminary bibliography of sources to be consulted. Available as Capstone project for 4 credits with approval of instructor. Variable semesters. Kimball, Marcus, San Filippo, Zurawik.
Community-Based Learning
	CBL 115 - Gateway to Service (2 Cr.) This course will introduce students to the philosophy, theory, and best practices of academically-based community engagement. Through readings from a wide range of disciplines, students will reflect their role as thoughtful and engaged members of a community, and investigate assumptions about race, class and privilege. In investigating the various meanings of leadership, students learn how to develop beneficial, sustainable community collaborations. Topics include the nature and meaning of leadership, building capacity for change, gaining a greater understanding of community challenges, asset mapping, ethics of leadership, perspectives on learning development, and building collaborative community partnerships. This course includes a community-based component. Graded pass/no pass. Fall, spring.
	CBL 299 - Independent Work (1.5 Cr.) Building on community-based learning experiences in other courses, the independent study is designed to give students the chance to further explore working in the community. The student will be supervised by a faculty member, and will coordinate efforts through the Office of Community-Based Learning. May not be repeated for credit. Graded pass/no pass.
Computer Science
	CS 116 - Introduction to Computer Science (4 Cr.) (LER-MR) Introduction to the discipline of computer science and algorithmic thinking through the study of a programming language. Students will master writing small computer programs to solve computational problems. Object oriented programming is introduced. Fall semester. Brody, Zimmerman.
	CS 119 - Foundations of Computer Science (4 Cr.) (GCR DAF) An introduction to the foundational elements of computer science. Topics include recursion, mathematical induction, abstraction, and asymptotic analysis. Prerequisite: CS 116 with a minimum grade of C-. Spring semester. Zimmerman.
	CS 205 - Software Development (4 Cr.) This course introduces object-oriented design and software design patterns. Advance topics of object-oriented programming including interfaces, polymorphism, inheritance, generic types, multithreading, and user interface programming will be explored. Students will master the programming process with moderately sized projects from specification through complete implementation. Prerequisite: CS 116 with a minimum grade of C- . Fall semester. Kelliher, Zimmerman.
	CS 220 - Computer Architecture (4 Cr.) Organization of contemporary computing systems: instruction set design, arithmetic circuits, control and pipelining, the memory hierarchy, and I/O. Includes topics from the ever-changing state of the art. Prerequisite: CS 119 with a minimum grade of C-. Offered fall semester of odd years. Kelliher, Zimmerman.
	CS 224 - Principles of Programming Languages (4 Cr.) Study of the underlying principles of programming languages. Topics include procedural activation, data encapsulation, inheritance, and functional and logic programming. Examples from several languages, such as C++, Java, ML, Haskell, and Prolog. Prerequisite: CS 119 with a minimum grade of C-. Offered spring semester of even years. Zimmerman.
	CS 290 - Internship in Computer Science (0-4 Cr.) Internship opportunities include work in the application of computer science to government, business, and industry. Students complete work on site under the supervision of professionals in the field and also complete academic assignments as determined by the faculty internship sponsor. Each credit requires 45 hours at the internship site. Prerequisites include junior standing and majoring in computer science. Graded pass/no pass. Course may be taken during academic semesters as well as summer and winter terms.
	CS 299 - Independent Work in Computer Science (1-4 Cr.)
	CS 330 - Analysis of Computer Algorithms (4 Cr.) (formerly CS 230) The design of computer algorithms and techniques for analyzing the efficiency and complexity of algorithms. Emphasis on sorting, searching, and graph algorithms. Several general methods of constructing algorithms, such as backtracking and dynamic programming, will be discussed and applications given. Prerequisites: CS 119 with a minimum grade of C-. Offered fall semester of even years. Brody, Zimmerman.
	CS 350 - Theory of Computation (4 Cr.) (formerly CS 250) The basic theoretical principles embodied in formal languages, automata, and computability. Topics include finite automata, nondeterministic machines, regular expressions, context-free grammars, Turing machines, Church’s thesis, the halting problem, unsolvability, and computational complexity. Prerequisite: CS 119 with a minimum grade of C-. Offered spring semester of odd years. Brody, Zimmerman.
	CS 400 - Independent Work in Computer Science (2-4 Cr.)
	CS 411 - Operating Systems (4 Cr.) (formerly CS 311) The study of how modern operating systems are designed through the study of their fundamental pieces. Key features include symmetric multi-processing (SMP), threads, virtualization, demand paging, and virtual memory. Prerequisite: CS 205 . Offered spring semester of even years. Kelliher.
	CS 417 - Database and Transaction Systems (4 Cr.) (formerly CS 317) (GCR DA-AC) The study of the underpinnings of modern database design at the application level, with an implementation of a web-based transaction processing system. Deeper issues which are essential to effective database design include relational algebra, tuple calculus, data organization and indexing strategies, and query processing and optimization. Prerequisite: CS 205 and completion of GCR - Data Analytics Foundational level. Offered spring semester of odd years. Kelliher, Zimmerman.
	CS 420 - Computer Graphics (4 Cr.) (formerly CS 320) An application-oriented introduction to computer graphics. Graphics devices and their programming interfaces. Fundamentals of two-dimensional graphics: rendering, object and view transformations, and interactive animation. Introduction to three-dimensional graphics: clipping, lighting, and hidden-surface removal. Large programming projects in a modern graphics API are an integral part of the course. Prerequisite: CS 205 . Offered fall semester of even years. Kelliher.
	CS 435 - Machine Learning (4 Cr.) (cross-listed as DMC 435) (GCR DA-AC) A deeper look at the theory and practice of machine learning. This course will develop the theoretical foundations of classical machine learning as well as deep learning. Topics from deep learning will include Convolutional Networks, Deep Neural Networks, Recurrent Networks, Autoencoders, and Optimization Techniques. Topics from classical machine learning will include support vector machines, hidden Markov models and a theoretical treatment of algorithms addressed in DMC 345. Prerequisites: C- or above in DMC 321 and DMC 345 . Offered spring semester of even years. Brody, Webster.
	CS 440 - Principles of Artificial Intelligence (4 Cr.) (formerly CS 340) (GCR DA-AC) An introduction to the field of artificial intelligence, including its tools, techniques, and issues. An overview of search methods, symbolic manipulation, pattern matching, vision, machine learning, expert systems, and robotics. Prerequisite: CS 205 . Offered fall semester of odd years. Brody, Zimmerman.
	CS 497 - Senior Project (1-4 Cr.) (formerly CS 395) Students work on an individual or a group semester long project to further their understanding of a particular computing problem, issue, or subject area. Prerequisite: Senior standing as a computer science major or minor. This course may be taken twice for a maximum of 8 credits. Fall semester, repeated spring semester.
CPEA - Center Pair Exploration A
	CPEA 201 - Art of Observation (4 Cr.) (GCR Arts area) Are you tempted to watch the grass grow or follow the traces of cloud shadows scudding over the earth? Do you hear music in the hubbub of a crowded marketor in passing traffic? Would you like to experience the ocean in a humble puddle? We live in an age of point and shoot immediacy and instantaneous commentary which demands our constant attention. But attention to what, exactly? What if you had time to think more quietly, to look with abandon, to reach conclusions slowly and with deliberation? In this course, we will delve into the differences between looking, seeing and observing and we will immerse ourselves with places, people and ideas over time.Using photography, writing and sound recording and working in groups and individually, we will spend a semester of intense looking and listening. We will use many forms of recording and responding to our observations including working collaboratively on a book that features image and text, playing with image and sound and writing from multiple perspectives. Over the course of the semester, using observation as your foundation, you will develop a project that is connected to your deep interests. Restricted to first-year through junior students or others with instructor permission. Students are limited to one CPE course per semester. Burns.
	CPEA 202 - Alternative and Activist Media (4 Cr.) (GCR Arts area) This course will examine alternative and activist media production in video, print, audio, and digital formats. We will focus on the various aesthetic and exhibition strategies of makers of media outside of the mainstream, relating these to producers’ political, social, and artistic agendas. The course will include screenings of major works in the field, in addition to lesser-known productions that point to significant developments in the production and distribution of work that challenges political and cultural relations of power, contributes to political and social movements, and experiments with the format, structure, and process of production. Students will also produce their own projects to explore the opportunities and challenges of independent media production. Restricted to first-year through junior students or others with instructor permission. Students are limited to one CPE course per semester. Marcus.
	CPEA 203 - I Hate Romeo and Juliet or Shakespeare and the Nature of Prejudice (4 Cr.) (GCR Arts area) Why do some people find Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet so hard to like or even appreciate? This course explores the nature of prejudice in general, and prejudice in and about Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet specifically. By examining our own misgivings about the play, and about Shakespeare in general, we will find out how to make the play accessible, maybe even enjoyable to 9th graders in an in-school setting. We will examine the nature of prejudice which is not only a major theme in the play, but also a major block to learning and social development. Restricted to first-year through junior students or others with instructor permission. Students are limited to one CPE course per semester. Curry.
