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- Graduation Requirements
- Required Proficiencies: Baccalaureate Programs
- Major Fields of Study
- Special Majors
- Minors: Baccalaureate Programs
- Courses Outside the Major: Baccalaureate Programs
- Applied Foreign Language: Baccalaureate Programs
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2001-2003 Academic Catalog
2003-2005 Academic Catalog

Graduation Requirements

To be eligible to graduate from a certificate program, a student must fulfill the following graduation requirements:

Healthcare Certificate Programs:

  1. Completion of the College's residency requirement.
  2. Completion of all professional courses within five years of beginning the sequence.
  3. Completion of all program requirements within seven years of admittance to St. Catherine's.

Other Certificate Programs:
  1. Completion of the program's course requirement.
  2. A cumulative grade point average of 2.0.

Associate Degree Programs:
All candidates for an associate degree must fulfill the following graduation requirements:
  1. Completion of all program requirements within seven years of admittance to St. Catherine's.
  2. Completion of the College residency requirement of a minimum of 30 semester credits.
  3. A.S. and A.A.S. degrees only: Completion of all professional courses within five years of beginning the sequence.

Associate Degree Liberal Arts and Sciences Core Requirements:
  1. Written/Oral Composition and Communication - ENGL 110
  2. Humanities - two credits in literature (ENGL 209, 210, 250 or 298) and two credits in art
  3. Natural Science and Mathematics - six credits (may be taken in biology, chemistry, ecology, math or physics)
  4. Theology - two credits
  5. Social and Behavioral Science - eight credits (PSYC 100, SSCS 100 and two other credits in SSCS electives)
  6. Philosophy - PHIL 200

At least four additional credits of liberal arts and sciences are required for the A.A.S. degree and the A.S. degree. Individual programs may require specific credits in the liberal arts and sciences.

Students are encouraged to refer to their program's curriculum guide for program-specific credit requirements.

For information about the two credit minimum requirement for Core Integrated Learning (CIL), refer to the CIL section of the catalog.

Baccalaureate Programs:
The College offers four-year programs in the liberal arts and sciences, or in the liberal arts and sciences with professional preparation, leading to the bachelor of arts (B.A.) or the bachelor of science (B.S.) degree. All candidates for a B.A. or B.S. degree must fulfill the following graduation requirements.
  1. A minimum of 130 semester credits including: a) completion of the liberal arts core requirements for either the B.A. or B.S. degree, as appropriate to the major; b) acceptance into and completion of the requirements for an approved major; c) a minimum of 80 semester credits outside the department of the major, or outside the department with the most courses required as part of an interdepartmental major.
  2. Demonstration of required proficiencies in writing and information and technology.
  3. Completion of the College residency requirement of a minimum of 64 semester credits. This residency requirement is reduced to a minimum of 48 semester credits at St. Catherine's if 57 or more semester credits are transferred prior to enrollment at St. Catherine's.
  4. Completion of the senior residency requirement of 24 of the last 32 semester credits in residence.
  5. Completion of an Intent to Graduate form.
  6. A cumulative grade point average of 2.0.

Baccalaureate Liberal Arts Core Requirements
The following requirements apply to students seeking either a B.A. or a B.S. degree. (Additional requirements for each degree are listed under "Additional requirements. . .")

Writing Requirement (see below).

Information and Technology Proficiency (see below).

CORE courses - both CORE 100W The Reflective Woman, and CORE 399W The Global Search for Justice.

History - one course.

Literature in English - one literature course that involves careful reading of any literary genre originally written in and read in English. (Creative writing courses do not meet this requirement.)

Fine Arts - one course from among the following: art, music, theater or classical mythology. Special rules apply for music lessons and ensembles.

Philosophy - one course, excluding PHIL 210 and/or PHIL 215.

Theology - one course. (This course must be a course that offers students an intellectual account of some of the key elements of Christian theological tradition. See the Theology section of this catalog for more information.)

Foreign Language - demonstration of equivalency through the second semester level either by completion of the second semester elementary course at the College of St. Catherine or by achieving a passing grade on an approved equivalency placement test (available online). American Sign Language (ASL) satisfies this requirement. Satisfied by two years of high school course work in the same language, with a minimum grade of C-.

Health and Fitness - completion of two different one-credit courses from the EXSS 100 offerings, or the two-credit EXSS 103 Health, Fitness and Lifestyle Issues.

Social Science - one course from among the following: anthropology, economics, geography, political science, psychology or sociology, except ECON 220 or 225, or PSYC 205.

Laboratory Science - one course with a laboratory component chosen from biology, chemistry, geology or physics.

Mathematics or statistics - one course, selected from ECON 220 or 225, PSYC 205 or any MATH course numbered 100 or higher, except MATH 250 and 251.

Additional requirements for students seeking a B.A. degree:
Foreign Language - demonstration of equivalency through the third semester level either by completion of the first semester intermediate course at the College of St. Catherine or by achieving a passing grade on an approved equivalency test. Satisfied by three years of acceptable high school course work in the same language, with a minimum grade of C-.

Philosophy or Theology - one additional course.

Additional requirements for students seeking a B.S. degree:
Mathematics, Laboratory Science or Social Science - two additional courses from any of these three categories.

Students who believe they have language skills sufficient to meet the language requirements (for example, native speakers from another country for whom English is a second language) should contact the Registrar's Office.

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