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7.1 School of Arts and Social Science Core Program Requirements
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Students completing the Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science degree programs at Grenfell Campus offered by the School of Arts and Social Sciences must complete the requirements as outlined below under Breadth of Knowledge Requirement, Literacy Requirement, and Quantitative Reasoning and Analysis Requirement.
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Students completing the Bachelor of Environment and Sustainability or Bachelor of Science degree programs offered by the School of Science and the Environment must complete a core program as indicated under School of Science and the Environment Core Program Requirements.
7.1.1 Breadth of Knowledge Requirement
Six credit hours from each of the three groups identified below for a total of 18 credit hours. The courses chosen can be any courses within the disciplines identified. However, students are not permitted to use these courses to meet the Quantitative Reasoning and Analysis requirement nor the first-year English requirements.
7.1.1.1 Breadth of Knowledge Requirement - Group A
Art History, Classics, English, History, Humanities, Languages, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Theatre, Visual Arts
7.1.1.2 Breadth of Knowledge Requirement - Group B
Anthropology, Business, Economics, Education, Environment and Sustainability, Folklore, Gender Studies, Geography, Human Kinetics and Recreation, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Tourism Studies
7.1.1.3 Breadth of Knowledge Requirement - Group C
Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth Sciences, Human Biosciences (or Biochemistry), Environmental Science, Mathematics, Physics, Science
7.1.2 Literacy Requirement
Thirty credit hours in Writing courses, which must include 6 credit hours in first-year English. Up to 6 credit hours in languages other than English may be used to satisfy the literacy requirement in addition to those listed in the table.
Writing courses must be completed through Grenfell Campus course offerings designated W (on-campus or online delivery) listed in Designated Writing Courses (W), or Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences course offerings designated Critical Reading and Writing (CRW), or be demonstrated to be equivalent to Grenfell writing courses and approved by the Committee on Student Academic Affairs.
7.1.3 Quantitative Reasoning and Analysis Requirement
Six credit hours in Quantitative Reasoning and Analysis courses. Courses in this group are identified with the designation QRA and are listed in Designated Quantitative Reasoning and Analysis Courses (QRA).
7.1.4 Designated Writing Courses (W)
Courses will be designated Writing courses by the Committee on Academic Programming. A Writing course is a course in which a minimum of 30 percent of the course grade involves a specific component consisting of written work on which students will receive feedback. For the purpose of this regulation, the final examination will not be counted as part of the evaluated Writing component.
Anthropology: 2230, 2240, 2300, 2412, 2414, 2500, 3080, 3083, 3140, 3314, 3520, 3525, 4072, 4440 | Humanities: 1001, 1002, 2001, 2002, 2010, 3001, 3002, 3010, 3020, 3021, 4001, 4010, 4950 |
Biology: 2040, 2041, 2122, 2600 | Mathematics: 2130 |
Business: 2021 | Philosophy: 1002, 1005, 2020, 2030, 2040, 2100, 2130, 2140, 2201, 2215, 2340, 2360, 3010, 3220, 3230, 3310, 3400, 3430, 3450, 3460, 3610, 4000, 4005 |
Classics: 1100, 1120, 1121, 1200, 2010, 2015, 2020, 2035, 2040, 2055, 2701, 2800, 2801, 3010, 3020, 3110, 3111, 3130 | Political Science: 1010, 1020, 2200, 2600, 3351, 3631 |
Economics: 3085 | Psychology: 4910, 4925, 4950, 4951, 4959 |
English: All English courses listed with the Grenfell Campus English Program and English 2010 | Religious Studies: 1000, 2013, 2050, 2051, 2610, 2830, 3010, 3020, 3200, 3401, the former 3500, 3820, 3831,3840, 3880 |
Environmental Science: 2370, 3131 | Science: 2001 |
Environment and Sustainability: 4201 | Social/Cultural Studies: 4000, 4100, 4950 |
Folklore: 1000, 1050, 2100, 2230, 2300, 2401, 2500, 2600, 3130, 3200, 3300, 3606, 4440 | Sociology: 2100, 2120, 2230, 2240, 2610, 3140, 3150, 3160, 3290, 3314, 3395, 4072 |
French: 2100, 2101, 2601, 2602, 3100, 3101 | Theatre: 1000, 1001 |
Gender Studies: 2001 | Tourism: 2000, 3240 |
Geography: 2001, 2302 | Visual Arts: 2700, 2701, 3620, 3700, 3701, 3702-3721, 3820, 4700-4729, 4730, 4731, 4740, 4741 |
History: All History courses listed with the Grenfell Campus Historical Studies Program | University: 1010 |
7.1.5 Designated Quantitative Reasoning and Analysis Courses (QRA)
Courses will be designated Quantitative Reasoning and Analysis by the Committee on Academic Programming. The Quantitative Reasoning and Analysis (QRA) Requirement is intended to help students develop a degree of appreciation of numerical, statistical, and/or symbolic modes of representation, as well as an appreciation of the analysis, interpretation, and broader quantitative application of such representations.
Human Biosciences 1430 or the former Biochemistry 1430 | Environment and Sustainability 2000, 2001, 3001, 3101, 4100 |
Biology 2250, 2600 | Geography 3222 |
Business: 2100, 2105, 2110, 3100, 3150, 3110, 3120, 3410, 3500, 3510, 4120, 4130, 4510 | Mathematics (All courses) |
Chemistry (All courses with the exception of Chemistry 1900) | Philosophy 2030 or the former 2210, 2031 or the former 2211 |
Computer Science (All courses) | Physics (All courses) |
Earth Sciences 2150 | Psychology 2925, 2950, 3950 |
Economics 1010 (or the former 2010), 1020 (or the former 2020), 3150 | Sociology 3040 |
Environmental Science (All courses with the exception of: 1000, 2360, 2370, 2371, 3072 and 4000) | Statistics (All courses) |
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