May 09, 2024  
2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog

2023-2024 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

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Program Additions

Program Changes

Apply to students with program catalog terms of Fall 2023 or Spring 2024 or Summer 2024 only unless otherwise noted

Course Additions

  • AF 317 : Data Analytics for Accounting
  • AF 490 : Current Topics in Accounting 
  • BIOL 357 : Comparative and Ecological Immunology
  • BIOL 376 : Virology
  • CINE 225 : Film Adaptations 
  • ECON 305 : Introduction to Data Modeling through Data Visualization 
  • ENGL 186G : Exploring Thompson Island: On the Ground and in the Archives
  • ENGL 415 : Irish Literature
  • ENVSCI 150L : Introduction to Climate Change 
  • ENVSCI 405 : Environmental Modeling
  • FRENCH 310 : French for Heritage Speakers
  • FRENCH 360 : Maps, Monsters, and Monarchs
  • GERON 170 : Sexuality and Aging
  • GERON 190 : Death and Dying
  • HIST 220 : History of European Empires
  • HIST 271 : Survey of Afro-American History
  • HUMCTR 372 : Human Services Directed Study for Credit
  • LATSTY 150 : Special Topics: Latinidades
  • MLLC 250G : History of Witch Hunts in Europe 
  • MLLC 345L : Dreams and Visions
  • NURSNG 314 : Pharmacology in Nursing
  • PHIL 379 : Reality and Illusion, East and West 
  • PHIL 475 : Philosophy Capstone; advanced topics in Philosophy with extended writing assignment.
  • POLSCI 439 : Thinking Islamophobia and the War Terror 
  • PUBHTH 101 : History and Foundations of Public Health
  • PUBHTH 102 : Introduction to Environmental Health
  • PUBHTH 220 : Introduction to Epidemiology
  • RELSTY 215L : Introduction to Buddhism
  • RELSTY 218G : Religious and Film
  • THRART 301 : Contemporary American Drama 

Renumbered Courses

  • CLSICS 320L : Bronze Age Aegean Archaeology (was CLSICS 304)
  • MGT 474 : Entrepreneurship Practicum to Launch Your Own Business (was MGT 469)
  • MLLC 250G : Witches and Witch-Hunts (was GERMAN 225G)
  • PHIL 250 : Formal Logic (was PHIL 120) 

