Core Curriculum Requirements (Prior to Fall 2022)
Requirements filled through Saint Louis University's College of Arts and Sciences' core curriculum differ depending on whether you are pursuing a Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science at SLU.
In general, a single course can fill only one core requirement. Exceptions are made for diversity in the U.S. and global citizenship courses, which may be used more than once to satisfy another core, major or minor requirement.
Bachelor of Arts Core Curriculum Requirements
If you are pursuing a Bachelor of Arts through the College of Arts and Sciences, you will take courses in the following areas:
You must complete one three-hour course from the Diversity in the U.S. list and one three-hour course from the Global Citizenship list below.
Diversity in the U.S. Course Options
AAM 2000: Freedom Dreams: Intro to African American Studies
AAM 2010: Contemporary Black America
AAM 2220/ARTH 2220: African American Art
AAM 2500/CMM 2300: Intergroup Dialog
AAM 2900: Intergroup Dialogue - Black Male Identity
AAM 3370: Spirituals, Motown, and Hip Hop: African American Social History and Music
AAM 4340/PSY 4340: African American Psychology
AAM 4330/WGST 4330/PSY 4330: Psychology of Oppression
AAM 4810/PHIL 4820: Philosophy and Race
AAM 4890/WGST 4890/CMM4890 Language and Black Womanhood
ANTH 3290: Native Peoples of North America
ARTH 1070 American Masterpieces in Art
ARTH 2220/AAM 2220: Introduction to African-American Art
ASTD 2500 American Identities
ASTD 3010: Comparative Ethnic Studies
ASTD 3200: The Urban Crisis
ASTD 3500: Religion and American Culture
ASTD 3600: American Food and Cultures
ASTD 1000: American Culture: Movements, Myths, and Methods
ASTD 2400 Immigration in U.S. History and Culture
ASTD 2600: American Places
ASTD 2700: Gender, Race, Social Justice
ASTD 2800: Sports in American Culture
ASTD 3000: American Decades
ASTD 3050: American Soundscapes
ASTD 3100: Making the American City
ASTD 3800: Women's Lives
ASTD 3900: Mixed-Race America
ASTD 3020: American Mosaic - Literature and Diversity
CCJ 2250: Introduction to Corrections
CMM 2300/AAM 2500: Intergroup Dialogue
CMM 3300/WGST 3300: Intercultural Communication
CMM 4300: Gender and Communication
CMM 4320: Communication Across Racial Divisions
CMM 4350: Stereotyping and Bias in Mass Media
CSDI 3000: Characteristics of a Multicultural Population
ENGL 3280: American Literatures After 1856
ENGL 3520: African American Literary Traditions II: After 1900
ENGL 3550: Native American Literature
ENGL 3560: Ethnic American Literature
ENGL 3240: Reading the Female Bildungsroman
HCE 3100: Public Health and Social Justice
HCE 4260: Race and Research Ethics
HIST 3500: Progressive Era to the Jazz Age, 1890-1920
HIST 3580: American Slavery
HIST 3590: American Women
HIST 3640: History of the American West
LLC 3210: Social Justice in the Jewish Tradition
MUSC 1180: Music of the African Diaspora
MUSC 1190: American Musical Mosaic
PHIL 4320: Feminism and the History of Ethics
PHIL 4810/WSTD 4810: Philosophy of Feminism
PHIL 4820/AAM 4810: Philosophy and Race
PHIL 4825: Philosophy & Whiteness
POLS 2010: Ethics and Politics
POLS 2150: Race and Politics
POLS 2200: State and Local Politics
POLS 2220: Urban Politics
POLS 2710 'Theories of Justice'
POLS 3130: Civil Liberties and Rights
POLS 3770/WSTD 3775: Feminist Theory-Gender Justice
POLS 3800: The Structure of Poverty: Globally and Locally
POLS 3330: Metropolitan Environment
POLS 4710: Citizenship and Social Difference
PSY 4330/WGST 4330/AAM 4330: Psychology of Oppression
PSY 4340/AAM 4340: African American Psychology
PUBH 3100: Public Health and Social Justice
SOC 1110: Introduction to Sociology: Diversity Emphasis
SOC 1120: Sociology: Diversity and Health
SOC 1500: The Urban Community: Race, Class and Spatial Justice
SOC 2110: Sociology of Sport
SOC 3220: Urban Sociology and The Wire
SOC 3430/WSTD 3430: Marriage and Family
SOC 3680: Drugs and Society: Legal and Medical Implications of the U.S. "War on Drugs"
THR 2700: Exploring U.S. Diversity in Theatre
SWRK 3200: Diversity and Anti-Oppression Practice
WGST 1900: Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies
WGST 2700: Feminisms in the U.S.
