COURSES OF INSTRUCTION

This section provides listings and descriptions of undergraduate courses offered by the departments and programs of the GW schools included in this Bulletin. Degree requirements of departments and programs in Columbian College of Arts and Sciences appear under the department or program heading; degree requirements of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, the School of Business, the Elliott School of International Affairs, and the School of Public Health and Health Services appear under the respective school's section.

The number of credit hours given for the satisfactory completion of a course is indicated in parentheses after the title of the course. An academic-year course giving 3 credits each semester is marked (3-3). A credit hour may be defined as one 50-minute period of class work or one laboratory period a week for one semester.

The term academic year is used with two-semester courses and generally indicates that the first half of the course is to be offered in the fall semester and the second half in the spring semester. Few offerings for the summer sessions are listed in this Bulletin; consult www.gwu.edu/summer for additional summer offerings. Schedules of Classes are available online at www.gwu.edu/~schedule.

Note that prerequisites indicated near the end of course descriptions are often followed by the phrase or equivalent, although this should be understood in all cases; academic departments may require faculty approval of equivalent prerequisites. Prerequisites that pertain to many or all of a department's courses appear in a note preceding either the department's full course list or the set of courses concerned.

The courses as listed here are subject to change. The University reserves the right to withdraw any course announced or to add course fees.

Key to Abbreviations

The following abbreviations are used for course designations. (The list excludes designations for courses limited to students in the School of Medicine and Health Sciences and the School of Nursing.)

Explanation of Course Numbers

The following numbering system is used. Courses in the 1000s are primarily introductory undergraduate courses; those in the 2000-4000s are upper-division undergraduate courses that can also be taken for graduate credit with permission and additional work; those in the 5000s are special courses or part of special programs available to all students as part of ongoing curriculum innovation; those in the 6000s and 8000s are for master's, doctoral, and professional-level students. The 6000s are open to advanced undergraduate students with approval of the instructor and the dean or advising office.

Double-numbered courses are generally numbered consecutively (e.g., 6342-43). In a small number of cases, however, a set of courses is intended to be taken in sequence, has a single title and description, but carries non-consecutive numbers; in such a case, the second number appears directly below the first. This should be noted, because the department's courses may therefore be listed non-consecutively.