Goucher College 2021-2022 Undergraduate Catalogue PLEASE NOTE: This is an archived catalog. Programs are subject to change each academic year.
Course Descriptions
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LIT 223 - African American Women Writers (4 Cr.) (WGS 223) (GCR RPP)
Topics course.
Topic Spring 2020: African American Women Writers: Toni Morrison and Her Contemporaries
This course focuses on the novels of Toni Morrison and reads them in the context of her contemporaries in order to explore the realities that African American women writers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries present, along with the language they create. We’ll read four of Morrison’s novels-The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Beloved, and Home-and contextualize her work by also reading additional writers such as Alice Walker, ntozake shange, Gloria Naylor, June Jordon, Gwendolyn Brooks, Audre Lorde, Octavia Butler. We’ll explore the ways that these writers confront the violence of power and oppression as complex forces in society and human lives while at the same time giving us beauty-and love.
Prerequisite: WRT 181 or instructor’s permission.
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LIT 232 - Shakespeare (4 Cr.) (WEC) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
Study of plays in all of the Shakespearean genres and an introduction to the criticism of the plays. Viewing one or two plays to supplement an approach to the plays as drama. Prerequisite: WRT 181 or instructor’s permission. Spring semester.
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LIT 236 - Latina Literature across Borders (2 Cr.) (cross-listed as LAM 236) (GCR RPP)
This course will examine Latina literature, especially short stories and poems, written in English in the United States, Mexico, and the Carribean. We will focus on the themes of Latina identity, the interplay of Spanish and English in texts, and the function of Latinx legends and history. Some of the authors we’ll study are Pat Mora, Sandra Cisneros, and Lorna Dee Cervantes. No knowledge of Spanish is required. Prerequisite: WRT 181 or instructor’s permission. Fall semester. Murphy.
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LIT 249 - African American Lit in Cultural Contexts (4 Cr.) (GCR RPP)(GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
In this interdisciplinary course on African-American literature, culture, and history students will examine the impact and legacies of slavery on the experiences of all Americans, but particularly African Americans as they negotiate and define “freedom” for themselves throughout history. The theme of enslavement will be explored from the American Colonial period to the present in literary genres that include slave narratives, poetry, drama, fiction, nonfiction, and science fiction. Authors may include Butler, Chesnutt, Douglass, Hansberry, Ellison, and Wright. Prerequisite: WRT 181 or instructor’s permission. Spring semester. Robinson.
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LIT 250 - The Roots of American Literature (4 Cr.) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
This course explores issues of nationality, spirituality, race, gender, and sexuality from the earliest European encounters in the Americas through the Civil War in literary genres that include letters, journals, essays, poetry, the sermon, autobiography, short story, novel, and the slave narrative. Prerequisite: WRT 181 or instructor’s permission. Robinson.
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LIT 254 - The American Novel (4 Cr.) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
This course traces developments in American literature from the 1880s through the 1980s, a period dominated by the rags-to-riches plot. Students will explore how writers such as Alger (Ragged Dick), Twain (Puddn’head Wilson), Dreiser (Sister Carrie), James (Daisy Miller), Wharton (The House of Mirth), Chopin (The Awakening), Harper (Iola Leroy), Norris (McTeague), and Burroughs (Tarzan) obsessively reworked this plot, even as they grappled with the moral costs of social ambition and the obstacles that women, minorities, and the lower classes faced in their struggle upward. Prerequisite: WRT 181 or instructor’s permission. Marchand.
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LIT 266 - Special Topics in the 19th Century British Novel (4 Cr.)
(WEC) Love to read? Intrigued by classic literary works that continue to speak to us today? Come explore five magnificent 19th-century British novels from your perspective as 21st-century readers. Authors will include Austen, the Brontës, Dickens, Eliot, Forster, and Woolf. Topics will rotate among (1) Gender and the Self; (2) Empire and Identity; (3) Social Class and Social Change; (4) Thrillers: Science Fiction, Detective Fiction, and Horror. This is a discussion-centered course with regular low-stakes writing assignments plus analytical essays. Contact instructor for required editions of assigned readings. Repeatable with different topic.
Prerequisite: WRT 181 or WRT 181H or FYS 100W or CWP. Fall semester, spring semester. Wells.
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LIT 272Y - Intensive Course Abroad () (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area if taken for at least 3 credits)
Course includes a pre-departure or post-departure, seven-week course or both in the fall and/or spring and a three-week intensive course abroad in the winter or summer. Prerequisite: WRT 181 or instructor’s permission.
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LIT 275 - Literature of the Harlem Renaissance (4 Cr.) (GCR RPP)(GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
In this course we read the poetry and fiction conventionally assigned to the Harlem Renaissance of the early twentieth century. Authors may include Cullen, Fauset, Hughes, Hurston, Larsen, McKay, and others within an interdisciplinary context. Discussion topics include the delineation of the movement’s boundaries, both temporally and by subject, the construction and reconstruction of racial identities, and the tension between a progressive literary movement and the “masses” it would represent. Fulfills American studies elective. Prerequisite: WRT 181 or instructor’s permission. Fall semester. Robinson.
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LIT 278 - 20th and 21st Century American Poetry (4 Cr.) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
This course will be focused around the theme of “making it new” in poetry: experimenting with new forms, taking on risky subjects, or revisioning traditional forms. We will focus both on reading poems closely and on putting them in their cultural and historic context. The list of poets studied will change slightly every semester, but may include T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Anne Sexton, Yusef Komunyakaa, Carolyn Forche, Claudia Rankine, Julia Alvarez, and Adrienne Rich. Prerequisite: WRT 181 or instructor’s permission.
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LIT 285 - Contemporary Literature from India, Africa, and Australia (4 Cr.) (GCR RPP)(GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
How do the time you spend abroad and the time you spend on campus fit together? What is the legacy of colonialism in the modern world? This contemporary literature course may allow you to find some answers by examining works from three very different locales (India, Africa and Australia).We will pursue our literary study of novels, plays and poetry while also considering the socio-cultural contexts that produce these works and the historical events and legacies that have made them what they are. Prerequisite: WRT 181 or instructor’s permission. Rauwerda.
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LIT 290 - Internship in English (0-4 Cr.)
Internships related to literary study involve the application of knowledge and skills in composition, language, and literature, typically in editing, publishing, journalism, radio and television, advertising, or public relations. Businesses, professional firms, and government agencies sometimes accept students with strong writing and reading skills as interns. Credit for off-campus experience is available in some cases to students working for the college newspaper. Prerequisite: Varies according to the nature of the internship, but usually consists of a course in journalism or a 200-level course in literary study or writing. Faculty sponsorship required. May be taken either for a letter grade or pass/no pass.
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LIT 299 - Independent Work in English (1-4 Cr.)
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LIT 325 - Overseas: When World Travelers Write (4 Cr.) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
This course starts by examining iconic non-fiction travel narratives like Graham Greene’s Journey without Maps and its contemporary successor, Tim Butcher’s Chasing the Devil: A Journey Through Sub-Saharan Africa in the Footsteps of Graham Greene. We then consider how creative non-fiction narratives of being an immigrant differ from travel narratives, using Michael Ondaatje’s Running in the Family as an example. Finally we shift to what will be the course’s primary focus: fiction written by third culture authors (where “third culture” means authors who spent their formative childhood years outside their ostensible “home” nation). As examples of third culture authors we treat, among others, Ian McEwan and Barbara Kingsolver. Prerequisite: LIT 200 . Pre- or corequisite: LIT 215 . Rauwerda.
