Graduation Requirements

To be eligible to graduate from a certificate or associate degree program, you 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.

1. Completion of program requirements.
2. A cumulative grade point average of 2.0.

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.

1. Written/Oral Composition and Communication — ENGL 1100
2. Humanities — two credits in literature (ENGL 2090, 2100, 2500 or 2982) and two credits in art (ART 1020, 1300, 1400, 1500, 2982)
3. Natural Science and Mathematics — six credits (may be taken in biology, chemistry, ecology, mathematics or physics)
4. Theology — two credits
5. Social and Behavioral Science — eight credits (PSYC 1000, SSCS 1000 and two other credits in social science or history electives)
6. Philosophy — PHIL 2000
7. Core Integrated Learning (CIL) course — two credits

• Reregistered for and satisfactorily repeated the entire course (if the course is not offered for variable credit) or the necessary segments of the course (if the course is offered for variable credit), or
• Satisfactorily completed a course elsewhere and transferred the credits to the College of St. Catherine

• 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 major.
• Demonstration of required proficiencies in writing and information and technology.
• 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.
• Completion of the senior residency requirement of 24 of the last 32 semester credits in residence.
• Completion of an Intent to Graduate form.
• A cumulative grade point average of 2.0.

• Writing Requirement (see Required Proficiencies)
• Information and Technology Proficiency (see Required Proficiencies).
• CORE courses — both CORE 1000 The Reflective Woman, and CORE 3990 The Global Search for Justice.
• History — one course.
• Literature in English — one literature course that involves careful reading of any literary genre written in or translated into English. Must bear English Department designation. (Neither creative writing nor expository writing courses fulfill 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 2100 and PHIL 2150.
• 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 1000-level offerings, or the two-credit EXSS 1030 Health, Fitness and Lifestyle Issues.
• Social Science — one course from among the following: anthropology, economics, geography, political science, psychology or sociology, except ECON 2200 or 2250, or PSYC 2050.
• Laboratory Science — one course with a laboratory component chosen from biology, chemistry, geology or physics.
• Mathematics or statistics — one course, selected from ECON 2200 or 2250, PSYC 2050 or any MATH course numbered 1000 or higher, except MATH 1110, 2500 and 2510.

• 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.

• Mathematics, Laboratory Science or Social Science — two additional courses from any of these three categories.

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This page was created on 05/20/2005 and last updated on 11/01/2010.
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