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COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS & SCIENCES 2007-2008
Colleges of Liberal Arts & Sciences - Undergraduate Studies General Information Liberal Studies Program
Liberal Studies Program
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The student’s course of study in the Liberal Studies Program is part of the undergraduate program devoted exclusively to liberal education. The program seeks to balance and, when necessary, augment the student’s course of study in the major field. For this reason the number and distribution of courses vary according to the major field. In general, students may not take courses in their major for Liberal Studies credit. Exceptions to this policy are the junior year experiential learning requirement and the senior year capstone requirement. In some cases, allied field courses required by the student’s major program may be taken for Liberal Studies credits. (The student should consult the departmental entries for the Liberal Studies requirements of his or her major. See Course reduction below.) For additional information, please visit http://las.depaul.edu/lsp/public_html/index.html.

           

All students in the College are required to complete 32 or 36 quarter hours in the Liberal Studies Core, including either 4 or 8 quarter hours in Mathematical and Technological Literacy (depending on placement), along with either 52 or 48 quarter hours of approved Liberal Studies courses distributed through 6 learning domains in departments across the university.  The number and distribution of courses in each of the areas are as follows:  

 

Core: 32or 36 quarter hours required as follows:

First Year Program: 16 quarter hours required as follows: 4 quarter hours in Discover Chicago or Explore Chicago, 4 quarter hours in Focal Point Seminars, 8 quarter hours in Composition and Rhetoric.

 

Mathematical and Technological Literacy:  4 or 8 quarter hours required.  [See section below on course reductions related to this requirement.]

 

Sophomore Seminar: 4 quarter hours required. Sophomore Seminar on Multiculturalism in the United States

 

Junior Year Experiential Learning: 4 quarter hours required.

 

Senior Capstone: 4 quarter hours required.

 

  Learning Domains: 48 or 52 quarter hours required as follows:

                 Arts and Literature: 12 quarter hours required. At most 2 courses from the same department or program.

           

             Philosophical Inquiry: 8 quarter hours required.

 

Religious Dimensions: 8 quarter hours required; 4 quarter hours in religious and ethical questions, and 4 quarter hours in religious traditions.

Scientific Inquiry: 12 quarter hours required; 4 quarter hours with a  lab component; 4 quarter with a quantitative component , and 4 quarter hours scientific inquiry elective. Students may use the full year-long sequences in biology (BIO 101, 102, and  103) , chemistry (CHE 111, 113, and 115 OR CHE 171, 173, or 175), or physics (PHY 150, 151, and 152 OR PHY 155 and 156) to fulfill this requirement.  Otherwise, at most 2 courses can come from the same department or program.

Self, Society and the Modern World: 12 quarter hours required. At most 2 courses from the same department or program.

           

Understanding the Past: 8 quarter hours required. Courses must be from two different categories: 1) Asia, 2) Latin America, 3) Africa, 4) North America, 5) Europe and 6) Intercontinental or Comparative.

 
Course Reductions

While the equivalent of 24 courses are listed as requirements in the Liberal Studies section, only 21 courses are actually required once students determine allowable course reductions, as follows:  Students will reduce, by two, the number of courses in the division in which their major field falls. For example, a Political Science major must take one rather than three courses in Self, Society and the Modern World. In addition, students who complete 8 credits of Mathematical and Technological Literacy will replace one course from any one of the six Learning Domains with the second course in the sequence (ISP 121), as long as they take at least one course in each domain.  Students whose program of study requires calculus or discrete mathematics are exempt from the Mathematical and Technological Literacy requirement.  Students may elect to take a proficiency exam to place out of one or both courses in the Mathematical and Technological Literacy sequence.

 

Students who have declared their major field should consult the departmental entry for a description of the Liberal Studies requirements of the major field. The departmental entry describes in detail the course reduction as applied to the student’s major field. Since Liberal Studies requirements vary from one major field to another, the student should not assume that courses which satisfy the Liberal Studies requirements for one major field satisfy the requirements for another. The student should be certain to consult an academic advisor before taking courses in the Liberal Studies Program. Academic advisement is an integral part of the Liberal Studies Program and necessary for integrating the program with the requirements of the student’s major field.

 
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