WGST 3300/CMM 3300: Intercultural Communication
WGST 3430/SOC 3430: Marriage and Family
WGST 3775/POLS 3770: Feminist Theory-Gender Justice
WGST 4200/PSY 426: Psychology of Women
WGST 4300: Gender and Communication
WGST 4330/PSY 4330/AAM 4330: Psychology of Oppression
WGST 4800/AAM 4900: Black Women in Society
WGST 4810/PHIL 4810: Philosophy of Feminism
Global Citizenship Course Options
AAM 2120/ARTH 2120: Survey of Art in Africa Since Prehistory
AAM 2320/ARTH 2320: Art of African Diaspora
ANTH 1200: Introduction to Anthropology
ANTH 2080: Urban Issues: Poverty in a Global Perspective
ANTH 2200: Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 2400: Linguistic Anthropology
ANTH 2460: Global Mental Health
ANTH 4530: Urban Ethnography: Cities in a Global Perspective
ARTH 1090: Global Masterpieces in Art
ARTH 2100: Art of Jerusalem and Three Faiths: Past and Present
ARTH 2120/AAM 2120: Art in Africa
ARTH 2140: Islamic Art and Society
ARTH 2320/AAM 2320: Art of African Diaspora
ARTH 2350: Excavating Culture of Three Faiths
ARTH 3140: Islamic Art and Society: Advanced
ASTD 2200: American Homefronts, Global Wars
ASTD 2300: Americans Abroad
ASTD 3040: Religion & American Culture: Faith and Global Activism
ASTD 3400 American Incarceration
ASTD 3700: America in the Global Age
BIOL 3280: Ethnobotany
CMM 4460 Global Media
CMM 4650: International Public Relations
EAS 1090: Climate Change
ENGL 3500: Literature of the Postcolonial World
ENGL 3540: Literature of the African Diaspora
ENGL 3310: World Literary Traditions I
ENGL 3320: World Literary Traditions II
ENGL 3330: World Literary Traditions III
ENGL 4680: Major Postcolonial Writers
FREN 4180: French and International Relations
FREN 4380: Hugo and the Miserables
FREN 4670: Postcolonialism and Violence: Issues of Representation in Francophone Culture,
Literature, and Film
FREN 4870: Exoticism: France and its "Others"
GR 4350 German Cinema - in German
GR 4351 German Cinema - in English
HCE 3240 'Bioethics after Auschwitz'
HIST 3230: Africa to 1884
HIST 3240: Africa since 1884
HIST 3420: The Atlantic World
ITAL 3300: Madonnas, Witches, Rebels: Women and Gender
ITAL 3450: Mafia and Antimafia in Italian Culture: Perceptions, Representations, Experiences
ITAL 3650: Italy Beyond Borders: Social Justice in Modern Italian Culture
ITAL 3700: Global Italy Migration and Multiculturalism in Literature
LAS 3000: Introduction to Latin American Studies
LLC 3200: Israeli Culture: From the Birth of Zionism to the 21st Century
LLC 3250: Migrants and Borders on Screen
MUSC: 1170 World Music
PHIL 3420: Environmental and Ecological Ethics
PHIL 3490: Jewish Life: Middle Ages to Modern Time
POLS 1510: Introduction to Politics of the Developing World
POLS 1540: Blood and Money: Ethnic War
POLS 1600: Introduction to International Politics
POLS 2520: African Politics
POLS 2530: Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics
POLS 2535: Democracy and Authoritarianism
POLS 2550: Political Systems of Sub-Saharan Africa
POLS 2560: The Politics of Asia
POLS 2570: Introduction to Latin American Politics
POLS 2600: Introduction to International Political Economy
POLS 2590: Politics of the Middle East and North Africa
POLS 3500: East Asian Political Economy
POLS 3520: Communism, Capitalism and Social Justice
POLS 3530: Comparative Revolutions
POLS 3540: Latin American Social Movements
POLS 3600: Problems of Globalization
POLS 3650: International Relations of Africa
PSY 4270: Cross-Cultural Psych Human Dev
PUBH 2100: Introduction to Global Health
RUSS 3250: Russia From Peter to Putin: Imperial, Soviet, and Post-Soviet Culture
RUSS 3270: Soviet and Russian Cinema: Traditions and Innovations
RUSS 3390: Putin's Idiocracy
SOC 1180: World Geography
SOC 3180: Immigration
SPAN 4350: Latin American Testimony
SPAN 4380: Cultural Stereotypes: Latin America
SPAN 4400: Strangers in a Familiar Land: Displacements in Latin America
THEO 2710: Religions of the World
THEO 2755: Islam: Religion and Culture
THEO 3520: A Critical Study of Martyrdom & Terrorism
THR 2300: Global East Asian Performance
WGST 3350: Women and Gender in Global Film from the Fine Arts
WGST 4860: Global and Transnational Feminism
You must satisfy this requirement by taking one or more of the following courses (for
a total of three hours). All courses are three credit hours except where noted. If
you are a fine arts major, you must fulfill the Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts core
requirements via a fine arts course outside of your primary major.
