Policies Governing Cultural Diversity in the U.S. Requirement

Policies & Procedures|Policies Governing the Curriculum|Foundational Approaches
  • Students fulfill the Cultural Diversity in the U.S. Requirement by taking a course from the list of approved courses.
  • Courses taken to satisfy the Cultural Diversity in the U.S. 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 Cultural Diversity in the U.S. Requirement. A course used to satisfy the Cultural Diversity in the U.S. Requirement may not be double counted toward the Cross-Cultural Analysis, Writing or Foreign Language Requirements. However, a course fulfilling this requirement may be doubled counted toward any other General Education requirement as well as a major or minor.
  • Pre-College credit, transfer credit, credit away and credit earned studying abroad may be counted toward the Cultural Diversity in the U.S. Requirement. Advanced Placement credit may not be used to fulfill the Cultural Diversity in the U.S. Requirement.
Policies Governing Foundational Approaches
  • 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).