Core Curriculum Requirements
52 Total Credit Hours
| Interdisciplinary Studies (3-6 credit hours) |
IDS 100 Foundations Seminar (3 credit hours)
- Required for first-time traditional students or traditional transfer students with 27 hours or less
- First-time adult students and adult transfers with 0-27 credit hours may take IDS 100 or substitute an additional IDS 200-300 level course in place of IDS 100.
- All transfer students with 28-59 credit hours take an additional IDS 200-300 level course in place of IDS 100.
- All transfer students with 60 or more credit hours take an additional Liberal Arts and Sciences Elective in place of IDS 100.
IDS 200-300-level course (3 credit hours)
- Required for all students
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| Discipline-Specific Core (37 credit hours; required for all students) |
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Humanities – Core Codes C, L, A, MU – 12 credit hours |
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Speech (COM 100) (3 credit hours) |
Code C |
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Writing (ENG 101) (3 credit hours)
(Must be taken within first 42 credit hours.) |
Code C |
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Literature (ENG) (3 credit hours) |
Code L |
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Art or Music (3 credit hours) |
Codes A, MU |
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History and Social Sciences – Core Codes H, S – 9 credit hours |
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History (3 credit hours) |
Code H |
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Choose two different disciplines (6 credit hours total): |
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Economics (3 credit hours) |
Code S |
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Psychology (3 credit hours) |
Code S |
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Sociology (3 credit hours) |
Code S |
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Natural Sciences and Mathematics – Core Codes N, MA – 7 credit hours |
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Biology + lab or Geology + lab or
Chemistry + lab or Physics + lab (4 credit hours) |
Code N |
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Mathematics (3 credit hours)
(Must be taken within the first 64 hours) |
Code MA |
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Religious Studies and Philosophy – Core Codes R, P – 6 credit hours |
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Religious Studies(3 credit hours) |
Code R |
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Philosophy (3 credit hours) |
Code P |
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Ethics – Core Code E – 3 credit hours |
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Ethics (3 credit hours)
Select from ETH:REL or ETH:PHI |
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| Liberal Arts & Sciences Electives Outside the Student’s Major (9-12 credit hours) |
- Courses for the Liberal Arts & Sciences Core Electives may include MSJ courses coded A, C, E, H, IDS, L, LAS, MA, MU, N, P, R, S, or transfer equivalents. Cognate courses with these codes may be counted as Liberal Arts and Sciences electives. Liberal Arts and Sciences Electives in the Mount's curriculum CANNOT be taken for a Pass/Fail grade.
- Courses with a core code, which are being applied toward a minor, may be used as Liberal Arts and Sciences Electives, even if the courses are from the student’s major department.
- Transfer students with 60 credit hours or more are required to take 12 credit hours of Liberal Arts and Sciences Electives.
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