All are 4-credit courses, unless otherwise noted. Courses that fulfill Goucher Commons Requirements are noted in parentheses with “GCR” and the requirement it fulfills. Students will be able to enroll in one session on myGoucher. To enroll in a second session, students will need to submit a course change form.

All students may take a maximum of 4 credits in June and 4 credits in July. 

CPEA 211: To Walk with Nature: Environment and the Artist (4 CR)   

(GCR Arts Area) (GCR ENV)  

This course examines the multiple relationships that exist between art and the environment. We will look at ways in which the natural environment has inspired artists and arts movements, and we will look at the Environmental Art Movement that uses art to advocate for environmental change. We will also explore ways in which specific environments (galleries, place-based installations, outdoor exhibitions, for example) influence the perception of art, we will examine environmental art movements, and study art exhibits that are related to specific environments. We will learn about artists who work in sculpture, music, dance, theater, photography and architecture to address environmental issues.  Students will engage in making environmental art projects based on their individual interests and art backgrounds, and they will work on collaborative art projects in media that may be new to them.     

Summer Session II   

Synchronous Online, Monday – Friday, 10:00 – 11:45 AM and 12:15 – 1:15 PM  

Instructor: Michael Curry 

CPEC 219: Aesthetics of Attachment (4 CR)    

(GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)   

Art critics often view attachments to our objects of study as a liability—detachment and dispassion are the more responsible attitudes for a “scholar.” They worry that our attachments may obscure important features of an artwork, just as a doctor may miss the warning signs of a serious illness when examining someone they love. In this CPE course, we will investigate the opposite possibility: that our attachments to art and to the world may enable unique powers of perception unavailable to those who adopt a more “objective” or neutral point of view. We’ll pose questions like: “What can fans see in a work of art that others can’t?” and “How do the ways we attach ourselves to art resemble the ways we attach ourselves to other people?” Interdisciplinary readings from philosophical aesthetics, literary theory, media studies, and psychology. 

Summer Session II 

Format and Time: Synchronous Online, Monday – Friday, 1:00 – 2:40 PM and 3:15 – 4:15 PM  

Instructor: McCreary 

HIS 207: Deathways in the New World (4 CR) 

(GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area) 

As peoples came into contact with one another via the Atlantic Ocean, death - burial, last rites and mourning - offered deep insights into each other’s cultural beliefs, values, and social structures. Whether witnessing a funeral, seeing the ritual wear of the bereaved or stumbling upon an individual grave or graveyard, death communicated to outsiders the most important aspects of how they lived and understood the world around them. In this course, we will ask ourselves how deathways in the New World were profoundly impacted by slavery and colonialism. Paying careful attention to death ideology, inclusive of norms about the afterlife, students will engage with the complexities of cross-cultural interactions, the exchange of practices, and the merging or replacement of death customs as they unfolded in North, Central, and South America, as well as the Caribbean. In addition, this course will give students a nuanced understanding of how death rituals functioned as acts of resistance and survival in the face of colonialism and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. This course is a summer course. 

Summer I 

Asynchronous Online 

Instructor: Kami Fletcher 

SP 120: Elements of Spanish II (4 CR)  

Continued development of the four basic language skills-listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing-within the context of Hispanic cultures. Four contact hours. Prerequisite: SP 110 or SP 110V with a minimum grade of C- or placement exam.  

Summer Session I  

Synchronous Online, Monday - Friday, 10:00 – 11:45 AM and 12:15 – 1:15 PM  

Instructor: Maite Gomis-Quinto 

SP 130: Intermediate Spanish (4 CR)   

(GCR FLC - Platforms 1 & 2)  

This course is designed to expand your 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. Successful completion of this course fulfills Platforms 1 and 2 of the Foreign Language and Culture Requirement. Prerequisite: SP 120 or SP 120S or SP 120V, with a minimum grade of C- or placement exam.    

Summer Session II   

Synchronous Online, Monday - Friday, 10:00 - 11:45 AM and 12:15 – 1:15 PM  

Instructor: Frances Ramos Fontán 

SP 132: Spanish Learning Studio (NOTE: This course is 2 CR.) 

This two-credit course will complete your Foreign Language and Culture Requirement (Platform 1: SP 110, 120, 132) --- hopefully in an interesting and enjoyable way! The focus of this course will be the further development of your writing and speaking skills in Spanish. We will review skills you have learned in previous semesters in order to feel more confident in your use of Spanish. Music and film will also be used to develop communicative strategies as well as to give you access to social and cultural understanding.  Two contact hours. Prerequisite: SP 110 and SP 120 with a minimum of C-. 

Summer Session II: JULY 7-18 ONLY  

Synchronous Online, Monday – Friday (10 days) 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM 

Instructor: Jeanie Murphy 

WRT 206: Professional Communication 

(GCR – WEC) 

Open to students from any major, this course will develop and enhance students’ skills in a range of written and verbal communication genres used in business and organizational settings. Students will work on a variety of projects: standard business correspondence, career development documents including a persuasive argument in the form of a longer researched recommendation report, and a presentation for the audience of their choice. Students will learn to write for a range of audiences and will practice using Plain Language to make their writing more reader-friendly and accessible. Prerequisites: WRT 181 or WRT 181H or FYS 100W or CWP. Fulfills WEC requirement. 

Summer Session I  

Asynchronous Online  

Instructor: Susan Garrett