N.B.: First time, first year students transferring 30 or more college credit hours to Belmont Abbey College are not required to take First-Year Experience.
Requirements
Writing, 4 credits
| RH104 | Rhetoric and Writing | 4 |
Quantitative Reasoning, 3 credits
| MA135 | Math for Liberal Arts | 3 |
| Or | |
| MA151 | College Algebra | 3 |
| Or | |
| MA152 | Trigonometry and Precalculus | 3 |
| Or | |
| One 200 level or higher mathematics course | |
Natural Science 4 credits
| BI100 | Essentials of Biology | 4 |
| BI100L | Essentials of Biology Lab | 0 |
| Or | |
| BI101 | General Biology | 4 |
| BI101L | General Biology Lab | 0 |
| Or | |
| CH105 | General Chemistry I | 4 |
| CH105L | General Chem I Lab | 0 |
| Or | |
| SC110 | The Physical World | 4 |
| SC110L | Physical World Lab | 0 |
Theology 6 credits
| TH105 | Introduction to Scripture | 3 |
| TH205 | Introduction to Theology | 3 |
History 6 credits
| HI101 | Western Civilization I | 3 |
| HI102 | Western Civilization II | 3 |
Social Science 6 credits
| PO201 | The American Constitution | 3 |
| At least 3 additional course hours from among | 3 |
| CJ201 | Introduction to Criminal Justice | 3 |
| EC201 | Introductory Macroeconomics | 3 |
| PC201 | Introduction to Psychology | 3 |
| SO201 | Principles of Sociology | 3 |
All students are required to take PO 201.
Literature 6 credits
| EN211 | Literary Classics of the Western Trad I | 3 |
| EN212 | Literary Classics of the Western Trad II | 3 |
Core Capstone Course 3 credits
Fine Arts 3 credits
| Any 3 credit Art (AR) course | |
| Any 3 credit Dance (DA) course | |
| Any 3 credit Music (MU) course | |
| Any 3 credit Theatre (TA) course | |
| EN106 | Intro to Digital and Multi-Media Arts | 3 |
| EN207 | Creative Writing | 3 |
| EN208 | Intro to Poetry Reading and Writing | 3 |
| EN215 | Introduction to Film Criticism | 3 |
| EN216 | Film Criticism II | 3 |
Students may also complete this requirement by taking three one-credit voice, chorus, dance, or music lesson.(i.e. taking three one- credit offerings over the course of study).
Philosophy 6 credits
| PH200 | Intro to Philosophy: Ancient & Medieval | 3 |
| And either | |
| PH250 | Ethics | 3 |
| Or | |
| PO250 | Justice and the Good Society | 3 |
Empirical Reasoning 3-4 credits
| HS350 | Applied Empirical Reasoning | 3 |
| MA208 | Statistics | 3 |
| MA304 | Statistics for Business & Economics | 3 |
| Or | |
| PC300 | Statistics for Psychology | 3 |
| PO315 | Research Methods in Politics | 3 |
| Or | |
| An additional lab, or non-lab science beyond the core requirement | |
Other Graduation Requirements
- Writing-Intensive Requirement, one flagged 3 credit course
Each student must complete at least one course designated as “Writing Intensive,” marked with the designation (W) in the course schedule. Students are strongly encouraged to choose one within their major or minor field of study.
- Core Curriculum Capstone, one flagged 3 credit course
In this interdisciplinary course, students will explore a topic that is of both enduring importance and great contemporary significance. Specific topics will vary from section to section, and over time, but the course will be consistent in at least two crucial regards. First, students will apply and deepen knowledge, skills, and perspectives established in earlier core courses as they investigate the topic via the lens of different disciplines and develop a cumulative project on the topic. Disciplines must be from at least two different divisional groupings (e.g., Humanities and Social Sciences; Science and Social Sciences). Secondly, whatever specific disciplines are featured, the course will be framed by essential theological and ethical concerns: in considering the topic, students will also be consciously considering how their Catholic, Benedictine education has called and prepared them to be better citizens and better neighbors. Students will effectively demonstrate how their education in the core curriculum has helped them to understand and engage with the world in a way that they could not have done previously.