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UIW Home / Undergraduate Catalog 2003-05 / VI. Undergraduate Programs | |
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VI.UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMSCORE CURRICULUM
COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES, ARTS, AND SOCIAL SCIENCES H-E-B SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND ADMINISTRATION SCHOOL OF INTERACTIVE MEDIA AND DESIGN SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS, SCIENCE, AND ENGINEERING SCHOOL OF NURSING AND HEALTH PROFESSIONS CORE CURRICULUM The Core Curriculum is an integrated and sequenced course of study that constitutes approximately 53 semester hours of a student’s degree plan. The Core is a common experience for all University of the Incarnate Word undergraduates. The content of the Core Curriculum is based on the traditional concept of liberal arts education. It includes a carefully planned study of rhetoric (the area of writing and speaking effectively), wellness, philosophy, religion, literature, fine art, mathematics, natural sciences, history, social science, and a second language.
Wellness Development: 3 semester hours.
Religious Studies in the Core Curriculum
Recommended first course options:
Recommended second course: Students may take any Religious Studies course, provided that they meet any prerequisites for the course. Religion or Philosophy: 3 semester hours.
Mathematics: 3 semester hours.
Natural Sciences: 4 semester hours.
Social Science: 3 semester hours.
Foreign Language: 6 semester hours.
Core Elective Selections: 9-10 semester hours. Students will select three courses from different disciplines from the choices listed below:
NOTE : Some majors at the University of the Incarnate Word require specific Core elective courses. Students should refer to their respective disciplines before enrolling in Core electives. By the end of the second semester at the University of the Incarnate Word, students must also successfully test for computer competence or complete a Computer Literacy course. If the Computer Literacy course option is selected or required, it will satisfy general electives on the degree plan but will not satisfy the 9-10 hours of Core Electives required. Community Service Student may satisfy this graduation requirement by: (1) selecting volunteer opportunities posted by Campus Ministry, or (2) taking courses designated in the University schedule as service-learning courses, or (3) a combination of volunteer opportunities and service-learning courses. Students are encouraged to discuss with their advisors, early in their university experience, the options for fulfilling the community service requirement and the method of documenting their service. Learning Communities are integrated curricular programs that link courses into blocks that share common themes to create interactive learning partnerships between courses. Students enrolled in these grouped courses become a sharing community; and, along with their instructors, they collaborate and learn together. Learning communities launch the educational career for entering first-year students at UIW. Typically, an entering first year student’s first semester schedule is built around a pre-selected learning community cluster of two integrated courses. Learning community offerings, including Living/Learning LC’s for residential students, satisfy first semester General Education requirements, Honors Program tracks, and discipline-specific clusters for students who have already decided upon their majors. The University offers courses in Mathematics, Reading, and Writing for students entering with a need to acquire competencies for success in mainstream college courses. |
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