General Education Requirements - Bachelor’s Degree
Major Requirements: 40-60+
Each major has a specified list of courses and requirements. The number of required credits ranges from 40 to the maximum of 60, unless there are strong extenuating circumstances and an exemption has been made due to outside accreditation requirements or as passed by the Academic Affairs Council. Some of the major requirements overlap with general education requirements. Students should consult the requirements for their majors before registering for any courses. Students are responsible for registering for the proper courses and should heed the advice of their advisors.
Placement Testing
Before registering for French or Spanish courses, placement testing is required for all students who have previously taken French or Spanish at the high school level.
Music Large/Small Ensembles
Students will be allowed to count up to 8 credits toward graduation from courses numbered MUS-177-MUS-179, MUS-185-MUS-188, MUS-192-MUS-199, and to take no more than one per semester.
General Education Requirements
The general education requirements provide a common experience for all students; therefore, the courses ENG-180, HST-180, MUS-180, PHL-180, and New Student Orientation (NSO)/First Year Experience (FYE) requirement must be completed at Indiana Wesleyan University and are not eligible as transfer credit once the student is enrolled. These courses target specific outcomes desired of all graduates in accordance with IWU’s mission and are required of all students as a designed common experience component. However, the rest of the general education requirements, except science lab, biblical literature and health and wellness courses, can be met by demonstrating proficiency or competency in a given area. Students should check the program guidelines or the Residential Academic Services for ways to demonstrate proficiency or competency.
All students must complete the current complement of 180 courses (ENG-180, MUS-180, HST-180, PHL-180) within the first four semesters of their academic program.
Core Requirements
NSO/FYE Requirement
New Student Orientation and First Year Experience courses are designed to connect students to the IWU community, to prepare them for their experiences here, and to begin developing an understanding of IWU's mission and philosophies of General Education and Life Calling. In these ways, these two interconnected programs seek to foster student success and flourishing by aiding in a smooth transition to college and by guiding students into the pursuit of truth for lives of service as Christ’s ambassadors of reconciliation in a broken world. All students are required to participate in NSO and FYE during their first semester.
Humanities Core (12 hours)
These courses are built on the model of a basic focus on seven major historical periods: Great Age of the Greeks, Greco-Roman World, Medieval Era, Renaissance and Reformation, Rise of Modern Empire and Age of Enlightenment, Nineteenth Century, and Twentieth Century. John Wesley Honors College students may meet this requirement by taking four semesters of HNR-100.
Biblical Literature and Theology (9 hours)
Two courses in biblical literature (one from the New Testament and one from the Old Testament) and THE-101 Theology of Christian Life.
Advanced Writing or Literature (3 hours)
One course in writing (WRI) above 120 or literature (ENG) above 200 EXCEPT for ENG-140, ENG-141, ENG-170, ENG-201, ENG-241, ENG-352, ENG-383, ENG-455 and WRI-210, COM-223, WRI-360, WRI-356, WRI-475.
Health and Wellness (2 hours)
Students may take two PHE Activity courses in one semester. The courses must be taken sequentially (i.e., one must meet in the first half of the term; the other must meet in the second half of the term). Students may add the second class up until the day the class starts if there are openings in the class, and the drop/add slip is signed by the professor of the class.
| PHE-101 | Concepts of Health and Wellness | 1 |
PHE-102-139
| One PHE Activity Course | 1 |
Social Science (9 hours)
Three courses - No more than one from any of the following areas:
ECO-
| Economics | 3 |
HST-
| History | 3 |
POL-
| Political Science | 3 |
PSY-
| Psychology | 3 |
SOC-
| Sociology | 3 |
Science/Mathematics (7 hours)
| Lab science |
4 |
| Mathematics (MAT-104, MAT-107, MAT-111, MAT-112, MAT-113, MAT-130, MAT-204, MAT-223, MAT-253, MAT-254, MAT-255 or MAT-305) or |
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| Computer (CIS-117, CIS-121, CIS-122, CIS-125 or CIS-126) or |
3 |
| CLEP Test (College Mathematics, College Algebra, or Calculus) or |
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| AP Exam (Calculus or Statistics) |
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