	CPEA 204 - Social Media from the Inside Out (4 Cr.) (GCR Arts area) You likely use social media all the time- to express yourself, connect with friends, and access culture and information. How does social media and the internet shape how we communicate today? In this class, we will explore this big question by engaging with social media at a deeper level and using it to achieve a collective artistic or activist goal. This class is based on group collaboration: working together to create a media production, put it out into the world, and connect with people around it, using social media. Your work can be creative, advocacy, entertaining, maybe all of the above- it’s really all about how you work together to create something meaningful and engage an audience with it. Along the way, you will get to peek behind the curtain to see how social media platforms work- as technologies, businesses, and communities- and gain some real world experience in how to use these tools beyond personal expression and day-to-day connections. Restricted to first-year through junior students or others with instructor permission. Students are limited to one CPE course per semester. Kimball.
	CPEA 205 - You Are What You Make: Thou Art (4 Cr.) (GCR Arts area) Where does meaning lie in art? If a painting sells for 40 million dollars, is it better than one that sells for one million? How does art intersect with your life? Is the impulse to make art a defining human characteristic? In this CPE course, students will examine questions such as these, and create a work of art (in any form - no experience needed!) in mutually supportive artists’ collectives. By engaging in the artist’s process, they will develop a greater understanding of meaning and value in art. Restricted to first-year and sophomore students or others with instructor permission. Restricted to first-year through junior students or others with instructor permission. Students are limited to one CPE course per semester. Kennison and Campbell.
	CPEA 206 - Embodying Lemonade (4 Cr.) (GCR Arts area) Beyoncé Knowles is an international artist whose work is garnering more attention for its socio-political themes. On the surface, Beyoncé might seem to deploy messages about race, gender, class, and sexuality that appear to coincide with certain stereotypical social norms; but in this course, we use Beyoncé’s “Lemonade” as a framework to understand the politics of bodies as communicative devices. Our approach will be multifaceted: First, we will assess how our bodies communicate to others around us; and secondly how media uses bodies to curate communication. In this course, we will position Beyoncé as a progressive, feminist, and queer icon through meticulous examination of her work and career alongside historical and contemporary black feminist writing. We won’t read about Beyoncé; rather, these juxtapositions will put her work in conversation with larger issues in an attempt to understand the socio-political communication of bodies. Restricted to first-year through junior students or others with instructor permission. Students are limited to one CPE course per semester. Shaheed.
	CPEA 207 - Seeing Color and Race (4 Cr.) (GCR Arts area) This course focuses on the phenomena of color and its role and importance in culture and language. Students will investigate the overlapping and mirroring of color theory and racialized and gendered rhetoric. Using various mediums students will investigate the ability for color and color interaction to produce multiple meanings, contexts and cultural implications of visual organization. Restricted to first-year through junior students and others with instructor permission. Students are limited to one CPE course per semester. Djouni.
	CPEA 208 - Media and the Audience: Constructing and Deconstructing Meaning (4 Cr.) (GCR Arts area) How does media - whether a movie, television series, play, or book - interact with and impact its audience? A common assumption is that audiences are cultural dupes mindlessly consuming media messages, but we will challenge that notion by studying how audiences negotiate and make meaning from media content. In this course, we will discuss the role media plays in the everyday lives of ordinary people while also critically analyzing the industrial and economic decisions behind the production and distribution of that content. We will consider the power relations involved in mass media production and how societal inequality may be reproduced and exacerbated by defining the audience in particular ways. Students will break down and interrogate how the structures of media production uphold and reinforce the hegemonic systems already at work in society. Following Sullivan’s (2013) model, we will consider how audiences function as objects, institutional constructions, active users of media, and producers. Working individually, students will use self-reflection to explore their own personal experiences of being part of an audience and connect this self-analysis to larger arguments about the media-audience relationship. In groups, students will work together to study the media consumption behaviors of others and extract ideology from such audience actions to make sense of the full impact of media on its consumers. Restricted to first-year through junior students and others with instructor permission. Students are limited to one CPE course per semester. Morris.
	CPEA 209 - Document This! Telling stories about the real world using photographs and words. (4 Cr.) (GCR Arts area) What with Reality TV, the 24/7/365 news cycle, and the almost manic documentation of daily life on Instagram and YouTube, you’d think we’d documented the world to death. But our communities are full of untold stories, perspectives, and lives aching to be exposed to the light. In this course, you’ll use cameras as tools to engage socially and politically with the world, while using approaches from the fields of documentary photography, anthropology, and art. During the semester, you will shoot and create projects alone, in pairs, and in groups. You will immerse yourselves in documentary practices to develop stories with images and text, you’ll be exposed to the work of documentary photographers, artists, and photojournalists as well as to writing about the documentary tradition. You will learn how to read photographs to gain an understanding of “visual literacy,” and you’ll grapple with the ethics of your editorial positions and actions. Emphasis will be on process (drafting proposals, conducting research, gaining access, photographing), and on practice (editing and building sequencing skills). Through trial and error, you will learn which ideas translate visually, which do not, and why. Be prepared to make mistakes, learn by weekly assignments and by iteration (returning to the same subject matter over and over). By the end of the semester, you will develop a documentary project and will present this project at the Student Symposium on Friday, May 10, 2019. Your camera will be, as photographer Dorothea Lange stated, “a tool for learning how to see without a camera.”. Restricted to first-year through junior students, and others with instructor permission. Students are limited to one CPE course per semester. Offered Spring 2019. Burns.
	CPEA 210 - Dancing Places: Creating Site-Specific Performance (4 Cr.) This course investigates how place and space are interrelated with people’s sense of community. We will focus on the artistic genre of site-specific performance: events created for sites outside the typical spaces of the theatre, studio, concert hall or gallery. You will gain experience creating art of your own: whether as a performer or behind the scenes or through a combination of the two, you will develop and execute events designed to guide audiences into an experience that is both entertaining and thought-provoking. We will look at how site-specific art raises questions about how we experience place–questions about individual experience, social conduct and the politics of space. What brings public, shared spaces to life as places for community? What makes you feel either comfortable or out of place? Whom do you notice, or not? How do your own presence and activity contribute to the dynamics of a place? Who gets to contribute and who is excluded? What are some of the problems, both in society and large and in the immediacy of a given place, that create experiences of social alienation within commons spaces? As a jumping off point for our investigation of how people share space, we will draw on a variety of different kinds of social dancing–in a broad sense as dancing that’s done mainly for fun and sociability rather than for show. For our class, no previous dance training is necessary, and appearing for an audience as a performer is encouraged but not required. Each class member’s experience, whether as enthusiast or skeptic about taking the dance floor, will contribute to our shared understanding of how places can be in motion. Restricted to first-year through junior students, and others with instructor permission. Rebecca Free.
	CPEA 250 - Enacting Change: Theatre and Video Against School Violence (4 Cr.) (GCR Arts area) Incidents of school violence are at an all-time high in the Unites States. When incidents of school violence occur, our first question is often “what should be done, and by whom?” This course will lead with the question “what can I do?” Students will examine school violence by interacting and interviewing students, families, teachers, school officials and government officers to learn about the causes and effects of school violence, and about the policies and practices aimed at curbing violence in the schools. Students will identify what messages are needed by the community (documentation of effects, practical safety training, persuasive messages to influence behavior), and will create theatre works and videos to communicate those messages. Through this work, students will develop their own sense of agency to promote social change. Restricted to first-year through junior students and others with instructor permission. Students are limited to one CPE course per semester. Curry.
	CPEA 251 - Social Engaged Art Practice: Environmental Justice (4 Cr.) (GCR Arts area) Art has historically been a powerful vehicle of political action and activism. In this course, we will create “after lives” for cast offs and discarded objects using basic hand tools, hardware, adhesives, sewing notions and scavenged materials. For inspiration, we will examine artworks, including creative mending and sewing, from activist-artists around the world. Students will have the opportunity to complete repair projects independently before working as part of a small group to create a project, through deconstruction and reconstruction, that expresses a perspective of a political, economic, environmental or social issue. This artistic process will give us new perspectives on how to repurpose the forgotten or broken into new forms, especially as a tool of political expression and activism. Tinkering becomes an investigation into the obsolescence of technology and how we can materially intervene in our environmental crisis. Restricted to first-year through junior students and others with instructor permission. Students are limited to one CPE course per semester. Thompson.
