2020-2021 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

• All Community Development (CDVCTR) courses have been renamed to Urban Planning and Community Development (UPCD) 
• The College of Advancing and Professional Studies (CAPS) has been renamed Continuing and Professional Studies
• The Global Affairs Program  has moved from CAPS to the Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance  in the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies  

Program Additions

• Sexuality Studies Minor  

Program Changes

Apply to students with program catalog terms of Fall 2020 or Spring 2021 only unless otherwise noted

• Accelerated Nursing Major (BS)  
• Communication Major (BA)  
• Communication Minor  
• English Major (BA) - Race, Ethnicity, and Literature Concentration  (was Transnational and Multiethnic Literatures Concentration)
• Environmental Science Major (BA)  
• Environmental Science Major (BS)  
• Exercise and Health Science Major (BS)  
• Mathematics Minor  
• Race, Ethnicity, and Literature Minor  (was Transnational and Multiethnic Literatures Minor)
• Sociology Major (BA)  
• Sustainable Marine Aquaculture Certificate (online)  
• Theatre Arts Major (BA)  
• Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Major (BA)  
• Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Minor  

Course Additions

• AFRSTY 200 - Living While Black: Contemporary Issues in the African Diaspora
    
• AFRSTY 204 - Afro-Latin America
    
• AFRSTY 280 - Special Topics in Africana Studies
    
• AFRSTY 308 - Africana Feminisms in the Black Diaspora
    
• AFRSTY 490 - Internship
    
• AMST 240G - War in American Culture
    
• AMST 257L - Queer Literature and History in the 20th Century US
    
• AMST 263 - The History of Hip Hop and Hip Hop as History
    
• ARABIC 260L - Imagining the Modern Middle East
    
• ART 313L - The Art of Early Modern Venice: Myths and Realities of a Floating City
    
• ART 220 - Introduction to Graphic Design
    
• ART 224 - Museum Practices
    
• ART 368 - History of Photography: 1839-Present
    
• ASIAN 314L - Meditation Tradition of Asia
    
• ASIAN 335L - Literature and the Arts of the Islamic World
    
• BIOL 344 - Ornithology
    
• BIOL 345 - Ornithology Laboratory
    
• CINE 260L - Improvisation and the Art of Comedy
    
• CINE 385L - Topics in Japanese Cinema
    
• CINE 412L - Gender, Human Rights, and Global Cinema
    
• CINE 470 - Independent Study
    
• COMM 345 - Environmental Communication
    
• COMM 372 - Social Media and Strategic Communication
    
• CS 413 - Applied Cryptography
    
• CS 414 - Blockchain Technology
    
• ECON 343 - The Political Economy of Black America
    
• ECON 391 - Unions and Collective Bargaining
    
• EHS 491 - Internship in Exercise and Health Sciences
    
• ENGIN 304 - Engineering Design
    
• ENGL 121 - Poetry Matters: Connecting Poetry and Patients
    
• ENGL 187G - Schooled: Rethinking Education
    
• ENGL 209 - Writing on Local Issues, Arts, and Culture
     
• ENGL 257L - Queer Literature and History in the 20th Century US
    
• ENGL 268 - Outbreak! On Reading Narratives of Infectious Disease
    
• ENGL 453 - Writing War and Peace: The Joiner Center Summer Writers’ Workshop
     
• ENGL 454 - English Internship
    
• ENVSTY 120L - Boston: Social Justice and the City
    
• ENVSTY 323 - Introduction to Permaculture
    
• FRENCH 340L - Moving Across Borders: Migration and Diversity in Europe
    
• FRENCH 355L - European Crime Fiction
    
• GERMAN 255L - Pacting with the Devil: The Faust Tradition
    
• GERMAN 340L - Moving Across Borders: Migration and Diversity in Europe
    
• GERMAN 355L - European Crime Fiction
    
• GLBAFF 450 - Special Topics in Global Affairs
    
• GLBAFF 478 - Independent Study in Global Affairs
    
• GREEK 306 - Aristophanes
    
• HIST 182 - Touring the City: An Introduction to Public History
    
• HIST 225L - Berlin: Crossroads of History
    
• HIST 257L - Queer Literature and History in the 20th Century US
    
• HIST 275L - Learning to Labor: Work and Education in US History
    
• HIST 278L - Introduction to Native American and Indigenous Studies
    
• HIST 390L - Working-Class Boston
    
• HIST 462 - A Nation in Turmoil: The United States, 1815-1850
    
• HIST 468 - Age of FDR: America in Depression and War
    
• HUMCTR 371 - Diversity and Cultural Competence
     
• INTR-D 127 - Light in Art and the Cosmos
    
• IT 210 - Intermediate Computing with Data Structures
    
• ITAL 313L - The Art of Early Modern Venice: Myths and Realities of a Floating City
    
