Catalog Changes Since Initial Publication on April 12, 2019
POLICY CHANGES:
Course repeat policy changed in June 2019. See policy in General Academic Information section of the catalogue.
Academic Responsiblities - removed part about missing 20% of course (10/22/19)
Academic Progress Towards a Degree - inserted Successful Credit Load Standards (10/22/19)
Course Add/Drop policy - updated 11/19/19
Transfer credit policy - beginning in spring 2020 Goucher will accepted transfer credit from regionally accredited for-profit institutions in addition to non-profit institutions. This policy is not retroactive for current students who may have already taken courses at a for-profit institution. (11/8/19)
Dean’s List - for spring 2020 only students must have taken at least 6 graded credits to be eligible for Dean’s List. (4/8/20)
NEW PROGRAMS:
Integrative Data Analytics Major (added 10/18/19)
Literary Studies Major (added 09/13/19)
Professional and Creative Writing Major - (added 06/14/2019)
UPDATED PROGRAMS:
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Major - added new BIO 477 course as option for seminar requirement (4/18/19)
Biological Sciences Major - added new BIO 477 course as option for seminar requirement (4/18/19). added BIO 445 to list of 400 level seminar options (11/11/19).
Economics Major - added MA 268 and DMC 106 as options for EC 206 requirement.
Economics Minor - added MA 268 and DMC 106 as options for EC 206 requirement.
English Major - replaced by Literary Studies Major and Professional and Creative Writing Major (9/13/19).
Environmental Studies Major - removed option for “an approved methodology course” with ES 319 (9/19/19)
French Major retitled as French Transnational Studies Major (7/1/19)
French Minor retitled as French Transnational Studies Minor (7/1/19)
GCR Biological and Physical Sciences Area - added BIO 109 (11/15/19)
GCR Data Analytics Across the Curriculum (GCR DA-AC) - added CS 440 (4/15/19). added BUS 312 (9/18/19). Changed DMC 345 from DA-F to DA-AC (10/21/19). Added DMC 216 (11/15/19). Added BIO 327 (12/19/19). Added BIO 378 (01/19/2020). Added ES 319 (02/21/2020).
GCR Data Analytics Foundational Level (GCR DA-F) - added CS 119 (4/22/19). Changed DMC 345 from DA-F to DA-AC (10/21/19).
GCR Capstone/Signature Project (GCR Capstone) - added COM 460 , COM 493 , COM 497 , and COM 499 (4/26/20).
GCR Environmental Sustainability (GCR ENV)- added CPEC 257 (4/24/19). Corrected listing to include ES 207 for this requirement (8/26/19). Added CPEC 258 (2/13/20).
GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area - added WRT 282 and WRT 283 (4/15/19). Removed “all HIS 100- and 200-level courses” and replaced that with the following specific HIS courses - HIS 103, 108, 109, 189, 200, 202, 204, 205, 210, 211, 213, 216, 217, 224, 225, 235, 238, 243, 260, 270, 273, 287, 289, and 295. (done 4/15/19). Added PSC 231 (9/12/19). Added HIS 104 (9/19/19).
GCR Race, Power, and Perspective (GCR RPP) - added CPEC 254 , PHL 253 , and VMC 253 (9/12/19). Added LIT 223 /WGS 223 (10/30/19). Added PSY 224 (2/6/20).
GCR Social and Behavioral Science area - added ED 247 and PSC 247 (4/17/19)
GCR Writing Enhanced Curriculum (WEC) - added HIS 213 (5/13/19), added LIT 278 (01/07/2020), made BIO 224 valid for all terms (01/23/2020)
International Relations Major - removed listing of foreign language courses (12/10/19)
LER Textual Analysis (LER TXT) - added AMS 230 (8/30/19). added PSC 231 (9/12/19).
Studio Art Minor - requirements changed (5/14/19). Total credits changed from 19 to 24 and removal of ART 254 and CPEA 201 as course options (10/17/19).