	CPEA 252 - Who Owns Music? (4 Cr.) (GCR Arts area) We all feel a unique sense of ownership when it comes to our favorite music. But is it really “ours”? Who decides which artists endure and which are “one-hit wonders”? When artists put their work before the public, does it cease to belong to them? This course will consider these questions and take an unflinching look at the value proposition of musical creation, reception, and related social issues, including cultural appropriation. Through the survey of musical structures, styles, and history, this course will also confront issues concerning personal expression, propaganda, and aesthetics. Restricted to first-year through junior students, and others with permission of instructor. Students are limited to one CPE course per semester. Offered Spring 2019.
CPEB - Center Pair Exploration B
	CPEB 201 - Baltimore ‘68: What has Changed 50 Years Later? (4 Cr.) (GCR RPP)(GCR Social and Behavioral Sciences area) Following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, people living in Baltimore rose up in multiple, enduring acts of civil unrest. The uprising, which began on April 6 and lasted through April 14, 1968 saw many people taking to the streets in protest, violence, and the looting and burning of property and businesses. The civil unrest left a mark on most who experienced or saw images of it as it occurred. This highly influential event has been well studied and is better understood today than it was then. The question is: 50 years later have we learned our lesson? Working in groups we will grapple with this question using political science and religious studies to help guide our inquiry. Restricted to first-year through junior students or others with instructor permission. Students are limited to one CPE course per semester. Kasnunias.
	CPEB 202 - Migration and Refugees in a Global World (4 Cr.) (GCR Social and Behavioral Sciences area) The current debates over migrtion and refugees inform the stories about ourselves as a community and the evolution of identities such as U.S. citizens, citizens of other countries, and/or global citizens. In this course, we will work collaboratively to explore the myriad facets of immigrants’ experiences. We will study historical and contemporary perspectives and dialogues on immigration to the United States, the meaning of citizenship and land of residence, and the rights and experiences of non-citizens. We will compare the U.S. immigration experiences and citizenship approaches to other regions of the world. During the course of the semester, you will work in groups and collaborate on projects that seek to transform and offer resources to your community about immigration. Additional group projects will include dialogues on citizenry and the relationship between identity, immigration, and civil rights. The current discussions over immigration, both in the United States and in other nations with similar immigration reflections, provides the primary content for this CPE.Our dialogue entails active and respectful reception of diverse voices, different agendas, and conflicting policies. We will be guided by a series of questions and problems in our search for answers and solutions and consider multidisciplinary approaches. This CPE combines the disciplines of social sciences (e.g. political science or psychology), media studies, cultural sustainability, and history to study immigration. The source materials on immigration are rich, diverse, inclusive, and varied and we may take advantage of myriad books, films, archives, documents, photographs, and/or on-line exhibits. Restricted to first-year through junior students, and others with instructor’s permission.
	CPEB 203 - Green Gentrification and the Right to the City (4 Cr.) (GCR ES)(GCR Social and Behavioral Sciences area)(LER ES) Cities and government officials are leading the way in responding to the global ecological crisis, especially in dealing with the effects of climage change, by “going green”. This course focuses on the way that “going green” shapes social life, specifically through green gentrification. Green gentrification involves the urban renewal process whereby urban greening initiatives drive gentrification, and vice versa. Students will critically assess green gentrification in terms of how it promotes urban sustainability in a broad sense, which involves understanding its contributions and limitations to economic, environmental, and sociocultural sustainability. Students will also identify and describe the different political discourses and community debates surrounding green gentrification in different cities. By the end of the semester, students will be equipped with the critical thinking skills necessary to help inform urban sustainability planning. Restricted to first-year through junior students, and others with instructor permission. Students are limited to one CPE course per semester. J-Term 2019. Salvaggio.
	CPEB 204 - Labor and Justice in the Fields: The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (4 Cr.) (GCR Social and Behavioral Sciences area) We live in a world in which the products we enjoy hold invisible costs of suffering and violence. This is particulary true in the areas of our food system that rely on farmworker in the context of industrial agriculture. Is it possible to better the lives of those who provide the labor that produces the goods we consume? This is the challenge that the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) have been addressing, and this course explores their work to learn how to make a concrete difference. What would one want to know and be able to do in order to be successful in this kind of work? We will analyze this system and its impact on workers, and in partnership with CIW develop a project to contribute to their work. Open to first-year through junior students, and others with instructor approval. Students are limited to one CPE course per semester. Spring 2019. Turner.
	CPEB 205 - Disease and Discrimination, Sociology Focus (4 Cr.) (GCR RPP)(GCR Social and Behavioral Sciences area) What role does discrimination play in the development of disease? How has stigma affected the experience of disease as well as the resources allocated to address it? In this course we examine the intersecting inequalities (race, class, sex, sexuality, and others) that contribute to mortality and morbidity. We will study the determinants and sequelae of both infectious and non-infectious diseases as well as how they have been framed in political discourse. Working individually and in cooperative groups, students will embark on explorations of a health concern of their choice. Students may NOT take this course if they have completed the CPED 202 course with similar content/title. Restricted to first-year through junior students, and others with instructor permission. Students are limited to one CPE course per semester. Greenberg. Offered Spring 2019.
	CPEB 206 - Getting Healthcare (4 Cr.) (GCR Social and Behavioral Sciences area) Healthcare is one of the defining issues of our age. When the Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010, it introduced a number of healthcare reforms, including a ban on pre-existing condition exclusions and a requirement for health plans to pay for certain services like mental health, prescription drugs, and maternity care. Despite its gains, some have argued that the law did not go far enough in extending healthcare coverage, while others have claimed that the law is nothing more than an example of governmental intrustion into the most intimate areas of our lives. Thus, over the last few years, we have witnessed, on the one hand, the rise of the rallying cry of “Medicare-for-all,” and on the other hand, the reoccuring and impassioned effort to undo the law through repeal. This course will bring together perspectives primarily from medical anthropology and healthcare policy to consider how we got to where we are with our healthcare system and how people, whether as patients, providers, insurers, or as policy experts, participate in that system today. We will work individually and collaboratively to address the varied implications and processes of “getting healthcare” in the United States, both in terms of the everyday practices involved in healthcare-seeking and in terms of gaining a clear understanding of what has gone into the makings of a unique and very complex system for healthcare delivery and payment. Restricted to first-year through junior students, and others with instructor permission. Offered Fall 2019. Schwarz.
	CPEB 207 - Chocolate Diaries (4 Cr.) (GCR Social and Behavioral Sciences area) Most everyone loves chocolate! The mention of the word conjures images and feelings of decadence, love, and extravagance. Chocolate has become a global commodity and business valued at $50b annually. Where does chocolate come from? Who makes it? What is the source of our infatuation? Where does all the money go? This CPE course will investigate all things chocolate in order to build an inventory of research approaches that can be applied to a wide range of social science questions. Restricted to first-year through Junior students, and others with instructor permission. Offered fall 2019. Singer.
	CPEB 250 - Problem-Based Learning in Organizational Behavior (4 Cr.) (GCR Social and Behavioral Sciences area) Ever work with a difficult person? Ever been that difficult person? Organizational Behavior helps us understand and influence human behavior in organizations. In this course you will master core theories and models of Organizational Behavior. You will develop skills that contribute to your effectiveness as a team member. And you will apply your knowledge and skills to address problems on campus and in your own life. Projects include collaborative work to create a video about interpersonal dynamics on campus and an individualized project to address a concern in your own life. Restricted to first-year through junior students or others with instructor permission. Students are limited to one CPE course per semester. Janine Bowen.
	CPEB 251 - Creating lasting change with improvement science (4 Cr.) (GCR Social and Behavioral Sciences area) Personal goals like New Year’s resolutions usually fail by February and organizational change efforts also notoriously don’t stick. Want to stop spinning your wheels towards the change you want to see in yourself or your organizations? Want to be part of a team coming up with innovative ideas that lead to meaningful, enduring change? Methods in improvement science can guide us in developing more effective strategies for reaching these goals. In this course, we will look at examples of how improvement science has been used to solve problems in education and health care. We will practice skills that can shift our frame of mind to one of systematic and innovative improvement rather than aimless efforts leading to stagnation. As a class, we will apply these skills by developing and implementing change processes to reach a common aim on campus. Restricted to first-year through junior students and others with instructor permission. Ibrahim.
