Proficiencies

Proficiency 1: College-Level Writing

ENGL 1050 Thought and Writing 4
IME 1020 Technical Communication 3

Proficiency 2: Baccalaureate-Level Writing

This proficiency does not count towards the 37 credit General Education requirement. See your major advisor.

Proficiency 3: College-Level Mathematics or Quantitative Reasoning

Note: Placement in Math 1220 fulfills Proficiency 3

See a curriculum advisor for appropriate course selection.

MATH 1140 Excursions in Mathematics 3
MATH 1160 Finite Mathematics with Applications 3
MATH 1180 Pre-calculus Mathematics 4
MATH 1500 Number Concepts for Elem/Mid School Teacher 4
MATH 1900 Survey of Mathematical Ideas 4
MATH 2000 Calculus with Applications 4
STAT 1600 Statistics and Data Analysis 3
STAT 2830 Methods of Data Analysis 3
STAT 3660 Introduction to Statistics 4

Proficiency 4c: Critical Thinking

COM 1000 Communication and Community Engagement 3
ENGL 3060 Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture 3
NUR 2200 Foundations of Nursing and Critical Thinking 3
PHIL 2200 Critical Reasoning 3
PHIL 2250 Deductive Logic 3
PHIL 3200 Introduction to Formal Logic 4
PHIL 3250 Inductive and Scientific Reasoning 3
PSCI 1050 Critical Thinking about Politics 3

Proficiency 4g: Foreign Language

Domestic students

Domestic students with catalog year prior to fall 2017 can meet the world language requirement by any of the following:

1)     2 years of the same language in high school with a grade of B- or better in the final semester, as verified on the student’s actual high school transcript;
        OR

2)     Take a placement test and go into 2000+ world language class;
        OR

3)     Take two semesters at the college-level of the same world language (for example, SPAN 1000 and SPAN 1010; or GREK 1000 and GREK 1010; or SIGN 1010 and SIGN 1020);
        OR

4)     If a student only completes the second semester language class (because they placed higher than the first semester), it satisfies the requirement.

Domestic students with a catalog year of fall 2017 and later can meet the world language requirement by:

1)     Prove language proficiency at the 2000 level or higher by taking the in-person proficiency test at the SPAN or LANG departments and placing at the 2000 level;

2)     Take two semesters at the college-level of the same world language (for example, SPAN 1000 and SPAN 1010; or GREK 1000 and GREK 1010; or SIGN 1010 and SIGN 1020).

International students

International students – have already met the College’s world language requirement, regardless of their catalog year.