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 Communication 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
Arts and Literature: 8 quarter hours required.
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 hours with a quantitative component, and 4 quarter hours in a scientific inquiry elective; at most, two courses from the same department or program.
Self, Society and the Modern World: 8 quarter hours required.
Understanding the Past: 8 quarter hours required; Students may not take more than one course in any given category: Africa, Asia, Europe, Intercontinental or Comparative, Latin America, North America.
College of Communication courses found in the Liberal Studies Program cannot double count toward a student's degree. Students have the option of counting such courses toward their Liberal Studies requirements or toward the specific major requirements, but not both.
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Degree Programs 