	CPEB 252 - Individuals, Groups, and Institutions: Understanding Identity and Working Towards Change (4 Cr.) (GCR RPP)(GCR Social and Behavioral Sciences area) In this course you will use theoretical frameworks from social science and personal reflection to answer the questions: How do I articulate my identity? How does my identity shape the way I interact with individuals, groups, and institutions? What are my assumptions about ability, class, gender, immigration status, race, religion, and sexual orientation and how do they impact how I interact with individuals, groups, and institutions? What are the institutional, cultural, and structural factors of race and power that shape my perspective and experience? You will work in small collaborative groups to research current examples of tension/discrimination related to race, power, and perspective in the world then create an original plan to improve race relations/discrimination in the world around you. Restricted to first-year through junior students, and others with instructor permission. Students are limited to one CPE course per semester. Wilson.
	CPEB 253 - Solve It! Student Consulting (4 Cr.) (GCR Social and Behavioral Sciences area) The world has problems that need solutions. What skills do you have that can be harnessed to address those needs? Not sure? Then this course is for you. Given the needs of an organization, you and your classmates will be tasked with solving a particular problem utilizing your individual talents. You will acquire specific social science research skills (survey design, implementation, analysis and presentation of results) that will build your resume and help you see the ways your knowledge can be applied more broadly. Course restricted to first-year through junior students, and others with instructor permission. Students may only take one CPE course per semester. Fall semester. Grossman and Shamshak.
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	CPEC 201 - Genocide and Modernity (4 Cr.) (GCR-RPP)(GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area) This course will serve as an interdisciplinary introduction to the study of genocide in modernity. Its basic question is the following: is there something about the way in which we, as moderns, have decided to organize ourselves-politically, socially, and economically-that contributes to the prevalence of genocide in the past century and beyond? Spanning the disciplines of genocide studies, Jewish studies, philosophy, and history, the course will serve to give students the tools to understand what genocide is, why it occurs, and what we might be able to do to prevent it. Students will also gain the ability to conduct independent research by conducting research on a genocide of their choosing. Restricted to first-year through junior students or others with instructor permission. Students are limited to one CPE course per semester. Shuster.
	CPEC 202 - In Search of una Voz/a Voice: Visionary Writing in Two Languages (4 Cr.) (GCR RPP)(GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area) For Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes “writing is a struggle against silence.” The goal of this course is for students, with some proficiency (up to an extensive mastery) of two languages (Spanish and English), to struggle against this silence by using both languages in creative writing. In practicing bilingual writing, students will explore the bilingual world in terms of language use in their social life and social interactions. By focusing on Spanish/English bilingualism in the United States students will learn about the intersecting inequality of this bilingual experience (ethnicity, race, class, degree of bilingualism, among others). Working as individuals and in cooperation with peers, both as respectful audience and careful editors, they will seek modes of presenting their creative fiction and non-fiction production. Restricted to first-year through junior students and others with instructor permission. Students are limited to one CPE course per semester. Cortés-Conde.
	CPEC 203 - From Crusades to Witch Hunts: Histories of Religious Violence (4 Cr.) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area) This course examines moments of religious tension, discrimination, and violence from the medieval period to present day. A major goal of the course is to uncover the ways in which religious belief and practice have shaped specific cultures at different times, and how differences in such beliefs reached beyond spiritual concerns to influence politics, economies, and other social developments. The course therefore illustrates how religious belief and practice are essential components of individual and communal identities. By exploring the lives of past groups of different classes, races, and religions, students will learn how to analyze these experiences historically; they will then apply these skills to examine contemporary examples of religious violence. Restricted to first-year through junior students and others with instructor permission. Students are limited to one CPE course per semester.
	CPEC 204 - Sovereignty and Survivance in Native America (4 Cr.) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area) There are over 560 federally recognized indigenous communities in the contiguous United States and Alaska, each with a distinct collective identity tracing back to time immemorial. Although the course will introduce only a sampling of the rich cultural diversity of the continguous states, intersecting issues of identity, cultural continuity, survivance and adaption will provide some insight into the range of contemporary Native American efforts to preserve and grow their sovereignty and their sense of Peoplehood. Working on individual and group projects, students will engage with the rich tapestry of Native American paradigms of self-determination. Restricted to first-year through junior students, or others with instructor permission. Students are limited to one CPE course per semester. Bess.
	CPEC 205 - Evolving Networks: Beyond Facebook (4 Cr.) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area) “Evolving Networks: Beyond Facebook” explores the impact of networks in historical, present-day, and future applications. By locating and analyzing visualizations of networks in a range of interdisciplinary fields and mediums, students will determine how past and present societies’ perspectives of the connections between people, places, and words both help and hurt its members. Students will create their own networking visualizations in independent, paired, and small groupd teams which represent personal mappings, Goucher and class connections, and new and/or revised community and/or global relationships. The course, itself, will be addressed as a network which grows and shifts with the vision and needs of its members as it explores the questions: What types of networks are needed to advance and reform our world and how can we represent these networks in a visual, accessible, and productive way? Restricted to first-year through junior students, and others with instructor permission. Students are limited to one CPE course per semester. J-Term 2019. Cottle.
	CPEC 206 - Democracy’s Spell (4 Cr.) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area) What is democracy? Where did it come from? Why is democracy the standard by which we judge all political regimes? Why do various individuals today - on both sides of the left-right political divide - call themselves “small-d democrats?” Is something that is un-democratic necessarily bad? What was the nature of the relationship between democracy and American slavery? How does democracy intersect with gender norms and capitalism? Is democracy an exclusively electoral-governmental phenomenon or is it also a cultural-social phenomemon? This course seeks answers to those questions by investigating various pre-democratic and democratic phenomena. Historical examples will come primarily from the American, British, and French experiences. In the second part of the semester, students will: 1) work on a group project; and 2) construct research problems regarding contemporary American democracy and elaborate on their findings in writing. Restricted to first-year through junior students, and others with instructor permission. Students are limited to one CPE course per semester. Spring 2019. Hale.
	CPEC 207 - Society in the Age of Intelligent Machines (4 Cr.) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area) The world is currently in the midst of an immense social transformation, brought on not only by the emergence of powerful new technologies, the implications of which we have only begun to consider, but by an additional set of intersecting issues concerning the future of employment, the legitimacy of political institutions, and even the status of truth. Despite its gloominess, however, this historical moment is, in fact, an ideal standpoint from which to do the work of contemplating the future and that is the purpose of this course: to consider the ways society will cope with the rapid development of autonomous machines and to contemplate the future implications, both the economic and philosophical, of these changes. Restricted to first-year through junior students, and others with instructor permission. Students are limited to one CPE course per semester. Spring semester. DeCaroli.
	CPEC 208 - Media Literacy: Fake News, Real News, Democracy and You (4 Cr.) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area) For a democracy to function, citizens need trustworthy, reliable, accurate information. But we are now living in a nation where that is getting harder to find. Where can you go in this vast media universe for reliable information? How do you evaluate information you find at places like Facebook, twitter, Instagram, InfoWars, The Drudge Report, the New York Times or The BBC? This course is designed to help students develop personal strategies to differentiate and evaluate the many sources of news and information in our fragmented, digital lives. Restricted to first-year through junior students, and others with instructor permission. Students are limited to one CPE course per semester. Offered Spring 2019. Zurawik.
