GENERAL EDUCATION COURSES AND INSTITUTIONAL REQUIREMENTS


All students aspiring to become candidates for the Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science degree must complete a maximum of 44 semester hours of general education courses and 15 hours of institutional requirements. The underlying objectives of these courses are to:

  • Provide students with a background of essential information and experiences from which they can acquire knowledge needed to succeed in meeting demands of society;
  • Provide an opportunity for students to acquire knowledge in various subject matter fields that address students’ interests and inclinations;
  • Afford channels through which students must perform required critical and creative thinking to assimilate the knowledge gained;
  • Offer learning experiences which will evaluate the level of students’ abilities to engage in independent inquiry;
  • Assist students in developing a value process that will enable them to become socially conscious; and
  • Create within students the desire to emulate those who have achieved scholarly eminence

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General Education Courses

GENERAL EDUCATION & INSTITUTIONAL REQUIREMENTS

AREA, COURSE CODE AND NUMBER

COURSE NAME

CREDIT HOURS

GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS

COSC 1330

Computer Literacy

3

MATH 1314

College Algebra

3

MUSI 1301

Introduction to Music

3

RELI 1311

Survey of the Bible

3

HLTH 2281

Essential Elements of Health

2

PHED

Any Physical Activity (1) hour Course

1

ENGL 1301

English Composition I

3

ENGL 1302

English Composition II

3

ENGL 2302

World Literature to 1660

3

BIOL 1471

General Biology I

4

PHYS 1405

Introduction to Physical Science

4

HIST 1301

History of the U.S. to 1865

3

HIST 1302

History of the U.S. since 1865

3

SOCI 1301

Introduction to Sociology

3

GOVT 2305

U.S. National Government

3

General Education Requirements Total

44

INSTITUTIONAL REQUIREMENTS

ASEM 1100

College Assembly

4

SOCI 1100

First Semester Seminar

1

SOCI 2100

Second Semester Seminar

1

ELECTIVES

9

Institutional Requirements Total

15

OVERALL TOTAL REQUIREMENTS

59