• ITAL 499 - Senior Honors Thesis
    
• JAPAN 100 - Intensive Elementary Japanese
    
• JAPAN 385L - Topics in Japanese Cinema
    
• LABOR 275L - Learning to Labor: Work and Education in US History
    
• LABOR 390L - Working-Class Boston
    
• LATAM 160 - Building Language Justice: Translation, Migration, and Linguistic Human Rights
    
• LATAM 305 - The Caribbean: Culture and Society
    
• MLLC 225L - Berlin: Crossroads of History
    
• MLLC 276L - Italian Cinema
    
• MLLC 340L - Moving Across Borders: Migration and Diversity in Europe
    
• MLLC 355L - European Crime Fiction
    
• MLLC 365L - Masterpieces of German Literature
    
• MLLC 372L - German Cinema
    
• MUSIC 210 - Who tells your story? Music, Society, Identity
    
• NAIS 262L - American Indian History to 1783
    
• NAIS 263L - Modern American Indian Social and Political History: From the American Revolution to Standing Rock
    
• NAIS 488 - Working for Native Communities: Internship/Directed Study
    
• NURSNG 270 - Introduction to the Concepts of Nursing
    
• NURSNG 271 - Principles of Pathophysiology and Pharmacology for the Nurse
    
• NURSNG 272 - Applying Nursing Process
    
• NURSNG 273 - Assessment and Health Promotion
    
• NURSNG 370 - Healthcare Participant
    
• NURSNG 371 - Evidence-Based Nursing Practice
    
• NURSNG 372 - Concepts of Heath and Illness I
    
• NURSNG 373 - Concepts of Health and Illness II
    
• NURSNG 470 - Professional Nursing Concepts
    
• NURSNG 471 - Active and Engaged Nursing Practice
    
• NURSNG 472 - Concepts of Health and Illness III
    
• NURSNG 473 - Concepts of Heath and Illness IV
    
• PHIL 340 - Speech Acts
    
• PHIL 376 - Consent
    
• PHYSIC 147 - Quantum Information I
    
• PHYSIC 197 - Special Topics in Physics
    
• PHYSIC 198 - Special Topics Laboratory
    
• PHYSIC 297 - Special Topics in Physics
    
• PHYSIC 298 - Special Topics Laboratory
    
• PHYSIC 397 - Special Topics in Physics
    
• PHYSIC 398 - Special Topics Laboratory
    
• PHYSIC 497 - Special Topics in Physics
    
• PHYSIC 498 - Special Topics Laboratory
    
• POLSCI 370 - Human Rights, Immigration and Gender in Mexico
    
• POLSCI 390 - A Comparative Analysis of Inequality and Redistribution
    
• PORT 385 - Special Topics in Portuguese Studies
    
• PROJMGT 255 - Project Management Essentials
    
• RELSTY 110 - Religions of Boston
    
• RELSTY 314L - Meditation Tradition of Asia
     
• RELSTY 335L - Literature and the Arts of the Islamic World
    
• THRART 200 - Enlivening Cultural and Gender Identities Through Dress
    
• UPCD 120L - Boston: Social Justice and the City
    
• WGS 257L - Queer Literature and History in the 20th Century US
    
• WGS 412L - Gender, Human Rights, and Global Cinema
    

Renumbered Courses

