General Education Requirements

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Please note that courses approved for General Education (GE) will have a capacity designation, and courses taken to fulfill GE capacities must be selected from different disciplinary prefixes. In other words, students do not repeat disciplinary prefixes when selecting courses to fulfill GE capacities. For example, students may not take three COMM courses to complete three different GE capacities even though each of those COMM courses may have a different capacity designation. The one exception to this rule would be the Purposeful Learning Seminar sequence of courses, each course in the sequence having the WR disciplinary prefix.

SOU GENERAL EDUCATION Capacity Requirements* (Total of 39 - 44 credits)

Required Lower-Division Capacities (24 - 28 credits)
Purposeful Learning (PL) Topics-Based Seminar	3 Sequenced Courses with PL designation (WR 121z, 122z, 123) *	12 credits
Communication and Expression (CE)	1 course with CE designation	3-4 credits
Creativity and Innovation (CI)	1 course with CI designation	3-4 credits
Inquiry and Analysis (IA)	1 course with IA designation	3-4 credits
Numerical Literacy (NL)	1 course with NL designation	3-4 credits
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI)	1 course with EDI designation	3-4 credits
Required Upper Division Capacities (15 - 16 credits)
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI)	1 course with EDI designation	4 credits
Communication and Expression (CE) Creativity and Innovation (CI) Inquiry and Analysis (IA) Numerical Literacy (NL)	2 courses from any 2 capacity designations	8 credits

* The Purposeful Learning Seminar sequence fulfills the requirements for the listed writing courses. However, the sequence is also designed as a topics-based, interactive seminar focusing on meeting Purposeful Learning objectives and building community. The Purposeful Learning Seminar introduces each of the other five capacities. WR 121z and WR 122 are repeatable for up to 8 credits each.