Core Curriculum
The hallmark of a liberal education is that it entices a student to examine the tree of knowledge, to see both the distinction and interdependence of its branches. Through its program, the College of Arts and Sciences offers students the opportunity to examine areas of the humanities and sciences in depth, while exposing them to the breadth of the related disciplines.
The following core curriculum is the basis of the education of all students in the College of Arts and Sciences. This statement of the core curriculum begins with a discussion of the aims of a college education and proceeds to a listing of the various elements of the core requirements.
The College of Arts and Sciences recognizes the value of the distinctive and complementary perspectives of humanities, physical and biological sciences, and the social and behavioral sciences in understanding our world and the human condition. Its core curriculum is designed to enable students to be conversant with the goals, methods, and values of these perspectives and to acquire the habits of mind to appreciate and contribute to the constantly evolving body of knowledge.
In order to understand and place in personal perspectives the world in which they live:
- Students will grasp the relationship between themselves as individuals and their communities, and develop an appreciation for the past’s influence on the present and the cultural differences and challenges posed by increased globalism.
- Students will display the ability to write clearly and effectively, to read texts critically, to articulate ideas, to reason quantitatively and to use appropriate technology.
- Students will develop the analytical tools required for an appreciation of the strengths and limitations of scientific methodologies and their applications to the natural world as well as human behavior.
- Students will acquire basic interpretive tools to develop an appreciation of human creativity in its many forms, and understand its central place in people’s daily lives and rituals.
- Students will appreciate and understand diverse human existence including its spiritual dimension and critically assess their values.
In addition to these broad liberal education objectives, students will develop competence in an academic discipline or area of study.
The Arts and Sciences Core Curriculum
The following are the requirements for the Core Curriculum of the College of Arts and Sciences and courses and examinations that fulfill these requirements for students required to complete 120 credits to obtain a Bachelor’s degree from Seton Hall University. The A&S Core Curriculum focuses on the following eight areas:
- Aesthetics. Courses in this category will provide students with the knowledge and skills to engage in analyses of artistic work by identifying rules and principles of form in various genres and exploring the development of creative expression across diverse periods and cultures.
- Diversity. Courses in this category will examine in diverse cultural contexts how societies are structured and social inequality is engendered through relations of power.
- Humanities. Courses in this category employ textual analysis, critical thinking, and narrative to formulate arguments about a range of experiences past and present. Through the study of history and literature, students will enrich their comprehension of the complexity, nuance, and fullness of human endeavor.
- Language. Students will attain an intermediate level of mastery in a classical or modern language. In so doing they will experience a sustained engagement with a culture other than their own and enhance their understanding of the structure of language and its significance as a vehicle for cultural expression.
- Rhetoric. To be prepared to speak in public, and to understand the varieties of speech discourse, students will study and practice presentations and other forms of spoken influence.
- Philosophy and Religion. Through discipline-specific study of philosophy and religion, students will critically examine fundamental questions of knowledge, reality, faith, and ethics.
- Science and Mathematics. Science courses in this category will provide students with an understanding of processes of scientific inquiry as applied to natural and physical phenomena in the world around them.
Mathematical courses in this category will provide students with reasoning skills as they apply to quantitative problem solving. Students will gain an understanding of the application of mathematical and computational methodologies and modeling to problems in society and the natural world. - Social Science. Courses in this category will acquaint students with theoretical approaches that explain human behavior and social and institutional structures through various methodologies including critical, qualitative, and quantitative.
A course taken to fulfill one core requirement may not be used to fulfill another core requirement.
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Core Curriculum
The following are the requirements for the Core Curriculum of the College of Arts and Sciences and courses and examinations that fulfill these requirements for students required to complete a minimum of 120 credits to obtain a Bachelor of Arts degree from Seton Hall University.