• ASAMST 423 - Boston’s Asian American Communities
    (was ASAMST 423L)
• CS 210 - Intermediate Computing with Data Structures
    (was CS 210L)
• GERMAN 225L - Berlin: Crossroads of History
    (was GERMAN 230)
• GERMAN 365L - Masterpieces of German Literature
    (was GERMAN 365)
• HIST 262L - American Indian History to 1783
    (was HIST 262)
• HIST 263L - Modern American Indian Social and Political History: From the American Revolution to Standing Rock
    (was HIST 263)
• HLTH 107G - Understanding Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
    (was NURSNG 107G)
• HLTH 201 - Pathophysiology
    (was NURSNG 201)
• HLTH 212 - Health Promotion and Teaching
    (was NURSNG 212)
• HLTH 230 - Life Span Growth and Development
    (was NURSNG 230)
• HLTH 314 - Pharmacology
    (was NURSNG 314)
• HLTH 344 - Global Perspectives on Health: Exploring the intersection of Equity, Economics, and Culture
    (was NURSNG 344)
• JAPAN 305 - Japanese Pronunciation
    (was JAPAN 205)
• JAPAN 385L - Topics in Japanese Cinema
    (was JAPAN 380)
• MLLC 260L - Imagining the Modern Middle East
    (was MLLC 260)
• THRART 260L - Improvisation and the Art of Comedy
    (was THRART 360)
• UPCD 130L - Sustainable Urban Development in Local Contexts Globally
    (was CDVCTR 130L)
• UPCD 179GL - First-Year Seminar in the School for the Environment
    (was CDVCTR 179GL)
• UPCD 201 - History and Theory of Community Development
    (was CDVCTR 201)
• UPCD 210 - Community Health and Environment
    (was CDVCTR 210)
• UPCD 280 - Lower Level Special Topics in Community Development
    (was CDVCTR 280)
• UPCD 301 - Introduction to Research Methods and Community Analysis
    (was CDVCTR 301)
• UPCD 303 - Quantitative Methods for Community Development
    (was CDVCTR 303)
• UPCD 310 - Social Determinants of Health
    (was CDVCTR 310)
• UPCD 321 - Fundamentals of Housing
    (was CDVCTR 321)
• UPCD 351L - Architecture and Human Built Environment Interactions
    (was CDVCTR 351L)
• UPCD 353 - Community Economic Development in the United States
    (was CDVCTR 353)
• UPCD 355 - Global Community Economic Development
    (was CDVCTR 355)
• UPCD 371 - Organizational Behavior for Public and Nonprofit Organizations
    (was CDVCTR 371)
• UPCD 380 - Upper Level Special Topics in Community Development
    (was CDVCTR 380)
• UPCD 401 - Comparative Models in Community Development
    (was CDVCTR 401)
• UPCD 410 - Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health
    (was CDVCTR 410)
• UPCD 419 - Community Health Practicum
    (was CDVCTR 419)
• UPCD 457 - Internship in Community Development
    (was CDVCTR 457)
• UPCD 459 - Capstone in Community Development
    (was CDVCTR 459)
• UPCD 478 - Independent Study in Community Development
     (was CDVCTR 478)

