Essential Learning Outcome:
Breadth of Knowledge--gaining the perspectives of many disciplines
The Breadth of Knowledge requirement is designed to provide students with multiple perspectives regarding several different areas of knowledge and modes of inquiry outside of their major discipline. Students are required to fulfill these requirements from courses outside of their major department, with no more than two courses from a single discipline applied to the same criterion.
- College Writing I and II (2 courses, 6 credits) CW
- Arts and Humanities Perspective (3 courses, 9 credits) AH
- Social Sciences Perspective (3 courses, 9 credits) SS
- Sciences with Lab Perspective (2 courses, 6 credits minimum) SCL
- Math Perspective (1 course, 3 credits minimum) MATH
- STEM Perspective (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Math)(1 course, 3 credits minimum) STEM
ARTS and HUMANITIES PERSPECTIVE
The Arts and Humanities perspective is characterized by the interpretive analysis, critique, and creative and aesthetic expression of ideas and values.
ART HISTORY, STUDIO ART, ENGLISH, HISTORY, WORLD LANGUAGES & CULTURES, MUSIC HISTORY, MUSIC THEORY, PHILOSOPHY, INTERDISCIPLINARY COURSES in AH
SOCIAL SCIENCES PERSPECTIVE
The Social Sciences perspective draws upon the empirical study of behavior, society and social relationships.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE, ECONOMICS, POLITICAL SCIENCE, PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY, INTERDISCIPLINARY COURSES in SS
SCIENCES with ACCOMPANYING LABORATORY PERSPECTIVE
The Science perspective represents the systematic, organized, and evidence-based empirical study of the natural and physical world.
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL, EARTH, & ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES; PHYSICS, APPLIED PHYSICS, & RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; INTERDISIPLINARY COURSES in SCL
MATHEMATICS PERSPECTIVE
The Mathematics perspective is characterized by the logical analysis of quantity, structure, space, and change in applied and theoretical contexts.
MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
STEM (SCIENCES, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING & MATH) PERSPECTIVE
The STEM perspective removes traditional disciplinary boundaries to integrate approaches, drawn from all fields of the sciences, technology, engineering and math, to analysis and problem solving.
SCL and MATH as above; COMPUTER SCIENCE, CLINICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE, COLLEGE of ENGINEERING, INTERDISCIPLINARY COURSES in STEM