BACHELOR’S DEGREE REQUIREMENTS
UNDERGRADUATE CATALOG INDEX

All bachelor’s degree students are required to complete 36 hours of general education courses in communication skills, computer proficiency, English composition, humanities and fine arts, mathematics, natural sciences, and social sciences.* Before selecting general education courses, check course listings for any prerequisites or corequisites and review your program of study for specific course requirements. In some cases, a limited portion of general education requirements can be fulfilled through program-specific courses.

Communication Skills: 3 hours
Select from the following courses:

COMM 200 Prin of Communication in Health Care
COMM 203 Intro to Human Comm
COMM 204 Intro to Speech Comm
COMM 250 Interpersonal Comm
ENGL 220 Technical Writing

*Bachelor’s degree students at MSU Center Township are required to complete 40 hours of general education requirements. See the Center Township catalog or contact a campus administrator for a list of general education requirements.

Computer Proficiency: 3 hours
Select from the following courses:

Any computer information systems (CIS) course
Any computer science (CSCI) course
Any information technology (IT) course

English Composition: 6 hours
Complete both of the following courses with a grade of C or better:

ENGL 101 English Composition I
ENGL 102 English Composition II

Humanities and Fine Arts: 6 hours
Select from the following courses:

COMM 206 Amer Sign Language I
COMM 208 Amer Sign Language II
Any art (ART) course
Any literature course from English (ENGL)
Any humanities (HUMN) course
Any music (MUSC) course
Any philosophy (PHIL) course
Any religious studies (RELI) course
Any Spanish (SPAN) course

Mathematics: 3 hours
Select from the following courses:

MATH 101 Math for Hlth Sciences
MATH 102 Beginning Algebra
MATH 104 Business Mathematics
MATH 112 Intermediate Algebra
MATH 116 Elementary Statistics
MATH 120 College Algebra
MATH 130 Plane Trigonometry
MATH 210 Calculus I
MATH 212 Calculus II
MATH 214 Calculus III
MATH 313 Applied Statistics
MATH 314 Quantitative Methods
MATH 344 Differential Equations

Natural Sciences: 6 hours
Select from the following courses:

ENVR 106 Intro to Hazardous Mtls
ENVR 207 Chem of Hazardous Mtls
ENVR 300 Toxicology
ENVR 315 Fund of Ind Hygiene
ENVR 415 Adv Industrial Hygiene
Any astronomy (ASTR) course
Any biology (BIOL) course
Any chemistry (CHEM) course
Any geology (GEOL) course
Any meteorology (METR) course
Any physical science (PHSC) course
Any physics (PHYS) course

Social Sciences: 9 hours
Select from the following courses:

CRJS 101 Intro to Criminal Justice
Any economics (ECON) course
Any geography (GEOG) course
Any history (HIST) course
Any political science (POLI) course
Any psychology (PSYC) course
Any social science (SSCI) course
Any sociology (SOCI) course
Any social work (SOWK) course