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LIT 330 - Special Topics in English Literature to 1700 (4 Cr.) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
TBA Prerequisite: LIT 200 . Pre- or corequisite: LIT 215 .
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LIT 335 - Jane Austen and Her Readers (4 Cr.) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
This course examines the English novelist Jane Austen through the lens of reception studies, an area of literary criticism that centers on the interactions of books and readers. We will read all six of Austen’s completed novels in the chronological order of their publication (contact instructor for required editions) plus representative examples of her manuscript work, both letters and fiction. We will also consider the influence of screen adaptations. You will be introduced to Goucher Library’s exceptional collection of rare Austen editions, period contextual materials, and popular responses, on which you may draw for course projects.
Prerequisite: LIT 200 . Pre- or corequisite: LIT 215 . Recommended prior course: LIT 265 . Wells.
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LIT 341 - Archaeology of Text (4 Cr.) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
This interdisciplinary English course uses hands-on “laboratory” methods and a laboratory class period to introduce students to archival research using Goucher’s Rare Book Collection and online digital archives. Working backward in time, from the present to the Early Modern and Medieval periods, the course will survey ways people have packaged and used written/visual information, from digital media to early printed books to manuscripts. After training in codicology (rare book and document analysis), iconography (study of visual design), and paleography (study of old handwriting) students will conduct independent research using materials from Special Collections and Archives. Field trips to the Garrett Library (Johns Hopkins), the Library of Congress Rare Book Collection, and the Folger Shakespeare Library. Students who have completed the course will be equipped to do additional archival research in 200- and 300-level courses, and for continued work in Special Collections and Archives and internships at Johns Hopkins, LC and the Folger. Prerequisite: LIT 200 or ARH 103 ; or permission of instructor.
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LIT 371 - Seminar in American Literature (4 Cr.) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
The Whale. Several years ago the New York Times Book Review surveyed readers about the book they most regret not having read. The number one answer? Moby-Dick. Avoid their terrible fate and read Moby-Dick, the true story it was inspired by, and the works it inspired in turn, including satires (Mad Magazine’s “Call me Fish-Smell”), films, and a techno-opera. Prerequisite: LIT 200 . Pre- or corequisite: LIT 215 . Fall semester. Marchand.
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LIT 372 - Seminar in African American Literature (4 Cr.) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
This seminar’s focus is the African American Novel and includes an examination of thematic, structural, and stylistic characteristics of novels written by African Americans from the 19th century through contemporary works. Prerequisite: LIT 200 . Pre- or corequisite: LIT 215 . Or by permission of instructor. Spring semester. Robinson.
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LIT 392 - Contemporary Literary Theory (4 Cr.) (GCR RPP)(GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
An introduction to Postcolonial Theory, which is one branch of literary theory, this course deals with international contexts and the power differences between the western world and its former colonies. We study works by Said, Fanon, Bhabha and Spivak. Though this counts as a literature seminar for students in the English major, we do not emphasize the study of literature, but rather ideas about what “postcoloniality” means and what its implications are. The texts we read are, admittedly, challenging, but are provocative and exciting too. This course will hopefully expand your own ideas about race, gender, nationalism and the effects of political and cultural influence. Prerequisite: LIT 200 . Pre- or corequisite: LIT 215 . Fall semester. Rauwerda.
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LIT 399 - Independent Study (1-4 Cr.)
Independent study of literature at the 300-level. Prerequisite: LIT 200 . Pre- or corequisite: LIT 215 . Variable semesters.
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LIT 440 - Special Topics in Literature: Big Books (2 Cr.)
This course offers upper-division students the opportunity to read and discuss, in depth and at an advanced level, a major work in the English-language literary tradition. Repeatable for additional credit with different topic. Prerequisite: Junior standing in a major in the Humanities Center; other juniors and seniors by permission. Various semesters. First offered fall 2018. Program Faculty.
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LIT 495 - Senior Thesis (4 Cr.)
Fall and spring semesters.
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LIT 497 - Senior Capstone in Literary Studies (2 Cr.)
This seminar offers an opportunity to reflect on and integrate prior learning in literature, as well to consider both broadly and personally the significance of this discipline. You will convey to a range of audiences and in a variety of modes – including electronic portfolios and oral presentations – the knowledge, skill set, and habits of mind that you are taking with you from your literature coursework into your life beyond Goucher. In other words, you’ll be fully prepared to address the enduring question, “Why study literature?” Offered Pass/No-Pass only. Prerequisite: Senior standing with Literary Studies major (beginning 2019) or English major (prior to 2019). Spring semester. Wells, Marchand.
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MUS 101 - Fundamentals of Music Theory (4 Cr.) (GCR Arts area)
Designed for music students who need to study the basics of Western music to pursue other musical study, or those who desire basic musical knowledge for their own pursuits. Topics include: scales, intervals, keys, key signatures, rhythm, meter, music notation, triads, and basic tonal function. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Program faculty.
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MUS 102 - Introduction to Music Composition (4 Cr.) (GCR Arts area)
Work in creative music composition using models selected by students, with guidance. Students will gain practical experience writing music and finding the materials needed to imitate existing music. Concurrently, students will study beginning sight-singing. Prerequisite: ability to read music. Fall semester. Offered 2021 and odd numbered years. Kennison,
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MUS 121 - Sight Singing (4 Cr.) (GCR Arts area)
Sight-singing through immersion in vocal repertoire, using a variety of approaches to learning to sight-sing pitches and rhythm. Repertoire will include chant, canons, and Renaissance polyphony. Will also cover aural dictation exercises. Prerequisite: MUS 101 or permission of the instructor. Spring semester. Offered 2021 and odd-numbered years. Lane, McDavitt.
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MUS 131 - Basic Piano (2 Cr.)
Group instruction in the fundamental principles of keyboard technique. Designed for students without prior piano experience, the course progresses from basic hand positions through scales, chords, and simple repertoire in preparation for private instruction in piano (MUS 182 ). Prerequisite: MUS 101 or audition for the instructor. Fall semester, repeated spring semester as needed. Lane, Weiss.
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MUS 140 - Goucher Choral Society (1 Cr.)
Performance of major choral literature that includes frequent collaboration with the Goucher College Orchestra, as well as other local ensembles and artists. This ensemble is also open to Goucher faculty, staff, alumnae/i, as well as any interested community members. Current students with sufficient vocal training may also audition for participation in Chamber Singers (MUS 143 ). May be repeated for credit. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. McDavitt.
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MUS 141 - Orchestra (1 Cr.)
Performance of the orchestral repertoire of the Western musical tradition, including works taken from the Baroque through contemporary periods. This ensemble runs for the last 7 weeks of fall and spring semesters. May be repeated for credit. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. McDavitt.
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MUS 143 - Goucher Chamber Singers (1 Cr.)
Performance of works selected from the repertoire for more advanced vocal ensembles; includes unaccompanied singing, as well as works accompanied by piano and other instrumental ensembles. Requires co-enrollment in MUS 140 , Goucher Choral Society. Exceptions may be granted by instructor only. May be repeated for credit. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. McDavitt.
