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2007-08 Catalog

College of Arts and Sciences Requirements

College of Arts and Sciences Requirements


In addition to meeting the entrance requirement in foreign language (two years of high school language, one year of college language, or demonstrated equivalent proficiency), candidates for degrees from the College of Arts and Sciences (BA, BS, BARec, BAPE [excluding BAPE with certification], and BSPE degrees) must meet Option I, II, or III below.

Candidates for the BA in English, for the BA in Education with a secondary teaching major in English, for the BA in Global Studies, for the BBA in International Business, and for election to the Areté Society must meet Option I.

Candidates for a BA in Music must meet College of Arts and Sciences requirement (Option I, II) and take a non-music arts elective in either visual art, theatre or dance.

Completion of one foreign language through the second year of college level. This option may also be met by completion of four years of high school study in one foreign language with grades of C or higher, or by satisfactory scores on a proficiency examination administered by the PLU Department of Languages and Literatures.

Completion of one foreign language other than that used to satisfy the foreign language entrance requirement through the first year of college level. This option may also be met by satisfactory scores on a proficiency examination administered by the PLU Department of Languages and Literatures.

Completion of four semester hours in history, literature, or language (at the 201 level, or at any level in a language other than that used to satisfy the foreign language entrance requirement) in addition to courses applied to the general university requirements, and four semester hours in symbolic logic, mathematics (courses numbered 100 or above), computer science, or statistics in addition to courses applied to the general university requirements. Courses used to satisfy either category of Option III of the College of Arts and Sciences requirement may not also be used to satisfy general university requirements.

Language Coursework and the Perspectives on Diversity Requirement


A foreign language course number 201 or above used to satisfy Option I, or completion of a foreign language through the first year of college level used to satisfy Option II, may be used simultaneously to satisfy the Perspectives on Diversity requirement.

A course in American Sign Language may be used to satisfy the Alternative Perspectives line.

Foreign language course(s) (excluding American Sign Language) may be used to satisfy the Cross-Cultural Perspectives line (see above).

Understandings Regarding All Requirements


Consult particular departmental sections of the catalog for detailed specification of courses that count for these requirements.

For those lines of the general university requirements which refer to academic disciplines or units, selected courses outside those units may count for the requirement when approved both by the units and by the committee overseeing the general university requirements.

Courses offered through correspondence, on-line and as independent studies are not accepted to fulfill the Distributive Core requirement in Literature, Philosophy, or Religion.

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