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General Education Program Requirements
A. COMMON CORE
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Take one course in each of the following 15 boxes. If a course listed here is also a lower division requirement
for your major, it can simultaneously fulfill both requirements. Extra courses from the same box will count
as unrestricted electives or as lower division major requirements.
No more than two courses with the same alpha (alphabetic prefix such as HIST or BIOL) will count toward
the common core requirements.
Select courses that fulfill each of the 15 core requirements AND include among them a course that meets
each of the following “Cross-Theme Requirements”:
 Digital Literacy: Complete CSCI 1011 or CSCI 1041 or proficiency test

Art, Aesthetics, and Creativity: Complete any course labeled with the “*”
2.
3.
Communication
Skills
Global
Systems
Research &
Epistemology
Values &
Choices
World
Cultures
WRI 1100
WRI 1150
BIOL 1000
BIOL 20521,2
CHEM 10003
GEOL 1000
GEOG 1000
MARS 1000
PHYS 1000
WRI 1200
CLST 1000
ENG 2201*
ENG 2203
HUM 3000
PSCI 2000
NUR 20004
HIST 2001
ARTH 2000*
ARTH 2100*
ARTH 2200*
ENG 2101*
MATH 2007
GEOG 1500
COM 1000
COM 1200
COM 2500
ECON 1010
GEOG 2000
HIST 2002
MARS 1500
BIOL 30901
MATH 1110
MATH 1115
MATH 1130
MATH 1140
MATH 1150
MATH 2214
MATH 2215
PHIL 2090
ANTH 2000
COM 2300
HIST 2402
HUM 1270
MUS 2101*
REL 1000
REL 2001
SOC 1000
STSS 2601
BIOL 1200
BIOL 1500
BIOL 2010
BIOL 20302,3
CHEM 20501,2
CSCI 1041 (DL)
ENVS 3000
HIST 2630
PHYS 1020
SOC 2600
ENG 2501
HIST 2900
MATH 1123
PHIL 3731
PHYS 20301,2
PHYS 20501,2
PSY 1000
SOC 2100
BIOL 1300
ECON 1000
ECON 2010
ENG 2202
ENG 2204
ENG 2301*
HIST 2111
HUM 1000
PSCI 2500
SOC 2000
THEA 1000*
ECON 2015
HIST 2112
HIST 2301
LIT 2000*
NSCI 2100
PSCI 1400
PHIL 1000
A
B
Lower division modern
language classes
NUR 2940&
NUR 2960 &
NUR 29615
C
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CLST 2600
COM 1500
COM 2000
COM 2640
CSCI 1011 (DL)
LAT 1100
THEA 1400*
THEA 2320*
AL 2000
ARTS 1000*
BIOL 2170
HIST 2401
HIST 2113
GEOG 2500*
LIT 2510*
LIT 2520*
MUS 1000*
REL 2151
Courses intended for students who plan to pursue a B. S. degree in the College of Natural Sciences and may have pre-requisites not included in
the common core
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Courses with an associated laboratory requirement. Students choosing these courses should also take the lab using unrestricted electives.
3
Course is required for Nursing students though it is open to other interested students.
4
Course for students intending to pursue the BSN, should be taken in the semester prior to beginning level one nursing courses. Students must
also take NUR 3900 later in the Nursing program to receive credit for this common core category.
5
These three courses are restricted to Nursing students and have several pre-requisites beyond the common core. Students must take all three
courses to receive credit for Communication Skills B.
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B. UPPER DIVISION GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
Some majors may require more than six credits of UD Gen Ed and many specify which courses in the grids
below are required. These courses may overlap with Upper Division Major Requirements or Electives but
not Lower Division Major Requirements or the Common Core courses. Check your degree plan before
enrolling in your upper division general education courses.
1.
Upper Division Research and Writing: Complete one course (or one combination of courses listed
on the same line and joined by “and”) from the grid below
Upper Division
Research and Writing
BIOL 3080 and BIOL 3081
COM 3420
HIST 3900
MGMT 3550
SOC 3100
2.
COM 3400
COM 3500
HUM 3900
NUR 4700 and 4960
SWRK 3300
Service Learning/Global Citizenship: Complete three credits from the grid below
Global Citizenship
ANTH 3000
ANTH 3230
ENVS 3000
HIST 3000
HIST 3414
HIST 3650
HUM 4500
PHIL 3651
PSY 3235
SOC 3380
SOC 3650
OR
Service Learning
CSCI 4911
CSCI 4921
MATH 4920
NUR 4961
SOC 4910
WRI 3510