305 Coates Building
Campus Box 3504
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3504
phone: (919) 843-7773
fax: (919) 843-6557

2006 Curriculum: Overview

FOUNDATIONS (17 hours total)

English Composition and Rhetoric (6 hours)
  • A two-course sequence in written and oral communication
    (e.g., ENGL 011/101, ENGL 012/102)
Foreign Language (7 hours with level 2 placement)
  • Through level 3 (if placed into level 4, must complete it)
    (e.g., FREN 001/101, ARAB 103/203, DTCH 105/402)
    • No credit for level 1 of high school language
Quantitative Reasoning (3 hours)
  • One quantitative reasoning course
    (e.g., MATH 016/116, COMP 014/101)
Lifetime Fitness (1 hour)
  • One course granting one hour of academic credit
    (e.g., PHYA 016Y/107, PHYA 011/103)

 

APPROACHES (25 hours total)

Physical and Life Sciences (7 hours)
  • Two courses from approved list, at least one with lab
    (e.g., PHYS 016/100, BIOL 010/113, PSYC 010/101)
Social and Behavioral Sciences (9 hours)
  • Three courses from at least two different departments or curricula
    (e.g., SOCI 010/101, RELI 031/121, PLAN 046/246)
    • One of the three courses must engage in Historical Analysis.
      (e.g., HIST 011/151, HIST 074/374, FOLK 174/670)
Humanities and Fine Arts (9 hours)
Philosophical and Moral Reasoning
  • One course in philosophical analysis that contains significant content in ethics and moral reasoning
    (e.g., PHIL 020/101, SOCI 014/114, AFAM 128/428)

Visual, Performing, and Literary Arts

  • One course in literature
    (e.g., ENGL 023/123,CMPL 022/122, AMST 060/290)
  • One course in visual or performing arts
    (e.g., ART 004/104, DRAM016/116, MUSC 086/286)

 

CONNECTIONS (0 additional hours, because all courses eligible for
"multiple counting")

Foundational Connections
  • One Communication Intensive course
    (e.g., COMM 024/224, GERM 011/301, JOMC 053/153)
  • One Quantitative Intensive course
    (e.g., STAT 126/STOR 435, MASC 145/553, ENST 054/222)
Spatial and Cultural Connections
  • Experiential Education: One course or program of study
    (e.g., PLCY 090/325, GEOL 197/555, EXSS 071/271)
  • U.S. Diversity: One course
    (e.g., WMST 062/362, SOCI 022/122, FOLK 160/460)
  • The North Atlantic World:  One course
    (e.g., SOCI 061/276, AMST 060/290, RELI 087/236)
  • Beyond the North Atlantic: One course
    (e.g., RUES 199/699, LTAM 040/101, GEOG 158/458)
  • The World Before 1750:  One course
    (e.g., CLAS 033/253, ANTH 021/121, HIST 027/156)
  • Global Issues:  One course
    e.g., WMST 081/281, PWAD 020/120, LING 075/306, INTS 081/281)

 

SUPPLEMENTAL GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENT FOR
A.B. STUDENTS IN THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

All students who seek A.B. degrees in the College of Arts and Sciences must take an additional nine hours of coursework. This requirement can be fulfilled in one of two ways:

Either

The Distributive Option: Crossing Divisions

  • Three non-introductory courses, one in each of the three Divisions of the College of Arts and Sciences outside the student’s primary major. 
Or

The Integrative Option: Interdisciplinary Clusters

  • A Cluster program.
    • Each of these interdisciplinary clusters requires students to take nine hours (usually in three courses) that are linked in some way and that focus on a single theme.  All courses must be above the introductory level; one may be used in a student’s primary major.