ART 2000: Drawing I
ART 2025 Figure Drawing
ART 2080 The Architect's Sketchbook 1
ART 2090 The Architect's Sketchbook 2
ART 2100: Design
ART 2120: Intro to 3D Design
ART 2150: Color Theory
ART 2200: Painting I
ART 2300: Printmaking I
ART 2400: Ceramics I
ART 2450: Sculptural I
ART 2480 Fibers and Textiles
ART 2490 Jewelry and Metalsmithing
ART 2500: Computer Art I
ART 2600: Analog Photography
ART 2650: Digital Photography
ART 2700: Graphic Design I
AAM 2120 Survey of Art in Africa Since Prehistory
AAM 2220 Introduction to African-American Art
AAM 2320 Art of the African Diaspora
ARTH 1000: Approaching the Arts
ARTH 1010: Art and its Histories
ARTH 1020: History of Architecture
ARTH 1030: Parallel Themes in Art and Literature
ARTH 1040: Art and Film
ARTH 1070: American Masterpieces in Art
ARTH 1080: Masterpieces in Art
ARTH 1090 Global Masterpieces in Art
ARTH 1500: Life and Times of Michelangelo
ARTH 2030: Art and Philosophy
ARTH 2050: Controversy in Art
ARTH 2070: Art and the Body
ARTH 2100: Art of Jerusalem and Three Faiths: Past and
ARTH 2120: Art in Africa
ARTH 2140 Islamic Art and Society
ARTH 2150: Saints in Art
ARTH 2200: Art in Rome
ARTH 2220: African American Art
ARTH 2300: Ancient Art Survey
ARTH 2320: Art of African Diaspora
ARTH 2350: Excavating Culture of Three Faiths
ARTH 2400: Medieval Art Survey
ARTH 2410: The Art of Cathedrals and Kings
ARTH 2420: Christian Art
ARTH 2450: Art of Pilgrimage and Crusades
ART 2460: Installation and Public Art
ARTH 2500: Early Renaissance Art in Italy
ARTH 2510: High Renaissance Art in Italy
ARTH 2520: Art of Nobles & Merchants in the Northern Renaissance
ARTH 2600: Baroque and Rococo Art Survey
ARTH 2700: American Art: Colonial to WWII
ARTH 2710: American Art: WWII to the Present
ARTH 2750: Nineteenth-Century Art
ARTH 2800: Modern Art
ARTH 2820: Contemporary Art Since 1980
ARTH 3020: Christian Art: Advanced
ARTH 3140: Islamic Art and Society: Advanced
ARTH 3410: The Art of Cathedrals and Kings: Advanced
ARTH 3450: Art of Pilgrimage and Crusades: Advanced
ARTH 3500: Early Renaissance Art in Italy: Advanced
ARTH 3510: High Renaissance Art in Italy: Advanced
ARTH 3520: Art of Nobles & Merchants in the Northern Renaissance: Advanced
ARTH 3700: American Art: Colonial to WWII: Advanced Studies
ARTH 3750: Nineteenth-Century Art: Advanced
ARTH 3880 History of Photography
ASTD 2100: Studies in American Photography
CMM1400: Film Criticism
DANC 2000: Dance: Ballet, Modern, and Jazz
DANC 2310: Modern Dance/Modern Movement
DANC 2650 Spanish Dance I: Flamenco
DANC 2660 Latin Rhythms and Dance
VPA 1000: Intro to the Arts
VPA 1100: The Arts and Social Change
VPA 2000: Social Practice in the Arts
MUSC 1000: Approaching the Arts: Music
MUSC 1010 Applied Music: Voice, Nonmajors
MUSC 1020 Applied Music: Piano, Nonmajors
MUSC 1030 Applied Music: Guitar, Nonmajors
MUSC 1040 Applied Music in Woodwinds, Nonmajors
MUSC 1050 Applied Music in Brass, Nonmajors
MUSC 1060 Applied Music in Strings, Nonmajors
MUSC 1070 Applied Music: Percussion, Nonmajors
MUSC 1100: Music Fundamentals
MUSC 1150: History of Jazz
MUSC 1170: World Music
MUSC 1180 Music of the African Diaspora
MUSC 1190 American Musical Mosaic
MUSC 1260: Class Piano I (2 credits)
MUSC 1270: Class Piano II (2 credits)
MUSC 1400: Lower Division Class Music (1-2 credits)
MUSC 2010-2070: Applied Music (1-2 credits)
MUSC 2270: Music Theory I
MUSC 2360: Music Literature Seminar
MUSC 2500: Class Piano III (2 credits)
MUSC 2510: Class Piano IV (2 credits)
MUSC 3300: History of Music I
MUSC 3310: History of Music II
MUSC 3420: University Chorale (1 credit)
MUSC 3440: University Mastersingers (0-1 credit)
MUSC 3450: Jazz Ensemble (0-1 credit)
MUSC 3460: String Ensembles (0-1 credit)
MUSC 3470: Pep Band (0-.5 credit)
MUSC 3480: Guitar Ensemble (0-1 credit)
MUSC 3490: Concert Band (0-1 credit)
MUSC 3500: Piano Ensemble (0-1 credit)
RUSS 3350: Chekhov as a Dramatist: Performance, Adaptations, and Intermedial Transpositions
THR 1000: Approaching the Arts: Theatre
THR 1500: Intro to Theatre
THR 2300 Global East Asian Theatre
THR 2400: Page to Stage
THR 2510: Acting 1: Fundamentals
THR 2700: U.S. Diversity in Theatre
All students must complete ENGL 1900: Advanced Strategies of Rhetoric and Research or ENGL 1940: Advanced Writing. If you need prerequisite work in writing skills, as determined by your entering test scores, you will be required to take ENGL 1500: Process of Composition and possibly ENGL 0900: Introduction to Writing.
