Humanities and Social Sciences Degree

This degree has a Required General Education Core (GEC) totaling 44-47 hours.

The GEC includes courses in:

Area I: Foundation Skills (18-21 hours)

Area II: A Liberal Arts Education (26 hours

Degree Requirements

Area I – Foundation Skills - 18-21 hours

FSL 101

Foundations of Scholarship and Learning

2

Area I - Rhetoric and Communication - 15 hours

ENG 101	English Composition I	3
ENG 102	English Composition II	3
SPEE 220	Fundamentals of Speech	3
SPAN 111	Elementary Spanish I	3
SPAN 112	Elementary Spanish II	3

Area I - Mathematics - 3-4 hours

MATH 110	Mathematics for the Liberal Arts	3
MATH 111	College Algebra	3
MATH 112	Trigonometry	3
MATH 121	Calculus I	4

Area II - Arts and Humanities (choose one) - 3 hours

PHIL 201

Introduction to Philosophy

3

Area II - Literature in English (choose one) - 3 hours

ENG 215	Introduction to Literature	3
ENG 216	Topics in Literature	3

Area II - The Social Sciences (choose two) - 6 hours

ANTH 210/SOC 210

Cultural Anthropology

3

Choose one of the following:

ECON 241	Principles of Macroeconomics	3
PSY 201	General Psychology	3
PSY 211	Psychology of Human Growth & Development	3
SOC 221	Introduction to Sociology	3

Area II - History (choose one of two sequences) - 6 hours

HIS 191	World Civilization to 1500	3
	and
HIS 192	World Civilizations since 1500	3
	or
HIS 201	History of the United States I	3
	and
HIS 202	History of the United States II	3

Area II - The Natural Sciences - 8 hours

Choose one course from the following:

BIO 100	Principles of Biology	4
BIO 111	General Biology I	3
	and
BIO 111L	General Biology I Lab	1

Area II - Choose one course from the following:

ASTR 100	Introduction to Astronomy	4
CHEM 103	Fundamentals of Chemistry	3
	and
CHEM 103L	Fundamentals of Chemistry Lab	1
CHEM 111	General Chemistry I	3
	and
CHEM 111L	General Chemistry I Lab	1
PHY 201	College Physics I	4
PHY 210	General Physics I	4
PS 100	Physical Science	4

Humanities and Social Science Core - 21 hours

ANTH 475	Senior Seminar in Humanities and Social Sciences	3
GEOG 301	Cultural Geography	3

Choose each from 300 level or above:

ANTH	ANTH Elective	3
PHIL	PHIL Elective	3
PSY	PSY Elective	3
REL	REL Elective	3
SOC	SOC Elective	3

Humanities and Social Science Electives - 36 hours

Choose twelve courses from ANTH, COM, CRJ, ECON, ENG, GEOG, HIS, PHIL, REL, PSY and/or SOC at the 300 level or higher. Core and general electives should be selected to complete a minor in at least one of these subject areas.

General Electives - 16-19 hours

Select sufficient courses from any academic discipline to bring the total hours for graduation to a minimum of 120.

Total GEC Credit Hours (44-47 hours)

Total Humanities & Social Science Core (21 hours)

Total Humanities & Social Science Electives (36 hours)

Total General Electives (16-19 hours)

All courses require a “C” or higher.

120 minimum hours required for graduation.