General Education
The General Education Curriculum provides academic breadth with a set of intellectually rigorous and challenging courses. Every undergraduate student in a baccalaureate degree program in the University, on all campuses, must complete the General Education Curriculum. The General Education Curriculum comprises four content areas, four competencies, and Environmental Literacy.
Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy Studies/Doctor of Pharmacy Catalog Year 2024-2025
General Education Requirements
Pharmacy students must complete all general education courses by the end of their second professional (P2) year in order to earn the BS degree in Pharmacy Studies and advance into the Pharm.D.
Content Areas
A full description of the general education requirements and a full list of all courses for each content area is available in the Undergraduate Catalog.
| Content Area 1 (Arts and Humanities) – 6 credits – All students must pass two Content Area 1 courses in two different departments. | 1. __________
2. __________ |
| Content Area 2 (Social Sciences) – 6 credits – All students must pass two Content Area 2 courses in two different departments. One course must be in Economics, and the other must be a 1000-level course in Anthropology, Psychology or Sociology. | Economics AND ECON 1201 Anthropology OR Psychology OR Sociology OR |
| Content Area 3 (Science & Technology) – 16-18 credits – All students must pass a course in general Biology, a sequence of general Chemistry, and a course in Physics. | Biology AND BIOL 1107 Chemistry AND Physics |
| Content Area 4 (Diversity and Multiculturalism) – 6 credits – All students must pass two Content Area 4 courses in two different departments. At least one course must be international. | 1. __________
2. __________ |
Notes:
- Courses in content areas 1, 2, and 3 must come from 6 different academic departments/units.
- One Content Area 4 course must be international.
- One Content Area 4 course may double count as a Content Area 1, 2, or 3 requirement. Students must have a minimum of 5 courses to cover Content Area 1, 2, and 4.
Competencies
A full description of the general education requirements is available in the Undergraduate Catalog. A full list of approved competency courses may be found on the General Education Oversight Committee's site.
| Information Literacy – Each major program has considered the information literacy competencies required of its graduates and built those expectations into the upper-level research and writing requirements in the major. | Met upon successful completion of program major courses |
| Quantitative (Q) – All students must pass two Q courses, one of which must be from mathematics or statistics; Q courses may be used to satisfy Content Area Requirements. | MATH 1131Q
CHEM ____Q |
| Environmental (E) – All students must complete an E course; E courses may be used to satisfy Content Area Requirements. | _________E |
| Second Language – A student meets the minimum requirement if admitted to the University with 3 years of a single foreign language in high school, or the equivalent. Otherwise, the student must pass the second semester course in the first-year sequence of college level study in a single language. | __________
__________ |
| Writing (W) – All students must take English 1007, 1010, or 1011. All students must also pass two writing-intensive courses, which may also satisfy Content Area Requirements. One of these courses must be at the 2000-level or above and associated with the student’s major. English 1007, 1010, or 1011 is a prerequisite to all writing-intensive courses. | ENGL 1007/1010/1011
__________W PHRX 4001W OR PHAR 3097W (honors) |