ENGL 1500 serves as elective credit but ENGL 0900 does not count toward graduation.
Non-native English speakers may substitute ESL 150: The Process of Composition for
Foreign Students for ENGL 1500 and EAP 1500/1900: Advanced Strategies of Rhetoric
and Research for Foreign Students for ENGL 1900.
The foreign language requirement of the core will be satisfied when you achieve an intermediate level of proficiency in a language other than English. You may transfer appropriate academic credit.
Courses that count toward this core requirement include:
- AR 2010: Intermediate Arabic
- CHIN 2010: Intermediate Chinese I: Language and Culture
- GK 2010: Intermediate Greek Language and Literature
- LATN 2010: Intermediate Latin: Language and Literature
- LATN 2020: Intermediate Latin: Language & Expression
- FREN 2010: Intermediate French Language and Culture
- GR 2010: Intermediate German: Language and Culture
- ITAL 2010: Intermediate Italian: Language and Culture
- RUSS 2010: Intermediate Russian: Language and Culture
- SPAN 2010: Connecting with the Hispanic World: Intermediate Spanish
Students majoring in the natural sciences (biology, chemistry, geology, geophysics, meteorology and physics) have the option of taking a third semester of a language (XX-2010) or CSCI 1060: Introduction to Computer Science: Scientific Programming or CSCI 1300: Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming, which are scientifically oriented computer language courses.
The foreign language requirement may also be satisfied by a minimum of one semester's study in a foreign country at a college/university where language courses are taught in a language other than English.
SLU Language Lab placement tests do not satisfy this requirement but language proficiency can be shown with approved scores on certain exams.
CAS' Language Proficiency Policy- Any 3000 or 4000-level English literature course with the exception of ENGL 3850-3870: Writing and Rhetoric, ENGL 4000-4040: Upper Level Writing and Rhetoric and ENGL 4100-4120: Language Studies.
- A 3000 or 4000-level foreign literature course taught in the original language
- A 3000 or 4000-level Greek or Latin literature course with readings in the original language
- ASTD 3030: History and Fiction;
- ASTD 3020: American Mosaic: Literature and Diversity
- CHIN 3150: Globl Sinophone Fiction and Film
- ITAL 3400 Dante’s Divine Comedy
- ITAL 3401 Dante’s Divine Comedy – Major/Minor
- ITAL 3450: Mafia and Antimafia in Italian Culture: Perceptions, Representations, Experiences
- ITAL 3451: Mafia and Antimafia in Italian Culture: Perceptions, Representations, Experiences - Major/Minor
- ITAL 3550: Women, Knights, Weapons and Love: Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature
- ITAL 3551: Women, Knights, Weapons & Love: Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature- Major/Minor
- ITAL 3601: Eros, Power & Play: Pre-Modern Italian Theatre - Major/Minor
- ITAL 3650: Italy Beyond Borders: Social Justice in Modern Italian Culture
- ITAL 3651: Italy Beyond Borders: Social Justice in Modern Italian Culture - Major/Minor
- ITAL 3700: Global Italy Migration and Multiculturalism in Literature
- ITAL 3701: Global Italy Migration and Multiculturalism in Literature - Major/Minor
- SPAN 4180: Creative Writing in Spanish
- RUSS 3340: Serfdom and Liberation
- RUSS 3350: Chekhov as Dramatist: Performance, Adaptations, and Intermedial Transpositions
- RUSS 3360: In Prisons Dark: Confinement Literature in the Russian and Soviet Empires
- RUSS 3370: World Soul in the Silver Age
- RUSS 3390: Putin's Idiocracy
- RUSS 3440: Art, Media, & Power in Post-Soviet Russia
- WGST 3350: Women and Gender in Global Film
International students can also satisfy the literature requirement by either taking ESL 2110: Introduction to Literature for Foreign Students plus one course in the English department or a 3000 or 4000-level foreign language literature course.
All Bachelor of Arts students in the College of Arts and Sciences must complete six hours of coursework in the natural sciences.
This requirement can be fulfilled by any two three-hour courses from the departments of biology, chemistry, earth and atmospheric sciences, physics or PPY 1450. It can also be satisfied by ANTH 2210, FRSC 2600, FRSC 3620, or FRSC 3630, but these courses cannot be used to meet both the social science and natural science requirement of the core curriculum.
All Bachelor of Arts students in the College of Arts and Sciences must complete six hours of coursework in the social sciences. This requirement can be fulfilled by two three-hour courses chosen from the following areas:
- African American Studies: AAM 2500 only
- American Studies: ASTD 3200 only
- Communication: CMM1000, 2000, 2400, 2800 or 2300 only
- Communication Sciences and Disorders: CSDI 1000 or 3000 only
- Criminology and Criminal Justice
- Economics
- Education: EDF 4240, EDI 3620 or EDSP 4310 only
- Forensic Science (Please note that FRSC 2600, FRSC 3620, and FRSC 3630 cannot satisfy both a social science and a natural science requirement of the core curriculum.)
