CANCELLED - This course will introduce the field of animal behavior and the study of the development, causation, and function from a biological perspective. We will focus on many important biological activities such as foraging, communication, migration, predator-prey interactions, mating, and parental care. The evolution and adaptive significance of behavior will be emphasized. This course is offered on line. Students will be expected to complete some observational and experimental studies where they are located. There will be a break around July 4.
Prerequisites: BIO 104  or BIO 105  or permission of instructor.

This course is an historical overview of the earliest traces of dance to the present day. Students will develop an understanding and appreciation of dance as a vehicle of expression in multiple facets of society from social and world dance forms to the theatrical stage. May not count toward the dance major or minor requirements.
Prerequisites: None.

*Note* This course now approved to fulfill the LER Textual Analysis and Critical Perspectives.

CANCELLED - In a century of social and political upheaval, Arab writers, critics, visual artists, and filmmakers have produed a compelling body of work that challenges oppressive structures and traditions. In this introductory class, students will engage in a close, contextual reading of a wide array of cultural works produced by some of the most provocative voices from Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, and Iraq. Students will examine the ways that gender, class, war and colonialism inform the poetry, fiction, films, music and art of the modern Arab world. Readings and discussions will be conducted in English.
Prerequisites: None

CANCELLED - A continuation of FR 110  and FR 120 , this course focuses on the further acquisition of linguistic skills (understanding oral and written French, speaking, and writing) taught in cultural context. Includes close reading of short pieces by Francophone authors, close viewing of audiovisual materials, and discussion of particular cultural elements in the target language. Four contact hours with an instructor.
Prerequisites: Placement exam or FR 120  with a minimum grade of C-

CANCELLED - A continuation of HIS 116. Emphasis on major social, cultural and political developments from the Enlightenment to the present. Includes the Englightenment and the French Revolution, industrialization, nationalism, socialism, European colonialism and imperialism, facism, the world wars and the Cold War.

Selected topics to illustrate the nature of mathematics, its role in society, and its practical and abstract aspects. Applications of mathematics to business and social sciences are explored. Three hours lecture.
Prerequisites: Placement exam

CANCELLED - This course will cover the roots of the American separation of church and state, its practical application in the courts and in public policy and some of the trends and evolutions of this understanding resulting from changing aspects of the American political, social, and religious landscape. Using a combination of governmental documents, primary sources from politicians, theologians, and everyday Americans, students will examine the relationship between religion and politics in America in the context or race, gender, immigration, warfare, social reform and international relations.
Prerequisites: None

CANCELLED - An overview of the contemporary field of psychology. Topics include fundamental issues in psychology, physiological psychology, perception, principles of learning and cognition, theories of personality, and clinical, humanistic, developmental, and social psychologies. Emphasis on philosophical and methodological foundations of a scientific study of mind and behavior. Three hours lecture. Students intending to become psychology majors should register concurrently for PSY 112.
Prerequisites: None

CANCELLED - Experiments and laboratory demonstrations illustrating topics covered in PSY 111. Intended either to be taken concurrently with PSY 111 or for students who have previously taken an introductory psychology course equivalent to PSY 111.
Prerequisites: None

This course is designed to expand knowledge of the Spanish language and explore the cultural diversity in the Spanish-speaking world through the development of listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. This is the third and final course of the lower-division language sequence. Satisfactory completion of the course fulfills the foreign language requirement.
Prerequisites: SP 120, 120C, or SP 120V, with a minimum grade of C- or placement

This course is a collaboration between the Maryland Shakespeare Festival and Goucher College. Students will spend an intensive three week training residency on campus with daily classes in Shakespeare scene work, voice and movement, and text analysis. Workshops and lectures on Shakespeare's life and times, stage combat, historic dance and others will be included. The course focuses on original practices, techniques, and methods employed by theatre companies in Shakespeare's day, especially emphasizing direct interaction with the audience. Instructors will include Goucher faculty and professional actor/teachers from the Maryland Shakespeare Festival.
Prerequisites: THE 120 (Beginning Acting) or permission of the instructor

An interdisicplinary examination of contemporary womens's experience drawing on a variety of sources - scholarly journals, autobiography, fiction, poetry, political analysis - with an emphasis on racial and ethnic diversity. Focus is on issues such as sexualities, labor force, family, motherhood, education, cultural images, health, sexual violence and political activism.
Prerequisites: None