Transfer Advising/MC Gen Ed List

For the first time in many years, courses have been removed from the MC General Education Program.  The link to the Updated General Education List sent to you recently reflects those changes.  You can also see the list of removed courses below in this message.  Counselors and advisers should be using this New Updated 2017-18 Gen Ed List with Transfer Advising Notes when working with ALL students during advising sessions; please do NOT use the older lists when helping students choose classes. 
Link:  General Education Course List  Print out and use 2017-18 when working with ALL students regardless of year entered.

The “rule” on Gen Ed is different from the “Seven Year Rule” for Catalog DEGREE requirements.  Students may follow the Degree (Major/Program) Requirements of any MC major for 7 years from the year that they enter MC, but this “7 Year Rule” does NOT apply to General Education.  General Education Courses can only count if the course is labeled as a Gen Ed course during the semester that it is taken.  This means that for yellow highlighted courses listed below, if they are taken next Fall or thereafter, they will not count as a General Education Requirement because they have been removed from the list.

Why? It is partly a technicality:  a course can’t be labeled or carry the Gen Ed “attribute” for some students and not for others depending on the year that a student enrolled.  A course either has a Gen Ed attribute or it doesn’t, and Banner can’t sense a student’s starting date to make the distinction.  The other reason is that the Gen Ed Committee reviewed each course carefully and based decisions on a combination of content, assignments, transferability, etc.  Many disciplines voluntarily decided not to offer courses again as Gen Ed so the decision may also have been discipline-based (MATH 182, some ENGL & HIST, upper-level languages, etc.).

What happens if a student keeps following their earlier Gen Ed list and takes a course in error?  Students will probably be able to file a Gen Ed Appeal to use the course.

Here are the affected courses- removed from General Education for Fall 2017 and thereafter:

Gray = not an issue

REMOVED FROM GEN ED	STILL OFFERED FALL 2017 & COMMENTS
MATH 113 INTRODUCTION TO PROBABILITY	No sections offered Fall 2017
MATH 131 & 132 ELEMENTS OF MATHEMATICS II, III	Offered, but these course have a MATH 130 prereq so Gen Ed has been satisfied
MATH 182 CALCULUS II	Offered, but this course has MATH 181 prereq so Gen Ed has been satisfied
ENGL 223 INTRO TO ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE	Not offered
1)      ENGL 245 THE BIBLE AS LITERATURE	1 section offered, Rockville
ENGL 248 LITERATURE OF THE HOLOCAUST	Not offered
GERM 201 & 202 INTERMEDIATE GERMAN I, II	Courses have a GERM 102 Gen Ed prereq so Gen Ed has been satisfied
2)      HIST 190 HISTORY OF SPORT	Three sections offered, 2 R & 1 TP.  This course is a major requirement for Kinesiology students transferring to UMCP and also Salisbury Exercise Sci. Major USG (HIST 190 is recommended, not required)
HIST 209 HISTORY OF ASIAN AMERICANS	Not offered
HIST 233 ALTERNATIVE LIFESTYLES: 19TH CENT. UTOPIAS	Not offered
3)      HIST 236 HISTORY OF AFRICAN AMERICANS SINCE 1865 – NO LONGER COUNTS AS GLOBAL & CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES	Two sections offered, Distance Learning and R
4)      HIST 255 CONFLICT IN THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST	One section offered, R
5)      HIST 257 & 258 MODERN MILITARY HIST. I & II	One section offered, HIST 257 @ R
6)      HIST 260 THE US SINCE 1945	Two sections offered, R & T
RUSS 201 & 202 INTERMEDIATE RUSSIAN I & II	Not offered; courses have a RUSS 102 Gen Ed prereq. so Gen Ed has been satisfied
7)      BIOL 114 UNDERSTANDING VIRUSES	Two sections offered, R & T
BIOL 151 PRINCIPLES OF BIOLOGY II	Many sections offered; courses have a BIOL 150 Gen Ed prerequisite so Gen Ed has been satisfied for most students; this COULD be an issue for only for Computer Science students transferring to UMBC who need three Science for Science Majors courses if they choose BIOL 150 & 151 and wait to take the third Science course after transfer; otherwise, most other majors that require BIOL 151 also have a several other Gen Ed Lab courses required (Life Science @ MC, transfer students who are Biology, Chem, pre-med majors)

I am sending this out now simply because we are seeing students daily now that Registration is open.  This is an ADVISING message and not intended as an official communication from the General Education Committee.