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

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

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.

(*Click here for course descriptions.)