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MUS 146 - Goucher African Drum and Dance Ensemble (1 Cr.) (DAN 146 )
Practical performance of selected percussion instruments from West Africa (Ghana, in particular), and the interpretation of the rhythms through body movement and gestures; explores the historical and cultural contexts of specific West African music and dance forms relative to the African diaspora. Students will be required to know the basic techniques of West African traditional music and dance expressions; includes master classes and formal concert. Repeatable. Spring semester. Powell and Von Hendricks.
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MUS 147 - Opera and Musical Theatre Workshop (1 Cr.)
Performance of works for the stage from the operatic and musical theatre repertoires. Attention both to solo and ensemble singing. Includes both class and coaching. Course concludes with a staged public performance. May be repeated for credit. Blades, Stewart.
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MUS 149 - Goucher Jazz Ensemble (1 Cr.)
Group performance designed to provide experience in reading charts and improvising in multiple jazz styles. By audition or permission of the instructor. May be repeated for credit. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Scally.
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MUS 203 - Special Topics in Music (2 or 4 Cr.)
In-depth examination of a specific musical topic. The choice of topic will remain flexible. Examples include American Music from Colonial Times to the Present; First Nights-Notable Premieres of Great Works; History of Rock and Roll; American Musical Theatre; Music Criticism and Esthetics; Nationalism in Music; Diction for Singers; and composer-/genre-specific topics such as the Beethoven symphonies, the string quartet, piano literature, and the Second Viennese school. Prerequisite: any four-credit, 100-level music course. Offered as needed. Program Faculty.
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MUS 210 - Computer Music (4 Cr.) (GCR Arts area)
An introduction to the aesthetics, history, literature, and theory of electronic and computer music. Individual composition or research projects are undertaken in the Goucher Computer Music Studio. Opportunity for participation in a public concert of computer music. Offered as needed. Program faculty.
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MUS 248 - Western Music History (4 Cr.) (GCR Arts area)
This course examines Western Art music, from medieval to contemporary works, studying music in cultural and historic context and in detail. It serves students pursuing study of music as well as those who desire a listener’s knowledge of this tradition. Spring semester. Offered 2022 and even-numbered years. McDavitt.
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MUS 272G - Intensive Course Abroad (4 Cr.) (GCR-SA)
Course includes a three-week intensive course abroad in the winter or summer. Variable.
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MUS 272Y - Intensive Course Abroad (8 Cr.) IT 272Y (LER-SA)(GCR-SA)
Courses include a pre-departure or post-departure discussion (or both) in the fall or spring term and a three-week intensive course abroad in the winter intersession or summer. Variable.
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MUS 290 - Internship in Music (0-4 Cr.)
As an aid to career development, students are placed in various musical organizations (e.g., Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Choral Arts Society, Carnegie Hall, and Lincoln Center) to gain experience in the various areas of arts administration in music. Internships are also available accompanying singers and/or instrumentalists under faculty supervision. Experiences may include performing in or arranging music for small ensembles or jazz groups and apprenticeships in various aspects of the composing professions, computer music, and music recording technology. Internships may be chosen in music libraries in Baltimore and adjacent cities for experience in bibliography and technical services relating to music and music criticism. Graded pass/no pass. Prerequisite: permission of the director. May be taken during academic semesters as well as summer or winter terms.
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MUS 291 - Student Recital (2 Cr.)
In preparation for the senior recital MUS 491 ), students in their junior year may perform a formal solo recital, the repertoire of which is to be selected in collaboration with the chair and the student’s private lesson instructor(s). Online registration is not available for this course. Students must register for recitals using a paper Course Change Form and reserve a performance date with the Music Program Office no later than May 1 for a fall semester recital and December 1 for a spring semester recital. Prerequisites: approval of the director and private lesson instructor(s). Fall semester, repeated spring semester.
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MUS 299 - Independent Work in Music (2-4 Cr.)
Special topics of study based on previous coursework in the program and selected in conference with the instructor. Fall semester, repeated spring semester.
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MUS 309 - History of Jazz (2 Cr.) (formerly HIS 109) (GCR RPP)
Beyond examining biographical information about jazz musicians, this course traces the history of jazz from the points of view of geography, chronology, socio-economic factors, and historical theories. Students in this course discover that the development of jazz would have been unimaginable without the practice of slavery and institutionalized oppression in both North America and Latin America, and that these forces manifested as a unique cultural phenomenon which reflected the society of its time. Prerequisite: MUS 248 or permission of the instructor. Fall semester. Offered 2022 and even-numbered years. Program faculty.
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MUS 311 - Global Music and Culture (2 Cr.)
An exploration of the world’s musical cultures and the field of ethnomusicology. This course will examine the function of music in diverse cultures, what to listen for in the music of selected cultures, and the biases listeners may bring to music outside of their own cultural experience. Prerequisite: Fall semester. Offered 2021 and odd-numbered years. Scally.
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MUS 323 - Improvisation (2 Cr.) (Formerly MUS 223)
Designed to facilitate the experience and understanding of improvisation as a procedure for music-making and its application to several idioms, including classical and jazz styles. Aspects including sound, harmony, melody, rhythm, structure, and expression are addressed, and attention is given to techniques used in both solo and ensemble situations. Prerequisite: intermediate level fluency on any instrument or voice. May be repeated for credit as needed, at the discretion of course instructor and director of the program. Offered 2022 and even-numbered years. Scally.
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MUS 329 - Composition Seminar (2 Cr.)
A seminar in composition meant to encourage a community of creative musicians, intended for students of varied background from beginners to those with several semesters in private study in composition. The course will enable students to view and be influenced by one another’s works, hear performances of their compositions, and receive instruction from a diverse, rotating group of established composers from within and without the Goucher community. Students will regularly compose pieces for assigned performing media. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: MUS 102 or permission of the instructor. Fall semester. Offered 2022 and even-numbered years. Kennison.
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MUS 491 - Senior Recital (2 Cr.) (Formerly MUS 391)
Upon approval of the program, a student may give a full-length juried public recital. If the program judges that a performer has insufficient background for a public recital, he/she will give a closed recital (juried but not open to the public). Online registration is not available for this course. Students must register for recitals using a paper Course Change Form and reserve a performance date with the Music Office no later than May 1 for a fall semester recital and December 1 for a spring semester recital. Prerequisites: MUS 291 , senior music major status, and approval of the program. Fall semester, repeated spring semester.
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MUS 497 - Capstone in Music (2 Cr.)
MUS 497.001 is Capstone in Music: Theory and Composition.
MUS 497.002 is Capstone in Music: History.
MUS 497.003 is Capstone in Music: Computer Music.
MUS 497.004 is Capstone in Music: Interdisciplinary.
MUS 497.005 is Capstone in Music: Jazz Studies.
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MUS 499 - Independent Work in Music (2 Cr.)
Special topics of study based on previous coursework in the program and selected in conference with the instructor. Fall semester, repeated spring semester.
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MUS 160 - Voice (1 Cr.)
