Policies Governing the Formal Reasoning and Analysis Requirement | University of Pennsylvania

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. Any passing grade, from A+ through D, is acceptable in order for a course to fulfill the Formal Reasoning and Analysis Requirement.
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.
Neither advanced placement credit nor credit by departmental exam may be used to fulfill the Formal Reasoning and Analysis Requirement. However, students who receive credit for MATH 104 in either of these ways and who take any Arts and Sciences course that has calculus as a prerequisite or co-requisite may use that course to fulfill the Formal Reasoning and Analysis Requirement.

In most cases, the Foreign Language Requirement is fulfilled by completing the fourth-semester course in the language sequence or by demonstrating equivalent competency through language placement.
With the exception of the Foreign Language Requirement, none of these requirements may be satisfied with advanced placement credit (including A-Levels, I.B., and other similar credit based on external examination). In addition, credit awarded by departmental exam can also not be used to fulfill any Foundational Approach.
The same course cannot be used to satisfy more than one Foundational Approach. However, courses taken to satisfy Foundational Approaches may also be used to satisfy the Sector and/or Major Requirement.
Non-College courses approved for the Foundational Approaches are counted as College courses in calculating total credits needed for graduation.
Courses taken to satisfy these requirements must be taken for a letter grade, not pass/fail.
Each of the requirements that make up the Foundational Approaches is satisfied by taking a single course from a list of Requirement Courses, with the exception of the Foreign Language Requirement (which may require anywhere from 0 to 4 c.u. depending on the student's background in the given language).