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Courses are allowed to count as meeting requirements in multiple areas. This means a course may count multiple times in a student’s degree plan. The credit hours for the course fulfill the credit hours in each area that the course is listed (major, minor, General Studies, etc.), but still only count once in the 120-credit hour minimum requirement for the awarding of a degree.
To ensure a well-rounded higher education grounded in the liberal arts and sciences, student course selections cannot be confined solely to their major. Within each degree a student must take at least 33 credit hours outside of their major’s most recurrent prefix in order to graduate. For the purpose of this rule courses taken in a minor, a second or double major, ancillary course work or other academic program that does not carry the student’s most recurrent major prefix would count toward the 33 -credit hour total necessary to graduate.
In an interdisciplinary major, the academic prefix that comprises a majority of the credit hours in the major would be considered the most recurrent prefix. If there is not an academic prefix with a majority of credit hours, then the prefix that has the largest fraction of credit hours would be considered the most recurrent prefix for the purpose of this rule. In programs where there is a tie in the number of credit hours required per prefix, the department that owns the major for the purposes of the curriculum manual will be treated as the owner of the most recurrent prefix.
This rule means students may fulfill many degree requirements but still not have the necessary total 120 credit hours to complete a bachelor’s degree. Students are encouraged to meet with professors or academic advisors to consider coursework outside of General Studies and a major such as a minor, a double major, or coursework in other interest areas, to ensure degree completion in a timely manner.
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