A one-semester course of individual instruction given to students at any level. Those who do not read standard music notation should additionally enroll in MUS 101. The fee structure is as follows: $600 per semester or a discounted fee of $200 per semester for those enrolled in an ensemble (MUS 140 - 149) for that semester, using the same instrument or voice as the lessons. TThere is no fee for one course of private instruction for declared majors; minors receive only the required four semesters of private instruction free of charge. (Note: Music minors who declared prior to Fall 2020 might have a different number of required credits of private instruction.) Additional fees: auditing private instruction ($800; music majors and minors may not audit lessons), taking a second course of lessons (on a different instrument) within one semester ($600; possible fee reductions for declared music majors at the discretion of the program director). May be repeated for credit. Optional corequisites: MUS 140, MUS 141, MUS 143, MUS 144, MUS 147, MUS 149. Final performance exams (juries) are required of program majors and minors who have not performed a recital (MUS 291, 391) during the semester of the private instruction. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Private Music Instructors.
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MUS 161 - Mandolin (1 Cr.)
A one-semester course of individual instruction given to students at any level. Those who do not read standard music notation should additionally enroll in MUS 101. The fee structure is as follows: $600 per semester or a discounted fee of $200 per semester for those enrolled in an ensemble (MUS 140 - 149) for that semester, using the same instrument or voice as the lessons. There is no fee for one course of private instruction for declared majors; minors receive only the required four semesters of private instruction free of charge. (Note: Music minors who declared prior to Fall 2020 might have a different number of required credits of private instruction.) Additional fees: auditing private instruction ($800; music majors and minors may not audit lessons), taking a second course of lessons (on a different instrument) within one semester ($600; possible fee reductions for declared music majors at the discretion of the program director). May be repeated for credit. Optional corequisites: MUS 140, MUS 141, MUS 143, MUS 144, MUS 147, MUS 149. Final performance exams (juries) are required of program majors and minors who have not performed a recital (MUS 291, 391) during the semester of the private instruction. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Private Music Instructors.
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MUS 162 - Violin (1 Cr.)
A one-semester course of individual instruction given to students at any level. Those who do not read standard music notation should additionally enroll in MUS 101. The fee structure is as follows: $600 per semester or a discounted fee of $200 per semester for those enrolled in an ensemble (MUS 140 - 149) for that semester, using the same instrument or voice as the lessons. There is no fee for one course of private instruction for declared majors; minors receive only the required two semesters of private instruction free of charge. Additional fees: auditing private instruction ($800; music majors and minors may not audit lessons), taking a second course of lessons (on a different instrument) within one semester ($600; possible fee reductions for declared music majors at the discretion of the program director). May be repeated for credit. Optional corequisites: MUS 140, MUS 141, MUS 143, MUS 144, MUS 147, MUS 149. Final performance exams (juries) are required of program majors and minors who have not performed a recital (MUS 291, 391) during the semester of the private instruction. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Private Music Instructors.
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MUS 163 - Viola (1 Cr.)
A one-semester course of individual instruction given to students at any level. Those who do not read standard music notation should additionally enroll in MUS 101. The fee structure is as follows: $600 per semester or a discounted fee of $200 per semester for those enrolled in an ensemble (MUS 140 - 149) for that semester, using the same instrument or voice as the lessons. There is no fee for one course of private instruction for declared majors; minors receive only the required four semesters of private instruction free of charge. (Note: Music minors who declared prior to Fall 2020 might have a different number of required credits of private instruction.) Additional fees: auditing private instruction ($800; music majors and minors may not audit lessons), taking a second course of lessons (on a different instrument) within one semester ($600; possible fee reductions for declared music majors at the discretion of the program director). May be repeated for credit. Optional corequisites: MUS 140, MUS 141, MUS 143, MUS 144, MUS 147, MUS 149. Final performance exams (juries) are required of program majors and minors who have not performed a recital (MUS 291, 391) during the semester of the private instruction. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Private Music Instructors.
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MUS 164 - Cello (1 Cr.)
A one-semester course of individual instruction given to students at any level. Those who do not read standard music notation should additionally enroll in MUS 101. The fee structure is as follows: $600 per semester or a discounted fee of $200 per semester for those enrolled in an ensemble (MUS 140 - 149) for that semester, using the same instrument or voice as the lessons. There is no fee for one course of private instruction for declared majors; minors receive only the required four semesters of private instruction free of charge. (Note: Music minors who declared prior to Fall 2020 might have a different number of required credits of private instruction). Additional fees: auditing private instruction ($800; music majors and minors may not audit lessons), taking a second course of lessons (on a different instrument) within one semester ($600; possible fee reductions for declared music majors at the discretion of the program director). May be repeated for credit. Optional corequisites: MUS 140, MUS 141, MUS 143, MUS 144, MUS 147, MUS 149. Final performance exams (juries) are required of program majors and minors who have not performed a recital (MUS 291, 391) during the semester of the private instruction. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Private Music Instructors.
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MUS 165 - Double Bass (1 Cr.)
A one-semester course of individual instruction given to students at any level. Those who do not read standard music notation should additionally enroll in MUS 101. The fee structure is as follows: $600 per semester or a discounted fee of $200 per semester for those enrolled in an ensemble (MUS 140 - 149) for that semester, using the same instrument or voice as the lessons. There is no fee for one course of private instruction for declared majors; minors receive only the required four semesters of private instruction free of charge. (Note: Music minors who declared prior to Fall 2020 might have a different number of required credits of private instruction). Additional fees: auditing private instruction ($800; music majors and minors may not audit lessons), taking a second course of lessons (on a different instrument) within one semester ($600; possible fee reductions for declared music majors at the discretion of the program director). May be repeated for credit. Optional corequisites: MUS 140, MUS 141, MUS 143, MUS 144, MUS 147, MUS 149. Final performance exams (juries) are required of program majors and minors who have not performed a recital (MUS 291, 391) during the semester of the private instruction. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Private Music Instructors.
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MUS 166 - Harp (1 Cr.)
A one-semester course of individual instruction given to students at any level. Those who do not read standard music notation should additionally enroll in MUS 101. The fee structure is as follows: $600 per semester or a discounted fee of $200 per semester for those enrolled in an ensemble (MUS 140 - 149) for that semester, using the same instrument or voice as the lessons. There is no fee for one course of private instruction for declared majors; minors receive only the required four semesters of private instruction free of charge. (Note: Music minors who declared prior to Fall 2020 might have a different number of required credits of private instruction). Additional fees: auditing private instruction ($800; music majors and minors may not audit lessons), taking a second course of lessons (on a different instrument) within one semester ($600; possible fee reductions for declared music majors at the discretion of the program director). May be repeated for credit. Optional corequisites: MUS 140, MUS 141, MUS 143, MUS 144, MUS 147, MUS 149. Final performance exams (juries) are required of program majors and minors who have not performed a recital (MUS 291, 391) during the semester of the private instruction. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Private Music Instructors.
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MUS 167 - Flute (1 Cr.)
A one-semester course of individual instruction given to students at any level. Those who do not read standard music notation should additionally enroll in MUS 101. The fee structure is as follows: $600 per semester or a discounted fee of $200 per semester for those enrolled in an ensemble (MUS 140 - 149) for that semester, using the same instrument or voice as the lessons. There is no fee for one course of private instruction for declared majors; minors receive only the required four semesters of private instruction free of charge. (Note: Music minors who declared prior to Fall 2020 might have a different number of required credits of private instruction). Additional fees: auditing private instruction ($800; music majors and minors may not audit lessons), taking a second course of lessons (on a different instrument) within one semester ($600; possible fee reductions for declared music majors at the discretion of the program director). May be repeated for credit. Optional corequisites: MUS 140, MUS 141, MUS 143, MUS 144, MUS 147, MUS 149. Final performance exams (juries) are required of program majors and minors who have not performed a recital (MUS 291, 391) during the semester of the private instruction. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Private Music Instructors.