University Core
All students must demonstrate college-level competence in the following courses:
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| CORE 1001 | University Life | 1 |
| CORE 1101 | Journey of Transformation | 3 |
| CORE 2101 | Christianity and Cult in Dial. | 3 |
| CORE 3XXX: Engaging the World | 3 | |
| ENGL 1201 | Core English I | 3 |
| ENGL 1202 | Core English II | 3 |
| Total Hours | 16 | |
College of Arts and Sciences Core for B.A. Students
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Aesthetics | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3 | |
| Art and Human Needs | ||
| Art of the Western World | ||
| American Art | ||
| Evolution of the Film Art | ||
COTH 2621 | ||
| Music and Civilizations | ||
| Music of America | ||
| Subtotal | 3 | |
| Humanities | ||
| Complete nine credits, including one two-semester sequence. * | 9 | |
| Introduction to African-American Studies | ||
| History of African Civilization I and History of African Civilization II | ||
| History of African Civilization I and History of African Civilization II | ||
| History of Traditional Asia and History of Modern Asia | ||
| History of Traditional Asia and History of Modern Asia | ||
| Asian Literature in English Translation I and Asian Literature in English Translation II | ||
| Search for Human Fulfillment | ||
| Classical Mythology | ||
| Greek Civilization | ||
| Roman Civilization | ||
| History of Rhetoric | ||
| Great Books of the Western World I and Great Books of the Western World II | ||
| American Literature I and American Literature II | ||
| World History I and World History II | ||
| Western Civilization I and Western Civilization II | ||
| American History I and American History II | ||
| Middle East 1 from 600 - 1800 and Middle East II 1800 to Present | ||
| Peoples and Culture-America I and Peoples and Culture-America II | ||
| History of Latin America I and History of Latin America II | ||
| History of Latin America I and History of Latin America II | ||
| Philosophy and Classical Mind and Philosophy and Modern Mind | ||
| Subtotal | 9 | |
| Language: Modern and Ancient | ||
| Select six credits at the intermediate level or higher from the following: ** | 6 | |
| Intermediate Modern Standard Arabic I and Intermediate Modern Standard Arabic II | ||
| Intermediate Chinese I and Intermediate Chinese II | ||
| Interm French I and Interm French II | ||
| Interm German I and Interm German II | ||
GREK 2205 & GREK 2206 | and | |
GREK 2207 & GREK 2208 | and | |
| Interm Ital I and Interm Ital II | ||
| Intermediate Japanese I and Intermediate Japanese II | ||
| Intermediate Latin I and Intermediate Latin II | ||
| Interm Russian I and Interm Russian II | ||
| Interm Spanish I and Interm Spanish II | ||
| Interm. Span Hisp I and Interm Span Hispanics II | ||
| Subtotal | 6 | |
| Oral Communication/Rhetoric | ||
| Select one course infused with Oral Communications Proficiency *** | 3 | |
| Subtotal | 3 | |
| Philosophy and Religion | ||
| Complete one course from each department: **** | 6 | |
| Introduction to Philosophy | ||
| Logic | ||
| Ethics ***** | ||
| Philosophy Through Film | ||
| Biomedical Ethics ***** | ||
| Religious Dimension of Life | ||
| Intro to Bible | ||
| Christian Belief-Thought | ||
| Intro to Catholic Theology | ||
| Religions of the World | ||
| History of Asian Relig Reflect (Hinduism) | ||
| Contemporary Moral Issues ***** | ||
| Christian Ethics ***** | ||
| Jewish Beliefs and Practices | ||
| Intro to Islam | ||
| Buddhist World Thought-Culture | ||
| Subtotal | 6 | |
| Science and Mathematics | ||
| Select six to seven credits of the following: | 6-7 | |
| Introduction to Biology | ||
| Biology in the World Around Us | ||
| Human Structure-Function I | ||
| Human Structure-Function II | ||
| Human Anatomy and Physiology I | ||
| Human Anatomy and Phys I Lab ****** | ||
| Human Anatomy and Phys II | ||
| Human Anatomy and Phys II Lab | ||
| General Biology- Organisms | ||
| General Biology-Organisms Lab ****** | ||
| General Biology-Cell | ||
| General Biology-Cell Lab ****** | ||
