Majors' Block Schedules

Students entering in Fall 2015 or later will be held to the new core requirements. Catalog updates will therefore be performed throughout spring. Some programs may need or want to adjust their major requirements; they must do this in consultation with BUGS.

In order to encourage departmental awareness of how the new core might affect their majors, as well as to begin the process necessary for catalog updates, we requested that chairs upload draft block schedules for the new core to Nexus by Oct. 15. We will be reviewing these and working with departments and the registrar to modify them throughout Nov. - Apr.

Below is a template of new core block schedule. The order of courses is quite flexible and will vary from major to major, as long as these basic principles are followed:

1. Freshmen should take First Year Seminar in one semester and Theology 111 in another (to integrate with Cocurricular programming)
2. Theology 111, Philosophy 100 and Literature 205 should precede the E/RS elective.
3. Perspectives courses should preferably be completed by the end of the second year (this will not always be possible). A Mathematical Perspectives "version" of Calculus and/or Statistics will be available, possibly for 4 credit hours.
4. Humanities, Natural and Social Science Electives should be completed after their relevant Perspectives courses (this will not always be possible).
5. As per the decision to delay implementation of the second language change, these students (but not transition students!) will be kept to old core standards; they must complete two courses or 202 competency.
6. New flagged courses (oral, quant and writing) will often, but not always, be covered within major courses. While we may not be able to identify a sufficiently large panel of these before F15 registration, they will mostly be taken in second, third or fourth years. While it poses some uncertainty, it should not create a problem. For now, we advise departments who wish to count these flags in their major to identify the courses they hope will work and be prepared to alter them if necessary to meet the flag requirements.

First Year

Fall	Spring
First Year Seminar (CORE 100) (3 credits)	Theological Foundations (THEO 111) (3 credits)
Second Language 1 (3 credits)	Second Language 2 (3 credits)
Composition or Rhetoric (ENGL100/115) (3 credits)	Historical Perspectives (3 credits)

Second Year

Fall	Spring
Philosophy 100 (3 credits)	Philosophical Perspectives (3 credits)
Mathematical Perspectives (3 credits)	Theological Perspectives (3 credits)
Creative Perspectives (3 credits)	Scientific Perspectives (3 credits)

Third Year

Fall	Spring
Literature 205 (3 credits)	DCR Flag (3 credits)*
Oral Communications Flag (3 credits)*	Social Sciences Elective (3 credits)
Natural Sciences Elective (3 credits)	Humanities Elective (3 credits)

Fourth Year

Fall
E/RS Flag (3 credits)*
Writing-Intensive Flag (3 credits)*
Quantitative Reasoning Flag (3 credits)*

* These courses can double-count liberally with major and core. That is, we expect there will be, e.g., writing-intensive versions of Perspectives courses and majors' capstones or sophomore seminars. Many other courses above will double-count within majors, e.g. Natural Sciences Elective and Scientific Perspectives for science and nursing majors or Humanities Elective for humanities majors.