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- A minimum of 32 course credits. No more than two 100-level courses may be taken in the senior year without the permission of the Academic Standing Committee.
- Of the minimum 32 course credits, no more than 11 may be in any one department. In the calculation of departmental credits, the following disciplines, listed for administrative purposes in the Catalogue and elsewhere as divisions of single departments, are reckoned as separate departments: Anthropology, Classics, Communications Studies, French, German, Greek, Latin, Russian, Sociology, Spanish, and Theatre. Interdepartmental and interdisciplinary majors, because they comprise courses from several different departments, are not subject to this restriction provided the number of courses taken in any one of the departments does not exceed 11. Students who exceed 11 credits in one department will be required to take more than 32 credits to complete their degree in order to have at least 21 credits outside that department.
- A cumulative grade point average of 2.0 or higher.
- A minimum of nine course credits numbered in the 300s or 400s.
- A departmental, interdepartmental, or interdisciplinary major.
- The following general education requirements:
[Courses in this Catalogue that satisfy, wholly or partially, general education requirements are identified by a parenthesis near the end of the course description: e.g., (Humanities) or (Laboratory Science). Courses not so marked do not meet these requirements even though there are other courses in the same department that do.]
- ENGLISH 111 (Composition and Literature), in the first year.
- FINE ARTS: One course credit (or the equivalent in half or quarter credits) chosen from the departments of Art, English, Music, and Theatre.
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE: French, German, Greek, Latin, Russian, or Spanish 205 or any course with a higher number except those offered in English translation; or a score of 550 or higher on the foreign language reading examination administered during New Student Orientation. International students whose native language is other than English are exempt from this requirement.
- HUMANITIES: Three appropriately marked courses from at least two of the following categories: (1) English and Foreign Language literatures, (2) History, (3) Philosophy, (4) Religion, (5) Art history, Music history or appreciation, or Theatre history, and (6) Education.
- MATHEMATICS: One of the following: (1) one course in Mathematics; (2) Interdepartmental Statistical Methods 201; (3) Computer Science 151; (4) an SAT Mathematics score of 550 or higher; (5) an ACT Quantitative score of 25 or higher; or (6) four years of mathematics in high school, which include algebra (two years), geometry, and trigonometry and exponentials.
- PHYSICAL EDUCATION: Physical Education 101 (Lifetime Physical Fitness and Activities).
- SCIENCE: Two courses, one of which must include laboratory work, chosen from one or two of the following departments or courses: Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Physics, or Interdepartmental 307 (Oceanographic Investigations).
- SOCIAL SCIENCE: Two courses chosen from one or two of the following departments: Anthropology, Economics and Business, Education, Politics, Psychology, and Sociology.

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