2024-2025 General Education Course List Revisions

The official 2024-2025 General Education course list is located on the General Education catalog page. The .pdf General Education course list is a reference guide only.

 General Education courses lists for the past seven years can be found on the General Education webpage for students and the General Education Standing Committee (GESC) webpage for faculty and staff. MyMC credentials are required for the committee page.

 Following are the revisions to the 2024-2025 General Education course list:

§  ARTT 116 – delete course from list (and catalog)

§  HIND 101 – (GCP) delete course from list (and catalog)

§  PORT 101 – (GCP) delete course from list (and catalog)

§  PORT 102 – (GCP) delete course from list (and catalog)

           

 

General Education Course List - Revisions for 2023-2024

The .pdf General Education course list is a reference guide only. The official General Education course list is located on the General Education catalog page.

General Education courses lists for the past seven years can be found on the General Education webpage for students and the General Education Standing Committee webpage for faculty and staff. MyMC credentials are required for the committee page.

Following are the revisions to the 2023-2024 General Education course list:

 

§  BIOL 105- add GCP designation

§  BIOL 106 - add GCP designation

§  BIOL 111 – remove Gen Ed designation

§  CHEM 109 – new course number CHEM 105, add GCP designation

§  ENGL 190 – add GCP designation

§  ENGL 235 – add GCP designation

§  HIND 102 – delete course

§  JAPN 102 – add HUMD, GEIR, GEEL, GCP designation 

§  KORA 201 – add HUMD, GEIR, GEEL, GCP designation

§  PSYC 102 – new course number PSYC 100

           

Advising About COMM 108 & COMM 112

We just received the message below from UM’s Smith School Director Luke Glasgow.  He has contacted us several times over the years about this issue – UM College Park will only accept 3 credits from only ONE course if a student takes both COMM 108 and COMM 112.   

Unfortunately, many students choose COMM 108 as a GEIR and then also take COMM 112 as either a Humanities for Gen Ed or as an Elective for Business or other UM majors (including Communication Studies).  In fact, UM will only accept ONE course from COMM 108, COMM 112, or COMM 121 Public Speaking, as all three are considered to by UM to be the equivalent of COMM 107, their Oral Communications Gen Ed course.

Beyond UM, there are 5 other MD schools that also consider both COMM 108 and COMM 112 to be the same course upon transfer (UMBC, UMB School of Nursing, U of Baltimore, Hood College and McDaniel College – see the ARTSYS chart at the bottom of this message).

The MC Gen Ed Program Course List shows an “or” for the GEIR listing of COMM 108 or 112 on Page 1, and also shows “COMM 108 or 112” in the Humanities Distribution area on Page 2. Technically, if a student is not planning to transfer, then picking both COMM 108 for a GEIR or GEEL and COMM 112 for a Humanities is fine for graduation in many of our degrees.  But for the student headed to UM, as well to UMBC, UMB School of Nursing, or 3 other MD schools, taking both courses becomes a transfer problem as these institutions will only accept 3 credits if both are taken.

Telling students who have taken both that they must take another course in order to transfer to UM / UMBC / UMB SON with 60 credits is painful, especially if they are graduating and Financial Aid won’t cover the cost of taking an additional 3 credits over the summer or winter prior to transfer.

Any ideas you might have about how to more clearly advise students that only one COMM from 108 or 112 should be taken if transferring to UM / UMBC or UMB School of Nursing would be appreciated.   Providing a note that students should check the transferability of courses may seem like we’re covering the issue, but the reality is that students look to us, their counselors / program advisors / instructors, to guide them and we often are the very people who assure students that if a course is on the MC Gen Ed List, then it will transfer without question to a MD public institution.

This is NOT a suggestion to remove COMM 112 Business and Professional Communication as a General Education Program course, because for some majors, especially in AAS career degrees, this course is valuable.  Rather, the question is, how do we effectively let students know that if they are transferring to a four-year university, then they should probably take only one course from COMM 108 or 112?  A footnote on the Gen Ed List is one idea, but it still doesn’t cover the student who might choose a second COMM from 108 or 112 as an Elective.

