The General Education Curriculum Requirements
Curricular
Areas of the General Education Curriculum: Course Distribution
Foundational Skills
Knowledge and Inquiry
Values and Beliefs
Applications: Turning Knowledge into
Action
Critical Reading Seminar and Capstone Seminar
Waivers and Advanced Standing for General Education
Curriculum Requirements
Courses Fulfilling General Education and Major
Requirements
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Curricular Areas of the General Education Curriculum: Course Distribution
In completing the general education curriculum, students
must complete required course work in four curricular areas, with coursework
distributed among specific programs. Specific courses fulfilling general
education requirements are designated by programs in their respective sections
of this catalog or, in certain instances, in the
Interdisciplinary and Supporting
Courses page in this catalog. Required courses are distributed as follows:
Students must complete
designated courses in the following areas:
- Critical
reading (3 credits)
- Written
communication (3 credits or waive by assessment placement above ENGL 107
level)
- Oral
communication (3 credits)
- Critical
reasoning (3 credits)
- Quantitative
reasoning (3 credits or waive by placing into Math 125 or higher)
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Requirements
Students must complete courses
in the following areas:
- Social
sciences (complete 9 credits in 3 different disciplines)
-
Economics
-
Psychology
-
Sociology
-
Political Science
- Sciences and
mathematics (complete 7-8 credits, of which one course must be in laboratory
science)
- Biology
-
Chemistry
- Physics
- Math
- History,
arts, and humanities (complete 9 credits, one course in each discipline)
- History
- Fine
Arts
- English
- Foreign
language (students must demonstrate proficiency equal to one year of
coursework)
- General
education capstone seminar (taken in second semester of sophomore year, or
after earning at least 40 credits)
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Students must complete courses
in the following areas:
- Religious
Studies and Theology (3 credits)
- Philosophy
(3 credits)
Requirements
Students must complete courses
in the following areas:
- Civic
knowledge (3 credits)
- Experiential
learning (3 credits)
- Leadership
(3 credits)
As part of completing the Foundational Skills area, incoming first-year
students must complete the Critical Reading Seminar at Trinity; transfer
students matriculating with sophomore status or above are not required to
complete the Critical Reading Seminar. Additionally, incoming first-year and
sophomore students must complete the General Education Capstone Seminar at
Trinity; transfer students matriculating with junior status or above are not
required to complete the General Education Capstone Seminar.
In certain instances, a waiver can be used to fulfill
general education curricular requirements, although such waivers carry no
credits. The following general education requirements may be waived by earning a
satisfactory score on the appropriate placement examination(s):
- Written communication (waived
by placing above ENGL 107 College Composition level)
- Foreign language (Placement
into the third semester of Arabic, Spanish, or other approved language
constitutes a waiver of the foreign language requirement. Students who
place into the second semester of a college-level language course need
only complete the second semester of that language to fulfill the
general education requirement).
- Quantitative reasoning
(Placement into MATH 125 Calculus or higher constitutes a waiver
of the requirement).
Additionally, general education
requirements may be fulfilled through credits earned through examination, such
as Advanced Placement or CLEP Examinations. The appropriate Program Chair
determines if credits earned through examination also fulfill general education
requirements. Some general education requirements may be fulfilled through
credits earned at other accredited institutions. The appropriate Program Chair
determines if credits earned at other accredited institutions also
fulfill Trinity general education requirements.
In general, a course may be counted to fulfill no
more than one general education requirement, although a course may be counted to
fulfill a general education requirement as well as a requirement in a student's
major.
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