2018-2019 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

• Courses offered by the Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Department will now use the MLLC subject code instead of MDNLNG.
• Information on language, math, and writing placements has been added to the Academic Policies & Procedures  section.

Program Additions

• Global Aging and Life Course Studies Major (BA)  
• Sustainable Marine Aquaculture Certificate (online)  

Program Changes

Apply to students with program catalog terms of Fall 2018 or Spring 2019 only

• American Studies Major (BA)  
• American Studies Minor  
• Communication Major (BA)  
• Computer Engineering Major (BS)  
• Computer Science Major (BA)  
• Computer Science Major (BS) [ABET Certified]  
• Economics Major (BA) - Fall 2018  
• Economics Major (BA) - Spring 2019  
• Electrical Engineering Major (BS)  
• Exercise and Health Science Major (BS)  
• Information Systems and Business Analytics Concentration  (formerly Management Information Systems)
• International Relations Major (BA)  
• Italian Studies Major (BA) - Spring 2019  (succeeds Italian Major)
• Italian Studies Minor - Spring 2019  (succeeds Italian Minor)
• Japanese Minor  
• Public Policy Minor  

Renumbered Courses

• ART 375 - Contemporary Art: c. 1989-Present
    (was ART 259)
• CHINSE 377L - Topics in Chinese Cinema
    (was CHINSE 376)
• CS 220 - Applied Discrete Mathematics
    (was CS 320L)
• HUMCTR 421 - Human Service Policy and Practice (Capstone)
    (was HUMCTR 415)
• LATAM 205L - Latin American Film
    (cross-list with CINE 205L)
• LATIN 201 - Intermed Latin
    (was LATIN 211)
• LATIN 202 - Ovid-Metamorphoses
    (was LATIN 222)
• MATH 270 - Applied Ordinary Differential Equations
    (was MATH 310)
• MATH 314 - Introduction to Proofs: a Transition to Advanced Mathematics
    (was MATH 280)
• MLLC 100 - Global Studies Gateway
    (was MDNLNG 100)
• MLLC 155L - Great Books of East Asia: Classics of Love and War
    (was MDNLNG 155L)
• MLLC 210G - Great Books
    (was MDNLNG 210G)
• MLLC 220L - Hades, Heaven, and Hell
    (was MDNLNG 220L)
• MLLC 235L - Europe at the Movies: a History of Postwar Cinema
    (was MDNLNG 235L)
• MLLC 255L - Pacting with the Devil: The Faust Tradition
    (was MDNLNG 255L)
• MLLC 260 - Imagining the Modern Middle East
    (was MDNLNG 260)
• MLLC 265L - Icons of East Asia: Stereotypes, gender, and cultural history from geisha girls to martial masters
    (was MDNLNG 265L)
• MLLC 270 - Global Food Studies
    (was MDNLNG 270)
• MLLC 290 - Special Topics
    (was MDNLNG 290)
• MLLC 330L - Doppelganger: The Uncanny Double in World Literature and Film
    (was MDNLNG 330L)
• MLLC 366L - Re-made in Asia: Tellings and re-tellings from the Buddha to Godzilla
    (was MDNLNG 366L)
• MLLC 368 - Shanghai
    (was MDNLNG 368)
• MLLC 376L - Dystopian Science Fiction in World Cinema
    (was MDNLNG 376L)
• MLLC 378 - Independent Study
    (was MDNLNG 378)
• MLLC 379 - Independent Study
    (was MDNLNG 379)
• MLLC 390 - Special Topics
    (was MDNLNG 390)
• MLLC 478 - Readings and Research
    (was MDNLNG 478)
• MLLC 479 - Readings and Research
    (was MDNLNG 479)
• MLLC 488L - The Idea of Asia
    (was MDNLNG 488L)
• SPAN 262L - Latin American, Iberian, and Afro-Luso-Brazilian Literatures in Translation
    (cross-list with LATAM 262L)
• THRART 300L - Scenic Design for Theatre and Entertainment
    (cross-list with CINE 300L)
• THRART 361 - Introduction to Costume Design
    (was THRART 261)

Course Additions

• AFRSTY 141 - Haitian Creole I for Beginners
    
• AFRSTY 142 - Cape Verdean Language I for Beginners
    
• AFRSTY 241 - Haitian Creole II for Intermediate Learners
    
• AFRSTY 341 - Haitian Creole III for Advanced Learners
    
• AFRSTY 441 - Techniques of Haitian Creole Translation
    
• ANTH 330 - Archaeology of colonialism in Native North America  
• ART 208 - Introduction to Contemporary Practices in Fiber Art
    