Course Changes

• AFRSTY 489 - Senior Capstone Seminar
    (title, description, and enrollment requirements)
• AMST 315L - Asian American Cinema
    (approved for GenEd)
• ANTH 243L - Rethinking the Family: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
    (title, description, approved for GenEd)
• ANTH 279 - Peoples and Cultures of the Andes: Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile
    (approved for GenEd)
• ART 224 - Museum Practices
    (approved for GenEd)
• ART 318L - Women and Experimental Cinema
    (approved for GenEd)
• ART 351L - Documentary Moving Images
    (approved for GenEd)
• ART 393L - Photography Workshop
    (description)
• ART 395L - Video Workshop
    (description)
• ASAMST 315L - Asian American Cinema
    (approved for GenEd)
• ASAMST 375L - Indian Cinema
    (enrollment requirements)
• CAPS 212 - Introduction to Cybersecurity
    (title and description)
• CINE 101 - Introduction to Cinema Studies
    (credits)
• CINE 201 - History of International Cinema: Origins to 1945
    (title, credits, approved for GenEd)
• CINE 202 - History of International Cinema: 1945-the present
    (title, credits)
• CINE 235L - Postwar European Cinema
    (title)
• CINE 245 - Contemporary Cinema
    (title)
• CINE 276L - Italian Cinema
    (title and description)
• CINE 285L - French Cinema
    (title and description)
• CINE 315L - Asian American Cinema
    (approved for GenEd)
• CINE 318L - Women and Experimental Cinema
    (approved for GenEd)
• CINE 320 - Film Directors
    (title)
• CINE 325L - Film Festivals
    (approved for GenEd)
• CINE 330L - Ghostly Doubles and Evil Twins
    (title, description, and enrollment requirements)
• CINE 350 - Film Genres
    (title and description)
• CINE 351L - Documentary Moving Images
    (approved for GenEd)
• CINE 355 - American Cinema
    (title)
• CINE 372L - German Cinema
    (description and enrollment requirements)
• CINE 375L - Indian Cinema
    (enrollment requirements)
• CINE 393L - Photography Workshop
    (description)
• CINE 395L - Video Workshop
    (description)
• CINE 480 - Internship in Cinema Studies
    (repeatability)
• COMM 375L - Indian Cinema
    (enrollment requirements)
• CS 110 - Introduction to Computing
    (components)
• CS 210 - Intermediate Computing with Data Structures
    (description and components)
• DANCE 131 - Musical Theatre Dance
    (description)
• ENGL 105 - Reading the University
    (approved for GenEd)
• ENGL 204 - Professional Writing
    (title and description)
• ENGL 344 - Boston Dreams, Boston Nightmares: Genre, Race, Ethnicity
    (approved for GenEd)
• ENGL 475 - Professional and News Media Writing Capstone Internship
    (title, description, and enrollment requirements)
• ENGL 477 - Professional and New Media Writing Internship II
    (title)
• ENVSCI 105 - Sustainability: It Is Not Easy Being Green
    (approved for GenEd)
• ENVSCI 134 - Basic Start up Business Techniques for Aquaculture Operations
    (title and description)
• ENVSCI 179G - First-Year Seminar in Sustainability
    (approved for GenEd)
• FRENCH 285L - French Cinema
    (title and description)
• GERMAN 101 - Elementary German I
    (description)
• GERMAN 102 - Elementary German II
    (description)
• GERMAN 201 - Intermediate German I
    (description)
• GERMAN 202 - Intermediate German II
    (description)
• GERMAN 225L - Berlin: Crossroads of History
    (number, title, and description)
• GERMAN 301 - Advanced Intermediate German I  (title and description)
• GERMAN 302 - Advanced Intermediate German II  (title and description)
• GERMAN 330L - Ghostly Doubles and Evil Twins
    (title, description, and enrollment requirements)
• GERMAN 365L - Masterpieces of German Literature
    (number, description, and enrollment requirements)
• GERMAN 372L - German Cinema
    (description and enrollment requirements)
• HIST 175 - Comic Books in America: The History of Comic Books and American Society since 1938
    (approved for GenEd)
• HLTH 201 - Pathophysiology
    (number and enrollment requirements)
• HLTH 212 - Health Promotion and Teaching
    (number and enrollment requirements)
• HLTH 230 - Life Span Growth and Development
    (number and enrollment requirements)
• HLTH 314 - Pharmacology
    (Number and enrollment requirements)
• HLTH 344 - Global Perspectives on Health: Exploring the intersection of Equity, Economics, and Culture
    (number and description)
• IT 116 - Introduction to Scripting
    (approved for GenEd)
• IT 117 - Intermediate Scripting
    (approved for GenEd)
• ITAL 276L - Italian Cinema
    (title and description)
• JAPAN 305 - Japanese Pronunciation
    (number, title, and description)
• LABOR 450 - Labor and the U.S. Economy
    (approved for GenEd)
• MATH 345 - Probability and Statistics
