Course Descriptions
Below are all course subjects that Towson University offers. Please note course descriptions and prerequisites are accurate at the time of publication and may be subject to change. Students may be interested in planning for future terms. To do so, they need to know when a course is typically offered and if there have been any changes to descriptions and prerequisites.
Current students can view when courses are typically offered through their Student Center. Log in, click on the Student & Faculty Dashboard tile then click on Class Information in the left-hand navigation list. A dropdown menu will appear, choose Browse Catalog. Choose career, Undergraduate or Graduate, from the top dropdown menu. Select a specific course subject, click View Courses; the "Typically Offered" status is located on the right-hand side of the table.
Non-TU students can view when courses are typically offered with no login required. Select Browse Catalog in the left-hand navigation list and then choose the career, Undergraduate or Graduate, from the top dropdown menu. Select a specific course subject, click View Courses; the "Typically Offered" status is located on the right-hand side of the table.
- Accounting (ACCT)
- African and African-American Studies (AFST)
- Allied Health (AHLT)
- American Studies (AMST)
- Anthropology (ANTH)
- Applied Adult Disability Studies (AADS)
- Arabic (ARAB)
- Art (ART)
- Art Education (ARED)
- Art History (ARTH)
- Asian Studies (ASST)
- Astrophysics (ASTR)
- Biology (BIOL)
- Business Analytics & Technology Management (EBTM)
- Business Excellence (BUSX)
- Chemistry (CHEM)
- Chinese (CHNS)
- Communication Studies (COMM)
- Computer Information Systems (CIS)
- Computer Science (COSC)
- Criminal Justice (CRMJ)
- Cultural Studies (CLST)
- Dance (DANC)
- Deaf Studies (DFST)
- Early Childhood Education & Special Education (ECSE)
- Early Childhood Education (ECED)
- Economics (ECON)
- Education (EDUC)
- Electronic Media and Film (EMF)
- Elementary Education & Special Education (EESE)
- Elementary Education (ELED)
- Engineering Physics (EPHY)
- English (ENGL)
- English as Second Language (ESOL)
- Entrepreneurship (ENTR)
- Environmental Science/Studies (ENVS)
- Family Science (FMST)
- Finance (FIN)
- Financial Planning (FPLN)
- Foreign Language (FORL)
- Forensic Science (FRSC)
- French (FREN)
- Geography and Environmental Planning (GEOG)
- Geology (GEOL)
- German (GERM)
- Gerontology (GERO)
- Greek (GRK)
- Health Care Management (HCMN)
- Health Science (HLTH)
- Hebrew (HEBR)
- History (HIST)
- Honors (HONR)
- Information Technology (ITEC)
- Instructional Technology (ISTC)
- Interdisciplinary (IDFA / IDHP / IDIS / IDNM)
- International Studies (INST)
- Italian (ITAL)
- Japanese (JPNS)
- Kinesiology (KNES)
- Latin (LATN)
- Latin American and Latino/Latina Studies (LAST)
- Law and American Civilization (LWAC)
- Legal Studies (LEGL)
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies (LGBT)
- Library (LIBR)
- Linguistics (LING)
- Management (MNGT)
- Marketing (MKTG)
- Mass Communication (MCOM)
- Mathematics (MATH)
- Metropolitan Studies (MTRO)
- Middle School Education (MSED)
- Molecular Biology, Biochemistry and Bioinformatics (MBBB)
- Music (MUSC)
- Music Applied (MUSA)
- Music Education (MUED)
- Nursing (NURS)
- Philosophy (PHIL)
- Physical Science (PHSC)
- Physics (PHYS)
- Political Science (POSC)
- Portuguese (PORT)
- Psychology (PSYC)
- Reading Education (REED)
- Religious Studies (RLST)
- Russian (RUSS)
- Science Education (SCIE)
- Secondary Education (SCED)
- Secondary Education in Mathematics and Science (SEMS)
- Social Sciences (SOSC)
- Sociology (SOCI)
- Spanish (SPAN)
- Special Education (SPED)
- Speech-Language Pathology (SPPA)
- Theater Arts (THEA)
- Towson Seminar (TSEM)
- Women's and Gender Studies (WMST)