General Education Requirements

1 General Education Requirements The University's General Education REGULATIONS If the college does not approve a transfer requirement represents a conviction on the part course for General Education credit, the student $ Students must complete the 39-hour General may petition the Office of Academic Affairs for of the faculty that all students need to reason Education requirement prior to graduating a decision. logically, communicate effectively, and relate from LSU. It is recommended that students to the world around them. While courses complete the requirement during their first REGENTS' STATEWIDE. completed in a field of study develop specific four semesters at the University.

2 ARTICULATION. $ Only those courses on the approved list knowledge and skills in a chosen profession, below, and their honors equivalents, may be LSU participates in the Board of Regents=. General Education courses not only enhance used to satisfy the General Education Statewide Articulation Consortium. Students awareness of the world and the people in it, but requirement. who plan to transfer to another Louisiana public also foster an appreciation of the arts and $ No more than six hours of credit taken institution should consult the Office of through correspondence study may be ap- Undergraduate Admissions for information humanities and provide a basic understanding plied to a student's General Education requir- about the course transfer agreement.

3 Of mathematical and scientific principles. ement. $ An entering student may receive three or six General Education courses are required to hours of credit in English composition on the General Education COURSES. ensure that all students receive a broad-based basis of ACT scores and/or performance on Education that enhances their ability to describe, approved placement tests. In the list of courses in the ACourses of interpret, and analyze their world. The $ An entering student may receive credit for section of this catalog, General Education courses are one or more of the required mathematics designated by a star ( ) placed before the course primary aims of the General Education courses on the basis of placement test scores.

4 Number. requirement are to create strong citizens, instill $ Advanced placement and advanced standing a life-long desire for learning, and enrich the credit may be used to satisfy the General AREA/COURSES SEM. HRS. human experience. For more information Education requirement. $ General Education courses will be graded on I. ENGLISH COMPOSITION .. 6. regarding the goals of General Education at the AA,@ AB,@ AC,@ AD,@ AF@ system. No courses All students must have credit in English 1001 or 1004. LSU, please follow the links on the University taken on a pass/fail basis will count toward (for international students only), and 1002 or 2000.

5 Web site through the Faculty Senate to General the General Education requirement. Education . $ In addition, each student must demonstrate English computer literacy in ways deemed 1001(1004) English Composition .. 3. appropriate by the faculty of the senior col- 1002 (1005) English lege in which the student is enrolled. 3. To fulfill these Requirements , students must 2000 English Composition .. 3. $ Appeals for an exception to the General complete 39 hours of course work in six major Education Requirements : A >request for an areas: exception to the General Education Honors 1101 Seminar in Comparative requirement= must be submitted to the dean of Civilizations.

6 3. the student=s college using the appropriate 2002 Seminar in Roman & Medieval form. Scheduling difficulties or allegations Civilizations .. 3. $ English composition (six hours) of poor advising typically do not constitute a 2012 The 19th Century .. 3. $ Analytical reasoning (six hours) reasonable basis for an appeal. The dean=s 2013 The 20th Century .. 3. $ Arts (three hours) evaluation as well as the student=s request 2021 Colloquium in the Arts .. 3. $ Humanities (nine hours) must then be submitted to the Office of Academic Affairs. A final decision will be $ Natural sciences (nine hours) made after consideration by the Faculty II.

7 ANALYTICAL REASONING .. 6. $ Social sciences (six hours) Senate Committee on General Education . Students are strongly encouraged to obtain a General Education analytical reasoning courses must come from the following list. All students must have decision prior to registering for a LSU course credit in at least one Mathematics course. intended to substitute for an approved General Education course. Computer Science 1240 Statistics and Graphics with MATLAB 3. TRANSFER COURSE APPROVAL 1248 Introduction to Programming with Applications in Statistics .. 3. Deans are to determine the applicability of transfer courses to a component of LSU's Experimental Statistics General Education Requirements .

8 2201 Introduction to Statistical Analysis .. 4. If the course is deemed to be applicable, and there is no equivalent LSU course, deans Mathematics are asked to enter a course substitution on the 1021 College Algebra .. 3. Student Records and Registration database, 1022 Plane Trigonometry .. 3. indicating that the course is accepted for General 1023 College Algebra and Education credit. Documentation concerning Trigonometry .. 5. this decision should be kept on file in the 1029 Introduction to Contemporary college. Mathematics .. 3. If it is determined that a course is 1100 (1101) The Nature equivalent to an LSU course, colleges should of Mathematics.

9 3. notify the Office of Undergraduate Admissions 1431 Calculus with Business and Economic Applications .. 3. so the Admissions Transfer Table can be 1441 Calculus with Application updated. to Technology .. 3. 76 General Education Requirements 1550 (1551) Analytic Geometry Classical Studies 1005 World History to 1500 .. 3. and Calculus I .. 5 3020 Classical Epic in 3 1007 World History Since 1500 .. 3. 1552 (1553) Analytic Geometry 3032 Greek and Roman Tragedy in 2001 The Ancient Near East and Calculus II .. 4 English Translation .. 3 and Greece .. 3. 1554 Calculus II for Life Sciences .. 4 3040 Greek and Roman Comedy in 2002 Rome: Republic and Empire.

10 3. English Translation .. 3 2011 England: Roman Times Philosophy Through 1688 .. 3. 1021 Introduction to 3 Communication Studies 2012 Britain from 1689. 2010 Symbolic Logic 3 2040 Introduction to Performing to the Present .. 3. 3 2020 Medieval Europe .. 3. III. ARTS .. 3 2060 Public Speaking .. 3 2021 Modern Europe .. 3. 2022 Modern Europe .. 3. Architecture Comparative Literature 2055 (2056) The United States 2401 Appreciation of Architecture .. 3 2201 Introduction to World Literary to 1865 .. 3. 3005 History of Architecture I .. 3 Traditions (see also ENGL 2201) .. 3 2057 (2058) The United States 3006 History of Architecture II.