BGS - Curriculum

Listed below are the online Bachelor of General Studies degree requirements:

all General Education Requirements fulfilled
2 courses in either a foreign language or from the list of diversity courses below
2 focus areas of at least 18 semester hours each (Students who enter with an associate's degree have one focus area completed.)
capstone course (typically LASS 4880)
9 semester hours of electives from disciplines used in the focus areas

**A Total of 48 Semester Hours in the Degree Concentration (focus 1 + focus 2 + capstone + electives)**
Requirements	Credits
1 upper division (3700 or above) from each of the following disciplines: English, History, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology	15 sh
6 additional upper division elective hours from among the 5 disciplines above (English, History, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology	6 sh
6 hours in foreign languages or diversity courses	6 sh
18 hours constituting the focus 1 transferring in from the associate's degree	18 sh
capstone	3 sh
TOTAL	48 sh

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List of Courses to fulfill Diversity Requirement *
Course	Title	Credits
ANTH 1500	Introduction to Anthropology	3
CJFS 3752	Race, Ethnicity and Crime in America	3
CJFS 5831	Violence in America	3
CMST 2610	Intercultural Communication	3
ENGL 2618	American Literature and Diversity	3
ENGL 2631	Mythology in Literature	3
GEOG 2626	World Geography	3
GEOG 3703	Human Impacts on the Environment	3
GERO 3703	Aging and Society (Listed also as SOC 3703)	3
HIST 1511	World Civilization to 1500	3
HIST 1512	World Civilization from 1500	3
JUDC 3751	Lessons of the Holocaust from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum	3
PSYC 1560	General Psychology	3
PHLT 2692	Human Sexuality	3
PHLT 3731	Drug Use and Abuse	3
REL 2605	Myth, Symbol, and Ritual	3
REL 2617	Introduction to Asian Religions	3
SOC 2601	Social Problems	3
SOC 3703	Aging and Society (Listed also as GERO 3703)	3
SOC 3743	Social Stratification and Inequality	3
SOC 3744	Social Deviance	3

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To meet university requirements for the bachelor's degree:

24 additional upper division hours from any discipline to fulfill the university requirement of 48 upper division semester hours
6 additional hours of any level, any discipline to fulfill the university requirement of 120 semester hours for graduation.

This assumes the student enters with a 60-semester hour associate's degree and no upper division hours.