Ideas?

Anne Schleicher, Counselor (Part-time)
Montgomery College Online Advising Services

Gen Ed Course or Not?

Question:   

The current general education program lists do not list SOC 204 Sociology of the Family ( student took in 2014 ).

As SOCY courses currently listed of 100, 105, 208, 240 and 243 are categorized as GPC’s, may we assume such? Or is there a way to check.

Answer (from Anne Schleicher): 

The fastest way to check whether a course fills a Gen Ed requirement is to run a Degree Evaluation for the student in Banner (Faculty and Advisor Menu).  If the course was a GPC Global Perspectives or * Multicultural in the semester it was taken, then it should fill in that spot at the top of the Degree Evaluation automatically.

And you’re right, the course had to be on the Gen Ed list in the year that it was taken, so just looking at a current list Gen Ed is not always the way to determine that.  Sometimes students will tell you “I’m sure I took a class for that requirement! (whatever Gen Ed category it was).”

The other way to look is to crack open the vaults.  You can look at Gen Ed Program Lists from many years past to see whether a course was Gen Ed at the time it was taken, these Gen Ed printable pages for students pages go back to 2015, just search for General Education on the MC Main Page to find this list again

https://www.montgomerycollege.edu/academics/general-education-program/index.html

But in this case, because the year was 2014, you need to dive deeper into an archived Catalog and within that Catalog, search for “General Education Program”.  https://catalog.montgomerycollege.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=15&poid=3587 The Designators changed in the year 2015 from 2-letters to 4-letters, so looking for the course title is the best way to find the class, and you can see that the course is on the list as a GPC (designated with a * for Multicultural instead of GPC).

HIST260 - Fall 2020 HUMD Catalog Error

An error was recently discovered for HIST 260.  HIST260 is not a Gen Ed course and (HUMD) needs to be removed from the course description. The attribute was removed effective 201820, but the HUMD was not deleted from the catalog description.

As of 9/2/2020:     The description has been corrected.  

2019-2020 Gen Ed Course List - Update

The 2019-2020 Gen Ed course list was updated with course title corrections and clarified language in red. No courses were added or removed from the list. Since content changes can only be made annually, the revised doc has an A after the date in the footer.

The revised doc  can be found on the internal and external GESC sites. If you have questions or need clarification, please contact the Gen Ed Committee.

The Gen Ed Committee

General Education Committee - Fall 2019 Update

Hi All,

My name is Kimberly Yost and I will be serving as the Gen. Ed committee chair.

We wanted to share with you the release of the new external  Gen. Ed website for students.

Link: https://www.montgomerycollege.edu/academics/general-education-program/index.html

For Gen. Ed appeals the PDF paper form is still on the website but that will be updated to an online form once it is complete and through IT. Date TBA we are in the finalization process and then there will be a waiting process.

There will be an internal site for faculty but it will be behind the firewall since there will be some information on there that will not be accessible to others outside of MC with certification of the Gen Ed courses.

Mark Levine will be sitting on the committee to communicate all information to and from the Gen. Ed committee so always feel free to contact him.

Keep in mind you can always contact me as well. If you ever need me to come talk about Gen. Ed to meetings or anything you need please let me know.

For reference also the Gen. Ed mailbox is always available to email. This is where the students can email as it keeps a record of everything for them and we check it consistently.

Looking forward to working with you.

Thanks so much.

Respectfully,

Kimberly Yost, Gen. Ed chair

General Education Course List 2017-18 - Removed Courses

With Registration in full swing, this seems like a good time to remind everyone of the slight but important changes to the MC General Education Program List for 2017-18.   Below is an update to the Memo sent in August -  

MEMO REGARDING the NINETEEN COURSES THAT HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM THE 2017-18 GENERAL EDUCATION COURSE LIST:

Subject: Transfer Advising/MC Gen Ed List     Sent Fall 2017; updated for Spring 2018 on 11/6/17 - see below!

This message comes from the TRANSFER ADVISING perspective; it is not an official message from the MC General Education Committee.