| Chemistry and the World Around Us - An Integrative Approach | ||
| Principles of Chemistry I | ||
| Principles of Chemistry II | ||
| General Chemistry I | ||
| General Chemistry Lab I ****** | ||
| General Chemistry II | ||
| General Chemistry II Lab ****** | ||
| Elements of Organic and Biochemistry | ||
| Stat Concepts and Methods | ||
| Mathematical Perspective | ||
MATH 1202 | ||
| Stats Models for Soc Science | ||
| Finite Math w Calculus for Bus | ||
| Calculus I | ||
| Calculus I - Math - Phys Sci | ||
| Intro to Physical Science | ||
| Intro to Astronomy | ||
| General Physics I | ||
| General Physics II | ||
| Principles of Physics I | ||
| Principles of Physics II | ||
| Physics Laboratory I ****** | ||
| Physics Laboratory II ****** | ||
| Physics Lab and Data Analy I ****** | ||
| Physics Lab and Data Analy II ****** | ||
| Subtotal | 6-7 | |
| Social Science | ||
| Select six credits of the following: * | 6 | |
| Introduction to Physical Anthropology | ||
| Introduction to Cultural Anthropology | ||
| Introduction to Economics | ||
| Introduction to Environmental Studies | ||
| United States Politics | ||
| West Political Thought I | ||
| Comparative Politics | ||
| International Relations | ||
| Introduction to Psychology | ||
| Introduction to Sociology | ||
| Introduction to Social Work | ||
| Women-Culture and Society | ||
| Subtotal | 6 | |
| Diversity | ||
| Complete at least one from the following Diversity courses: | 3 | |
| African-American History I | ||
| African-American History II | ||
| Urban Ed Through Hip Hip | ||
AFAM 3202/ENGL 3523/WMST 3202 | ||
AFAM 3411 | ||
| Race-Nation in Latin America | ||
| Understanding Human Sexuality | ||
| The Anthropology of Gender | ||
| ETW - Rep of the Body-Early Am | ||
| Gender Power Biblical Interp | ||
| Women and Literature II | ||
| The Social Novel in America | ||
| Women in America to 1869 | ||
| Women in America 1869-Present | ||
| Italian American History | ||
| Native Amer Hist to Removal | ||
| Immigration-Race-Citizen in US | ||
| Women-Gender Latin America | ||
| Philosophy and Gender | ||
| Feminist Theories | ||
| Race,Id&Politcs in Pub Admin | ||
| Psychology of Gender | ||
| International Psychology | ||
| Cultural Psychology | ||
| Catholicism/Race & Soc Justice | ||
RELS/WMST 3340 | ||
| Pluralism in Multireligious Am | ||
| ST - Islamophobia | ||
| Race, Politics and Theology | ||
| Social Inequalities | ||
| Theor. of Devi. and Conformity | ||
| Social Wrk Approach Race Bias | ||
| Re-Discovering Women Science | ||
| Subtotal | 3 | |
| Total Hours | 42-43 | |
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Courses must be from two different programs or departments, as represented by their four-letter course prefixes.
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Students who place out of Intermediate Language II on an approved placement test have met the language requirements for the B.A. Core. Transfer students are required to contact the department chairperson before registering for any language course.
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All students must demonstrate competence in spoken communication. In order to fulfill this requirement, students must take a course that is infused with the Oral Communications Proficiency. The list of courses that are infused with proficiencies may be found here: https://www.shu.edu/core-curriculum/upload/Core-Proficiencies.pdf.
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One course must be an Ethics course. Only one Ethics course shall count to fulfill this requirement.
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Ethics course.
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Lab must be taken with appropriate lecture.
Total: 57-59 credits
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Core Curriculum
The following are the requirements for the Core Curriculum of the College of Arts and Sciences and courses and examinations that fulfill these requirements for students required to complete a minimum of 120 credits to obtain a Bachelor of Science degree from Seton Hall University.
