2025-2026 Academic Catalog

General Education Requirements for Students in Education, Liberal Arts & Business, and Mental Health & Well-Being

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, CBUSN 1590
Collaboration Choice of First Year Seminar (FYS) classes or, for certain transfer students, AINTD 2008

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

First year students take FYS classes to fulfill the Collaboration Outcome. Certain transfer students may 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 & 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. Courses that satisfy these outcomes are listed here.

Applications Course (3 credits)

All undergraduate students must take an Applications Course. Students are expected to have completed 60 credits before enrolling in an Applications course.

Breadth of Inquiry

Liberal Arts Traditions (27 credits)

Arts & Humanities9 credits
Social Sciences9 credits
Math & Science9 credits

Students may double count any of their courses with Breadth of Inquiry and Perspectives Outcomes 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. Students should refer to their Program of Study and work with their advisor to make appropriate selections.

Arts & Humanities (9 credits)

Choose from at least TWO different course prefixes:

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

Does not include CLITR 1100

Social Sciences (9 credits)

Choose from at least TWO different course prefixes:

CANTH, CGLST, CPOLS, CPSYC, CPLCY, CSOCS, CSOCL, CBUSN 2100

Business majors must take CBUSN 2100

Math & Science (9 credits)

Choose from at least TWO different course prefixes:

CMATH, CBIOL, CHLTH, CNSCI, CPHYS

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