General Education Requirements
The following courses form the General Education requirements for all programs (including the 28 hours of core requirements):
| English Composition I and II |
6 semester hours |
| English Literature (must be 200 level or above) |
3 semester hours* |
| Fine Arts (Art, Fine Arts, Music) |
3 semester hours* |
| Mathematics (with a minimum of 3 hours of College Algebra or Finite Mathematics, depending on degree requirements) |
6 semester hours |
| Natural Sciences |
9 semester hours** |
| Philosophy |
6 semester hours* |
| Social Sciences (with a minimum of 3 hours in History) |
12 semester hours* *** |
| Fundamentals of Public Speaking |
3 semester hours |
| Theology |
6 semester hours* |
| TOTAL |
54 semester hours |
*Courses in English Literature, Art and Music Appreciation, History, Philosophy, and Theology are not skills based and are therefore classified as pure Humanities courses.
**Students wishing to register for a Natural Science elective may choose a course from the following academic discipline prefixes: BIO, CHE, ENV, ESC, FSI, HSC, MAT, and PHY.
***Students wishing to register for a Social Science elective may choose a course from the following academic discipline prefixes: CJU, ECO, GEO, HIS, PSC, PSY or SOC.