Catalog Navigator : Liberal Studies Requirements

COMMON CORE

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

Mathematical and Technological Literacy: 4 or 8 quarter hours required, depending on placement.

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

Junior Year Experiential Learning: 4 quarter hours required. If the Junior Year Experiential Learning requirement also fulfills a major field requirement, students may substitute a Liberal Studies domain elective (from outside their major field area), or use the third course in the modern language option for this requirement.

Senior Capstone: 4 quarter hours required. Students majoring in African and Black Diaspora Studies complete the Capstone in their department. If they are double majoring and/or in the Honors program, students must also follow the capstone guidelines for that area.

LEARNING DOMAINS

Note: 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.

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; one 4 quarter hour Lab course, one 4 quarter hour Quantitative course, and one 4 quarter hour Scientific Inquiry elective. At most 2 courses from the same department or program.

Self, Society and the Modern World: 4 quarter hours required.

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/Comparative.

Although the study of African & Black Diaspora Studies contributes to a student’s liberal education, courses offered by the Program are not applied toward liberal studies requirements for the major. Exceptions to the rule are the Junior Experiential Learning and the Senior Capstone seminar.