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MUS 168 - Clarinet (1 Cr.)
A one-semester course of individual instruction given to students at any level. Those who do not read standard music notation should additionally enroll in MUS 101. The fee structure is as follows: $600 per semester or a discounted fee of $200 per semester for those enrolled in an ensemble (MUS 140 - 149) for that semester, using the same instrument or voice as the lessons. There is no fee for one course of private instruction for declared majors; minors receive only the required four semesters of private instruction free of charge. (Note: Music minors who declared prior to Fall 2020 might have a different number of required credits of private instruction). Additional fees: auditing private instruction ($800; music majors and minors may not audit lessons), taking a second course of lessons (on a different instrument) within one semester ($600; possible fee reductions for declared music majors at the discretion of the program director). May be repeated for credit. Optional corequisites: MUS 140, MUS 141, MUS 143, MUS 144, MUS 147, MUS 149. Final performance exams (juries) are required of program majors and minors who have not performed a recital (MUS 291, 391) during the semester of the private instruction. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Private Music Instructors.
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MUS 169 - Saxophone (1 Cr.)
A one-semester course of individual instruction given to students at any level. Those who do not read standard music notation should additionally enroll in MUS 101. The fee structure is as follows: $600 per semester or a discounted fee of $200 per semester for those enrolled in an ensemble (MUS 140 - 149) for that semester, using the same instrument or voice as the lessons. There is no fee for one course of private instruction for declared majors; minors receive only the required four semesters of private instruction free of charge. (Note: Music minors who declared prior to Fall 2020 might have a different number of required credits of private instruction). Additional fees: auditing private instruction ($800; music majors and minors may not audit lessons), taking a second course of lessons (on a different instrument) within one semester ($600; possible fee reductions for declared music majors at the discretion of the program director). May be repeated for credit. Optional corequisites: MUS 140, MUS 141, MUS 143, MUS 144, MUS 147, MUS 149. Final performance exams (juries) are required of program majors and minors who have not performed a recital (MUS 291, 391) during the semester of the private instruction. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Private Music Instructors.
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MUS 170 - Oboe (1 Cr.)
A one-semester course of individual instruction given to students at any level. Those who do not read standard music notation should additionally enroll in MUS 101. The fee structure is as follows: $600 per semester or a discounted fee of $200 per semester for those enrolled in an ensemble (MUS 140 - 149) for that semester, using the same instrument or voice as the lessons. There is no fee for one course of private instruction for declared majors; minors receive only the required four semesters of private instruction free of charge. (Note: Music minors who declared prior to Fall 2020 might have a different number of required credits of private instruction). Additional fees: auditing private instruction ($800; music majors and minors may not audit lessons), taking a second course of lessons (on a different instrument) within one semester ($600; possible fee reductions for declared music majors at the discretion of the program director). May be repeated for credit. Optional corequisites: MUS 140, MUS 141, MUS 143, MUS 144, MUS 147, MUS 149. Final performance exams (juries) are required of program majors and minors who have not performed a recital (MUS 291, 391) during the semester of the private instruction. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Private Music Instructors.
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MUS 171 - Bassoon (1 Cr.)
A one-semester course of individual instruction given to students at any level. Those who do not read standard music notation should additionally enroll in MUS 101. The fee structure is as follows: $600 per semester or a discounted fee of $200 per semester for those enrolled in an ensemble (MUS 140 - 149) for that semester, using the same instrument or voice as the lessons. There is no fee for one course of private instruction for declared majors; minors receive only the required four semesters of private instruction free of charge. (Note: Music minors who declared prior to Fall 2020 might have a different number of required credits of private instruction). Additional fees: auditing private instruction ($800; music majors and minors may not audit lessons), taking a second course of lessons (on a different instrument) within one semester ($600; possible fee reductions for declared music majors at the discretion of the program director). May be repeated for credit. Optional corequisites: MUS 140, MUS 141, MUS 143, MUS 144, MUS 147, MUS 149. Final performance exams (juries) are required of program majors and minors who have not performed a recital (MUS 291, 391) during the semester of the private instruction. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Private Music Instructors.
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MUS 173 - Trumpet (1 Cr.)
A one-semester course of individual instruction given to students at any level. Those who do not read standard music notation should additionally enroll in MUS 101. The fee structure is as follows: $600 per semester or a discounted fee of $200 per semester for those enrolled in an ensemble (MUS 140 - 149) for that semester, using the same instrument or voice as the lessons. There is no fee for one course of private instruction for declared majors; minors receive only the required four semesters of private instruction free of charge. (Note: Music minors who declared prior to Fall 2020 might have a different number of required credits of private instruction). Additional fees: auditing private instruction ($800; music majors and minors may not audit lessons), taking a second course of lessons (on a different instrument) within one semester ($600; possible fee reductions for declared music majors at the discretion of the program director). May be repeated for credit. Optional corequisites: MUS 140, MUS 141, MUS 143, MUS 144, MUS 147, MUS 149. Final performance exams (juries) are required of program majors and minors who have not performed a recital (MUS 291, 391) during the semester of the private instruction. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Private Music Instructors.
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MUS 174 - French Horn (1 Cr.)
A one-semester course of individual instruction given to students at any level. Those who do not read standard music notation should additionally enroll in MUS 101. The fee structure is as follows: $600 per semester or a discounted fee of $200 per semester for those enrolled in an ensemble (MUS 140 - 149) for that semester, using the same instrument or voice as the lessons. There is no fee for one course of private instruction for declared majors; minors receive only the required four semesters of private instruction free of charge. (Note: Music minors who declared prior to Fall 2020 might have a different number of required credits of private instruction). Additional fees: auditing private instruction ($800; music majors and minors may not audit lessons), taking a second course of lessons (on a different instrument) within one semester ($600; possible fee reductions for declared music majors at the discretion of the program director). May be repeated for credit. Optional corequisites: MUS 140, MUS 141, MUS 143, MUS 144, MUS 147, MUS 149. Final performance exams (juries) are required of program majors and minors who have not performed a recital (MUS 291, 391) during the semester of the private instruction. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Private Music Instructors.
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MUS 175 - Trombone (1 Cr.)
A one-semester course of individual instruction given to students at any level. Those who do not read standard music notation should additionally enroll in MUS 101. The fee structure is as follows: $600 per semester or a discounted fee of $200 per semester for those enrolled in an ensemble (MUS 140 - 149) for that semester, using the same instrument or voice as the lessons. There is no fee for one course of private instruction for declared majors; minors receive only the required four semesters of private instruction free of charge. (Note: Music minors who declared prior to Fall 2020 might have a different number of required credits of private instruction). Additional fees: auditing private instruction ($800; music majors and minors may not audit lessons), taking a second course of lessons (on a different instrument) within one semester ($600; possible fee reductions for declared music majors at the discretion of the program director). May be repeated for credit. Optional corequisites: MUS 140, MUS 141, MUS 143, MUS 144, MUS 147, MUS 149. Final performance exams (juries) are required of program majors and minors who have not performed a recital (MUS 291, 391) during the semester of the private instruction. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Private Music Instructors.