	CPEC 209 - Ghosts in Our Midst: Confronting the Past at Historic Sites, Monuments, and Memorials (4 Cr.) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area) Over the past few years, monuments, memorials, and historic sites have become controversial areas in American life. They have become flashpoints for tensions over race, gender, church and state relations, politics, and our understanding of the American past. This course intends to examine this development and consider the reasons for its emergence at this time. Among the questions it will explore are: What role do monuments, memorials and historic sites play in American life? How do we deal with older monuments, memorials, and historic sites when contemporary memory, values, and society have all changed? How do we deal with the problem of monuments, memorials, and historic sites that have either lost meaning or become offensive to modern sensibilities? Through field trips, readings, and in-depth research, students will study these sites of memory in order to understand them from a variety of perspectives. Students will then design new ways of interpreting them for contemporary audiences. Ultimately, this course aims to promote meaningful and well informed dialogue between the past and present at historic sites and at the sites of monuments and memorials. Restricted to first-year through junior students, and others with permission of instructor. Students are limited to one CPE course per semester. Offered Spring 2019 and every other year. Sheller.
	CPEC 250 - Where, When, and How do We Belong?: Citizenship through Space and Time. (4 Cr.) (GCR RPP)(GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area) What is the meaning of citizenship in an interconnected world? How, and where, do we situate ourselves in such an environment? These questions challenge us to see both ourselves and others in dynamic relationships with each other, negotiating space and developing community in the process. These are not new questions, nor are they discipline specific, but they are central to the human condition. In this course, students will explore answers to these questions, those provided in different places and times and through their own inquiries. Restricted to first-year through junior students and others with instructor approval. Students are limited to one CPE course per semester. Billo and Dawley.
	CPEC 251 - The Responsibility of the Artist (4 Cr.) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area) Art doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Even the lightest or fluffiest forms of entertainment ultimately have an underlying point. This course asks students to question the responsibility of the artist, of writers in particular. Do writers have a responsibility to their audience? Should their texts provide philosophical and political lenses that can help readers navigate complicated societies? Should their texts introduce audiences to complex problems and solutions, help their readers understand difficult questions about race and class? Or does literature exist outside of any prescriptions? This course will examine the difficulties inherent in producing art that has a purpose. We will look at the differences between art and agitprop, between subtlety and didactic rants. And we will discuss the purpose and meaning of contemporary literature, delving into questions of craft and art. Students will write traditional academic essays and original creative works. Students will read examples of texts that successfully merge art and politics, as well as essays that discuss these questions. Texts include The Essential Gesture, by Nadine Gordimer, What is Literature? by Jean Paul Sartre, and Being and Race, by Charles Johnson. Restricted to first-year through junior students and others with instructor permission. Students are limited to one CPE course per semester. Poliakoff-Chen.
	CPEC 252 - Society in the Age of Intelligent Machines (4 Cr.) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area) We live at a moment in history when technological innovations (from gene editing to cryptocurrencies, from autonomous vehicles to social credit systems) promise to profoundly alter the way we live. In this course, we will study these new technologies for the purpose of considering the near-future implications they foreshadow. Students will work collaboratively to select much of the course material and will work in teams to teach this material to each other in the form of in-depth presentations, all of which is designed to help us better understand our collective future in an age of dramatic technological change. Restricted to first-year through junior students and others with instructor permission. Students are limited to one CPE course per semester. DeCaroli.
	CPEC 253 - Future Cities: Speculations, Countermappings, and Narratives of Possibility (4 Cr.) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area) Cities are crossroads where many different people, industries, and cultural activities interact. But cities, including Baltimore, have also been places of great division and inequity. As so many cities attempt to bring new opportunities to their citizens, and create communities that thrive, not just for some but for all, they face a classic conundrum in creating social change: What are the forms of imagination that can actually produce new possibilities? and not just more of the same, but in different packaging? This class will look at the strategies of imagination that map, learn from, and rearrange information into the possible. Utilizing speculative thinking and countermapping, studying social science and creative text, we will map, and experiment with such new narrative practices, using examples from both the global arena and the Baltimore metropolitan area. Restricted to first-year through junior students and others with instructor permission. Students are limited to one CPE course per semester. Hopper.
	CPEC 254 - Do Gooders and the Failure of Humanitarian Aid: Ideology, Ethics and Future (4 Cr.) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)(GCR RPP) This CPE considers international aid through the lens of postcolonial theory and literature, examining its colonial roots, its contemporary implications, its dysfunctionals and its potential. The problem this course invites students to consider is: How has aid failed? Students will address a specific location: student groups will undertake a case study. The potential this course will invite students to consider is: How might aid succeed? Students will debate this issue. We conclude with the opportunity for each student to write an individual manifesto: “Inventing the Future of Aid”. In brief, given the history of colonial and neo-colonial biases and exploitation, what good can be done in the world by those who are in a position to offer help? Restricted to first-year through junior students and others with instructor permission. Students are limited to one CPE course per semester. Rauwerda.
	CPEC 255 - Drinking the Kool-Aid: The People’s Temple and the Psychology of New Religious Movements (4 Cr.) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area) This course will examine the origins, theology, rituals, and development of the religious movement The People’s Temple (Jonestown). We will explore how the movement grew from a utopian religious movement in California to a group that engaged in a mass suicide/murder involving 909 people, one third of whom were children. The course will address motivations for joining new religious movements and for staying in movements even when they promote increasingly isolated and violent behavior. The course will also explore the role of race, socio-economic status, and gender in the origins, development, and public memory of the group. Restricted to first-year through junior students, and others with instructor permission. Students are restricted to one CPE course per semester. Spring, offered 2019 and every other year. Duncan.
	CPEC 256 - Art as an expression of revolutionary resistance (4 Cr.) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area) Art has been used throughout history to express our deepest emotions. However, it has also played an important role as part of social, economical, or political events. Some expressions of art have continued through time to remind people of what has happened so the event will not be forgotten. Others have evolved to become part of the fight for what is just. Through collaboration, discussion, and readings, students will study forms of art from different countries and will explore the ways in which art has been used as an expression of revolutionary resistance. Restricted to first-year through junior students, and others with instructor approval. Spring 2019. Miranda-Aldaco.
	CPEC 257 - Growing Food for Sustainability and Justice (4 Cr.) (LER ENV)(GCR ENV) Sustainable farming and gardening practices offer answers to some of the biggest problems we face in the twenty-first century: global warming, the inequitable distribution of food, even physical and mental health challenges. In this course we will explore what we have to gain by shifting away from an extractive and exploitive relationship with the land and natural world. We will also examine current practices in regenerative farming, urban gardening, and the slow and good food movements that ask us to consider how to be responsible eaters. Projects will depend on student interests and might include planning gardens and other aspects of sustainable food production: making compost, testing for lead, exploring carbon sequestration, farming the forest, growing for market - including four-season growing. Restricted to first-year through junior students, and others with instructor permission. Offered Fall 2019. L.Lewis.
	CPEC 258 - This is Human, That is Nature: How Radically Rethinking the Human-Nature Relationship Can Help US Solve the Climate Crisis (4 Cr.) (GCR ENV) In 2008, two researchers set out to study Americans’ perception of their connectedness to the natural world. They asked respondents, “Do you consider yourself part of or separate from nature?” Overwhelmingly those surveyed responded, “Of course humans are part of nature.” A second question asked these same respondents how they defined nature. Again, an overwhelming majority responded with phrase likes “uninhabited” and “undisturbed by humans.” What does it mean-and what are the implications for the environment-that many of us see ourselves as part of a nature that we define by our absence? This CPE will explore the cultural assumptions and attitudes that lead to or interfere with our collective and personal behaviors that are environmentally sustainable. As part of this we will examine written and visual interventions that have significantly altered or shifted (for better or worse) our cultural assumptions about the natural world. This course gives students the opportunity to think more rigorously and imaginatively about environmental issues by integrating insights from the Humanities “My interest is that there is a disconnect between the science and the size of the threat that people mention about nature, the planet and the climate, and the emotion that this triggers. We are supposed to be extremely frightened people, but despite that we appear to sleep pretty well. –Bruno Latour Our goal in this course is to explore effective ways to disturb our sleep. Restricted to first year through junior students, and others with instructor approval.