• ART 235 - History of Global Design
    
• ART 315 - Eighteenth-Century European Art
    
• CAPS 211 - Cultural Links to Biodiversity
    
• CDVCTR 179GL - First-Year Seminar in the School for the Environment
    
• CHEM 321 - Survey of Physical Chemistry
    
• CINE 205L - Latin American Film
    
• CINE 300L - Scenic Design for Theatre and Entertainment
    
• CINE 377L - Topics in Chinese Cinema
    
• CLSICS 416L - Thucydides: War & Human Nature
    
• COMM 215L - Gender & Communication
    
• COMM 310L - Love, Sex, and Media Effects
    
• COMM 315 - New Media, Identity & Self
    
• CS 433 - Big Data Analytics
    
• CS 442 - Cybersecurity in the Internet of Things
    
• ENGIN 246 - Computer Organization and Assembly Language
    
• ENGIN 263 - Engineering Thermodynamics
    
• ENGIN 362 - Fluid Mechanics
    
• ENGIN 421 - Radar Systems
    
• ENGIN 442 - Internet of Things
    
• ENVSCI 346 - Global Ecology
    
• ENVSTY 179GL - First-Year Seminar in the School for the Environment
    
• ENVSTY 331 - Feeding the Next Two Billion: Solutions for Food Security
    
• FRENCH 310 - French for Heritage Speakers
    
• FRENCH 312 - French in the Professional and Business World
    
• GREEK 120 - An Introduction to Sappho’s Greek
    
• HIST 130 - Goddesses and Supergirls
    
• HIST 150 - Food and Empire
    
• HIST 152 - Crime, Corruption, and Scandal in Historical Perspective
    
• HIST 347 - Feast to Famine: Food in African History
    
• HIST 416L - Thucydides: War & Human Nature
    
• INTR-D 135 - Connected Scholars
    
• IT 478 - Independent Study
    
• IT 480 - Special Topics
    
• JAPAN 222 - Introduction to Japanese Music
    
• LABOR 345 - Labor and Sex Trafficking in a Global Economy
    
• LATAM 262L - Latin American, Iberian, and Afro-Luso-Brazilian Literatures in Translation
    
• MATH 265 - Discrete Structures in Mathematics
    
• MATH 291 - Mathematical Software. An introduction to computer assisted math modeling and problem solving
    
• MATH 320 - Applied Discrete Mathematics
    (was cross-listed from CS/MATH 320L)
• MATH 426 - Advanced Linear Algebra, Applications and Numerical Methods
    
• MATH 449 - Computational Molecular Biology
    
• MLLC 480 - Internship in Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures
    
• MSIS 415 - Advanced Coding for Analytics  
• MSIS 455 - Decision Analysis
    
• POLSCI 380 - Theories of International Relations
    
• POLSCI 435 - Foreign Policy Analysis
    
• PRFTRN 181 - Alzheimer’s Disease Public Policy Overview Certificate
    
• PRFTRN 182 - SSCP Certification Preparation
    
• PRFTRN 183 - Small Business Innovation
    
• PRFTRN 184 - Health Policy Internship Orientation
    
• RELSTY 115G - Religion, Politics, Sex & Violence
    (reactivated and renumbered from RELSTY 112G)
• RELSTY 309 - Approaches to the Study of Religion: Theory and Method in Religious Studies
    
