2022-2023 Undergraduate Catalog Notices and Updates

Below you will find a summary of what has changed from the previous edition of the Undergraduate Catalog.

Please note that minor changes to academic programs (i.e. additions to the list of courses accepted in a program requirement) are not listed in this section, but these changes can be found on the program pages and in Degree Audit.

Courses that have been inactivated have also been removed from the Course Descriptions section and the academic program pages. Previous editions of the catalog can be used to find information on these courses and they will still count toward academic program requirements they were previously listed in.

Notices

Program Additions 

• Quantum Information Certificate  

Program Changes

Apply to students with program catalog terms of Fall 2022 or Spring 2023 only unless otherwise noted

• Applied Physics Concentration  
• Arabic Minor  
• Cognitive Science Minor  
• Communication Minor  
• Community Development Major (BA)  
• Computer Science Concentration  
• Computer Science Certificate  
• Creative Writing Concentration  
• Creative Writing Minor  
• Criminal Justice Minor  
• Criminology and Criminal Justice Major (BA)  
• Digital Electronics Concentration  
• Engineering Physics Major (BS)  
• English Major (BA)  
• English Minor  
• English Teaching Concentration  
• Japanese Minor  
• Professional Writing and New Media Concentration  
• Professional Writing and New Media Minor  
• Engineering Physics Major (BS)  

Course Additions

• ANTH 347L  Indigenous Research Methodologies
• ASP 301  Peer Educator Seminar
• BIOL 358  Microbiome and Disease Ecology Research Lab
• CHEM 431  Chemical Toxicology 
• CINE 304  Understanding Television
• CINE 352L  Middle Eastern and North African Cinema
• CLSICS 311L  The Fall of Rome
• CS 435  Recommender Systems
• EDC U 212  Coding for Non-Coders
• EDC U 220  Human Development for Educators
• ENGL 304  Creative Writing for Children’s Literature
• ENGL 397  Queer Romanticism 
• ENVSCI 116L  Quantitative Reasoning and the Environment
• ENVSCI 216  Sustainable Seaweed Aquaculture
• FOUN 100  Strategies of Foundational Learning 
• FRENCH 337L  Disney’s European Fairy Tales
• FRENCH 374L  Love Stories: A Historcal Handbook to Happily Ever After
• GERON 180   Diversity and Aging
• ​HIST 186  Road to Black Lives Matter: History of Violence Towards African Americans
• HIST 337  Making a “Second Sex”: Women and Gender in Modern European History
• HIST 339  “Naturally Chic”: Fashion, Gender, and Nationalism in French History
• HIST 368  Antebellum African American History
• MLLC 377L  Rebellion! On Being Young in European Fiction
• PSYCH 260  Introduction to Neuroscience
• PSYCH 295  Introduction to Therapeutic Mentoring
• PSYCH 350  Cognitive Neuroscience
• UPCD 498  Honors in Community Development
• WGS 229L  Latinx Sexualities
• WGS 263G  Transgender Studies: Scholarly and Community Perspectives
• WGS 343L  The Cultural Politics of HIV/AIDS