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Farleigh Dickinson University

Farleigh Dickinson University (Madison and Teaneck, NJ)

www.fdu.edu


Defining Statements:

Fairleigh Dickinson University is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. The University strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical understandings necessary to participate, lead, and prosper in the global marketplace of ideas, commerce and culture.


Organizational Principles:

Throughout the sequence of the University Core, you will be encouraged to think critically, to understand, to challenge, even to change the world in which we live. Through intensive reading, careful analysis, active discussion, and frequent writing assignments, you will begin to examine your own values while becoming aware of the differing values of other individuals, groups, and cultures.

In addition to providing students with a common base of knowledge, the Core is designed

  1. to provide essential skills in written communication, reading and logical analysis
  2. to promote an understanding of individual and societal perspectives
  3. to foster an international perspective that will give students a way of looking at the world as well as at their own country
  4. to inculcate an appreciation for the interrelationships among bodies of knowledge generated in individual disciplines

Students must take four core courses in this order:

The Global Challenge

A Perspectives on the Individual

A Cross-Cultural Perspectives

The American Experience: The Quest for Freedom

Transfer students bringing in 30 -  59 credits take only The Global Challenge, Perspectives on the Individual, and Cross-Cultural Perspectives.  Transfer students entering with 60 or more credits take on The Global Challenge and Perspectives on the Individual. 

Requirements for Graduation (based on Becton College of Arts and Sciences):

General Education Requirements
Written Communication
Oral Communication
Mathematics
Computer Skills
Language and Culture
Physical Education
    Total Gen Ed requirements  
Number of Credits

3-6
3
3-4
3
3-6
1
16-23
Curricular Distribution Requirements
Humanities
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Laboratory Sciences
one course can be counted toward each major,
minor, major cognates, or set of cluster courses
    Total Curricular Distribution Requirements
    (with one double-dipped course)

6
6
6-8


18-20
15-18
Core Requirements
The Global Challenge
Perspectives on the Individual
Cross-Cultural Perspectives
The American Experience: The Quest for Freedom
    Total Core Requirements

3
3
3
3
12
Additional Requirement
Freshman Seminar
    Total Additional Requirements

1
1
Total General Education Requirements
Credits required for graduation
 GUR percent  
44-64
128

34%-50%

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