For the first time in many years, some courses have been removed from the MC General Education Program.  You can see the list of removed courses for 2017-18 below in this message.

Counselors and advisers should be using the 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  Please 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 courses.  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 in Fall 2017 or thereafter, they will not count as a General Education Requirement because they have been removed from the list.

Why aren’t Gen Ed courses based on the year a student started?   It’s 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 (not the GE Committee) 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 may file a Gen Ed Appeal to use the course – but we should be vigilant about cautioning students also. 

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

The Syllabus for each Removed Course should state that the course NO LONGER FULFILLS a General Education Requirement -

	REMOVED FROM GEN ED LIST 2017-18 CATALOG		STILL OFFERED FALL 2017 & COMMENTS		Is it OFFERED in Spring 2018?
1)      MATH 113 INTRODUCTION TO PROBABILITY		No sections offered Fall 2017		No sections offered Spring 2018
2)      MATH 131 & 132 ELEMENTS OF MATHEMATICS II, III		Offered, but these course have a MATH 130 prereq so Gen Ed has been satisfied		Offered, but these course have a MATH 130 prereq so Gen Ed has been satisfied
3)      MATH 182 CALCULUS II		Offered, but this course has MATH 181 prereq so Gen Ed has been satisfied		Offered, but this course has MATH 181 prereq so Gen Ed has been satisfied
4)      ENGL 223 INTRO TO ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE		Not offered		Not offered
5)      ENGL 245 THE BIBLE AS LITERATURE		1 section offered, Rockville		Yes, 1 section offered, Rockville CRN 33272
6)      ENGL 248 LITERATURE OF THE HOLOCAUST		Not offered		Not offered
7 & 8) GERM 201 & 202 INTERMEDIATE GERMAN I, II		Courses have a GERM 102 Gen Ed prereq so Gen Ed has been satisfied		One section, GERM 202 Intermediate II, Rockville
9)      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)		Yes, Four sections offered, 1 @ Seneca Valley HS,  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)
10)   HIST 209 HISTORY OF ASIAN AMERICANS		Not offered
11)   HIST 233 ALTERNATIVE LIFESTYLES: 19TH CENT. UTOPIAS		Not offered		Yes, One section, Rockville
12)   HIST 236 HISTORY OF AFRICAN AMERICANS SINCE 1865 – Syllabus should note that this course NO LONGER fulfills a GLOBAL & CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE Requirement		Two sections offered, Distance Learning and R		Yes, Five sections, one Distance, 1 R, 3 TP-SS
13)   HIST 255 CONFLICT IN THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST		One section offered, R		Not offered
14)   HIST 257 & 258 MODERN MILITARY HIST. I & II		One section offered, HIST 257 @ R		Yes, One section offered, HIST 258 @ R
15)   HIST 260 THE US SINCE 1945		Two sections offered, R & T		Yes, Two sections offered, R & T
16 & 17) RUSS 201 & 202 INTERMEDIATE RUSSIAN I & II		Not offered; courses have a RUSS 102 Gen Ed prereq. so Gen Ed has been satisfied		Not offered
18)   BIOL 114 UNDERSTANDING VIRUSES		Two sections offered, R & T		One section offered, Rockville
19)   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 (Biological Science @ MC, transfer students who are Biology, Chem, pre-med majors)		Same as Fall notes; students who take BIOL 151 Principles of Biology II and need this course to count as a second Science (Computer Science majors transferring to UMBC) can submit a Gen Ed Appeal to ask to use the course as a Science

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.

In summary, please use the 2017-18 Gen Ed List Transfer Advising List only when advising ALL students who are choosing Gen Ed classes for Fall and After. 

General Education Course List  Print out and use 2017-18 when working with ALL students regardless of year entered.

Find it always on the MC Transfer Page, under Information for MC Faculty and Staff.  At Germantown, it is available in SA 250 printed on BLUE paper to distinguish it from previous years.

The master reference point is the MC Online Catalog 2017-18:  http://catalog.montgomerycollege.edu/content.php?catoid=8&navoid=1411

Anne Schleicher, Transfer Counselor

Germantown Campus

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.