Visual and Material Culture Major - credits changed from 40 to 36 and requirements updated (10/18/19)
NEW COURSES:
ART 251 - Experimental Animation and Motion Design (4 Cr.) - (replaces ART/COM 254) added 8/30/19
ART 252 - Digital Film and Sound (Digital Film and Sound) - (replaces ART/COM 254) added 8/30/19
BIO 101H - Explorations in Biology I: Honor Colloq (1 Cr.) - added 9/5/19
BIO 477 - Seminar in Human Physiology (2 Cr.) - added 4/17/19
COM 103 - Introduction to Digital Arts & Culture (4 Cr.) - added 9/19/19
COM 251 - Experimental Animation and Motion Design (4 Cr.) - (replaces ART/COM 254) added 8/30/19
COM 252 - Digital Film and Sound (4 Cr.) - (replaced ART/COM 254) added 8/30/19
CPEA 210 - Dancing Places: Creating Site-Specific Performance (4 Cr.) - added 10/24/19
CPEC 258 - This is Human, That is Nature: How Radically Rethinking the Human-Nature Relationship Can Help US Solve the Climate Crisis (4 Cr.) - added 10/3/19
CPED 210 - The 23 in me; the science and ethics of genetic testing (4 Cr.) - added 10/17/19
DMC 290 - IDA Internship (0-4 Cr.) - added 10/18/19
DMC 497 - IDA Capstone (4 Cr.) - added 10/18/19
ES 207 - Environmental Ethics (4 Cr.) - added 4/17/19 (new cross-list of PHL 205 )
FR 497 - French Transnational Studies Capstone (2 Cr.) - added 12/5/19
IDS 497 - Interdisciplinary Studies Capstone (2 Cr.) - added 12/5/19
LAM 326 - Latin American/Carribean Women, Resistance, Protest (4 Cr.) - new version of LAM 226 - added 9/26/19
LIT 223 - African American Women Writers (4 Cr.) - new version with GCR RPP credit of LIT 222 (added 10/20/19).
HIS 104 - Samurai: History & Myth (4 Cr.) - added 9/19/19
PCE 326 - Latin American/Carribean Women, Resistance, Protest (4 Cr.) - new version of PCE 226 - added 9/26/19
PHL 253 - Philosophy and/of Art (4 Cr.) - added 9/12/19
PHL 414 - Sigmund Freud: Then and Now (4 Cr.) - replaced PHL 314, added 9/5/19
PSC 231 - Political Philosophy (4 Cr.) - added as new cross-list of PHL 231 (9/12/19).
PSY 224 - International Psychology (4 Cr.) - added 10/03/19
PSY 424 - Seminar in International Psychology (4 Cr.) - added to replace PSY 428 beginning fall 2020 (10/07/19).