- Political Science
- Psychology
- Public Policy Studies (except for field service)
- Social Work: SWRK 1000, 2100, 3100, 3200 only
- Sociology and Anthropology (Please note that ANTH 2210 cannot satisfy both a social science and a natural science requirement of the core curriculum.)
Courses that meet both requirements of the core curriculum and a department's or program's requirement for the major or minor may be regarded as fulfilling both requirements simultaneously, provided departmental and program policies are preserved. Communication majors may count one communication course in the social science core toward their social science requirement.
Neither cross-listed courses nor courses meeting both a core curriculum and a department's or program's requirement for the major or minor are counted twice for degree credit.
All Bachelor of Arts students in the College of Arts and Sciences must complete two
courses: HIST 1110: Origins of the Modern World to 1500 and HIST 1120: Origins of
the Modern World 1500 to the Present.
Updated 10/28/18
Bachelor of Arts Core Curriculum Worksheet (PDF)
Bachelor of Science Core Curriculum Requirements
If you are pursuing a Bachelor of Science through the College of Arts and Sciences, you will take courses in the following areas:
You must complete one three-hour course from the Diversity in the U.S. list and one three-hour course from the Global Citizenship list below.
Diversity in the U.S.
AAM 2000: Freedom Dreams: Intro to African American Studies
AAM 2010: Contemporary Black America
AAM 2220/ARTH 2220: Introduction to African-American Art
AAM 2500/CMM 2300: Intergroup Dialog
AAM 2900: Intergroup Dialogue - Black Male Identity
AAM 3370: Spirituals, Motown, and Hip Hop: African American Social History and Music
AAM 4330/WGST 4330/PSY 4330: Psychology of Oppression
AAM 4340/PSY 4340: African American Psychology
AAM 4810/PHIL 4820: Philosophy and Race
AAM 4890/WGST 4890/CMM4890: Language and Black Womanhood
ANTH 3290: Native Peoples of North America
ARTH 1070: American Masterpieces in Art
ARTH 2220/AAM 2220: African American Art
ASTD 1000: American Culture: Movements, Myths, and Methods
ASTD 2400: Immigration in U.S. History and Culture
ASTD 2500: American Identities
ASTD 2600: American Places
ASTD 2700: Gender, Race, Social Justice
ASTD 2800: Sports in American Culture
ASTD 3000: American Decades
ASTD 3010: Comparative Ethnic Studies
ASTD 3050: American Soundscapes
ASTD 3100: Making the American City
ASTD 3200: The Urban Crisis
ASTD 3400: American Incarceration
ASTD 3500: Religion and American Culture
ASTD 3600: American Food and Cultures
ASTD 3800: Women's Lives
ASTD 3900: Mixed-Race America
ASTD 3020: American Mosaic - Literature and Diversity
CCJ 2250: Introduction to Corrections
CMM 2300/AAM 2500: Intergroup Dialogue
CMM 3300/WGST 3300: Intercultural Communication
CMM 4300: Gender and Communication
CMM 4320: Communicating Across Racial Divisions
CMM 4350: Stereotyping and Bias in Mass Media
CSDI 3000: Chara. Multicult Poultn
ENGL 3280: American Literatures after 1856
ENGL 3520: African American Literary Traditions II: After 1900
ENGL 3550: Native American Literature
ENGL 3560: American Ethnic Literature and Film
ENGL 3240: Reading the Female Bildungsroman
HCE 3100: Public Health and Social Justice
HCE 4260: Race and Research Ethics
HIST 3500: Progressive Era to the Jazz Age, 1890-1920
HIST 3580: American Slavery
HIST 3590: American Women
HIST 3640: History of the American West
LLC 3210: Social Justice in the Jewish Tradition
MUSC 1180: Music of the African Diaspora
MUSC 1190: American Musical Mosaic
PHIL 4320: Feminism and the History of Ethics
PHIL 4810/WSTD 4810: Philosophy of Feminism
PHIL 4820/AAM 4810: Philosophy and Race
PHIL 4825: Philosophy & Whiteness
POLS 2010: Ethics and Politics
POLS 2150: Race and Politics
POLS 2200: State and Local Politics
POLS 2220: Urban Politics
POLS 2710: 'Theories of Justice'
POLS 3130: Civil Liberties and Rights
POLS 3770/WSTD 3775: Feminist Theory-Gender Justice
POLS 3800: Structure of Poverty: Globally and Locally
POLS 3330: Metropolitan Environment
POLS 4710: Citizenship and Social Difference
PSY 4330/WGST 4330/AAM 4330: Psychology of Oppression
PSY 4340/AAM 4340: African American Psychology
PUBH 3100: Public Health and Social Justice
SOC 1110: Introduction to Sociology: Diversity Emphasis
SOC 1120: Diversity and Health
SOC 1500: The Urban Community: Race, Class and Spatial Justice
SOC 2110: Sociology of Sport
SOC 3220: Urban Sociology and The Wire
SOC 3430/WSTD 3430: Marriage and Family
SOC 3680: Drugs and Society: Legal and Medical Implications of the U.S. "War on Drugs"
THR 2700 U.S. Diversity in Theatre
SWRK 3200: Diversity and Anti-Oppression Practice
WGST 1900: Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies
WGST 2700: Feminisms in the U.S.
