Major and Degree Requirements

In order to complete a Bachelors Degree, you must fulfill the following requirements:

• Baccalaureate Liberal Arts and Sciences Core Requirements
  Bachelor of Arts
  Bachelor of Science
• Total and Residency Credits
• GPA Requirement
• Major Course Requirements (Links)

• CORE 1000 The Reflective Woman
• CORE 3990 Global Search for Justice
• WRITING INTENSIVE (one course in any department beyond the CORE and MAJOR requirement)
• FINE ARTS (one course in either art, music, theater, or classical mythology)
• PHYSICAL EDUCATION (two—one credit courses or completion of EXSS 1030, Health Fitness and Lifestyle Issues)
• HISTORY (one course)
• LITERATURE (one course that involves careful reading of any literary genre taken within an English department. Children’s and Adolescent Literature courses will not fulfill this requirement.)
• FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY: Students must successfully complete 3 terms of the same language. Successful completion of 3 years in high school with a grade of C or better will also meet this proficiency.
  FOREIGN LANGUAGE—ELEMENTARY ONE
  FOREIGN LANGUAGE—ELEMENTARY TWO
  FOREIGN LANGUAGE—INTERMEDIATE ONE
• LABORATORY SCIENCE (one lab based course in either biology, chemistry, geology, or physics)
• MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS (both MATH 1110 and 1120, or any other MATH course numbered 1050 or higher (except MATH 2050), or ECON 2220, ECON 2250 or PSYC 2050)
• SOCIAL SCIENCE (one course in either anthropology, economics, geography, political science, psychology or sociology, except ECON 2200 or 2250 or PSYC 2050)
• PHILOSOPHY (one course, excluding PHIL 2100 and/or PHIL 2150)
• THEOLOGY (one 1000- or 2000-level course that involves the study of a Christian-based theological tradition)
• One additional course in either Philosphy or Theology, including PHIL 2100 and PHIL 2150

• CORE 1000 The Reflective Woman
• CORE 3990 Global Search for Justice
• WRITING INTENSIVE (one course in any department beyond the CORE and MAJOR requirement)
• FINE ARTS (one course in either art, music, theater, or classical mythology)
• PHYSICAL EDUCATION (two—one credit courses or completion of EXSS 1030, Health Fitness and Lifestyle Issues)
• HISTORY (one course)
• LITERATURE (one course that involves careful reading of any literary genre taken within an English department. Children’s and Adolescent Literature courses will not fulfill this requirement.)
• FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY: Students must successfully complete 2 terms of the same language. Successful completion of 2 years in high school with a grade of C or better will also meet this proficiency.
  FOREIGN LANGUAGE—ELEMENTARY ONE
  FOREIGN LANGUAGE—ELEMENTARY TWO
• LABORATORY SCIENCE (one lab-based course in either biology, chemistry, geology or physics)
• MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS (both MATH 1110 and 1120, or any other MATH course numbered 1050 or higher (except MATH 2050), or ECON 2220, ECON 2250 or PSYC 2050)
• SOCIAL SCIENCE (one course in either anthropology, economics, geography, political science, psychology, or sociology, except ECON 2200 or 2250 or PSYC 2050)
  Two additional courses in any Laboratory Science, Math or Social Science
• FIRST ADDITIONAL LAB, MATH, OR SOCIAL SCI
• SECOND ADDITIONAL LAB, MATH OR SOCIAL SCI
• PHILOSOPHY (one course, excluding PHIL 2100 and/or PHIL 2150)
• THEOLOGY (one 1000- or 2000-level course that involves the study of a Christian-based theological tradition)

• 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.
• 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.

• A cumulative grade point average of 2.0.