✘ core requirements

And what about those 'core requirements'?
The core requirements are a set of courses EVERYONE has to take, regardless of major or degree. There is some variety though, so the core requirements can be tailored to students majors and interests. The core consists of 44 hours of the minimum 124 to earn a degree and for the most part is taken care of during freshman and sophomore years.

What are these 'hours' you speak of anyway?
Each course students take at MU are worth a certain number of 'credit hours', usually ranging between 1 and 5. The number of hours a course is worth is not reflective of how long the class is. Many music performance courses are only worth 1 credit hour. Most general classes are worth 3 credit hours. Many science courses with lab are worth 5, the lecture portion counting for 4 of the hours and the lab counting for 1 hour.

What's this mean: ENGL 1301?
That is a course code and they're a quick way to identify courses. The first digit identifies what level the course is, 1 being Freshman and 4 being Senior. The second digit identifies how many credit hours the class is worth. The last two numbers identify the course within its department. So ENGL 1301, is an English course, Freshman level, worth 3 credit hours, and Freshman course 01 within the English department. (When making up numberings for classes, please keep this format in mind.)

So what do the characters call their classes?
Courses are either referred to by their code or by their actual name, depending on the situation. Everyone knows ENGL 1301 is the first Freshman English class (as literally everyone has to take it). But PHIL 2306 isn't so easily identified, so calling it "Introduction to Ethics" might be easier. (To make it even more confusing, there can be more than one class for each course. All the individual possible classes of a course are called 'sections'. So two people can both be taking ENGL 1301 but not be in the same class because one is in section X and the other is in section Y, but we'll not get into that, mkay?)


English Composition & Rhetoric - 6 semester hours
ENGL 1301 - Writing & Composition I
ENGL 1302 - Writing & Composition II

World or European Literature - 3 semester hours
ENGL 2322 - English Literature to the 1780’s
ENGL 2323 - English Literature from 1780’s to the Present
ENGL 2362 - World Literature through The Renaissance
ENGL 2363 - World Literature since The Renaissance

Humanities - 3 semester hours
PHIL 1301 - Introduction to Philosophy
PHIL 2303 - Introduction to Logic
PHIL 2306 - Introduction to Ethics
ENGL 2310 - Literacy Appreciation
ENGL 2350 - American Literature Survey
ENGL 2322 - English Literature to the 1780’s
ENGL 2323 - English Literature from 1780’s to the Present
ENGL 2362 - World Literature through The Renaissance
ENGL 2363 - World Literature since The Renaissance
SPCM 1315 - Fundamentals of Speech Communication

Social and Behavorial Sciences - 3 semester hours
ANTH 2346 - General Anthropology
ECON 1301 - Introduction to Economics
ECON 2301 - Principles of Macroeconomics
ECON 2302 - Principles of Microeconomics
GEOG 1313 - World Regional Geography
HIST 2321 - World Civilizations I
HIST 2322 - World Civilizations II
JOUR 2307 - Mass Media and Society
PSYC 1301 - Introductory Psychology
SOCI 1301 - Introductory Sociology
SOCI 1306 - Contemporary Social Problems
PSYC 1349 - Critical Thinking

Fine and Performing Arts appreciation or history - 3 semester hours
MUSI 1306 - Music Appreciation
THTR 1301 - The Theater: Plays in Performance
THTR 1356 - The Cinema: Films and Performers
ART 1301 - Art Appreciation
ART 2303 - Art History Survey I
ART 2304 - Art History Survey II

United States History - 6 semester hours
HIST 1301 - United States History I
HIST 1302 - United States History II

United States Government - 6 semester hours
POLS 2305 - Federal Government I
POLS 2306 - Federal Government II

Laboratory Science - 8 semester hours
CHEM 1305/1105 - Intro. Chemistry I + Lab
CHEM 1307/1117 - Intro. Chemistry II + Lab
CHEM 1311/1111 - General Chemistry I + Lab
CHEM 1312/1112 - General Chemistry II + Lab
PHYS 2325/2125 - University Physics I + Lab
PHYS 2326/2126 - University Physics II + Lab
BIOL 1306/1106 - Biology for Science Majors I + Lab
BIOL 1307/1107 - Biology for Science Majors II + Lab

Mathematics at the level of College Algebra or above - 6 semester hours
MATH 1314 - College Algebra
MATH 1316 - Trigonometry
MATH 1324 - Math for Business & Social Sciences I (Finite Mathematics)
MATH 1325 - Math for Business & Social Sciences II (Business Calculus)
MATH 1332 - Contemporary Mathematics I
MATH 1333 - Contemporary Mathematics II
MATH 1342 - Statistics
MATH 1350 - Fundamentals of Mathematics I
MATH 1351 - Fundamentals of Mathematics II
MATH 2413 - Calculus I
MATH 2414 - Calculus II

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