Liberal Studies Electives - Liberal Studies

Requirements: 3-9 credits

The following rules also apply to the Liberal Studies Electives requirement:

No course carrying the student’s major prefix may be used.
No course prefix may be used more than once, except for intermediate-level foreign language prefixes (FRNC, GRMN, SPAN, and ITAL), which may be used twice.
Refer to your individual program of study for specific requirements.

See the list of Global and Multicultural Awareness courses, some of which may be used as Liberal Studies Electives.

The following courses are also approved:

Course	Title	Credits
ANTH 286	Marriage, Kinship, and the Family (same as SOC 286)	3
ARHI 205	Ancient to Medieval Art	3
ARHI 207	Renaissance through Modern Art	3
ARHI 222	Art in America	3
BTED 101	Microbased Computer Literacy (same as COSC 101, IFMG 101)	3
BTED 201	Internet and Multimedia (same as COMM/COSC/ IFMG/LIBR 201)	3
CDFR 218	Child Development	3
CDFR 224	Marriage and Family Relations	3
CNVS 101	Personal and Family Management	3
CNVS 315	Consumer Economics and Family Finance	3
COMM 101	Communications Media in American Society	3
COMM 201	Internet and Multimedia (same as BEDU/COMM/ COSC/IFMG/LIBR 201)	3
COMM 325	Women in Media	3
COMM 380	History of African Americans in Film	3
COSC 101	Microbased Computer Literacy (same as BTED 101, IFMG 101)	3
COSC 201	Internet and Multimedia (same as BTED/COMM/ IFMG/LIBR 201)	3
ECON 122	Principles of Microeconomics	3
ENGL 349	English Bible as Literature	3
FDNT 145	Introduction to Nutrition	3
FRNC 201	College French I (2)	3
FRNC 202	College French II (2)	3
FRNC 203	Accelerated College French	6
FRNC 301	Portraits of Women in French Novel	3
GEOG 230	Cultural Geography	3
GEOG 231	Economic Geography	3
GEOG 251	Geography of Pennsylvania	3
GEOG 253	Geography of Europe	3
GEOG 261	Geography of Wine	3
GRMN 251	German III (2)	3
GRMN 252	German IV (2)	3
HIST 210	Ancient Civilizations: The Middle East and the Eastern Mediterranean	3
HIST 212	Ancient and Medieval Europe	3
HIST 214	Themes in American History	3
HIST 305	Renaissance and Reformation	3
HIST 355	African History I: Antiquity to 1600	3
HIST 363	Thought and Culture in Early America	3
HIST 364	Thought and Culture in Modern America	3
HIST 366	African-American Women	3
IFMG 101	Microbased Computer Literacy (same as BTED 101, COSC 101)	3
IFMG 201	Internet and Multimedia (same as BTED/COMM/ COSC/LIBR 201)	3
ITAL 201	Intermediate Italian III	3
ITAL 202	Intermediate Italian IV	3
JRNL 250	Women and the Press	3
JRNL 375	World News Coverage	3
LATN 102	Elementary Latin II [inactive]	4
LATN 201	Intermediate Latin [inactive] (2)	4
LIBR 201	Internet and Multimedia (same as BTED/COMM/ COSC/IFMG/ 201)	3
LIBR 251	Information Access in the Digital Age	2
MATH 121	Calculus I for Natural and Social Sciences (1)	4
MATH 122	Calculus II for Natural and Social Sciences	4
MATH 123	Calculus I for Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics (1)	4
MATH 124	Calculus II for Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics	4
MATH 125	Calculus I for Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics	3
MATH 126	Calculus II for Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics	3
MATH 152	Elements of Mathematics II (1) (specified majors only)	3
MATH 214	Probability and Statistics for Business Majors	3
MATH 216	Probability and Statistics for Natural Sciences	3
MATH 217	Probability and Statistics (1)	3
MATH 225	Calculus III for Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics	3
MATH 241	Differential Equations	3
MUHI 222	Music of the British Invasion	3
MUHI 301	Music History I	3
MUHI 302	Music History II	3
PHIL 110	Reasoning and the Law	3
PHIL 232	Philosophical Perspectives on Love, Marriage, and Divorce	3
PHIL 321	Symbolic Logic II	3
PHIL 323	Political Philosophy	3
PHIL 324	Ancient Philosophy	3
PHIL 325	Modern Philosophy	3
PHIL 326	Phenomenology and Existentialism	3
PHIL 330	Philosophy of Science	3
PHIL 400	Ethics and Public Policy	3
PHIL 405	Justice and Human Rights	3
PHIL 410	Contemporary Analytic Philosophy	3
PHIL 420	Metaphysics	3
PHIL 421	Theory of Knowledge	3
PHIL 450	Philosophy of Law	3
PHIL 460	Philosophy of Language	3
PLSC 346	Political Sociology (same as SOC 458)	3
PSYC 310	Development Psychology	3
PSYC 321	Abnormal Psychology	3
PSYC 330	Social Psychology	3
PSYC 378	Psychology of Death and Dying	3
RLST 200	Religion and Culture: Their Interaction	3
RLST 210	World Scriptures	3
RLST 260	American Religious Development	3
RLST 312	Archaeology and the Bible	3
RLST 329	Philosophy of Religion	3
RLST 410	Early Christian Thought	3
RLST 440	Modern Christian Thought	3
SAFE 100	Workplace Safety Today and Tomorrow	3
SOC 269	Sociology of Deviance	3
SOC 286	Marriage, Kinship, and the Family (same as ANTH 286)	3
SOC 337	World Societies and World Systems	3
SOC 340	Sociology of Industry	3
SOC 361	Social Stratification	3
SOC 362	Racial and Ethnic Minorities	3
SOC 363	Sociology of Gender	3
SOC 458	Political Sociology (same as PLSC 346 Political Sociology)	3
SPAN 102	Elementary Spanish II	4
SPAN 122	Spanish for Health Care Professionals II	3
SPAN 132	Spanish for Hospitality Industry II	3
SPAN 201	Intermediate Spanish (2)	4
SPAN 211	Intensive Intermediate Spanish [inactive]	6
THTR 132	Introduction to Acting	3
WMST 200	Introduction to Women's Studies	3

(1) Students may use this course to fulfill either the Learning Skills: Mathematics requirement, or a Liberal Studies Elective requirement, but not both.

(2) Higher-level language courses may be substituted by students demonstrating such ability on placement tests.