    (title)
• MATH 426 - Numerical Linear Algebra
    (title and enrollment requirements)
• MATH 448 - Computational Statistics
    (enrollment requirements)
• MATH 458 - Theory of Numbers
    (enrollment requirements)
• MKT 478 - Special Topics in Marketing
    (allowed completions for credit)
• MLLC 235L - Postwar European Cinema
    (title)
• MLLC 260L - Imagining the Modern Middle East
    (number and description)
• MLLC 325L - Film Festivals
    (approved for GenEd)
• MLLC 330L - Ghostly Doubles and Evil Twins
    (title, description, and enrollment requirements)
• MUSIC 121 - Theory I
    (enrollment requirements)
• MUSIC 122 - Theory II
    (enrollment requirements)
• MUSIC 123 - Ear Training and Sight Singing I
    (enrollment requirements)
• MUSIC 124 - Ear Training and Sight Singing II
    (enrollment requirements)
• MUSIC 221 - Theory III
    (enrollment requirements)
• MUSIC 222 - Theory IV
    (enrollment requirements)
• MUSIC 223 - Ear Training and Sight Singing III
    (enrollment requirements)
• MUSIC 224 - Ear Training and Sight Singing IV
    (enrollment requirements)
• POLSCI 202 - Comparative Politics
    (approved for GenEd)
• POLSCI 451 - Queer Theory & Politics
    (title and description)
• PRFTRN 182 - Introduction to Cybersecurity
    (title and description)
• RELSTY 312 - Mysticism
    (approved for GenEd)
• SOCIOL 102 - Sociology in Boston
    (description)
• SOCIOL 104 - Introduction to Systems of Criminal Justice
    (description)
• SOCIOL 202 - Methods of Sociological Research
    (enrollment requirements)
• SOCIOL 260 - Ethics in Justice
    (description)
• SOCIOL 262 - Criminology
    (description)
• SOCIOL 300 - Sociology of Media and Communication
    (enrollment requirements)
• SOCIOL 305 - Sociology of Culture
    (enrollment requirements)
• SOCIOL 310 - Socialization
    (enrollment requirements)
• SOCIOL 311 - Inequality in Cities
    (title, description, and enrollment requirements)
• SOCIOL 316 - Family Violence
    (enrollment requirements)
• SOCIOL 322 - Latino Boston
    (enrollment requirements)
• SOCIOL 331 - Activism, Protests, and Social Movements
    (enrollment requirements)
• SOCIOL 332 - Economy and Society
    (enrollment requirements)
• SOCIOL 333L - Sociology of Migration
    (enrollment requirements)
• SOCIOL 335 - Politics in the Digital Age
    (enrollment requirements)
• SOCIOL 337 - The Police in Society
    (enrollment requirements)
• SOCIOL 338 - Criminal Courts
    (enrollment requirements)
• SOCIOL 339 - Sociology of Law
    (enrollment requirements)
• SOCIOL 342L - Aging and Society
    (enrollment requirements)
• SOCIOL 346 - The Self in Society: Studies of Autobiographies
    (enrollment requirements)
• SOCIOL 350 - Social Statistics
    (enrollment requirements)
• SOCIOL 355L - Gender, Development, & Globalization
    (enrollment requirements)
• SOCIOL 361 - The Nature of Offending over the Life Course
    (enrollment requirements)
• SOCIOL 362 - Juvenile Delinquency
    (description)
• SOCIOL 363 - Punishment and Corrections
    (description)
• SOCIOL 364 - Internet, Society, and Cyber Crime
    (description)
• SOCIOL 365 - Victimology
    (description)
• SOCIOL 367 - Drugs and Society
    (description)
• SOCIOL 368 - Substance Use, Abuse, and Addiction
    (enrollment requirements)
• SOCIOL 372 - Globalization and Social Change
    (enrollment requirements)
• SOCIOL 375L - Indian Cinema
    (enrollment requirements)
• SOCIOL 382 - The Sociology of Gender
    (description and enrollment requirements)
• SOCIOL 383L - Masculinities
    (enrollment requirements)
• SOCIOL 384 - Sociology of Health, Illness, and Health Care
    (enrollment requirements)
• SOCIOL 386 - The Sociology of Mental Health and Illness
    (enrollment requirements)
• SOCIOL 461 - Internship in Law and Criminal Justice
    (description, enrollment requirements)
• SOCIOL 470 - Senior Seminar
    (enrollment requirements)
• SOCIOL 474 - Senior Seminar in Criminology and Criminal Justice
    (description, enrollment requirements)
• SOCIOL 478 - Directed Study in Sociology
    (enrollment requirements)
• SOCIOL 480 - Special Topics
    (enrollment requirements)
• THRART 260L - Improvisation and the Art of Comedy
    (number, title, description, and enrollment requirements)
• UPCD 301 - Introduction to Research Methods and Community Analysis
    (approval for GenEd)
• UPCD 303 - Quantitative Methods for Community Development
    (subject, description, enrollment requirements, and approval for GenEd)
• WGS 243L - Rethinking the Family: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
    (title, description, approved for GenEd)
• WGS 333L - Sociology of Migration
    (enrollment requirements
• WGS 355L - Gender, Development, & Globalization
    (enrollment requirements)