University Core
All students must demonstrate college-level competence in the following courses:
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| CORE 1001 | University Life | 1 |
| CORE 1101 | Journey of Transformation | 3 |
| CORE 2101 | Christianity and Cult in Dial. | 3 |
| CORE 3XXX: Engaging the World | 3 | |
| ENGL 1201 | Core English I | 3 |
| ENGL 1202 | Core English II | 3 |
| Total Hours | 16 | |
College of Arts and Sciences Core for B.S. Students
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Mathematics and Science | ||
| Select at least two of the following: * | 7-8 | |
| Computing for Science Majors | ||
| Intro to Program Design I | ||
| Calculus I | ||
| Calculus II | ||
| Calculus I - Math - Phys Sci | ||
| Calculus II - Math - Phys Sci | ||
| Statistics for Science Majors | ||
| Select two courses designed for science majors, with laboratory of the following: ** | 8 | |
| General Biology- Organisms | ||
| General Biology-Organisms Lab *** | ||
| General Biology-Cell | ||
| General Biology-Cell Lab *** | ||
| Principles of Chemistry I | ||
| Principles of Chemistry II | ||
| General Chemistry I | ||
| General Chemistry Lab I *** | ||
| General Chemistry II | ||
| General Chemistry II Lab *** | ||
| General Physics I | ||
| General Physics II | ||
| Principles of Physics I | ||
| Principles of Physics II | ||
| Physics Laboratory I *** | ||
| Physics Laboratory II *** | ||
| Physics Lab and Data Analy I *** | ||
| Physics Lab and Data Analy II *** | ||
| Subtotal | 15-16 | |
| Oral Communication/Rhetoric | ||
| Select one course that is infused with the Oral Communications Proficiency. **** | 2-3 | |
| Subtotal | 2-3 | |
| Philosophy and Religion | ||
| Complete one course from each department: ***** | 6 | |
| Introduction to Philosophy | ||
| Logic | ||
| Ethics ****** | ||
| Philosophy Through Film | ||
| Biomedical Ethics ***** | ||
| Symbolic Logic (BS students only) | ||
| Religious Dimension of Life | ||
| Intro to Bible | ||
| Christian Belief-Thought | ||
| Intro to Catholic Theology | ||
| Religions of the World | ||
| History of Asian Relig Reflect (Hinduism) | ||
| Contemporary Moral Issues ****** | ||
| Christian Ethics ****** | ||
| Jewish Beliefs and Practices | ||
| Intro to Islam | ||
| Buddhist World Thought-Culture | ||
| Subtotal | 6 | |
| Historical/Aesthetics/Literature | ||
| Complete two of the following courses: | 6 | |
| Introduction to African-American Studies | ||
| History of African Civilization I and History of African Civilization II | ||
| History of African Civilization I and History of African Civilization II | ||
| Art and Human Needs | ||
| Art of the Western World | ||
| American Art | ||
| History of Traditional Asia and History of Modern Asia | ||
| History of Traditional Asia and History of Modern Asia | ||
| Asian Literature in English Translation I and Asian Literature in English Translation II | ||
| Asian Literature in English Translation I and | ||
| Search for Human Fulfillment | ||
| Classical Mythology | ||
| Greek Civilization | ||
| Roman Civilization | ||
| Evolution of the Film Art | ||
| History of Rhetoric | ||
COTH 2621 | ||
| Great Books of the Western World I and Great Books of the Western World II | ||
| American Literature I and American Literature II | ||
| World History I and World History II | ||
| Western Civilization I and Western Civilization II | ||
| American History I and American History II | ||
| Middle East 1 from 600 - 1800 and Middle East II 1800 to Present | ||
| Peoples and Culture-America I and Peoples and Culture-America II | ||
| History of Latin America I and History of Latin America II | ||
| Music and Civilizations | ||
| Music of America | ||
| Philosophy and Classical Mind and Philosophy and Modern Mind | ||
| Subtotal | 6 | |
| Language/Multicultural | ||
| Select one of the following options: ******* | 6 | |
| E-1 | ||
Select one of the following: | ||
| Introduction to Modern Standard Arabic I and Introduction to Modern Standard Arabic II | ||
| Introductory Chinese I and Introductory Chinese II | ||
| Elementary French I and Elementary French II | ||
| Elementary German I and Elementary German II | ||
| Elementary Greek I and Elementary Greek II | ||
| Elementary Italian I and Elementary Italian II | ||
| Introductory Japanese I and Introductory Japanese II | ||
| Elementary Latin I and Elementary Latin II | ||
| Elementary Russian I and Elementary Russian II | ||
| Elementary Spanish I and Elementary Spanish II | ||
| E-2 | ||