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MUS 176 - Tuba (1 Cr.)
A one-semester course of individual instruction given to students at any level. Those who do not read standard music notation should additionally enroll in MUS 101. The fee structure is as follows: $600 per semester or a discounted fee of $200 per semester for those enrolled in an ensemble (MUS 140 - 149) for that semester, using the same instrument or voice as the lessons. There is no fee for one course of private instruction for declared majors; minors receive only the required four semesters of private instruction free of charge. (Note: Music minors who declared prior to Fall 2020 might have a different number of required credits of private instruction). Additional fees: auditing private instruction ($800; music majors and minors may not audit lessons), taking a second course of lessons (on a different instrument) within one semester ($600; possible fee reductions for declared music majors at the discretion of the program director). May be repeated for credit. Optional corequisites: MUS 140, MUS 141, MUS 143, MUS 144, MUS 147, MUS 149. Final performance exams (juries) are required of program majors and minors who have not performed a recital (MUS 291, 391) during the semester of the private instruction. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Private Music Instructors.
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MUS 178 - Percussion (1 Cr.)
A one-semester course of individual instruction given to students at any level. Those who do not read standard music notation should additionally enroll in MUS 101. The fee structure is as follows: $600 per semester or a discounted fee of $200 per semester for those enrolled in an ensemble (MUS 140 - 149) for that semester, using the same instrument or voice as the lessons. There is no fee for one course of private instruction for declared majors; minors receive only the required four semesters of private instruction free of charge. (Note: Music minors who declared prior to Fall 2020 might have a different number of required credits of private instruction). Additional fees: auditing private instruction ($800; music majors and minors may not audit lessons), taking a second course of lessons (on a different instrument) within one semester ($600; possible fee reductions for declared music majors at the discretion of the program director). May be repeated for credit. Optional corequisites: MUS 140, MUS 141, MUS 143, MUS 144, MUS 147, MUS 149. Final performance exams (juries) are required of program majors and minors who have not performed a recital (MUS 291, 391) during the semester of the private instruction. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Private Music Instructors.
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MUS 182 - Piano (1 Cr.)
A one-semester course of individual instruction given to students at any level. Those who do not read standard music notation should additionally enroll in MUS 101. The fee structure is as follows: $600 per semester or a discounted fee of $200 per semester for those enrolled in an ensemble (MUS 140 - 149) for that semester, using the same instrument or voice as the lessons. There is no fee for one course of private instruction for declared majors; minors receive only the required four semesters of private instruction free of charge. (Note: Music minors who declared prior to Fall 2020 might have a different number of required credits of private instruction). Additional fees: auditing private instruction ($800; music majors and minors may not audit lessons), taking a second course of lessons (on a different instrument) within one semester ($600; possible fee reductions for declared music majors at the discretion of the program director). May be repeated for credit. Optional corequisites: MUS 140, MUS 141, MUS 143, MUS 144, MUS 147, MUS 149. Final performance exams (juries) are required of program majors and minors who have not performed a recital (MUS 291, 391) during the semester of the private instruction. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Private Music Instructors.
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MUS 183 - Organ (1 Cr.)
A one-semester course of individual instruction given to students at any level. Those who do not read standard music notation should additionally enroll in MUS 101. The fee structure is as follows: $600 per semester or a discounted fee of $200 per semester for those enrolled in an ensemble (MUS 140 - 149) for that semester, using the same instrument or voice as the lessons. There is no fee for one course of private instruction for declared majors; minors receive only the required four semesters of private instruction free of charge. (Note: Music minors who declared prior to Fall 2020 might have a different number of required credits of private instruction). Additional fees: auditing private instruction ($800; music majors and minors may not audit lessons), taking a second course of lessons (on a different instrument) within one semester ($600; possible fee reductions for declared music majors at the discretion of the program director). May be repeated for credit. Optional corequisites: MUS 140, MUS 141, MUS 143, MUS 144, MUS 147, MUS 149. Final performance exams (juries) are required of program majors and minors who have not performed a recital (MUS 291, 391) during the semester of the private instruction. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Private Music Instructors.
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MUS 186 - Guitar (1 Cr.)
A one-semester course of individual instruction given to students at any level. Those who do not read standard music notation should additionally enroll in MUS 101. The fee structure is as follows: $600 per semester or a discounted fee of $200 per semester for those enrolled in an ensemble (MUS 140 - 149) for that semester, using the same instrument or voice as the lessons. There is no fee for one course of private instruction for declared majors; minors receive only the required four semesters of private instruction free of charge. (Note: Music minors who declared prior to Fall 2020 might have a different number of required credits of private instruction). Additional fees: auditing private instruction ($800; music majors and minors may not audit lessons), taking a second course of lessons (on a different instrument) within one semester ($600; possible fee reductions for declared music majors at the discretion of the program director). May be repeated for credit. Optional corequisites: MUS 140, MUS 141, MUS 143, MUS 144, MUS 147, MUS 149. Final performance exams (juries) are required of program majors and minors who have not performed a recital (MUS 291, 391) during the semester of the private instruction. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Private Music Instructors.
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MUS 187 - Accordion (1 Cr.)
A one-semester course of individual instruction given to students at any level. Those who do not read standard music notation should additionally enroll in MUS 101. The fee structure is as follows: $600 per semester or a discounted fee of $200 per semester for those enrolled in an ensemble (MUS 140 - 149) for that semester, using the same instrument or voice as the lessons. There is no fee for one course of private instruction for declared majors; minors receive only the required four semesters of private instruction free of charge. (Note: Music minors who declared prior to Fall 2020 might have a different number of required credits of private instruction). Additional fees: auditing private instruction ($800; music majors and minors may not audit lessons), taking a second course of lessons (on a different instrument) within one semester ($600; possible fee reductions for declared music majors at the discretion of the program director). May be repeated for credit. Optional corequisites: MUS 140, MUS 141, MUS 143, MUS 144, MUS 147, MUS 149. Final performance exams (juries) are required of program majors and minors who have not performed a recital (MUS 291, 391) during the semester of the private instruction. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Private Music Instructors.
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PCE 110 - International Conflict Analysis (4 Cr.) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
The first course in Peace Studies introduces students to foundational concepts in the interdisciplinary field. These include systems, power, progress, justice, conflict, violence, social evolution, capitalism, social movements, and positive and negative peace. We will use theory, data, and conceptual and geographical maps, to understand the causes of, the parties to and the potential solutions to conflicts in the Balkans, Colombia, Ireland, Somalia, Kashmir, Congo, Mexico, and Venezuela, to name a few. Fall and spring. Bess, Dawit.
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PCE 124 - Individuals and Collectives (4 Cr.) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
This course combines reading, conversation, and personal exploration to reveal how people define themselves and their relationship to the world. Viewing ourselves and the protagonists of our readings through lenses of individual self-actualization and collective meaning-making paradigms, we will explore how age, race, gender, nationality, religion, and other factors shape not only our answers to existential questions, but the scope and limits of the questions themselves. Spring semester. Bess. Spring semester. Bess.
