College of Professional Studies

Core Curriculum

The core courses are designed to guide students in learning to integrate skills and knowledge gained in one course with what they learn in others, including their major.

There are two groups of courses: common core requirements and distributed core requirements. All students take the same nine courses of the "common core" and take other courses in the "distributed core," which vary somewhat by college or program.
 

See below for the core curriculum requirements for the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science in the College of Professional Studies.

Bachelor of Arts (BA) or Bachelor of Science (BS)

Common Core

Discover New York: DNY 1000C
English Composition: ENG 1000C
English- Literature in a Global Context: ENG 1100C
History- The Emergence of Global Society: HIS 1000C
Philosophy of the Human Person: PHI 1000C
Philosophy- Metaphysics: PHI 3000C
Scientific Inquiry: Sci 1000C
Speech- Public Speaking for the College Student: SPE 1000C
Theology- Catholic Perspectives on Christianity: THE 1000C

Distributed Core

Creativity and the Arts AND Language and Culture
OR 2 Courses in a Second Language
Mathematics (program dependent)
Philosophy- Ethics elective:  1020 series or 2200 series
Social Science (program dependent)
THE 1040 series (or equivalent)
Theology elective