First-Year Experience

The First-Year Experience is required of all students entering with fewer than 30 credits of transferable college-level work.

  • FYEP 101: Writing Seminar (4 credit hours); must be taken in Fall or Spring (unless appropriate writing course previously taken at another college)
  • FYEP 190: Inquiry Seminar (4 credit hours); must be taken in either Fall, January, or Spring
  • January Term – must take a 4 credit January Term class

Admission Requirements

Mathematics: Two years of college prep mathematics, C average or better.

Foreign Language: Two years of one foreign language, C average or better.

General Education Program

Engaging Arts and Performance (8)


Art, Music, or Theatre, AR (4)
Physical Activity, PE (4): Four activity courses, including PHED 100: Personalized Fitness Program

Interpreting Living Traditions for a Humane Future  (16)
Literature, LT (4)
Philosophy, PH (4)
Religion, RC & RG (8): One course from Christian
Traditions, RC, and one course from Global Religious
Traditions, RG
Language Study

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Exploring Nature and Number (12)
Mathematical Reasoning, MR (4)
Natural Sciences, Computer Sciences, or Mathematics, NS (4)
Science & Scientific Method (4)

Investigating Human Behavior, Culture, & Institutions (8)

Two courses from different disciplines: Anthropology, Economics, History, Political
Science, Psychology, Social Work, or Sociology

Encountering Perspectives on Diversity (8)

Alternative Perspectives, A (4): May simultaneously fulfill another General Education Requirement
Cross-Cultural Perspectives, C (4): May simultaneously fulfill another General Education Requirement

Producing & Presenting Culminating Project, SR (2-4)

International Honors Program (28 credit hours total)

  • IHON 111/112 (190): Historical Origins of our Contemporary World (8 credit hours), to be taken in the first year
  • 200-level IHON courses: A selection of four courses that focus on contemporary world issues, generally to be taken sophomore and junior year.
  • 300-level IHON course: A thematic and values-based final course (4 credit hours)