General Education Requirements
Every student is required to complete the General Education Requirements which consist of 13 courses distributed among five areas.

Here's the breakdown:
Fine Arts - 2 courses
Humanities - 3 courses
Social Behavioral Sciences - 4 courses
Natural Sciences - 3 courses (one of which MUST be a lab course)
Math Quantitative Reasoning - 1 course

Most full-time students complete these courses by the end of their Sophomore year. Because certain majors require you to take very specific general education courses, it's really important to let your advisor know what you are planning to major in, or even THINKING about majoring in!

In addition, as you look through the general education courses pay close attention to the highlighted courses with the FYE heading. These are new courses that all new entering freshman must take within their first year. For further information feel free to visit their website: FYE

English and Math Requirements
Along with general education courses, every student also has to take English, Math and, possibly, Reading courses beginning their first semester. There are different levels of English, Math and Reading: your Placement Test and ACT scores will determine the level at which you begin. Although Math is also a General Education requirement, many students don't place into this level of Math and have to begin with a lower-level Math course.