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.

Transfer Students and Transfer Courses:

1. Students who have earned an Associate’s Degree are exempt from all CPE requirements.
2. Students transferring to Goucher with at least 30 credits need only complete the CPE courses indicated by the Registrar on the student’s transfer course evaluation to satisfy the breadth of the CPE requirements.
3. After matriculating at Goucher, students must complete all remaining CPE courses at Goucher College.

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).