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	CPED 201 - Thirsty for Change? A hands-on, immersive class on local water quality (4 Cr.) (GCR-ENV)(GCR Biological and Physcial Science area)(LER-ENV) Do you know where your water comes from? Do you know if it is safe to drink or for animals to live in? Do you know how water is monitored and tested to ensure it is safe or clean water? Water is essential to life, and clean water is vital for any thriving community or ecosystem. Unfortunately, clean water is not guaranteed, especially in congested, urban areas. As concerning as this is, there is something you can do about it (yes, you)! This course will empower you to learn about water systems and sources and provide you with the tools to affect positive change. You will learn about water quality and water challenges facing Baltimore and the Chesapeake Bay that has been caused by human activity. You will learn how water is monitored and tested, and gain hands-on experience testing water. With that knowledge, you will work in teams on a final project to identify a specific water quality problem, apply the scientific process to develop water testing kit and compose a grant proposal enabling local citizens to implement your kit and foster a healthier environment. I will give you feedback on your grant proposals as part of your course grade, and encourage students to submit strong proposals for external funding. You can make a difference and this course will give you the tools to do so! Please note, this course includes mandatory field trips and field work. Restricted to first-year through junior students or others with instructor permission. Students are limited to one CPE course per semester. Jozwick.
	CPED 202 - Disease and Discrimination, Biology focus (4 Cr.) (GCR RPP)(GCR Biological and Physical Science area) How do diseases get in to and affect the body? How do the conditions in which we live, work, and play impact health? In this course we examine the biological aspects of disease as well as the intersecting inequalities (race, class, sex, sexuality, and others) that contribute to it. We will study the biomedical and social determinants and consequences of 2 diseases -one infectious (HIV) and one non-infectious (diabetes). Working individually and in cooperative groups, students will then embark on bio-social explorations of a health condition of their choice (from Alzheimer’s to Zika) within a local or international setting (from Baltimore to Mumbai). Students may NOT take this course if they have already completed the CPEB 205 course with a similar title/content. Restricted to first-year through junior students or others with instructor permission. Students are limited to one CPE course per semester. Cresiski and Greenberg.
	CPED 203 - Where, When, and How do We Belong? Biohistorical Citizenship. (4 Cr.) (GCR Biological and Physical Science area) What is the meaning of citizenship in an interconnected world? How can citizenship claims be empowering and exclusionary in the ownership and use of land, knowledge, and science? These questions challenge us to see both ourselves and others in dynamic relationships with each other, negotiating space and developing community in the process. In this course, students will explore answers to these questions through the exploration of biohistorical phenomena and the concomitant processes and practices that facilitate the transmission, reproduction, and elaboration of knowledge in the context of biology and history. The course will consider contemporary and historical use of local and regional lands, how land use impacts ecology over time, and how citizenship claims influences participation knowledge production around these ideas. Restricted to first-year through junior students and others with instructor permission. Students are limited to one CPE course per semester. Dator and Lenkowski.
	CPED 204 - What the frack? An exploration of environmental chemistry (4 Cr.) (LER ENV)(GCR ENV)(GCR Biological and Physical Science area) This course is an introductory exploration of the chemistry at the center of critical environmental issues important to our communities: air quality, natural resource availability, climate change and energy production (from renewable resources, fossil fuels, and nuclear plants). Chemistry at the heart of environmental challenges and solutions, such as green chemistry and remediation techniques, will be studied. In individual and group projects, students will gain experience with practical chemistry as they conduct lab and field experiments involving the ecosystems local to Goucher campus. This will then be considered in the context of regional issues and the greater role of environmental chemsitry on a global scale. Restricted to first-year through junior students and others with instructor permission. Students are limited to one CPE course per semester.
	CPED 205 - A Hot Mess: How Can We Address Global Warming? (4 Cr.) (GCR Biological and Physical Science area) Global warming is a popular term that describes a number of environmental changes precipitated by human actions. Despite the scientific consensus that exists about devastating effects associated with global warming, those effects - or even their existence - have been contested in some quarters. For that reason, in this class we will explore the scientific evidence of global warming, the current and predicted effects resulting from it, and the potential actions to address it. Although this exploration will decisively be through a scientific lens, we will use an interdisciplinary perspective, relying on cultural and societal perspectives in an effort to provide a comprehensive view of this topic. To gain a deeper understanding of this subject, you will collaboratively propose a scientifically sound approach to address global warming at a local setting. Restricted to first-year through junior students, and others with instructor permission. Students are limited to one CPE course per semester. Offered Spring 2019. Mora.
	CPED 206 - Are alien planets like Earth? Using data to answer astronomical questions (4 Cr.) (GCR Biological and Physical Science area) Scientific discoveries can dramatically change how we think about our place in the universe. Often, these are a result of access to new types of data, or new ways of thinking about puzzling data. However, the scientific process and therefore the results can seem impossible to understand. In this class you will see that many scientific advances really are accesible to everyone. You will build scientific and data skills as you study some major discoveries, such as planets orbiting other stars and the expansion (and age) of the universe. You will put this background to use as you develop collaborative projects that study real astronomical data and present an interpretation of its significance and limitations. You will learn how to discover and communicate scientific facts like those you read about in textbooks using data, models, and the consensus of a scientific community. Restricted to first-year through junior students, and others with instructor permission. Students are limited to one CPE course per semester. Offered Spring 2019.
	CPED 207 - The Addicted Brain: Understanding America’s Drug Crisis (4 Cr.) (GCR Biological and Physical Science area) The opioid crisis is one of the deadliest drug epidemics in U.S. history. “Opiods” include illegal recreational drugs (such as heroin), but also powerful pain relievers often prescribed for patients with chronic medical conditions. In this course, we will dive into the neurobiology of opiod drugs, the effects they have on the brain, and how this contributes to the development of an addiction. We will also examine the many intersecting factors (education, class, race, cultural background, genetic predisposition, psychological health, and others) that influence who becomes addicted to opiods, and what help they receive. Students will then conduct collaborative investigations of a drug of their choice in a specific local or national setting (for example, methamphetamine abuse in the rural Midwest, or Ritalin abuse by urban teens), working to understand the factors influencing the abuse of this drug from social and biological perspectives. Restricted to first-year through junior students, and others with instructor permission. Students are limited to one CPE course per semester. Offered Spring 2019 and every other Spring semester. Starkey.
	CPED 208 - Designer Genes: The Brave New World of CRISPR (4 Cr.) (GCR Biological and Physical Science area) Life has evolved during the earth’s history through the process of natural selection sculpting organisms’ genomes to suit the environment. For millennia, humans have influenced evolution through the use of animal and plant husbandry, but recently a new biotechnology called CRISPR has led to an unprecedented ability to make specific, rapid and deliberate changes to our own genomes and those of other organisms. This course will examine how CRISPR works and its many possible applications, and will consider the ethical implications of this technology and how it might be regulated to ensure its use for the betterment, rather than the detriment of global society. Restricted to first year through junior students and others with instructor permission. Offered Fall 2019. Levine.
	CPED 209 - How We Move: Measuring Physical Activity (4 Cr.) (GCR Biological and Physical Science area) What does it mean for humans to move their bodies effectively? How do we gain insight into the mechanics of everyday activities like balancing, walking, or running (and what they feel like to us)? What about more complex motions like those in dance or sports? In this course we will explore kinesiology – the physiological and mechanical principles of human movement – using the tools of physics. Concepts such as force, acceleration, rotation, equilibrium, and center of gravity give us a language to talk about and measure what bodies can and can’t do – and to hold our beliefs up to experiment. By connecting measurable physical quantities to our bodies’ experiences, and those of others, we can ask and answer precise questions about how to move effectively. With smartphones, sensors and video capture, we can gather numerical data during our day-to-day lives, or set up careful experiments to test our instincts and guesses. Students will conduct collaborative experimental investigations of a movement problem or issue in a context of interest to them, such as sports, exercise, or dance. Restricted to first-year through Junior students, and others with instructor permission. Offered Fall 2019. Yoder.
