Policies Governing Formal Reasoning and Analysis Requirement: Class of 2010 and Later

Students fulfill the Formal Reasoning and Analysis Requirement by taking a course from the list of approved courses.

Courses taken to satisfy the Formal Reasoning and Analysis Requirement must be taken for a letter grade, not pass/fail.

A course used to satisfy the Formal Reasoning and Analysis Requirement may be double counted toward other requirements in the General Education Curriculum (except for the Writing and Foreign Language Requirements) as well as toward the Major.

Pre-College credit, transfer credit, credit away and credit earned studying abroad may be counted toward the Formal Reasoning and Analysis Requirement only when departments award credit using the number of a Penn course approved for the Formal Reasoning and Analysis Requirement .

Students who receive AP credit in Calculus (BC) and who take any course at Penn that has calculus as a prerequisite or co-requisite may use the Penn course to fulfill the Formal Reasoning and Analysis Requirement.