(All credit hours referred to in listings of requirements are semester
hours.)
A minimum of 128 semester hours must be completed with a grade point average of 2.00 (2.50 in the Schools of Business and Education and Movement Studies, plus the Department of Sociology and Social Work).
A minimum of 40 semester hours must be completed from courses numbered 300 or above. Courses from two-year institutions are not considered upper-division regardless of subject matter parallels (and regardless of major/minor exceptions). At least 20 of the 40 semester hours of upper-division work must be taken at PLU.
The final 32 semester hours of a student's program must be completed in residence at PLU. No transfer credit may be applied during a student's final 32 hours in a degree program. (Special programs such as 3–1, 3–2 and semester and January term exchange study are excluded from this limitation.)
A major must be completed as detailed by each school or department.
At least eight semester hours must be taken in residence. Departments,
divisions, or schools may set higher residency requirements.
All courses counted toward a major or minor must be completed with
grades of C- or higher and with a cumulative grade point average of
2.00 or higher in those courses. Departments, divisions, or schools may
set higher grade requirements.
No more than 44 semester hours earned in one department may be applied to the BA or BS degrees.
Non-music majors may not count more than eight semester hours in music ensembles toward graduation requirements.
A maximum of 24 semester hours in accredited correspondence or
extension
studies may be credited toward degree requirements, contingent on
approval by the Registrar's Office. Literature, philosophy or religion
courses may not be taken through correspondence/extension/independent
study or via distant learning for credit.
A maximum of 64 semester hours will be accepted by transfer from a regionally accredited community college. All community college courses are transferred as lower-division credit.
No more than eight of the one-semester hour physical education activity courses may be counted toward graduation.