	CPED 210 - The 23 in me; the science and ethics of genetic testing (4 Cr.) Over 25 million individuals have taken commercially available genetic tests, and millions more have taken similar tests administered by their physicians. Historians and Anthropologists are incorporating genetic testing into their disciplines, and public policy makers are considering how genetic testing should be incorporated into immigration, insurance and law enforcement policy. Many individuals are simply curious about their ancestry or traits that have been passed from their parents. Others have serious concerns about inherited medical conditions, and genetic testing results are routinely used to make medical and family planning decisions. Test results are used to solve crimes and to determine what individuals belong to particular ethnic groups. We will learn the science behind genetic testing, examine the benefits and limitations of genetic testing, discuss examples of genetic testing that fall outside of traditional medical diagnostics, and explore the public policy implications of genetic testing, all through course readings and assignments. We will also incorporate psychological and philosophical perspectives to consider the ethical implications of genetic testing for individuals, their families, and society. Restricted to first-year through junior students, and others with instructor permission. Hiller.
	CPED 250 - Myth Busters: Applying The Scientific Method to Everyday Claims (4 Cr.) (GCR Biological and Physical Science area) It has been suggested that we have moved from an information-scarce environment where there was not as much information but the vast majority of it was reliable-to an information-rich environment in which there is a great deal more information, but it is mostly unreliable opinion and junk. How do we decide what to believe? What information constitutes “knowledge”? One way to determine this is with the tools of science. Our focus in this course will be to use the tools of science, notably the scientific method, to explore a current issue. We will begin with a discussion of epistemology, or how we know what we know, and we will learn about the methods of science, including their limitations and when and where it is best or even necessary to use them. After learning some of this background, you will embark on a collaborative project, culminating in a proposal for one way to use these tools to address a current topic or problem. Restricted to first-year through junior students or others with instructor permission. Students are limited to one CPE course per semester. Ghirardelli.
	CPED 251 - Being the Best I can be: using science to optimize performance and life (4 Cr.) Have you ever wondered if you could be faster, stronger, smarter, learn more, or live a healthier life? In this course we will explore the scientific process and how it can be applied to issues of performance and life. We will learn to find and evaluate research articles as we explore a variety of biological and psychological factors that influence performance. Students will work in small groups to develop scientifically supported performance optimizing strategies. Restricted to first-year through junior students and others with instructor permission. Students are limited to one CPE course per semester. Wilterdink.
Dance
	DAN 100 - Pilates Method of Body Conditioning Mat (1 Cr.) This course is an introduction to Pilates mat work developed by Joseph Pilates, providing on going practice to both the beginner and intermediate student. Coursework will introduce Pilates core principles and proper technique in fundamental exercises in order to align, lengthen, and strengthen the body while improving posture, coordination, balance, core strength and flexibility. Special attention will be given to the low-impact mat, magic circle, and free weight series. Repeatable up to three times for credit. Variable semesters. Program faculty.
	DAN 102 - Pilates Method of Body Conditioning I: Apparatus (1 Cr.) The study and application of the Pilates Method of Body Conditioning, posing questions for anatomical self-evaluation based on lecture/discussion, required readings, observation, and applied instruction. Special attention will be given to a series of movements performed on five major pieces of apparatus. Students must attend both the scheduled apparatus class and a weekly mat class of their level. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Repeatable up to three times for credit. Variable semesters. Program faculty.
	DAN 105 - Male Technique (1 Cr.) This course will expand upon the classical foundation and vocabulary of the student with special attention to movements most often executed by the male dancer. Repeatable up to three times for credit. Variable semesters. Program faculty.
	DAN 115 - Modern Technique I (2 Cr.) An elementary level course in modern technique for students with prior training in modern dance. Students will further develop vocabulary, technical skill, stamina, and strength. Additionally, students will gain an appreciation of modern dance and develop a framework for the aesthetic criteria used to be informed observers of contemporary dance. Repeatable up to three times for credit. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Program faculty.
	DAN 121 - Ballet Technique I (2 Cr.) An elementary course in classical ballet technique for students with prior training in ballet. Students will develop vocabulary, technical skills, flexibility, stamina, and strength. The theoretical and analytical aspects of technique and knowledge of ballet as an expressive art form will also be examined. Repeatable up to three times for credit. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Program faculty.
	DAN 133 - West African Diasporic Dance I: West African (2 Cr.) An elementary level course in West African dance technique for students with minimal training in the genre. Students will learn to identify the aesthetic principles of West African dance and develop physical and artistic skills such as explicit sound and movement partnership, call and response, body isolation, articulation of the spine, dancing with a low center of gravity, grounded-ness, plyrhythm, individuality of movement expression and “aesthetic of cool”. Students will learn select West African dances and will have the opportunity to engage authentic performances of these dances via video. Students will be exposed to current and historical concert dance practitioners whose creative work is based in West African dance vocabularies. Repeatable up to three times for credit. Fall 2019, Spring 2020, and fall semesters only. Program faculty.
	DAN 135 - Dance Seminar (2 Cr.) This course examines various academic and career pathways in the multi-faceted field of dance. Students will gain knowledge and skills to become proactive managers of their educational experience by defining their personal philosophy and course of study to support their artistic interests, educational trajectory, and career goals. The establishment of an eportfolio to collect strategic academic and professional documents will provide direction. Spring semester. Program faculty.
	DAN 153 - Survey of Dance History (4 Cr.) This online course is an historical overview of the earliest traces of dance to the present day. Students will develop an understanding and appreciation of dance as a vehicle of expression in multiple facets of society from social and world dance forms to the theatrical stage. Prerequisite: None. May not count toward the dance major or minor requirements. Offered Summer. Program faculty.
	DAN 160 - Special Topics - Practice (2 Cr.) This course explores genres and styles beyond the core dance curriculum enhancing student’s breadth of knowledge and career preparedness. Content will vary based on community or student interest. Repeatable up to two times for credit. Variable semesters. Program faculty.
	DAN 201 - Intermediate Pointe (1 Cr.) This course focuses on intermediate-level pointe work. Students will develop the skills necessary for center work and work across the floor. Repeatable up to three times for credit. Prerequisite: Open to students with prior pointe training enrolled in DAN 121 or DAN 221 or higher or permission of instructor. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Program faculty.
	DAN 202 - Pilates Method of Body Conditioning II: Apparatus (1 Cr.) The study and application of the Pilates Method of Body Conditioning at an intermediate level. The Pilates Method has been recognized by some of the most prominent physicians, physical therapists, chiropractors, sports/fitness trainers, choreographers, and dancers. This course will focus on the philosophy behind Joseph Pilates’ system of exercise, the purpose of each exercise, and the physical results that can be achieved at an intermediate level of study. Students will simultaneously develop their knowledge of sequence, spring settings, transitions, breath coordination, and repetition requirements. This lecture/lab will also require readings, observation, and applied/practical instruction and performance. Special attention will be given to the intermediate series on the reformer and mat and to increasing students’ repertory of exercises on the wunda chair, small barrel, cadillac, high barrel, high chair, and pedi-pole. Prerequisite: DAN 102 . Repeatable up to three times for credit. Variable semesters. Program faculty.
	DAN 203 - Dance Repertory (1 Cr.) This course will explore historical variations from the romantic, classical and neo-classical eras or excerpts from modern dance repertory at the discretion of the instructor. Emphasis on artistry sur les pointes (if applicable) and continued development on greater physical strength and stamina as well as complex movement vocabulary will be explored in order to perform chosen repertory at a pre-professional level. Repeatable up to three times for credit. Prerequisites: DAN 215 or DAN 221 or DAN 233 or permission of instructor. Variable semesters. Program faculty.
	DAN 204 - Partnering (1 Cr.) This course provides study of both classical and contemporary partnering techniques, providing practice and/or performance of supported roles from classical and contemporary choreography. Students will learn and apply principles of partnered movement, focusing on balance, trust, and kinetic relationships. Pre-requisites: DAN 215 or DAN 221 or DAN 233 or permission of instructor. Repeatable up to three times for credit. Variable semesters. Program faculty.
	DAN 215 - Modern Technique II (2 Cr.) An intermediate course in modern dance technique to continue developing technical skills and strengths. Students focus on the qualitative aspect of movement and develop speed in movement analysis and synthesis. Theoretical aspects of technique and knowledge of dance as an expressive art form will be examined. Repeatable up to three times for credit. Prerequisite: placement in DAN 215 or above. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Program faculty.
	DAN 221 - Ballet Technique II (2 Cr.) An intermediate course in classical ballet technique that further emphasizes the development of technical skills, vocabulary, flexibility, stamina, and strength. Students will focus on the application of the qualitative aspects of movement and develop speed in analysis and synthesis. The theoretical and analytical aspects of technique and knowledge of dance as an expressive art form will also be examined. Repeatable up to three times for credit. Prerequisite: placement in DAN 221 or above. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Program faculty.

