LIBERAL STUDIES PROGRAM
In addition to the 28 quarter hours required in the Liberal Studies core, students are required to complete 48 quarter hours distributed through five Learning Domains as part of their Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Science. The number and distribution of courses in each of the areas are as follows:
 
Core: 28 quarter hours required as follows:
First-Year Program: 16 quarter hours as follows: 4 quarter hours in Discover Chicago or Explore Chicago, 4 quarter hours in Focal Point Seminar, and 8 quarter hours in Composition and Rhetoric I and II.
 
Sophomore Seminar: 4 quarter hours required. Sophomore Seminar on Multiculturalism in the United States.
 
Junior Year Experiential Learning: 4 quarter hours required. If your junior year experiential learning requirement also fulfills a major field requirement, you may substitute a liberal studies domain elective (from outside your major field area) or the third course in the modern language option for this requirement.
 
Senior Capstone: (4 quarter hours required) Environmental Sciences requires that all students majoring in Environmental Sciences complete a senior capstone course in Environmental Sciences. If you are double majoring and/or in the Honors program you must also follow the capstone guidelines for that area.
 
Learning Domains: 48 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: not required.
 
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.
 
Courses offered by the Environmental Sciences Program are not applied towards liberal studies requirements for the Environmental Science major. Exceptions to this rule can be the junior experiential learning and the senior capstone requirements.