Center Pair Exploration Courses

Goucher’s model for teaching and learning revolves around eleven academic centers. Centers are responsible for creating courses that allow students a path of exploration by choosing among courses that allow you to study specific ideas, values, or problems using different methods and approaches. Between their second semester at Goucher and the end of their junior year, students will take 3 Center Pair Exploration (CPE) courses outside the Center Pair to which their major belongs. Students are limited to one CPE course per semester.

Exceptions to this typical path include:

1. Students transferring to Goucher with 45 or more transfer credits need only complete one of the CPE courses outside the Center Pair of their major. The Registrar will indicate on the student’s transfer course evaluation which CPE pairing they should take.
2. Students transferring to Goucher with 30-44 transfer credits need only complete two of the CPE courses outside the Center Pair of their major. The Registrar will indicate on the student’s transfer course evaluation which CPE pairings they should take.

The Center Pairings are as follows:

Courses that are approved will have the course code of CPEA, CPEB, CPEC, or CPED (ex. CPEA 201). 

The following table lists by major which Center Pair Exploration course types are required (with exceptions noted above).