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QC General Education Requirements at a Glance

These degree requirements are for students entering the college as freshmen or transfer students as of the Fall 2009 semester.

Effective Fall 2009, entering freshmen and transfer students will follow a revised curriculum that includes writing, mathematics, abstract or quantitative reasoning, foreign language study, the Perspectives on the Liberal Arts & Sciences, and a capstone or synthesis course. Students who matriculated prior to Fall 2009 will complete their degree requirements under the prior curriculum guidelines. The Academic Advising Center provides information about all degree requirements. Here are the rudiments of the college curriculum, required of all students:

A minimum of 120 credits (approximately 40 courses) that includes a major course of study and the following college-wide degree requirements:

CRITICAL ACADEMIC ABILITIES

WRITING
MATHEMATICS
ABSTRACT OR QUANTITATIVE REASONING
FOREIGN LANGUAGE

PERSPECTIVES ON THE LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES

The Perspectives Curriculum invites students to explore the world through a broad range of disciplines and ways of understanding. These courses should be taken by students early on in their undergraduate experience, before they complete 60 credits.

I. Core Areas of Knowledge and Inquiry: 8 Courses

Reading Literature (RL): two courses.
Appreciating and Participating in the Arts (AP): one course.
Cultures and Values (CV): one course.
Analyzing Social Structures (SS): two courses, from two departments.
Natural Science (NS): two courses, one with a laboratory component (NS-L).

II. Global Contexts:
(4 Requirements, selected from courses across the curriculum)

United States (US): one course.
European Traditions (ET): one course.
World Cultures (WC): one course.
Pre-Industrial Society (PI): one course.

*The US, ET, WC and PI requirements may be fulfilled by any course carrying these respective designations. Some of these courses also satisfy the Areas of Knowledge and Inquiry requirements described above.

MAJOR

UPPER LEVEL DEGREE REQUIREMENT: one course

A Capstone or Synthesis course (On April 14, 2011, the Academic Senate resolved that the General Education Requirement of a Synthesis or Capstone course be suspended for the Fall 2011 and Spring 2012 academic year)

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