Updated Gen Ed Course Substitution Process

the Gen Ed Course Substitution Process has been updated, and the new procedures and application are posted on the Gen Ed Committee site, located under "Central Committees" on the  MyMC home page.  For your convenience and information, I'm attaching the updated document here, as well.

Professor Sharon Anthony

English & Reading Department

Co-Chair, General Education Standing Committee

Germantown Campus, PK137

240-567-7769

Gen Ed Program 2 Update Page

There’s an update to the General Education Transfer Advising Page for MC’s Gen Ed Program 2 – the only change is the addition of multiple HLTH courses within the GEIR section on the first page.   This new version is located on the Transfer Page at this link:

http://cms.montgomerycollege.edu/EDU/Plain.aspx?id=44793    

Yes, we still have 2 Gen Ed programs for students this 2016-17 academic year - next year, all students new to MC will be under Program 2.

Anne Schleicher, Counselor

2016-17 Gen Ed

Here is the link to the 2016-17 Gen Ed Lists:  http://cms.montgomerycollege.edu/EDU/Plain.aspx?id=44793

A few points to remember:  Students who started this Summer through Summer II may follow Program 1 which has more offerings in Health.  BE CAREFUL with students who start at MC for the first time this Fall  who are following Program 2 – the ONLY HLTH courses that work for Gen Ed are: 

1.       HLTH 131 Drugs & Lifestyle. Wellness (GEIR)

2.       HLTH 160 Science & Theory of Health (GEIR)

3.       HLTH 170 Introduction to Aging (GEIR)

4.       HLTH 212 Controlling Stress & Tension (GEIR)

5.       HLTH 225 Intro. Health Behaviors (GEIR)

When students are choosing a Gen Ed COMM, please be aware that it says COMM 108 OR COMM 112.  UMCP considers both courses to be equivalent to their COMM 107, so students should NOT take both for a transfer to UMCP because only 3 credits will transfer.

Degrees under New General Education Program for 2016-2017

The following degrees are following the new general education program for 2016-2017

(General Education Program 2)

http://catalog.montgomerycollege.edu/content.php?catoid=6&navoid=867

The updated Advising Worksheets for these degrees will be available by the end of the week.  The Advising worksheets for the 2015-2016 catalog for these degrees will also be available on the Advising Worksheet index until the Advising Worksheet archives are completed.

All of the remaining Associate degrees are following last year’s general education program.  These degrees will be changing over to the new general education program for next year’s catalog (2017- 2018). 

 

Computer Gaming and Simulation*	A.A.S.	360
Criminal Justice*	A.A.S.	314
Digital Animation	A.A.S.	358
Food and Beverage Track- Hospitality Management*	A.A.S.	347A
Graphic Design*	A.A.S.	304A
Illustration*	A.A.S.	305
Management/Supervision Concentration- Hospitality Management	A.A.S.	347B
Business	A.A.	6
Computer Science	A.A.	107
General Studies: INTG	A.A.	611D
General Studies: HACL	A.A.	611A
General Studies: STEM	A.A.	611B
General Studies: SSAH	A.A.	611C
Information Systems	A.A.	109
Aerospace Engineering	A.S.	408
Bioengineering	A.S.	411A
Chemical Engineering	A.S.	406
Chemistry and Biochemistry	A.S.	412D
Civil Engineering*	A.S.	407
Computer Engineering	A.S.	409
Electrical Engineering	A.S.	402
Environmental Science and Policy	A.S.	412E
Fire Protection Engineering	A.S.	403
General Engineering	A.S.	410
Life Science	A.S.	412A
Materials Science and Engineering*	A.S.	413
Mathematics	A.S.	412B
Mechanical Engineering	A.S.	404
Nuclear Engineering*	A.S.	405
Physics	A.S.	412C

You can find information about the old general education program:

(General Education Program 1)

http://catalog.montgomerycollege.edu/content.php?catoid=6&navoid=866

Please contact me if you have any questions or find any errors in the Advising Worksheets.

Thanks!!  Anthony Solano, MA, LCPC (Counseling & Advising, Germantown Campus)