Place into Intermediate Language I or above, and select one of the following: | ||
(a) Complete a two-course intermediate language sequence: | ||
| Intermediate Modern Standard Arabic I and Intermediate Modern Standard Arabic II | ||
| Intermediate Chinese I and Intermediate Chinese II | ||
| Interm French I and Interm French II | ||
| Interm German I and Interm German II | ||
GREK 2205 & GREK 2206 | and | |
GREK 2207 & GREK 2208 | and | |
| Interm Ital I and Interm Ital II | ||
| Intermediate Japanese I and Intermediate Japanese II | ||
| Intermediate Latin I and Intermediate Latin II | ||
| Interm Russian I and Interm Russian II | ||
| Interm Spanish I and Interm Spanish II | ||
| Interm. Span Hisp I and Interm Span Hispanics II | ||
(b) Complete two additional courses from Philosophy and Religion, or Historical/Aesthetic/Literature in this B.S. Core Curriculum | ||
(c) Complete two advanced language courses (courses taught in a foreign language), with Intermediate Language II as a prerequisite, and counting toward a major in the given language. | ||
| Subtotal | 6 | |
| Social Science | ||
| Complete two of the following courses: ******** | 6 | |
| Introduction to Physical Anthropology | ||
| Introduction to Cultural Anthropology | ||
| Introduction to Economics | ||
| Introduction to Environmental Studies | ||
| United States Politics | ||
| West Political Thought I | ||
| Comparative Politics | ||
| International Relations | ||
| Introduction to Psychology | ||
| Introduction to Sociology | ||
| Introduction to Social Work | ||
| Women-Culture and Society | ||
| Subtotal | 6 | |
| Diversity | ||
| Complete at least one Diversity course from the following: | 3 | |
| African-American History I | ||
| African-American History II | ||
| Urban Ed Through Hip Hip | ||
AFAM 3202/ENGL 3523/WMST 3202 | ||
AFAM 3411 | ||
| Race-Nation in Latin America | ||
| Understanding Human Sexuality | ||
| The Anthropology of Gender | ||
| ETW - Rep of the Body-Early Am | ||
| Gender Power Biblical Interp | ||
| Women and Literature I | ||
| The Social Novel in America | ||
| Women in America to 1869 | ||
| Women in America 1869-Present | ||
| Italian American History | ||
| Native Amer Hist to Removal | ||
| Immigration-Race-Citizen in US | ||
| Women-Gender Latin America | ||
ITST 3915/WMST 3332 | ||
| ETW - Meeting the Other | ||
| Philosophy and Gender | ||
| Feminist Theories | ||
| Race,Id&Politcs in Pub Admin | ||
| Psychology of Gender | ||
| International Psychology | ||
| Cultural Psychology | ||
| Catholicism/Race & Soc Justice | ||
RELS/WMST 3340 | ||
| Pluralism in Multireligious Am | ||
| ST - Islamophobia | ||
| Race, Politics and Theology | ||
| Social Inequalities | ||
| Theor. of Devi. and Conformity | ||
| Social Wrk Approach Race Bias | ||
| Re-Discovering Women Science | ||
| Subtotal | 3 | |
| Total Hours | 44-46 | |
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All students must take two mathematics courses at the level of MATH 1401 Calculus I or higher, or one such mathematics course and one computer science course. Only one of MATH 1401 Calculus I/MATH 1501 Calculus I - Math - Phys Sci can be used to satisfy this requirement.
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Only one of CHEM 1107 Principles of Chemistry I/CHEM 1123 General Chemistry I, and only one of PHYS 1701 General Physics I/PHYS 1705 Principles of Physics I, can be used to satisfy this requirement.
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Lab must be taken with appropriate lecture.
- ****
All students must demonstrate competence in spoken communication. In order to fulfill this requirement, students must take a course that is infused with the Oral Communications Proficiency. The list of courses that are infused with proficiencies may be found here: https://www.shu.edu/core-curriculum/upload/Core-Proficiencies.pdf.
- *****
One course must be an Ethics course. Only one Ethics course shall count to fulfill this requirement.
- ******
Ethics course
- *******
Students who place out of Elementary Language II on an approved placement test can complete either option E-1 (with a novel language) or one of the selections in E-2. Transfer students are required to contact the department chairperson before registering for any language course.
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Students must complete two courses. Courses must be from two different programs or departments, as represented by their four-letter course prefixes.
Total: 60-62 credits
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