VMC 253 - Philosophy and/of Art (4 Cr.) - added 9/12/19
WGS 223 - African American Women Writers (4 Cr.) - new version with GCR RPP credit of WGS 222 (added 10/30/19)
WGS 326 - Latin American/Carribean Women, Resistance, Protest (4 Cr.) - new version of WGS 226 - added 9/26/19
WRT 488H - Advanced Self-Directed Projects in Professional and Creative Writing (4 Cr.) - added 12/5/19
UPDATED COURSES:
AMS 205 - Issues in American Studies (2 Cr.) - course description updated and prerequisite removed (10/22/19)
ART 254 - course inactivated and replaced by ART/COM 251 and ART/COM 252 (8/30/19)
ART 375 - Special Topics: Photographic Practices (4 Cr.) - change in course description and prerequisite (5/2/19)
BIO 291 - Directed Research in the Biological Sciences (1-2 Cr.) - credits changed from 1 to 1-2 (10/24/19)
BIO 490Y - Independent Research in Biological Sciences (2 Cr.) - credits change to 2 credits and course now repeatable once for additional credit. (11/7/19)
BUS 221 - Special Topics in International Business (2 or 4 Cr.) - course prerequisites removed (11/4/19)
BUS 312 - Business Analytics (2 Cr.) - prerequisite updated from junior standing to second semester junior standing (5/1/19)
COM 254 - course inactivated and replaced by ART/COM 251 and ART/COM 252 (8/30/19)
COM 409 - Special Topics: Photographic Practices (4 Cr.) - change in course description and prerequisite (5/2/19)
COM 412 - Media Workshop (2 or 4 Cr.) - removed CWP prerequisite (11/11/19)
COM 415 - Screenwriting (4 Cr.) - removed CWP prerequisite (11/11/19)
COM 430 - Queer Film and Media (4 Cr.) - prerequisites updated (9/25/19), prerequisite changed again (11/11/19)
DAN 115 - Modern Technique I (2 Cr.) - prerequisite removed (11/20/19)
DAN 121 - Ballet Technique I (2 Cr.) - prerequisite removed (11/20/19)
DAN 133 - West African Diasporic Dance I: West African (2 Cr.) (11/20/19)
DMC 101 - Data Analytics (4 Cr.) - added restriction if DA-F already completed (10/3/19)
DMC 102 - Data Analytics for Sustainability (4 Cr.) - added restriction if DA-F already completed (10/3/19)
DMC 216 - Non-Parametric Statistics (4 Cr.) - added GCR DA-AC credit (11/15/19)
DMC 424 replaced by DMC 438 (10/17/19)
EC 320 - Econometrics (4 Cr.) - updated prerequisites by removing EC 206 and adding MA 268 (4/30/19).
EC 320 - Econometrics (4 Cr.) - updated prerequisites by changing to one from EC 206, MA 268 or DMC 106 (10/3/19).
ED 247 - An Introduction to Education Policy (4 Cr.) - credits changed from 2 to 4 (4/17/19).
HIS 387 - Seminar in Modern East Asia (4 Cr.) - made repeatable for additional credit (12/30/19).
HIS 497 - Capstone in History (2-4 Cr.) - credits changed from 2.0 to 2.0-4.0 (approved 4/24/19)
LAM 226 - inactivated and replaced by LAM 326 (9/26/19)
LAM 326 - Latin American/Carribean Women, Resistance, Protest (4 Cr.) - instructor’s permission removed as required (11/13/19)
MA 216 - Introduction to Applied Mathematics (4 Cr.) - added MA 172 as a prerequisite option (4/30/19)
PCE 226 - inactivated and replaced by PCE 326 (9/26/19)
PCE 326 - Latin American/Carribean Women, Resistance, Protest (4 Cr.) - instructor’s permission removed as required (11/13/19)
PHL 314 - inactivated and replaced by PHL 414 (approved 9/5/19)
PHL 231 - Political Philosophy (4 Cr.) - added new cross-list of PSC 231 (added 9/12/19)
PHL 430 - Nietzsche and His Readers (4 Cr.) - change in title and description (approved 9/5/19)
PSC 247 - An Introduction to Education Policy (4 Cr.) - credits changed from 2 to 4 (4/17/19)
PSC 263 - The Pacific Rim (4 Cr.) - course description updated (10/18/19)
PSY 424 - Seminar in International Psychology (4 Cr.) - course prerequisites updated (11/4/19)
VMC 287 - prerequisite changed from permission of instructor to sophomore standing (11/11/19)
WGS 226 - inactivated and replaced by WGS 326 (9/26/19)
WGS 311 - Queer Film and Media (4 Cr.) - prerequisites updated (9/25/19), prerequisites changed again (11/11/19)
WGS 326 - Latin American/Carribean Women, Resistance, Protest (4 Cr.) - instructor’s permission removed as required (11/13/19)
WRT 202 - Short Story Writing (4 Cr.) - course prerequisite added (11/4/19)
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