UK Core Requirements
Students must take one course from each of the areas listed below in order to complete the UK Core. A course taken to satisfy a requirement in one area of the UK Core cannot be used to satisfy a requirement in another area, even if a specific course is present in more than one area (e.g., some courses are designed to meet the learning outcomes in more than one area).
| Number of Credit Hours | |
| I. Intellectual Inquiry (one course in each area) | |
| Natural/ Physical/ Mathematical |
3 |
| Social Sciences |
3 |
| Humanities |
3 |
| Arts and Creativity |
3 |
| II. Composition and Communication | |
| Composition and Communication I (CIS or WRD 110) |
3 |
| Composition and Communication II (CIS or WRD 111) |
3 |
| III. Quantitative Reasoning (one in each area) | |
| Quantitative Foundations** |
3 |
| Statistical Inferential Reasoning |
3 |
| IV. Citizenship (one course in each area) | |
| Community, Culture and Citizenship in the USA |
3 |
| Global Dynamics |
3 |
| Credit Hour Total | 30 minimum* |
*Some UK Core courses may be more than 3 credit hours
** Note that MA 109 is NOT approved as a Quantitative Foundations course. Students in a major requiring calculus will use calculus course (MA 113, 123, or 137) while students not requiring calculus should take MA 111, PHI 120, or another quantitative foundations course.