WGST 3300/CMM 3300: Intercultural Communication
WSTD 4200: Psychology of Women
WGST 4300: Gender and Communication
WGST 4330/PSY 4330/AAM 4330: Psychology of Oppression
WGST 4800/AAM 4900: Black Women in Society
WGST 4810/PHIL 4810: Philosophy of Feminism
Global Citizenship
AAM 2120/ARTH 2120: Art in Africa
AAM 2320/ARTH 2320: Art of African Diaspora
ANTH1200: Introduction to Anthropology
ANTH 2080: Urban Issues: Poverty in a Global Perspective
ANTH 2200: Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 2400: Linguistic Anthropology
ANTH 2460: Global Mental Health
ANTH 4530: Urban Ethnography: Cities in a Global Perspective
ART 2650: Digital Photography
ARTH 1090: Global Masterpieces in Art
ARTH 2100: Art of Jerusalem and Three Faiths
ARTH 2120/AAM 2120: Survey of Art in Africa Since Prehistory
ARTH 214: Islamic Art and Society
ARTH 2320/AAM 2320: Art of African Diaspora
ARTH 2100: Art of Jerusalem and Three Faiths: Past and
ARTH 2140: Islamic Art and Society
ARTH 2350: Excavating Culture of 3 Faiths
ARTH 3140: Islamic Art and Society: Advanced
ASTD 2200: American Homefronts, Global Wars
ASTD 2300: Americans Abroad
ASTD 2500 American Identities and Communities
ASTD 3040: Religion & American Culture: Faith and Global Activism
ASTD 3700: America in the Global Age
BIOL 3280: Ethnobotany
CMM 4460 Global Media
CMM 4650: International Public Relations
EAS 1090: Climate Change
ENGL 3500: Literature of the Postcolonial World
ENGL 3540: Lit of the African Diaspora
ENGL 3310: World Literary Traditions I
ENGL 3320: World Literary Traditions II
ENGL 3330: World Literary Traditions III
ENGL 4680: Major Postcolonial Writers
FREN 4180: French and International Relations
FREN 4380: Hugo and the Miserables
FREN 4670: Postcolonialism and Violence: Issues of Representation in Francophone Culture,
Literature, and Film
FREN 4870: Exoticism: France and its "Others"
GR 4350 German Cinema - in German
GR 4351: German Cinema - in English
HCE 3240: 'Bioethics after Auschwitz'
HIST 3230: Africa to 1884
HIST 3240: Africa since 1884
HIST 3420: The Atlantic World
ITAL 3300: Madonnas, Witches, Rebels: Women and Gender
ITAL 3450: Mafia and Antimafia in Italian Culture: Perceptions, Representations, Experiences
ITAL 3650: Italy Beyond Borders: Social Justice in Modern Italian Culture
ITAL 3700: Global Italy Migration and Multiculturalism in Literature
LAS 3000: Introduction to Latin American Studies
LLC 3200: Israeli Culture: From the Birth of Zionism to the 21st Century
LLC 3250: Migrants and Borders on Screen
MUSC 1170: World Music
PHIL 3420: Environmental and Ecological Ethics
PHIL 3490: Jewish Life: Middle Ages to Modern Time
POLS 1510: Introduction to Politics of the Developing World
POLS 1540: Blood and Money: Ethnic War
POLS 1600: Introduction to International Politics
POLS 2520: African Politics
POLS 2530: Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics
POLS 2535: Democracy and Authoritarianism
POLS 2550: Political Systems of Sub-Saharan Africa
POLS 2560: The Politics of Asia
POLS 2570: Introduction to Latin American Politics
POLS 2590: Politics of the Middle East and North Africa
POLS 2600: Introduction to International Political Economy
POLS 3500: East Asian Political Economy
POLS 3520: Communism, Capitalism and Social Justice
POLS 3530: Comparative Revolutions
POLS 3540: Latin American Social Movements
POLS 3600: Problems of Globalization
POLS 3650: International Relations of Africa
PSY 4270: Cross-Cultural Psych Human Dev
PUBH 2100: Introduction to Global Health
RUSS 3250: Russia From Peter to Putin: Imperial, Soviet, and Post-Soviet Culture
RUSS 3270: Soviet and Russian Cinema: Traditions and Innovations
RUSS 3390: Putin's Idiocracy
SOC 1180: World Geography
SOC 3180: Immigration
SPAN 4350: Latin American Testimony
SPAN 4380: Cultural Stereotypes: Latin Am
SPAN 4400: Strangers in a Familiar Land: Displacements in Latin America
THEO 2710: Religions of the World
THEO 2755: Islam: Religion and Culture
THEO 3520: A Critical Study of Martyrdom & Terrorism
THR 2300: Global East Asian Performance
WGST 3350: Women and Gender in Global Film from the Fine Arts
WGST 4860: Global and Transnational Feminism
You must satisfy this requirement by taking one or more of the following courses (for a total of three hours). All courses are three credit hours except where noted.
