1996-1997 Academic Catalog

V. Global Awareness Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) and Bachelor ofMusic Education (B.M.E.) degrees must complete one of the following: 1. Pass tlu·ee years of the same foreign language in high school or one term ofan intennediate college-level foreign language 2. Live in a non-U.S. cultural immersion experience for at least one school year after the age of 12 3. Pass two years of the same high school foreign lan– guage or pass the third quarter of a college level foreign language and one of the following: a. A global awareness course selected from the list below in number four. b. Completing an approved intercultural experience of at least four weeks duration. Bachelor of Science (B.S., B.S.N., B.S.E.E., and B.S.M.E.) degrees must complete one of the following: 1. Pass two years of the same foreign language in high school 2. Pass the third quarter of a college-level foreign language 3. Live in a non-U.S. cultural immersion experience for at least one school year after the age of 12 4. A global awareness course from the following: ANTH-180 Cultural Anthropology BEPH-226 Religion and Culture BUS-291 International Business COM-314 Intercultural Communication ECON-338 Developmental Economics and the Political Economy GE0-352 World Regional Geography-East GE0-354 Geography of Africa GEO/HIST/POLS-321 History and Political Development ofEast Asia GEO/HIST/POLS-322 The Middle East: History and Politics HIST/SOC-375 Social Movements NSG-309 Community Health Nursing II NSG-420 Culture and Health SPAN-364 Introduction to Hispanic Literature SPAN-460 Hispanic Civilization 5. Completing an approved intercultural experience of at least four weeks duration VI. Physical Education .................................................. 3 A. PEF-199 Physical Activity and the Christian Life ................................................................ 2 B. One general physical education activity course chosen from PE-100 through PE-212 ....................................... 1 VII. Science and Mathematics .................................... 15 A. One course from the biological sciences .................... 5 B. One course from the physical sciences ....................... 5 Academic C. At least five quarter hours selected from the following quantitative courses: GSCI-180 Introduction to Mathematics ...................... 5 GSCI-184 College Algebra .......................................... 5 GSCI-185 Precalculus ................................................. 5 GSCI-190 Calculus for Business and Social Science ..................................................... 5 Any five credit MATH course: .................................... 5 BUS-211,212 Statistics I,II ......................................... 6 PYCH-261 Psychological Statistics ............................ 5 POLS-368 Data Analysis ............................................ 5 D. Students pursuing Bachelor of Science degrees (B.S., B.S.N., B.S.E.E., and B.S.M.E.) must complete an additional nine quarter hours. These hours must be selected from courses with BIO, CHEM, MATH, and PHYS designators; or appropriate GSCI courses; or decision sciences; or statistics; or computer application courses selected from the following: CIS-222 Structural Programming ................................ 4 CIS-223 Microcomputer Applications ......................... 3 CIS- 224 COBOL Programming I ............................... 4 CIS-225 COBOL Progranuning II .............................. 4 ENGR-191 Digital Logic Design ................................ 4 ENGR-221 Fortran Programming ............................... 4 ENGR-280 "C" Programming ..................................... 3 OTEC-293 Information Processing ............................. 3 RTV-375 Authoring for Interactive Multimedia .......... 4 VIII. Social Sciences and History .............................. 14 A. GSS-100 Foundations of Social Science .................... 5 B. One course in hist01y .............................................. 4-5 C. Electives in social sciences or history ..................... 4-5 Total General Education Requirements ............ 80-102 Many ofthese courses also satisfj; the requirements for major fields ofstudy. General Education Course Sequence Many of the General Education Requirements provide important background for advanced courses that are required as a part of a major field of study. Conse– quently, in most programs many of these requirements are taken in the first two years of the four-year curricu– lum. The sample four-year curricula found by each major field of study in the catalog outlines this sequence. Because of the importance of several of the require– ments to all students, the followi11g courses must be completed before the beginning ofthe junior year or before a student earns 90 quarter hours: BEGE-171 The Christian Life BEGE-172 Introduction to Bible Study COM-110 F1111dame11tals ofSpeech ENG-110,140 English Composition I aud II PEF-199 Physical Activity a11d the Christian Life