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PCE 148 - Nonviolence and Liberation (4 Cr.) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
Although many associate nonviolence with its most well-known examples (e.g., Mahatma Gandhi in India, Martin Luther King in the U.S. south), nonviolence, like human society, is actually in constant evolution. This class looks at the many traditions and emerging ways of creating social change while reducing harm, even against violence. Taking a critical look at social movements both local and global, the class collaboratively examines the pitfalls and possibilities of conflict and confrontation, relationship and agency, harm and healing. Fall and spring semester. Hopper.
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PCE 210 - Study and Struggle: Research Methods (4 Cr.)
This course is the research methods course for Peace Studies as well as an elective suitable to all students interested in honing their research skills. It presumes that research takes place within academic structures and within sites where groups struggle for justice. Students will learn to conduct basic to advanced level undergraduate academic research as well as a number of research approaches that prioritize the questions and data most useful to communities. We will examine the ways in which “activist research” has begun to challenge the academe’s fundamental assumptions about who studies and who is studied, and the ways in which the subject-as-researcher paradigm alters not only research questions but data and theory. We will look in particular at community-based research, participant action research and social movement research. Spring 2020. Alternating years.
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PCE 220 - Global Change Agents (4 Cr.)
This course is about the lives and work of persons, communities and movements organizing for social, political and economic change around the world. Through their written work combined with our own research onto their organizations and movements, we will begin to develop our own theories about the characteristics and strategies that make an effective change agent. Of particular interest are issues of personal commitment and capacity, strategic thinking, movement building, and responses to state power and public indifference. Fall 2020. Alternating years. Dawit.
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PCE 231 - Special Topics in International Film and Literature (4 Cr.)
This course, organized around a rotating thematic topic in a given semester, will focus on social, economic, and cultural disparity as represented by filmmakers and authors. Of particular interest will be issues of nationalism; difference/identity; displacement; globalization; resources/wealth; environmental degradation; and control of information in post-war, post-colonial and/or post-Cold War societies. When possible, filmmakers and authors will be invited for special sessions of this course. Repeatable if topic is different. Prerequisites: sophomore standing or permission of instructor. Variable semesters.
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PCE 241 - Mediation and Negotiation (4 Cr.) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
A topics course for the Peace Studies Program, in which students explore the mechanisms of conflict resolution in a variety of settings, using a case-study method. Prerequisite: PCE 110 or permission of the instructor. Variable semesters.
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PCE 243 - Social Practice Art (4 cr.)
Art can be a medium for creative transformation, and this class explores the transformations that occur in socially engaged art, which blurs the distinction between life and art. Our focus is on making work about current social and cultural issues relevant to you, learning techniques and approaches to art, in particular art that engages the public outside of traditional art spaces. As part-studio, part seminar course, we will focus on artists’ forms of engagement, their aesthetic, practical, and ethicial skills and knowledge, applying what you learn in individual projects that blend research with art-making Our emphasis will be on developing your authentic voice and creating a community of practice that’s both nurturing and challenging. Last, classes will bring visiting artists and do studio visits whenever possible. We’ll look at why and how some artists combine, as Jeremy Deller describes it, “being an artist who makes things” with being “an artist who makes things happen.” Fall 2022 Ailish Hopper
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PCE 251 - Human Rights (4 Cr.) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
Human rights laws comprise humanity’s best effort to constrain state power leveled at or withheld from citizens. This course examines the fundamental ideas of human rights, their origins in various cultural and political traditions, their failures and ultimate triumphs over colonialism, their articulation as a body of laws and their evolving ability to influence the conduct of states, corporations and other state-like powers. Prerequisite: PCE 110 , one course in political science or history, or sophomore standing. Fall 2019. Dawit.
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PCE 262 - Native American Sovereignty (4 Cr.) (SOA 262) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
This course provides a critical overview of Native American self-determination. Drawing on examples from prehistory, the era of conquest and US expansion, and modern-day battles over natural resources, this course will encourage students to examine concepts such as identity, colonization and sovereignty through an inter-disciplinary perspective. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing. Spring semesters. Every other odd year. Bess.
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PCE 290 - Individually Identified Internship (0-4 Cr.)
Graded pass/no pass only. Fall/spring semester.
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PCE 299 - Independent Work (1-4 Cr.)
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PCE 306 - Power and Privilege in the United States (4 Cr.) (formerly PCE 205) (cross-listed with WGS 306)
This course will examine the history of race-based privilege and its evolution from the nineteenth century to today. By reading historical documents, biography and socio-economic studies, students will explore samples of structural violence in education, housing and employment. They will analyze the means through which injustices have been challenged. This course serves as the WID course for PCE and WGS. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing. Fall and spring semester. Bess.
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PCE 310 - Survey of International Laws (4 Cr.)
This course is a survey of the main branches of international law. These include public and private international law, human rights, criminal, economic, humanitarian, intellectual property, space, and sea laws. Through the study of legal scholarship, treaties and case law, students will examine questions of sovereignty, jurisdiction, enforcement, and power in the conduct of legal relations between states and between states and non-state actors. Particularly relevant is the work of the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the Hague Tribunal for Yugoslavia, the United Nations, the Council of Europe, the Organization of American States, the African Union, the World Trade Organization and the International Monetary Fund. Prerequisites: Junior Standing. Alternate years. Spring semester. Dawit.
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PCE 316 - Topics: Collaboration for Justice (2 Cr.) (PH 216)
Students in this course will examine the intersections among health, equity, access to services and opportunities in relation to the jobs movement called Turnaround Tuesday and at least one offshoot program working in a Baltimore City elementary school. The course blends theory and practice as students collaborate with Baltimoreans involved in community-building and livability-enhancing activities such as improving access to employment, supporting leadership opportunities for returning citizens, and implementing restorative practice circles with school children. Course content will provide contextualizing information on trauma-informed restorative practices, social capital, social control, solidarity, and community well-being standards while students engage with academic definitions of social cohesion in relation to Turnaround Tuesday and its larger transformative aims. Note that off-campus activities are a required component of this course; interested students should contact the professor regarding the specific times that these activities will take place in any given semester. Course is repeatable for credit with different topic. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing. Fall and Spring semesters. Bess.
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PCE 330 - Collapse (4 Cr.)
This course explores the epochal crisis of unsustainable resource consumption and the conflicts and systems collapses it causes. We will study collapse in the historical past, the present and in the near future. We will examine the ways in which basic resources such as water, energy, seed, food crops, timber, among others become scarce, how political actors respond to scarcity, and the social impact of scarcity. Our goal is to find realistic alternatives to over-consumption and collapse. Prerequisites: a 100-level course in Peace Studies and junior standing. Spring 2017. Dawit.
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PCE 335 - Future Cities: Strategy and Possibility (4 Cr.)
How can imagination be used as a tool for problem-solving? In this workshop-based class students combine analysis of urban case studies with realizing and expanding their ability to see and pursue solutions, even those considered “unimaginable.” 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. Using the city as our setting, the class explores examples of imagination as a skill, from public policy, art, literature, and science. A series of creative and research assignments culminate in students having the opportunity to design and share their own “unimaginable” about a topic of their choice. Prerequisite: a 100-level course in Peace Studies or sophomore standing. Spring Semester. Hopper.