ART 2000: Drawing I
ART 2025 Figure Drawing
ART 2080 The Architect's Sketchbook 1
ART 2090 The Architect's Sketchbook 2
ART 2100: Design
ART 2120: Intro to 3D Design
ART 2150: Color Theory
ART 2200: Painting I
ART 2300: Printmaking I
ART 2400: Ceramics I
ART 2450: Sculptural I
ART 2480 Fibers and Textiles
ART 2490 Jewelry and Metalsmithing
ART 2500: Computer Art I
ART 2600: Analog Photography
ART 2700: Graphic Design I
AAM 2120: Survey of Art in Africa Since Prehistory
AAM 2220: Introduction to African-American Art
AAM 2320: Art of the African Diaspora
ARTH 1000: Approaching the Arts
ARTH 1010: Art and its Histories
ARTH 1020: History of Architecture
ARTH 1030: Parallel Themes in Art and Literature
ARTH1040: Art and Film
ARTH 1070: American Masterpieces in Art
ARTH1080: Masterpieces in Art
ARTH 1090 Global Masterpieces in Art
ARTH 1500: Life and Times of Michelangelo
ARTH 2030: Art and Philosophy
ARTH 2050: Controversy in Art
ARTH 2070: Art and the Body
ARTH 2100: Art of Jerusalem and Three Faiths: Past and
ARTH 2120: Art in Africa
ARTH 2140 Islamic Art and Society
ARTH 2150: Saints in Art
ARTH 2200: Art in Rome
ARTH 2220: African American Art
ARTH 2300: Ancient Art Survey
ARTH 2320: Art of African Diaspora
ARTH 2350: Excavating Culture of Three Faiths
ARTH 2400: Medieval Art Survey
ARTH 2410: The Art of Cathedrals and Kings
ARTH 2420: Christian Art
ARTH 2450: Art of Pilgrimage and Crusades
ART 2460: Installation and Public Art
ARTH 2500: Early Renaissance Art in Italy
ARTH 2510: High Renaissance Art in Italy
ARTH 2520: Art of Nobles & Merchants in the Northern Renaissance
ARTH 2600: Baroque and Rococo Art Survey
ARTH 2700: American Art: Colonial to WWII
ARTH 2710: American Art: WWII to the Present
ARTH 2750: Nineteenth-Century Art
ARTH 2800: Modern Art
ARTH 2820: Contemporary Art Since 1980
ARTH 3020: Christian Art: Advanced
ARTH 3140: Islamic Art and Society: Advanced
ARTH 3410: The Art of Cathedrals and Kings: Advanced
ARTH 3450: Art of Pilgrimage and Crusades: Advanced
ARTH 3500: Early Renaissance Art in Italy: Advanced
ARTH 3510: High Renaissance Art in Italy: Advanced
ARTH 3520: Art of Nobles & Merchants in the Northern Renaissance: Advanced
ARTH 3700: American Art: Colonial to WWII: Advanced Studies
ARTH 3750: Nineteenth-Century Art: Advanced
ARTH 3880: History of Photography
ASTD 2100: Studies in American Photography
CMM1400: Film Criticism
DANC 2000: Dance: Ballet, Modern and Jazz
DANC 2650: Spanish Dance I: Flamenco
DANC 2660: Latin Rhythms and Dance
DANC 2310: Modern Dance/Modern Movement
VPA 1000: Intro to the Arts
VPA 1100: The Arts and Social Change
VPA 2000: Social Practice in the Arts
MUSC 1000: Approaching the Arts: Music
MUSC 1010: Applied Music: Voice, Nonmajors
MUSC 1020: Applied Music: Piano, Nonmajors
MUSC 1030: Applied Music: Guitar, Nonmajors
MUSC 1040: Applied Music in Woodwinds, Nonmajors
MUSC 1050: Applied Music in Brass, Nonmajors
MUSC 1060: Applied Music in Strings, Nonmajors
MUSC 1070: Applied Music: Percussion, Nonmajors
MUSC 1100: Music Fundamentals
MUSC 1150: History of Jazz
MUSC 1170: World Music
MUSC 1180: Music of the African Diaspora
MUSC 1190: American Musical Mosaic
MUSC 1260: Class Piano I (2 credits)
MUSC 1270: Class Piano II (2 credits)
MUSC 1400: Lower Division Class Music (1-2 credits)
MUSC 2010-2070: Applied Music (1-2 credits)
MUSC 2270: Music Theory I
MUSC 2360: Music Literature Seminar
MUSC 2500: Class Piano III (2 credits)
MUSC 2510: Class Piano IV (2 credits)
MUSC 3300: History of Music I
MUSC 3310: History of Music II
MUSC 3420: University Chorale (1 credit)
MUSC 3440: University Mastersingers (0-1 credit)
MUSC 3450: Jazz Ensemble (0-1 credit)
MUSC 3460: String Ensembles (0-1 credit)
MUSC 3470: Pep Band (0-.5 credit)
MUSC 3480: Guitar Ensemble (0-1 credit)
MUSC 3490: Concert Band (0-1 credit)
MUSC 3500: Piano Ensemble (0-1 credit)
RUSS 3350: Chekhov as a Dramatist: Performance, Adaptations, and Intermedial Transpositions
THR 1000: Approaching the Arts: Theatre
THR 1500: Intro to Theatre
THR 2300 Global East Asian Theatre
THR 2400: Page to Stage
THR 2510: Acting 1: Fundamentals
THR 2700: U.S. Diversity in Theatre
Bachelor of Science students in the College of Arts and Sciences must show foreign language proficiency through second-course level (1020) in any of the following: Arabic, Chinese, German, Greek, French, Italian, Latin, Russian, Spanish, or SPAN 1200. The foreign language requirement may also be satisfied by a minimum of one semester's study in a foreign country at a college/university where classes are taught in a language other than English.
