Requirements
These liberal arts requirements apply to all majors except art history and art education. See those majors' pages for their specific liberal arts requirements.
Freshman Seminar is a course that focuses on critical reading and thinking skills. The course has multiple sections, each with a different theme; some sections focus on the history of art while others focus on liberal arts. Thus, students earn either 0 or 3 credits in liberal arts for the seminar depending upon the theme they choose.*
Foundation Year
| Credits | |||
| LALW100 | F/S | Written Communication | 3 |
| FRSM-100 |
F/S | Freshman Seminar* | 0 - 3 |
| 3 - 6 |
Sophomore through Senior Years
| LALW200 | Literary Traditions | 3 |
| LASS | Social Science Elective | 3 |
| LALW | Literature/writing/film criticism Elective | 3 |
| LAMS | Math/science Elective | 3 |
| LALW/LASS/LAMS | Lit/writing/film crit or Social Science or Math/science Electives | 9 |
| HART/LALW/LASS/LAMS | History of Art or Lit/writing/film or Social Science or Math/science Elective | 0 - 3 |
| 21-24 |
Summary
| Freshman Seminar | 0 - 3* |
| Literature/writing/film criticism |
9 - 21 |
| Social Science | 3 - 15 |
| Math/science | 3 - 15 |
| 24 - 30 |
F (fall) or S (spring) - the semester in which the course must be taken due to course availability or major sequencing.