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PCE 340 - Topics: Global Peace Case Studies (2 or 4 Cr.)
Examination of advanced concepts in peace, conflict resolution, and/or human rights thought through an in-depth study of major international and current events. These may include conflict in relation to peacekeeping, public health, globalization, international tribunals, and diplomacy. Repeatable with different topic. Prerequisite: Junior standing. Variable semesters.
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PCE 399 - Independent Work (1-4 Cr.)
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PCE 497 - Senior Capstone (2 Cr.) (Formerly PCE 380)
As the concluding experience in the Peace Studies Program, the capstone course for majors, minors and IIM majors, provides students an opportunity to bridge peace thought and peace work through a subfield of peace studies of interest to them. Students will produce work including a portfolio of their peace education with a reflection on their intellectual journey, a collection of materials for future study in their chosen subfield as well as a shadowing experience with a professional in that or in an analogous field. The four-credit capstone is a full-year course of two credits each semester. Pre-requisites: Senior standing and Peace Studies majors, minors and IIM (Peace) students. Full year, 2 credits each semester.
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PHL 105 - Personal and Community Ethics (4 Cr.) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
An introduction to ethical thought with particular attention given to the conflict between of individual interests and communal goods. The course includes a survey of classical writings on ethics as well as a selection of more recent texts that focus on concrete issues such as racism, economic injustice, and environmental ethics. In each case, we will examine how various conceptions of individual rights coincide with the obligations individuals owe to their neighbors, their nation, and the global community. Fall semester. DeCaroli.
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PHL 110 - Black and Indigenous Philosophies of the Americas (4 Cr.)
The contemporary Americas are founded on the twin legacies of the transatlanc slave trade and the genocide of Indigenous peoples. Powerful philosophical and activist traditions have emerged in response to the continued forces of anti-blackness and settler-colonialism to think about resistance, joy, mourning, and futures. This course surveys the history of these literatures and brings them into the contemporary moment to think about ongoing struggles for liberaon. Possible thinkers covered include: Vine Deloria, Jr., W.E.B. Du Bois, Frantz Fanon,Saidiya Hartman, C.L.R. James, Winona Laduke, Audra Simpson, Hortense Spillers, and Haunani-Kay Trask. Spring semester. Kimoto.
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PHL 202 - Bioethics (4 Cr.) (BIO 202) (RPP)
In this class we will analyze the central tenets of bioethics in conversation with race, disabiltiy, and gender. In particular, we will consider how the four principles of autonomy, beneficence, justice and non-maleficence function in the historical and contemporary practice of medicine. Oour focus will be on considering the differential application of these principles to different populations in healthcare practices and policies in order to ask better informed questions about how to promote justice in medical practice, research, and policy. This will also allow us to think through what kinds of assumptions and norms are bult into our understanding of heath and healthcare and reflect critically on how we might transform them. Prerequisites: None. Offered every other fall semester. Kimoto
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PHL 205 - Environmental Ethics (4 Cr.) (ES 207 ) (GCR-ENV)(GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies)
A philosophical examination of the relationship between human beings and the natural world. Readings address the cultural an scientific constructions of nature, the environment, and the world; the metaphysical underpinnings of various restoration positions; relationships between environmental and social problems; and the role of imagination in environmentalism. Following an introduction to environmental theory, we will examine various areas of ethical concern. Fall semester. Offered 2019-2020 and alternate years. Shuster.
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PHL 206 - Writing Practicum in Philosophy (2 Cr.)
Often when we practice philosophical writing, we discover that our words, language, and prose are more competent and creative than we thought ourselves to be. The Practicum on writing in philosophy offers the beautiful opportunity for students to explore many different approaches to philosophical writing. These include exegesis (summary and explication of a philosophical text), analysis, argument, application of a text to an event, situation, or phenomenon, evaluation/critique of a philosophical position, synthesis, reflective essays, and contributions to philosophy. Our practicum will also work on composing and drafting, revising and editing, and proof reading. The beauty of writing philosophy is also that these processes of philosophical writing can change the way you frame your world and deepen your experience of being human.
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PHL 207 - Philosophy Research Lab (2 Cr.)
Several of Goucher’s philosophy courses include individualized research projects which culminate in final papers. But what does research in philosophy actually entail? What makes for a robust, original research topic? And how does one know where to begin and when to end? This lab explores questions that inspire research, and why they do so. Students will learn how to turn their passions-philosophical but not only-into well-formed, manageable research projects. They will improve at organizing time and resources and recognizing when a project is completed (and when it is not). Each participant will leave the lab with an original, individualized project which they may then turn into a finished paper in the Writing Practicum in Philosophy, if they so choose.
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PHL 208 - Philosophy of Religion (4 Cr.) (GCR RPP)(GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
In a historically sensitive and comparative manner, this course examines classical and contemporary philosophical accounts of the nature and existence of ultimate reality. Topics covered include conceptions of ultimate reality, evil, immortality, religious experience, and human subjectivity as well as arguments for and against theism, atheism, and agnosticism. Our approach will draw on both Eastern and Western traditions and will be sensitive to the social and political relations that animate religious traditions. Offered spring 2017 and every two years. Shuster.
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PHL 209 - Philosophy of Science Fiction (4 Cr.) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
Science fiction offers opportunities to explore new things in a philosophical register: different kinds of bodies, new environments, alternate histories, and technologies that don’t exist yet. Readings include SF classics by Philip K. Dick, Stanislaw Lem, James Tiptree, Jr., and Ursula K. LeGuin, but also explore the avant-garde possibilities of the genre, from writers Hakim Bey and Samuel Delany to filmmakers Andrei Tarkovsky and Lizzie Borden. Prerequisite: Either sophomore standing, one philosophy course, or permission of the instructor.
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PHL 218 - Philosophy of Time (4 Cr.) (WEC)(GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
What is time? Examination of speculations about time in Ancient Greece, Classical, Enlightenment, and Contemporary periods. We will look at the specific ways these speculations have helped develop philosophy, physics, mathematics, theology, religion, history, psychology, and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Key themes include the role of time as a measure, time and the cosmos, time as feeling or perception of passage, time as money and capital, clock time, the “billable hour,” times zones, the historical change to internalize time as something we “do,” time and being, and the ubiquitous presence of concepts of time in every understanding of the natural world, abstraction, classification, and our self-understanding throughout Western thought. Prerequisite: either sophomore standing, one course in philosophy, or permission of the instructor.
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PHL 220 - Phenomenology (4 Cr.) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
What is Phenomenology? And why has Phenomenology been looked to by some to solve the problems of knowing, consciousness, mean-making, and social-political conflicts in the 20th and 21st Century? And reviled by others as a hopeless dream or a perversion of philosophy? Phenomenology is a method for doing a “presuppositionless description” of the moments when meaning arises in a conscious intention towards the world. Phenomenology is currently practiced by a wide range of researchers in politics, social science, cognitive scientist, psychologists, and therapists as a more holistic way of knowing than the detached the detached, objective methodology of the natural and social sciences. We will begin with the transcendental phenomenology of Edmund Husserl and then turn to the existential phenomenologies of Jean-Paul Sartre and Martin Heidegger. We will conclude with the phenomenology of the lived body in Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Prerequisite: Either sophomore standing, one philosophy course, or permission of the instructor.
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