SLU Language Lab placement tests do not satisfy this requirement but language proficiency can be shown with approved scores on certain exams.
All students must complete ENGL 1900: Advanced Strategies of Rhetoric and Research or ENGL 1940: Advanced Writing. If you need prerequisite work in writing skills, as determined by your entering test scores, you will be required to take ENGL 1500: Process of Composition and possibly ENGL 0900: Introduction to Writing. ENGL 1500 serves as elective credit but ENGL 0900 does not count toward graduation.
Non-native English speakers may substitute ESL 150: The Process of Composition for Foreign Students for ENGL 1500 and EAP 1500/1900: Advanced Strategies of Rhetoric and Research for Foreign Students for ENGL 1900.
All Bachelor of Science students in the College of Arts and Sciences must complete a three-hour literature course chosen from one of the following:
- Any 3000- or 4000-level English literature course, except ENGL 3850-3870: Writing and Rhetoric, ENGL 4000-4040: Upper Level Writing and Rhetoric, or ENGL 4100-4120: Language Studies
- A 3000- or 4000-level foreign literature course taught in the original language
- A 3000- or 4000-level Greek or Latin literature course with readings in the original language
- ASTD 3020: American Mosaic: Literature and Diversity
- ASTD 3030: History and Fiction
- CHIN 3150: Global Sinophone Fiction and Film
- ITAL 3400: Dante's Divine Comedy
- ITAL 3401: Dante's Divine Comedy - Major/Minor
- ITAL 3450: Mafia and Antimafia in Italian Culture: Perceptions, Representations, Experiences
- ITAL 3451: Mafia and Antimafia in Italian Culture: Perceptions, Representations, Experiences - Major/Minor
- ITAL 3550: Women, Knights, Weapons and Love: Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature
- ITAL 3551: Women, Knights, Weapons & Love: Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature- Major/Minor
- ITAL 3600: Power and Play: Pre-Modern Italian Theatre
- ITAL 3601: Eros, Power & Play: Pre-Modern Italian Theatre- Major/Minor
- ITAL 3650: Italy Beyond Borders: Social Justice in Modern Italian Culture
- ITAL 3651: Italy Beyond Borders: Social Justice in Modern Italian Culture - Major/Minor
- ITAL 3700: Global Italy Migration and Multiculturalism in Literature
- ITAL 3701: Global Italy Migration and Multiculturalism in Literature - Major/Minor
- SPAN 4180: Creative Writing in Spanish
- RUSS 3340: Serfdom and Liberation
- RUSS 3350: Chekhov as Dramatist: Performance, Adaptations, and Intermedial Transpositions
- RUSS 3360: In Prisons Dark: Confinement Literature in the Russian and Soviet Empires
- RUSS 3370: World Soul in the Silver Age
- RUSS 3390: Putin's Idiocracy
- RUSS 3440: Art, Media, & Power in Post-Soviet Russia
- WGST 3350: Women and Gender in Global Film
International students can also satisfy the literature requirement by either taking a course in the English department or an upper-division foreign language literature course.
The core science requirement for Bachelor of Science students in the College of Arts and Sciences is satisfied by eight credit hours in a single science — biology, chemistry, earth and atmospheric science or physics — outside the department in which you are seeking your B.S. degree.
All Bachelor of Science students in the College of Arts and Sciences must complete six hours of coursework in the social sciences. This requirement can be fulfilled by two three-hour courses chosen from the following areas:
- African American Studies: AAM 2500 only
- American Studies: ASTD 3200 only
- Communication: CMM1000, 2000, 2400, 2800 or 2300 only
- Communication Sciences and Disorders: CSDI 1000 or 3000 only
- Criminology and Criminal Justice
- Economics
- Education: EDF 4240, EDI 3620 or EDSP 4310 only
- Forensic Science (Please note that FRSC 2600, FRSC 3620, and FRSC 3630 cannot satisfy both a social science and a natural science requirement of the core curriculum.)
- Political Science
- Psychology
- Public Policy Studies (except for field service)
- Social Work: SWRK 1000, 2100, 3100, 3200 only
- Sociology and Anthropology (Please note that ANTH 2210 cannot satisfy both a social science and a natural science requirement of the core curriculum.)
Courses that meet both requirements of the core curriculum and a department's or program's requirement for the major or minor may be regarded as fulfilling both requirements simultaneously, provided departmental and program policies are preserved. Communication majors may count one communication course in the social science core toward their social science requirement. Neither cross-listed courses nor courses meeting both a core curriculum and a department's or program's requirement for the major or minor are counted twice for degree credit.
Bachelor of Science students in the College of Arts and Sciences take a two-course sequence in theology: THEO 1000: Theological Foundations and a 2000-level course.
Updated 10/28/18