Core Curriculum Requirements
24-25 Total Credit Hours
Common Good (9 credit hours)
- CORE 115: Common Ground (3 credit hours)
(Core 115 Add/Drop Policies)- Incoming traditional and adult transfer students with between 1 and 27 credits who do not have an approved foundation seminar course from an accredited institution, will be required to take the foundation seminar course (CORE 115).
- Incoming traditional and adult transfer students with between 1 and 27 credits who have transferred an approved foundation seminar course from an accredited institution, will not be required to take the foundation seminar course (CORE 115).
- Incoming traditional and adult transfer students with more than 27 credits will not be required to take the foundation seminar course but end with fewer than the required number of credit hours will make up the deficiency by taking courses approved for the core until they accumulate a minimum of 24 credit hours in the core.
- Justice and the Common Good (3 credit hours)
- Ethics (3 credit hours)
Discipline-Specific Core (15-16 credit hours; required for all students)
| Humanities – Core Codes C, CL, CAM, CH, CR, CP – 9 credit hours | ||
| Writing (ENG 101) (3 credit hours) (Must be taken within first 42 credit hours) | Code C | |
| Choose One: | ||
| Speech (COM 100) (3 credit hours) | Code C | |
| Literature (ENG) (3 credit hours) | Code CL | |
| Art or Music (3 credit hours) | Code CAM | |
| History (3 credit hours) | Code CH | |
| Religious Studies (3 credit hours) | Code CR | |
| Sciences – Core Codes CN, CMA, CS – 6-7 credit hours | ||
| SOC 103 Our Social World (3 credit hours) | Code CS | |
| Choose a science or mathematics: | ||
| Biology + lab or Geology + lab or Chemistry + lab or Physics + lab (4 credit hours) |
Code CN | |
| OR | ||
| Mathematics (3 credit hours) | Code CMA | |