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COM 409 - Special Topics: Photographic Practices (4 Cr.)

COM 412 - Media Workshop (2 or 4 Cr.)

COM 415 - Screenwriting (4 Cr.)

COM 417 - The Documentary (4 Cr.)

COM 421 - The Internet (4 Cr.)

COM 425 - Women and Film (4 Cr.)

COM 430 - Queer Film and Media (4 Cr.)

COM 435 - Global Media (4 Cr.)

COM 440 - Media and Politics (4 Cr.)

COM 460 - Advanced Video Production (4 Cr.)

COM 493 - Independent Work in Advanced Production (4 Cr.)

COM 497 - Capstone Project (1 Cr.)

COM 499 - Independent Study (2 or 4 Cr.)

CBL 115 - Gateway to Service (2 Cr.)

CBL 299 - Independent Work (1.5 Cr.)

CS 116 - Introduction to Computer Science (4 Cr.)

CS 119 - Foundations of Computer Science (4 Cr.)

CS 205 - Software Development (4 Cr.)

CS 220 - Computer Architecture (4 Cr.)

CS 224 - Principles of Programming Languages (4 Cr.)

CS 290 - Internship in Computer Science (0-4 Cr.)

CS 299 - Independent Work in Computer Science (1-4 Cr.)

CS 330 - Analysis of Computer Algorithms (4 Cr.)

CS 350 - Theory of Computation (4 Cr.)

CS 400 - Independent Work in Computer Science (2-4 Cr.)

CS 411 - Operating Systems (4 Cr.)

CS 417 - Database and Transaction Systems (4 Cr.)

CS 420 - Computer Graphics (4 Cr.)

CS 435 - Machine Learning (4 Cr.)

CS 440 - Principles of Artificial Intelligence (4 Cr.)

CS 497 - Senior Project (1-4 Cr.)

CPEA 201 - Art of Observation (4 Cr.)

CPEA 202 - Alternative and Activist Media (4 Cr.)

CPEA 203 - I Hate Romeo and Juliet or Shakespeare and the Nature of Prejudice (4 Cr.)

CPEA 204 - Social Media from the Inside Out (4 Cr.)

CPEA 205 - You Are What You Make: Thou Art (4 Cr.)

CPEA 206 - Embodying Lemonade (4 Cr.)

CPEA 207 - Seeing Color and Race (4 Cr.)

CPEA 208 - Media and the Audience: Constructing and Deconstructing Meaning (4 Cr.)

CPEA 209 - Document This! Telling stories about the real world using photographs and words. (4 Cr.)

CPEA 210 - Dancing Places: Creating Site-Specific Performance (4 Cr.)

CPEA 250 - Enacting Change: Theatre and Video Against School Violence (4 Cr.)

CPEA 251 - Social Engaged Art Practice: Environmental Justice (4 Cr.)

CPEA 252 - Who Owns Music? (4 Cr.)

CPEB 201 - Baltimore ‘68: What has Changed 50 Years Later? (4 Cr.)

CPEB 202 - Migration and Refugees in a Global World (4 Cr.)

CPEB 203 - Green Gentrification and the Right to the City (4 Cr.)

CPEB 204 - Labor and Justice in the Fields: The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (4 Cr.)

CPEB 205 - Disease and Discrimination, Sociology Focus (4 Cr.)

CPEB 206 - Getting Healthcare (4 Cr.)

CPEB 207 - Chocolate Diaries (4 Cr.)

CPEB 250 - Problem-Based Learning in Organizational Behavior (4 Cr.)

CPEB 251 - Creating lasting change with improvement science (4 Cr.)

CPEB 252 - Individuals, Groups, and Institutions: Understanding Identity and Working Towards Change (4 Cr.)

CPEB 253 - Solve It! Student Consulting (4 Cr.)

CPEC 201 - Genocide and Modernity (4 Cr.)

CPEC 202 - In Search of una Voz/a Voice: Visionary Writing in Two Languages (4 Cr.)

CPEC 203 - From Crusades to Witch Hunts: Histories of Religious Violence (4 Cr.)

CPEC 204 - Sovereignty and Survivance in Native America (4 Cr.)

CPEC 205 - Evolving Networks: Beyond Facebook (4 Cr.)

CPEC 206 - Democracy’s Spell (4 Cr.)

CPEC 207 - Society in the Age of Intelligent Machines (4 Cr.)

CPEC 208 - Media Literacy: Fake News, Real News, Democracy and You (4 Cr.)

CPEC 209 - Ghosts in Our Midst: Confronting the Past at Historic Sites, Monuments, and Memorials (4 Cr.)

CPEC 250 - Where, When, and How do We Belong?: Citizenship through Space and Time. (4 Cr.)

CPEC 251 - The Responsibility of the Artist (4 Cr.)

CPEC 252 - Society in the Age of Intelligent Machines (4 Cr.)

CPEC 253 - Future Cities: Speculations, Countermappings, and Narratives of Possibility (4 Cr.)

CPEC 254 - Do Gooders and the Failure of Humanitarian Aid: Ideology, Ethics and Future (4 Cr.)

CPEC 255 - Drinking the Kool-Aid: The People’s Temple and the Psychology of New Religious Movements (4 Cr.)

CPEC 256 - Art as an expression of revolutionary resistance (4 Cr.)

CPEC 257 - Growing Food for Sustainability and Justice (4 Cr.)

CPEC 258 - This is Human, That is Nature: How Radically Rethinking the Human-Nature Relationship Can Help US Solve the Climate Crisis (4 Cr.)

CPED 201 - Thirsty for Change? A hands-on, immersive class on local water quality (4 Cr.)

CPED 202 - Disease and Discrimination, Biology focus (4 Cr.)

CPED 203 - Where, When, and How do We Belong? Biohistorical Citizenship. (4 Cr.)

CPED 204 - What the frack? An exploration of environmental chemistry (4 Cr.)

CPED 205 - A Hot Mess: How Can We Address Global Warming? (4 Cr.)

CPED 206 - Are alien planets like Earth? Using data to answer astronomical questions (4 Cr.)