Courses that were removed from Mason Core academic year (AY) 2024-2025 and forward are listed below. While students should follow the Mason Core requirements associated with their catalog year, individual courses that have lost Mason Core designation will no longer fulfill those requirements even if listed in the catalog in which the student was admitted.
For questions about a specific course or course removals from prior years, please contact the Mason Core Office.
AY 2025-2026
Arts
DANC 161 Beginning Tap Dance
INTS 103 Human Creativity: Science and Art
MUSI 382 Piano Ensemble
Information Technology and Computing
INTS 203 Inquiry for Action: Facilitating Change
Just Societies
ARTH 315 Modern Architecture
ARTH 370 Arts of the United States
CEIE 100 Environmental Issues and Solutions Around the World
CRIM 405 Law and Justice around the World
ENGH 315 Folklore and Folklife
HIST 272 Survey of Latin American History
HIST 308 Nineteenth-Century Europe
HIST 316 History of Modern Architecture
HIST 329 Modern Russia and the Soviet Union
Literature
CLAS 380 Greek and Roman Novels
RUSS 327 20th-Century Literature in Translation
Mason Apex
BINF 354 Foundations in Mathematical Biology
BIOL 379 RS: Ecological Sustainability
CHIN 355 Readings in Chinese Poetry and Poetics
EVPP 378 RS: Ecological Sustainability
FAVS 352 Ethics of Film and Video
FAVS 496 Screenwriting: Advanced
PHIL 309 Bioethics
PHIL 343 Topics in Environmental Philosophy
PHIL 379 Perspectives on Time
PROV 342 The George Mason Debates in Current Affairs
RUSS 353 Russian Civilization
SPAN 388 Introduction to Latina/o Studies
Natural Science
BIOL 140 Plants and People
CHEM 156 Introduction to Environmental Chemistry II
INTS 103 Human Creativity: Science and Art
Social and Behavioral Science
INTS 438 Representations of Race
INTS 371 Food Systems and Policy
INTS 203 Inquiry for Action: Facilitating Change
SOCI 371 The Individual and Society
UNIV 381 Foundations for Building a Just Society
Writing Intensive
FAVS 496 Screenwriting: Advanced
THR 482 Advanced Screenplay Workshop
AY 2024-2025
Arts
DANC 391: Dance History II
Mason Apex
GGS 303: Geography of Resource Conservation
SOCI 377: Art and Society
SOCW 375: Human Behavior from an Anti-Oppressive Lens
Natural Science
BIOL 213: Cell Structure and Function
Writing Intensive
ECON 355: The Political Economy of Nonprofit Institutions
ECON 435: Economics of Energy
ECON 470: Economics of Regulation
NEUR 410: Current Topics in Neuroscience
SOCI 412: Contemporary Sociological Theory