Communication Skills (3 credits)

Students complete three credits in courses that focus on expression, including those in verbal, symbolic, and written skills that are relevant to their plans of study. Such courses include: speaking, writing, acting, production of the fine arts, signing, and symbolic logic.

Specific examples include (but are not limited to)

  • ART: 102, 165, 166, 265, 266, 269, 365, 366, 465, 469
  • BA: 321, 322, 422W
  • CAS: 203, 211, 212, 213, 250, 252, 352, 404, 450W, 452
  • CN ED: 404, 421
  • COMM: 2, 241, 242, 260W, 269, 270, 283, 360, 374, 446, 462
  • CSD: 218, 318
  • DANCE: 270, 472
  • ENGL: 50, 212, 213, 215, 250, 412, 413, 415, 417, 418, 419
  • FR: 201, 202
  • GER: 201
  • HDFS: 249N, 301, 434, 445
  • INART: 258A, 494, 496
  • MATH: 311, 312, 403
  • MUS: 420
  • PHIL: 12, 212
  • PSYCH: 301W
  • RUS: 204
  • SPAN: 100, 200, 412, 420
  • THEA: 102, 322

Theory/Application (3 credits)

Students complete three credits in courses that focus on theory, principles, central concepts, or fundamental issues in a disciplinary group. Such courses include most Math courses, and other courses focusing on theory, major figures, basic problems, and basic principles.

Specific examples include (but are not limited to)

  • ART: 1, 3, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 90, 102, 165, 166, 168
  • AYFCE: 211
  • BIOL: 110, 222, 444, 450W
  • CAS: 201, 202, 206, 215, 253, 352, 404, 450W, 470
  • CHEM: 20, 21, 110, 112, 450, 452
  • CJ: 100, 113, 420
  • CN ED: 401, 403, 410
  • COMM: 110, 250, 251, 320, 370
  • DANCE: 270, 370, 472
  • ECE: 451
  • ECON: 104
  • ED THP: 115
  • ENGL: 200, 404, 412, 430, 470, 474, 482, 483
  • GEOG: 30, 123
  • HDFS: 129, 229, 239, 249, 301, 311, 315Y, 411, 414, 434, 440, 445
  • HIST: 302W, 453
  • INART: 1, 10, 115, 210, 494, 496
  • KINES: 303, 321
  • MATH: all courses
  • MGMT: 301, 321
  • MKTG: 221W, 301, 330
  • MUS: 8, 121/131, 122/132
  • PHIL: 2, 103(W), 122, 124, 125, 126, 127, 129, 132, 203, 204, 208, 221, 260, 270, 401, 402, 403, 406, 475
  • PHYS: 237
  • PL SC: 1, 3, 14, 17, 140, 417, 430, 431, 481
  • PSYCH: 100, 212, 221, 231, 238, 243, 256, 260, 261, 269, 270, all 400-level
  • RL ST: 001
  • SOC: 5, 12, 30, 110, 405, 406
  • SRA: 111, 221
  • THEA: 102, 112
  • WFS: 430, 450
  • WMNST: 1, 110, 301, 400, 419, 422

Critical Analysis (3 credits)

Students complete three credits in courses that focus on evaluation, synthesis, and analysis. Such courses include most Math and most 400-level literature, philosophy, and history courses, and courses that emphasize criticism, comparative studies, and policy analysis.

Specific examples include (but are not limited to)

  • ACCTG: 211
  • ANTH: 152
  • ART: 465
  • BA: 243, 250, 422W
  • CAS: 220, 402, 411
  • CJ: 450W, 460
  • CN ED: 416
  • COMM : 205, 408, 411, 412
  • CMLIT: all courses
  • DANCE: 410, 412
  • ECON: 102, 104, 315, 351
  • EDSGN: 100
  • EDPSY 101
  • EDTHP: 412
  • EET: 105
  • EGT: 102
  • ENGL: 100, 200, 201, most 400-level literature
  • ENVST: 100, 400
  • FIN: 301
  • GEOG: 363, 406
  • HDFS: 301, 311, 312W, 315Y, all 400-level
  • HIST: 101, 103, 107, 110, 116, 120, 121, 122, 123, 142, 143, 151, 152, 153, 155, 161, 178, 179, 181, 302W, most 400-level
  • HPA: 301, 332
  • IB: 303
  • IST: 432
  • KINES: 345
  • LER: 100, 136
  • MATH: all courses
  • MET: 105
  • MKTG: 221W
  • MUS: 420
  • PHIL: 10, 12, 103
  • PL SC: 3, 14, 22, 135, 403, 405, 411, 426, 430, 431, 432, 440, 456, 461, 471, 474, 497K
  • PSYCH: 100, 212, 221, 231, 238, 256, 260, 261, 269, 270, all 400-level
  • RL ST: 101, 124
  • SOC: 13, 23, 103, 109, 119, 430, 424, 444
  • SPAN: 415
  • SRA: 231, 311
  • THEA: 282
  • WMNST: 205, 420, 452, 453, 456, 462, 490, 491

Research Methods/Projects (3 credits)

Students complete three credits in courses that focus on research methodology or that focus on a research project relevant to their plans of study. Such courses include: all courses numbered 294/494, all laboratory courses, all statistical analysis courses, all research methodology courses, all Computer Science, Information Systems, and Supply Chain Management courses (i.e., CMP SC, IST, MIS, SCM), and most 400-level literature, history, and philosophy courses.

Specific examples include (but are not limited to)

  • BA: 395W, 420, 495B
  • BIOL: 220W, 230W, 240W
  • CAS: 204, 295, 296
  • CHEM: 221, 413W
  • COMM: 241, 401, 413
  • CMPSC: all courses
  • CSE: 103, 120
  • DANCE: 296/496
  • EDPSY 101
  • ENGL: 221W, 414, 487W, most 400-level
  • ENV ST: 200
  • GEOG: 160
  • HDFS: 301, 312W, 433
  • HIST: 302W, most 400-level
  • INART: 294, 494
  • IST: all courses
  • MIS: all courses
  • MKTG: 190, 342
  • MUSIC: 442
  • PHIL: most 400-level
  • PHYS: 211, 212, 213, 214
  • PL SC: 17, 428, 480
  • PSYCH: 301W, all 400-level
  • SCM: all courses
  • SOC: 7, 207, 406, 424
  • SRA: 111, 211
  • STAT: all courses
  • WMNST: 301, 400, 492