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"Critical Thought and Inquiry"
Core Curriculum Requirements
The Curriculum
The core curriculum offers students a learning experience that builds through three stages (levels): an introductory/skills level, an intermediate interdisciplinary level, and an advanced capstone level. The following provides more information about the requirements at each stage of the program:
Level I: First Year
| The Responsible Self (common course) |
4 hrs |
| The Responsible Speaker |
4 hrs |
| Written Communication |
4 hrs |
Math Model Building and Statistics or Applied Calculus and Statistics
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4 hrs |
| Fitness |
2 hrs |
Level II: Sophomore and Junior Years(some BA students complete the language requirement in the first year)
| Science, Technology and the Human Experience |
4 hrs |
| Culture and Tradition |
4 hrs |
| Power and Justice in Society |
4 hrs |
| Sacred and Secular |
4 hrs |
| Language (BA students) or cross-cultural |
4 hrs |
Level III: Senior Year
The following provides more information about the requirements at each stage of the program:
Level I: This level of study consists of 18 hours of coursework and includes the following courses*: CTI 100, 101, 102 or 120, 103 or 104, and two or more physical education activities courses totaling at least 2 credit hours. (See the physical education section for a list of activities. No more than 4 hours in activity courses may be applied toward the 124 hours required for the degree. Credit may not be earned for the same activity more than once.)
*Note: In certain circumstances, a student may enroll simultaneously in the last Level I course (not including CTI 100 or 102) and the first Level II course. Students must seek approval of the Associate Dean for the Core Curriculum to co-enroll in Level I and II.
Level II: There are four categories of study (Culture and Traditions; Power and Justice; Sacred and Secular; and Science, Technology, and Human Experience) in this level from which the student chooses one course in each of three areas (12 hrs.). A student is not required to take a course in the category that most closely corresponds to the primary major at the time of graduation. For purposes of general education the following assignments of departments and majors to divisional areas apply.
Social Sciences
(students in these majors are exempt from Power and Justice category)
Accounting
Business
Economics
Elementary Education
History
Information Systems
International Business & Language
International Relations
Mathematics with Data Processing Emphasis
Oxbridge History
Oxbridge Institution & Policies
Physical Education
Political Science
Psychology
Humanities
(students in these majors are exempt from Culture and Traditions category)
Art
Communication
English
French
Japanese Area Studies
Music
Organizational Communication
Oxbridge English Language & Literature
Oxbridge History of Ideas
Oxbridge Music
Philosophy
Spanish
Speech Education
Theatre
Theatre Education
Natural Sciences
(students in these majors are exempt from Science, Technology, and Human Experience category)
Biochemistry
Bioethics
Biology
Chemistry
Computer Science
Clinical Laboratory Science
Nursing
Oxbridge Science
Physics
Religion
(students in these majors are exempt from Sacred and Secular category)
Religion
Students majoring in mathematics and recreation and sport must take one course from each category in Level II. The courses at Level II are designed as interdisciplinary courses. The purpose of utilizing interdisciplinary studies is to encourage learning in reference to relevant questions that transcend disciplinary boundaries.
Level III: This advanced level of general education consists of one 4-hour course from this final category, which functions as a capstone experience to the general education program. The course options are interdisciplinary, team-taught and tied closely to issues of public concern, one aspect of which invites scientific application. Prerequisite in all Level III courses: completion of Levels I and II of the general education curriculum.
Foreign Language: (4 hrs.). Proficiency in a foreign language at the intermediate level is required for all Bachelor of Arts students. Students pursuing the B.A. degree must complete one foreign language course at the intermediate level or higher. New students who have studied two years or more of a language in high school, and who wish to continue study in that language, must take a placement test before enrolling in a language course at Jewell. They must enroll at the level determined by the placement test. Normal placement is in 211 (or 215 for Greek, 213 for Latin), which completes the requirement. Students who have had more high school language and do well on the placement test may be placed in a level higher than the intermediate level. Those who do poorly may be placed in 114 (a review of two semesters in one). They must subsequently take 211 (or 215 for Greek, 213 for Latin) to fulfill the requirement. If a new student has had less than two years in high school, 111 is indicated with no need to take the placement test. Students who transfer an intermediate level foreign language course from another college have met the college's language requirement and are not required to do any more language study, provided the intermediate language course is the culmination of a sequence representing 11 or 12 hours of study. If they have lower-level courses on their transcript, they may be placed in the next higher course with no need to take the placement test. Any student has the option of electing beginning the study of a new language. In such cases, it takes three courses to satisfy the requirement.
B.S. Foreign Language Substitution. A student seeking a Bachelor of Science degree has the choice of (1) completing one foreign language course at the intermediate level or higher, (2) taking a fourth Level II course that satisfies the cultural component (only Culture and Traditions courses (CTI 200-224), CTI 239, and CTI 278 satisfy this component), or (3) taking 4 credit hours from the an approved list of courses below.
Approved courses that satisfy B. S. Foreign Language Substitution:
HIS 224 (2 hrs.). Modern China plus HIS 226 (2 hrs.). Modern Japan
ENG 390 (4hrs.). Major World Authors
REL 272 (4 hrs.). Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
The foreign language requirement will be waived for a foreign national who has grown up in a non-English speaking culture and successfully completed secondary school work taught in a language other than English. Official certification from the school of the language of instruction will be required.
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