Course Changes

  • ANTH 356 : African Diaspora Art in the City (Course Reactivation) 
  • ANTH 359 : Economies and cultures in comparative perspective (Course Reactivation) 
  • ANTH 413 : Forensic Anthropology (Pre-Requisites) 
  • ASIAN 251L : South Asia in the Indian Ocean World: Trade Labor and Capital from 1800 to the Present (General Education Addition)
  • BIOL 357 : Comparative and Ecological Immunology (Pre-Requisites) 
  • BIOL 395 :Biotechnology (Pre-Requisites) 
  • CHEM 408 : Data Analysis in Chemistry (Course Title, Description, and Pre-Requisites)
  • CINE 213L : The Art of Editing (Course Reactivation) 
  • CLSICS 320L : Bronze Age Aegean Archaeology (Cross-Listed with HIST 320L )
  • CS 410 : An Introduction to Software Engineering (Description)
  • ECON 202 : Macroeconomic Theory (Pre-Requisites) 
  • ECON 327 : Political Economy of Development in Africa (Course Reactivation) 
  • EDC U 212 : Coding for Non-Coders (Description) 
  • ENGL 135 : Love and Death in American Literature (Course Title and Description) 
  • ENGL 186G : Exploring Thompson Island: On the Ground and in the Archives (General Education Addition) 
  • ENGL 351 : Early African-American Literature (Course Reactivation) 
  • ENGL 376 : Literature and the Political Imagination (Course Reactivation) 
  • ENGL 415 : Irish Literature (Course Reactivation) 
  • ENGL 418 : The Modern Irish Novel (Course Reactivation) 
  • ENGL 470L : New England Literature and Culture (Course Reactivation) 
  • ENGL 489 : Terrorism and the Novel (Course Reactivation) 
  • ENVSCI 150L : Introduction to Climate Change (General Education Addition)
  • ENVSCI 261 : Statistics for Environmental Science (Enrollement Consent) 
  • ENVSCI 405 : Environmental Modeling (Pre-Requisites and Cross-Listed with ENVSCI 605)
  • FRENCH 310 : French for Heritage Speakers (Course Reactivation) 
  • FRENCH 340L : Moving Across Borders: Migration and Diversity (Title and Description)
  • FRENCH 480 : Images of Otherness in French and Francophone Literature (Course Reactivation) 
  • FRENCH 499 : Senior Honors Thesis (Course Reactivation) 
  • GERMAN 225G : History of Witch Hunts in Europe (Course Reactivation) 
  • GERMAN 340L : Moving Across Borders: Migration and Diversity (Title and Description)
  • GERMAN 365L : German Pop Culture (Course Reactivation, Subject, Course Title and Description) 
  • GERON 150 : Introduction to Aging and the Life Course (Course Title) 
  • GERON 160 : International Perspectives on Population Aging (Course Title) 
  • GERON 180 : Diversity and Aging (General Education Addition)
  • GERON 350 : Families in Later Life (Course Reactivation) 
  • GREEK 301 : Attic Orators (Course Reactivation) 
  • HIST 251L : South Asia and the Indian Ocean World (Title and Description)
  • HIST 307 : Renaissance and Reformation (Pre-Requisites) 
  • HIST 312 : Cities in Early Modern Europe (Course Reactivation) 
  • HIST 314 : Health and Healing in Early Modern Europe (Pre-Requisites) 
  • HIST 322 : Shakespeare’s London (Pre-Requisites) 
  • HIST 324 : Russia and the Soviet Union: From the 1917 Revolution to Putin (Pre-Requisites)
  • HIST 326 : Hitler, A Man and His Times (Pre-Requisites) 
  • HIST 330 : The French Revolution (Pre-Requisites) 
  • HIST 331 : France since 1789 (Course Reactivation) 
  • HIST 337 : Making a “Second Sex”: Women and Gender in Modern European History (Description and General Education Addition)
  • HIST 342 : Cinema in Hitler’s Germany: Movies, Propaganda, Politics in Weimar and Nazi Germany 1919-1945 (Pre-Requisites)
  • HIST 346 : Women & Gender in African History (Pre-Requisites) 
  • HIST 347 : Feast to Famine: Food in African History (Pre-Requisites) 
  • HIST 351 : Histories of Brazil (Pre-Requisites) 
  • HIST 352 : Topics in African History (Course Reactivation) 
  • HIST 375 : The US Civil War and Reconstruction (Course Reactivation) 
  • HIST 377 : The American Progressive Era, 1890-1920 (Pre-Requisites) 
  • HIST 380 : The United States Since 1945 (Pre-Requisites) 
  • HIST 384 : E Pluribus Unum?: American Immigration and Ethnicity (Course Reactivation) 
  • HIST 392 : American Women in Biography (Course Reactivation) 
  • HIST 395 : The History of Boston (Pre- Requisites) 
  • HIST 402L : History of US Visual Media (Pre-Requisites) 
  • HIST 413 : Saints, Witches and Heretics (Description and Pre-Requisites) 
  • HIST 456 : Faith and Politics in Islam (Title, Description and General Education Addition) 
  • HIST 462 : A Nation in Turmoil: The United States, 1815-1850 (Pre-Requisites)
  • HIST 468 : Age of FDR: America in Depression and War (Pre-Requisites) 
  • HIST 478 : Special Topics Seminar in History (Pre-Requisites) 
  • HIST 481 : Research & Methods: Senior Research Methods in History (Pre-Requisites) 
  • ITAL 340L : Moving Across Borders: Migration and Diversity (Title and Description)
  • JAPAN 222L : Introduction to Japanese Music (Cross-Listed with ASIAN 222L )
  • LATSTY 223L : Latino/Latina/Latinx Literature (Cross-Listed with ENGL 223L )
  • MGT 474 : Entrepreneurship Practicum to Launch Your Own Business (Course Title, Description, Pre-Requisites, and Enrollment Consent) 
  • MLLC 150G : Self and Other (Subject, Course Title, and Description) 
  • MLLC 220L :Underworld Journeys (Course Title, Description and Cross-Listed with ITAL 220L )
  • MLLC 250G : Witches and Witch-Hunts (Subject, Course Title, and Description) 
  • MLLC 340L : Moving Across Borders: Migration and Diversity (Title and Description)
  • MLLC 345L : Dreams and Visions (General Education Addition)
  • MLLC 377L : Rebellion! On Being Young in European Fiction (General Education Addition)
  • NURSNG 272 : Applying Nursing Process (Credits)
  • NURSNG 273 : Assessment and Health Promotion (Credits) 
  • PHIL 225L : The Philosophy of Religion (Description and Cross-Listed with RELSTY 225L 
  • PHIL 250 : Formal Logic (Course Title) 
  • PHIL 379 : Reality and Illusion, East and West (Course Reactivation) 
  • PHIL 418 : The Ideas of Constitutional Democracy (Course Reactivation) 
  • PHIL 440 : Philosophy of Language (Course Reactivation) 
  • POLSCI 330 : Presidential Elections (A) (Course Reactivation) 
  • POLSCI 369 : Politics of the Middle East (C) (Course Reactivation) 
  • POLSCI 422 : Nationalism (C) (Course Reactivation) 
  • PSYCH 215 : Mental Health and Psychological Distress (Title and Description) 
  • RELSTY 215L : Introduction to Buddhism (General Education Addition) 
  • RELSTY 218G : Religious and Film (General Education Addition) 
  • RELSTY 241L : Myth, History, and Prophecy: Old Testament (Cross-Listed with CLSICS 241L )
  • RELSTY 242L : Origins of Christianity: From Jesus to Constantine (Cross-Listed with CLSICS 242L )
  • RELSTY 310 : Apocalypse and the End of the World (Course Reactivation) 
  • SOCIOL 201 : Sociological Theory (Pre-Requisites)
  • SOCIOL 202 : Methods of Sociological Research (Pre-Requisites) 
  • THRART 115 : Makeup Artistry (Course Reactivation) 
  • THRART 300L  : Scenic Design for Theatre and Entertainment (Course Reactivation) 
  • THRART 301 : Contemporary American Drama (Course Reactivation) 
  • THRART 316 : The Elizabethan Stage (Course Reactivation) 
  • THRART 324 : Movement for the Actor (Course Reactivation) 
  • WGS 229L : Latinx Sexualities (General Education Addition) 
  • WGS 263G : Transgender Studies: Scholarly and Community Perspectives (General Education Addition) 
  • WGS 343L : The Cultural Politics of HIV/AIDS (General Education Addition and Description)