Core Curriculum - 42 Hours
The Core Curriculum serves as a broad foundation for the undergraduate degree. All candidates for a bachelor’s degree must achieve core student learning outcomes, including communication, critical thinking, empirical and quantitative skills, teamwork, personal responsibility and social responsibility, by completing courses within each category or component area of the Core Curriculum as outlined below.
The University has approved specific courses that satisfy Core Curriculum Requirements. Approved courses can be found on the Core Curriculum Page. Students seeking the most efficient way to complete the core curriculum and major or minor requirements are advised to take approved courses that can fulfill both requirements. Although core curriculum courses can also be used to fulfill major or minor requirements, earned credits hours are only applied once. The courses listed below fulfill core curriculum and major requirements. Students who have completed a core curriculum category with courses other than those listed below will still be required to take the listed course(s) to meet major requirements.
020 Mathematics – 3 hours
Three credit hours apply.
030 Life and Physical Sciences - 6 hours
| PHYS 2425 | Physics for Scientists and Engineers I | 4 |
| PHYS 2426 | Physics for Scientists and Engineers II | 4 |
Three credits hour of lecture from each course applies.
080 Social and Behavioral Sciences – 3 hours
Choose from:
090 Integrative and Experiential Learning – 6 hours
Major Requirements – 60 Hours
Required Courses - 33 hours
Science and Engineering Concentration – 27 hour
Choose 27 hours, of which 21 must be advanced, from the College of Engineering and Computer Science (CIVE, CSCI, CMPE, ELEE, ENGR, ENGT, MANE, MECE) and College of Science (ASTR, BENG, BIOL, CHEM, EEMS, ENVR, GEOG, GEOL, MARS, PHYS, PSCI, SAFS, excluding MATH, STAT, and MATE).
Free Electives - 18 Hours
Free electives credit hours required may vary to achieve the institutional minimum of 120 hours for a degree.
Total Credit Hours: 42
Specific graduation requirements required for this program beyond university bachelor’s degree requirements.
Major requirements must be completed with a minimum grade of ‘C’ and a minimum GPA of 2.5.