All students at The University of Scranton have the opportunity to become liberally educated in the Ignatian tradition. This liberal education will include the development of general skills and skills in the major. It will also include opportunity to develop both depth and breadth in the major, the cognate, and in the areas of natural science, social/behavioral science, humanities, philosophy, and theology. Within the disciplines listed above, students will also take at least two courses that are writing-intensive and two courses with a strong cultural diversity component. The University's approach to general education follows the outline below. To follow that outline, it helps to first understand how courses fulfilling general education requirements are designated.

Designation of Courses Fulfilling General Education Requirements

Courses that fulfill general education requirements as described in the outline below can be identified in catalog and course bulletin listings by a letter code in parentheses preceding the course title:

Courses having more than one letter code indicates that the course satisfies multiple general education requirements, reducing overall requirements; e.g., (CH,W) satisfies both a Humanities/Culture: History and a Writing-Intensive requirement.

Please see the current course catalog course catalog for more information on the General Education curriculum. Also, please refer to the departmental course listings in the catalog for complete course descriptions. If you have a question about how a specific course satisfies a requirement, please contact your advisor, advising center, dean's office or registrar's office.

*Note: Effective Fall 2000 semester, the subject prefix for English literature courses had been changed from ENGL to ENLT, and the courses had been renumbered.

Public Speaking: One course, 3 credits

COMM 100

Public Speaking

PHIL 217J

The Trivium

Basic Composition: One or two courses, 3-6 credits

WRTG 105 & 106

College Writing I & II

WRTG 107

Composition

Computing/Information Literacy: One course and laboratory, 3 credits

C/IL 102/102L

Computing and Information Literacy

C/IL 104

Computing and Information Literacy for Business (a focused variant of C/IL 102/102L with an emphasis appropriate for students with majors in The Kania School of Management)

Writing-Intensive Requirement (W): Two courses, variable credit*

One of these courses should be in the major program of study. Writing-intensive courses may also fulfill other major, cognate and/or general education requirements.

Quantitative Reasoning (Q): One course, 3 credits*

A mathematically based course as recommended by the major or chosen by the student in consultation with an advisor.

Subject Matter Mastery

Theology/Religious Studies: Two courses, 6 credits

T/RS 121

Theology I

T/RS 122

Theology II

Philosophy: Two courses, 6 credits

PHIL 120

Introduction to Philosophy

PHIL 210

Ethics

Theology/Philosophy Elective (P): One course, 3 credits*

Natural Science (E): Two courses, 6-8 credits*

Two courses in natural or physical sciences are recommended by the major or selected by the student after consultation with their advisor.

Humanities (CA, CF, CH, CL): Four courses, 12 credits*

Courses in the humanities are recommended by the major or selected by the student after consultation with the advisor. Students must earn 6 credits in one humanities field: foreign language (CF), history (CH) or literature (CL). The remaining 6 credits must come from the other humanities fields, with no more than 3 credits coming from the fine arts (CA).

Integration of Individual and Community

First Year Experience: One course, 1 credit

INTD 100:

Freshman Seminar

Physical Education: Three or more courses totaling 3 credits*

Social or Behavioral Science (S): Two courses, 6 credits
(list of eligible courses)

Two courses in social or behavioral sciences as recommended by the major or selected by students after consultation with their advisors.

Cultural Diversity (D): Two courses, 6 credits
(list of eligible courses)

Two courses with strong cultural diversity content are required. These courses may also fulfill other major, cognate and/or general education requirements.

Electives

Four courses, 12 credits.

Students are encouraged to use their general education electives to add minors or second majors where possible. For some majors, specific courses have been recommended in the GE elective area by the home departments. Where no specific recommendations have been made by the home department, any course (other than PHED activity courses) may be used as a free elective. Please refer to the department course listings in the catalog for complete course descriptions. If you have a question about how a specific course satisfies a requirement, please contact your advisor, academic advising center, dean's office or registrar's office.

Speech:

COMM 100

Writing:

WRTG 107 or PHIL 217J or WRTG 105 and 106

Computer Literacy:

C/IL 102/102L or C/IL 104

Quantitative Reasoning (designated with Q)

Freshman Seminar:

INTD 100

First and Second Year

Philosophy:

PHIL 120-PHIL 210

Theology/Religious Studies:

T/RS 121-122

Humanities (designated with CH, CL, CF or CA)

Natural Science (designated with E)

Social/Behavioral Science (designated with S)

Physical Education

Second and Third Year

Electives:

Students should begin the 12 credits of free electives that are required.

Philosophy or Theology elective (designated with P):

Most students will not have had the opportunity to complete all of the GE requirements listed under First and Second Year and, therefore, will attend to these requirements in the third and even the fourth years. Students are advised to have fulfilled some of their cultural-diversity and writingintensive course requirements during this time.*

Fourth Year

Finish GE requirements that have not been completed by the end of the third year, including the writing-intensive and cultural diversity requirements.

Subject

Credits

Courses

Freshman Seminar

1

INTD 100

Physical Education

3

Courses approved as PHED activity classes 1

Writing

3 or 6

WRTG 107 or (WRTG 105 and 106 for ADP only) 1

Public Speaking

3

COMM 100 1

Computing Information Literacy

3

C/IL 102 and 102L or 104 1

Quantitative Reasoning

3-4

Courses designated with (Q)

Theology/Philosophy

15

T/RS 121 and 122, PHIL 120 and 210 and approved T/RS or PHIL Elective (P)

Natural Science

6-8

Courses designated with (E)

Humanities
  History
  Literature
  World Languages and Cultures
  Art/Music/Theater

12 total
0-6
0-6
0-6
0-3

6 credits in one area: History (CH), Literature (CL), or World Languages and Cultures (CF). 6 additional credits from any of the remaining humanities area, but no more than 3 from Art/Music/Theatre area (CA).

Social/Behavioral Science

6

Courses designated with (S)

Writing Intensive

3-6

Two courses designated (W); one should be in the major 2

Cultural Diversity

6

Two courses designated with (D) 2

Electives

12

Any subject except PHED activity classes

Total Credits

77-85

based upon major and credit value of courses

1 Requirement may be satisfied by exemption exam.

2 Writing-intensive and cultural diversity courses may also satisfy other requirements in the general education curriculum reducing the total number of credits required.