Course Plans
Course plans provide a suggested sequence of classes for each term. Many arts and humanities, business, engineering, international studies, natural sciences and mathematics, music, and social sciences students will find course plans for majors and degrees in the same section listing program of study requirements for those curricula. Plans in those areas address course sequencing and requirements specific to those programs of study.
Students pursuing other bachelor of arts majors and students who have yet to declare a major have the freedom to explore and discover academic interests and construct a highly-personalized curriculum. Ideally, Common Curriculum requirements other than Advanced Seminar should be completed during the first two years. Students should also anticipate taking an average course load of 16 credits each quarter in order to complete the requirements to graduate in four years.
Ways of Knowing courses in the areas of Analytical Inquiry: Society and Culture and Scientific Inquiry: Society and Culture introduce students to University-level study of disciplines in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Credits earned in Ways of Knowing courses may also apply to a major or minor.
Students considering but who have yet to declare majors in business should plan on fulfilling the Analytical Inquiry: Natural and Physical World requirement through either MATH 1200 Calculus for Business and Social Sciences or MATH 1951 Calculus I. Students considering but who have yet to declare a major in the natural sciences should select MATH 1951 Calculus I to fulfill the requirement. Similarly, students considering majors in the natural sciences will fulfill the Scientific Inquiry: Natural Physical World requirement through the sequence of courses in that requirement intended for students majoring in natural science or engineering.
The sample course plans below show what courses a student pursuing a bachelor of arts might take in their first two years; beyond that, students should anticipate working closely with their major advisor to create a course of study to complete the degree.
General Bachelor of Arts and Undeclared Sample Course Plan One
| First Year | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Credits | Winter | Credits | Spring | Credits |
| First-Year Seminar (FSEM) | 4 | WRIT 1122 | 4 | WRIT 1133 | 4 |
| Scientific Inquiry: Society and Culture | 4 | Analytical Inquiry: Society and Culture | 4 | Analytical Inquiry: Society and Culture | 4 |
| Foreign Language or Scientific Inquiry: The Natural and Physical World | 4 | Foreign Language or Scientific Inquiry: The Natural and Physical World | 4 | Foreign Language or Scientific Inquiry: The Natural and Physical World | 4 |
| Elective | 4 | Analytical Inquiry: Natural and Physical World | 4 | Major or elective | 4 |
| CNP 12001 | 2 | ||||
| 16 | 18 | 16 | |||
| Total Credits: 50 | |||||
| Second Year | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Credits | Winter | Credits | Spring | Credits |
| Scientific Inquiry: The Natural and Physical World or Foreign Language | 4 | Scientific Inquiry: The Natural and Physical World or Foreign Language | 4 | Scientific Inquiry: The Natural and Physical World or Foreign Language | 4 |
| Scientific Inquiry: Society and Culture | 4 | Major or elective | 4 | Major or elective | 4 |
| Major or elective | 4 | Minor or elective | 4 | Major or elective | |
| Minor or elective | 4 | Minor or elective | 4 | Minor or elective | 4 |
| INTZ 25012 | 2 | Elective or minor | 4 | ||
| 16 | 18 | 16 | |||
| Total Credits: 50 | |||||
General Bachelor of Arts and Undeclared Sample Course Plan Two
| First Year | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Credits | Winter | Credits | Spring | Credits |
| First-Year Seminar (FSEM) | 4 | WRIT 1122 | 4 | WRIT 1133 | 4 |
| Analytical Inquiry: The Natural and Physical World | 4 | Analytical Inquiry: Society and Culture | 4 | Analytical Inquiry: Society and Culture | 4 |
| Foreign Language or Scientific Inquiry: The Natural and Physical World | 4 | Foreign Language or Scientific Inquiry: The Natural and Physical World | 4 | Foreign Language or Scientific Inquiry: The Natural and Physical World | 4 |
| Elective | 4 | Scientific Inquiry: Society and Culture | 4 | Major or elective | 4 |
| CNP 12001 | 2 | ||||
| 18 | 16 | 16 | |||
| Total Credits: 50 | |||||
| Second Year | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Credits | Winter | Credits | Spring | Credits |
| Scientific Inquiry: The Natural and Physical World or Foreign Language | 4 | Scientific Inquiry: The Natural and Physical World or Foreign Language | 4 | Scientific Inquiry: The Natural and Physical World or Foreign Language | 4 |
| Major or elective | 4 | Scientific Inquiry: Society and Culture | 4 | Major or elective | 4 |
| Minor or elective | 4 | Major or elective | 4 | Minor or elective | 4 |
| Minor or elective | 4 | Minor or elective | 4 | Minor or elective | 4 |
| INTZ 25012 | 2 | ||||
| 18 | 16 | 16 | |||
| Total Credits: 50 | |||||
- 1
CNP 1200 is offered in fall, winter and spring quarters and is recommended for students have not declared a major.
- 2
INTZ 2501 is required for any student who studies abroad, and may be taken in any quarter within the year prior to studying abroad.