2023-2024 Undergraduate Academic Catalog

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Requirements

Outcomes

Foundations Outcomes (12 credits)

Communication  CWRIT 1101 
Analysis  CLITR 1100
Quantitative Reasoning CMATH 1009, CMATH 1010, CMATH 1500, CMATH 1501, CMATH 1515, CMATH 1522, CMATH 1590, CMATH 1990, CMATH 2140, CMATH 2144, or CMGMT 1590
Collaboration Choice of specific First Year Seminar (FYS) FYS classes or AINTD 2008

Students must take one course for each of the above Foundation Outcomes.

First year students take First Year Seminar (FYS) classes to fulfill the Collaboration Outcome. Certain transfer students take AINTD 2008 Transition Seminar: Lives in Context to fulfill the Collaboration Outcome or may transfer an FYS collaboration equivalency.

Perspectives Outcomes (21 credits)

Local and Global Connections
Examining Power & Inequity
Ethical Reasoning, Social Action & Civic Engagement
Create, Perform, Design
Human Relationships to the Physical & Natural World

Students must take a minimum of one course in each Perspectives Outcome (15 credits) and two courses in their choice of Perspectives Outcomes (6 credits).

Students can fulfill these outcomes with designated courses within or outside their primary major.

Applications Course (3 credits)

Students must take a designated Applications Course.  Students should complete 60 credits before enrolling in an Applications course.

Breadth of Inquiry

Liberal Arts Traditions (27 credits)

Arts & Humanities 9 credits
Social Sciences 9 credits
Math & Science 9 credits

Students may double count any of their courses with Breadth of Inquiry requirements except Foundations Outcomes courses and the Applications course.

In some majors, such as Education, certification, licensure or accreditation requirements may specify particular courses in each area of study.

Arts & Humanities (9 credits)

Choose from at least TWO different course prefixes:

IAHIS, CDANC, CDRAM, CHIST, CHUMS, CMUSC, CLANG, CLITR, CPHIL, CRELS or, CCRWT

Does not include CLITR 1100

For Elementary and Special Education majors, 2 of the 3 courses must be history courses: 1 must be US History (CHIST 2121 or CHIST 2330), 1 must be World History (CHIST 1501 or CHIST 1502).  

Social Sciences (9 credits)

Choose from at least TWO different course prefixes:

CANTH, CECON, CGEOG, CGLST, CPOLS, CPSYC, CPLCY, CSOCS or, CSOCL

Business Management majors must take CECON 2101 and 2102

Math & Science (9 credits)

Choose from at least TWO different course prefixes:

CMATH, CBIOL, CHLTH, CNSCI or CPHYS

At least one of these courses (3 credits) must be a CMATH course [excluding CMATH 1009 or CMATH 1010].

Students who take a math course at a level higher than CMATH 1009 or 1010 for their Quantitative Reasoning Foundation Outcome have satisfied the CMATH requirement and may substitute those 3 credits with any other liberal arts elective.

Elementary and Special Education majors must take a science course that includes lab.