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General Education Requirements

Students will select their General Education requirements in accordance with the following:

1. One 1000-level 9 credit Foundations course, in either the Division of Humanities or the Division of Social Science - to be successfully completed within the first 24 credits;

2. One 1000-level 6 credit course in the Division of Natural Science or in the Department of Biology, Chemistry, Earth and Atmospheric Science or Physics - to be successfully completed prior to graduation and preferably within the first 42 credits;

3. One 2000-level 9 credit Foundations course, in either the Division of Humanities or the Division of Social Science. If the 1000-level 9 credit Foundations course is taken in the Division of Humanities, then the 2000-level 9 credit Foundations course must be taken in the Division of Social Science (and vice versa) - to be successfully completed within the first 48 credits.

Breadth requirement - will be satisfied by successfully completing the General Education/Foundations courses described above. (Breadth requirement is described below.)

The Breadth requirement must be successfully completed before graduation and requires at least 6 credits from each of the following areas:

Note: Computer Science, Information Technology, Kinesiology and Health Science, and Mathematics courses, will satisfy neither requirement, unless they are cross-listed with a unit listed above.