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A Guide for Students and Advisors This supplements the General Education Requirements in the 2002-2004 Bulletin and applies to students entering Fall 1996 and after Some perspectives on general education "I think if [Roosevelt University] can send out people who are trained to a sense of . . . personal responsibility, for what
happens in their community, in their environment, then I think this College will have done a tremendous work for democracy at home and for a solution to
the great world problems that we have . . . today." "The gains of education are never lost." "You've got to know history...You should know the economic systems...The broader the study, the more expansive the scope, the
better off you are...If there was one discipline I would stress, it would be in the field of communication: language, English, a foreign language." Science education "has to be experiential and hands-on -- not only for the next generation of scientists, but so that we can
have people who can read an article in the newspaper and figure out how to vote on it; so that we can have people in our legislatures, in our leadership
positions, who understand the importance of the science they are funding or not funding." Introduction The General Education Program consists of courses designed to support and supplement academic majors. These include courses in basic skills, distributional courses in humanities, social science, and science and integrative courses that explore themes from the perspective of a number of different disciplines. Roosevelt University Assessment All new freshmen and transfers must take the Roosevelt University Assessment test for placement in English and Mathematics. All students, whether entering as first-year students or as transfers, will be required to fulfill the following General Education Requirements within the 120 credits counted towards the bachelor’s degree. Transfer students may find that many of these courses or their equivalents have already been fulfilled, through the State of Illinois General Education Core Curriculum as endorsed by the Illinois Board of Higher Education. The following guidelines are meant to help in preparing student programs of study. Students are obligated to familiarize themselves with both general education and major field requirements for graduation. New courses may be added to the schedule which can fulfill these requirements. Check with your advisor or the Assistant or Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences if you have questions. University Writing Requirement Before graduating, each student at Roosevelt must demonstrate his/her ability to write in a clear, well-organized, and grammatically correct manner. Fulfillment of the UWR varies for each individual student and is dependent upon prior course work and RUA scores. English 101 and English 102 taken at Roosevelt will normally satisfy this requirement. Students must complete the UWR before enrolling in Liberal Studies 201: Writing Social Justice in the Academy (see below), and Libs 2xx--the Roosevelt Signature Course. Great Ideas (for freshmen students only) Great Ideas is a two-semester sequence required only of students who enter Roosevelt University as first-year students (with less than 30 semester hours of previous college credit). Students in Great Ideas read and interpret selections of classic writings. These courses are offered as Liberal Studies 111 and Liberal Studies 112, and should be taken concurrently with English 101 or 102 during the student’s first year at Roosevelt. Roosevelt Signature Course All students* must take this 200-level course, which emphasizes metropolitanism and cultural diversity. Students should have completed the UWR prior to taking this course, which should be taken when a student has completed between 30 and 90 hours of course credit. The Signature Course can count for the major with advisor approval but not towards other distribution requirements. Signature courses include any 200-level class in Liberal Studies except LIBS 201. New courses are added frequently. Consult each semester's Class Schedule for the most current listings. *Students who transfer in 90 hrs or more are exempt from this requirement. Writing Social Justice in the Academy Students in LIBS 201: Writing Social Justice in the Academy practice the advanced reading and writing skills needed in their undergraduate majors (and later, for many, in graduate school) as they explore contemporary, discipline-specific social justice issues. The course is required of all students in the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Education, and students from some majors in the Music Conservatory. LIBS 201 is offered every semester in versions designed for majors in the Arts and Humanities (LIBS 201A), Social Sciences (LIBS 201B), and Math and Natural Sciences (LIBS 201C); any version of the course, however, will fulfill the requirement. All sections of LIBS 201 use a custom-published anthology of readings that raise important questions of social justice; students typically write three short papers and then, in consultation with their instructors, carry out longer research projects that grow out of the first part of the semester's reading and writing assignments. Mathematics All students must complete at least 3 semester hours of mathematics at the level of Math 110 ("Introduction to Contemporary Mathematics") or above. Students in many fields will need to fulfill this requirement early in their academic careers. Consult your major advisor for the appropriate course. See Elementary Courses in the Mathematics section for detailed information. Natural Sciences All students must complete at least two courses in the natural sciences, at least one of which is a four or more credit course including substantial hands-on laboratory or field experience. One course must be in the biological sciences and one course in the physical sciences. Courses to fulfill this requirement include: Biological Sciences with lab
Physical Sciences with lab
Physical Sciences without lab
Humanities and Social Sciences All students will take 3 social science and 3 humanities courses. Disciplines listed in Social Sciences and Humanities may be used for one or the other, but not both. The Social Sciences include:
The Humanities Include:
Multicultural Studies [Effective Summer Semester 2000] At least one course in either the Social Sciences or the Humanities must focus on non-Western cultures. This includes the study of social, political, and cultural development of the peoples of Asia, Africa, or Latin America. This requirement may also be fulfilled with a course dealing directly with North American descendants of persons from these world regions as well as indigenous peoples of North America. [For students entering before Summer Semester 2000] At least one course in either Social Sciences, Humanities or the student’s major, must focus on Western societies and cultures, and one must focus on non-Western or Latin American societies and cultures. "Non-Western or Latin American" is defined to include the study of developing nations in Latin America and other world areas which do not reflect the mainstream of Western European and North American thought and practice. Native American Studies is included in this category as well. (Courses used in the major may NOT also be used in partial fulfillment of Social Science or Humanities.) 1AFR 101, 102, 202, 217, 228, 229, 240, 245, 327, 335, 370, 371, and 385 may be used to satisfy social science requirements. AFR 207, 228, 229, 370, and 371 may apply to humanities requirements. Any African American studies course not listed will be assigned to either social science or humanities at the discretion of the director of the African American Studies Program and the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. |
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A Guidebook to the General Education Requirement