• SPAN 200G - Boston Speaks
    
• THRART 301 - Contemporary American Drama
    
• USEA 106 - Underwater Research Methods Using SCUBA
    
• WGS 215L - Gender & Communication
    
• WGS 310L - Love, Sex, and Media Effects
    

Course Changes

• ANTH 264 - Shamanisms: Anthropological Perspectives
     (approved for GenEd)
• ANTH 361L - Indigenous Film and Critical Visual Studies
    (approved for GenEd)
• ART 250 - Art of the Twentieth Century
    (description and approved for GenEd)
• ART 317 - Nineteenth-Century Art in Europe and the United States
    (title, description, approved for GenEd)
• ART 326 - Materials, Materiality, Meaning
    (repeats for credit)
• ART 375 - Contemporary Art: c. 1989-Present
    (title, description, enrollment requirements)
• ART 381W - Drawing Workshop
    (repeats for credit)
• ART 383 - Painting Workshop
    (repeats for credit)
• ART 386 - Sculpture Workshop
    (repeats for credit)
• ART 387 - Printmaking Workshop
    (repeats for credit)
• ART 393W - Photography Workshop
    (repeats for credit)
• ART 395L - Video Workshop
    (repeats for credit)
• ART 397 - Digital Media Workshop
    (repeats for credit)
• BIOL 377 - Cancer Biology
    (title and description)
• CAPS 133 - Personal Branding for a Competitive Edge
    (title)
• CHEM 458 - Medicinal Chemistry
    (description and enrollment requirements)
• CINE 361L - Indigenous Film and Critical Visual Studies
    (approved for GenEd)
• CS 220 - Applied Discrete Mathematics
    (number, description, and enrollment requirements)
• CS 240 - Programming in C
    (enrollment requirements)
• CS 410 - An Introduction to Software Engineering
    (enrollment requirements)
• CS 411 - Competitive Programming
    (enrollment requirements)
• CS 420 - An Introduction to the Theory of Computation
    (enrollment requirements)
• CS 450 - The Structure of Higher Level Languages
    (enrollment requirements)
• CS 470 - An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
    (enrollment requirements)
• ENGL 124 - Science Fiction: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
    (title, description, and approved for GenEd)
• ENGL 248 - Utopia/Dystopia Across Culture
    (title, description, and approved for GenEd)
• ENGL 249 - Animal Lit
    (approved for GenEd)
• ENGL 354 - Race in American Literature
    (title and description)
• ENVSTY 222L - Religion and the Environment: Global Stewardship and Practices of Faith Communities
    (title, description, and approved for GenEd)
• GREEK 101 - Elementary Classical Greek I
    (description)
• GREEK 151 - Biblical Greek I
    (description)
• HUMCTR 230 - History of Social Welfare
    (description)
• HUMCTR 421 - Human Service Policy and Practice (Capstone)
    (title and enrollment requirements)
• IT 370 - Introduction to Analytics
    (title and description)
• IT 456 - Information Storage and Management
    (title and description)
• ITAL 150 - Italian Food and Culture: National and Global Perspectives
    (title, description, and approved for GenEd)
• LATAM 360 - Language and Power in the Americas
    (title, description, and approved for GenEd)
• MATH 260 - Linear Algebra I
    (description)
• MATH 425 - Numerical Analysis
    (description and enrollment requirements)
• MATH 447 - Probability Models
    (description)
• MATH 448 - Computational Statistics
    (title, description, and enrollment requirements)
• MATH 458 - Theory of Numbers
    (description and enrollment requirements)
• MATH 470 - Mathematical Logic
    (enrollment requirements)
• MLLC 100 - Global Studies Gateway
    (approved for GenEd)
• MLLC 270 - Global Food Studies
    (approved for GenEd)
• MSIS 230L - Relational Databases
    (enrollment requirements)
• MSIS 310 - Introduction to Coding for Business
    (title, description, and enrollment requirements)
• MSIS 411 - Advanced Database Systems
    (title, descriptiopn, and enrollment requirements)
• PHYSIC 108 - College Physics II
    (enrollment requirements)
• PHYSIC 114 - Fundamentals of Physics II
    (enrollment requirements)
• PHYSIC 182 - Physics Laboratory II
    (enrollment requirements)
• PHYSIC 214 - Thermodynamics
    (enrollment requirements)
• POLSCI 345 - Sports, Politics, & Policy
    (approved for GenEd)
• PRFTRN 174 - Survival Skills for the 21st Century: Developing Personal, Organizational and Community Resilience
    (title)
• RELSTY 222L - Religion and the Environment: Global Stewardship and Practices of Faith Communities
    (title, description, and approved for GenEd)
• RELSTY 242 - Origins of Christianity: From Jesus to Constantine
    (title)
• SPAN 262L - Latin American, Iberian, and Afro-Luso-Brazilian Literatures in Translation
    (title and description)
• SPAN 361 - Latin American, Iberian, and Afro-Luso-Brazilian Cultures and Histories
    (title and description)
• SPAN 380 - Topics in Latin American, Iberian, and Afro-Luso-Brazilian Studies
    (title and description)
• THRART 300L - Scenic Design for Theatre and Entertainment
    (title and description)
• THRART 301 - Contemporary American Drama
    (description)
• USEA-NC 114 - Introduction to Sustainable Marine Aquaculture
    (credits, grading basis)