General Education

Each Southeastern Louisiana University baccalaureate degree is designed to help students progress toward career goals and toward the following goals in general education:

Recognizing the goals, all baccalaureate curricula include the following minimum requirements based on the Statewide General Education Requirements of the Louisiana Board of Regents:

English

6 hours and demonstrated proficiency

Analytical Reasoning

6 hours of analytical reasoning, at least 3 of which must be in Mathematics

Natural Science

9 hours, two course sequence in biology or physical science with the remaining three in an area not covered by the sequence

Fine Arts

3 hours (Music or Visual Arts or Dance or Theatre)

Humanities

9 hours to include 3 hours of Literature, 3 hours of History, and 3 hours of Foreign Language above the introductory level or Philosophy or Speech Communication

Social/Behavioral Sciences

6 hours (Anthropology or Political Science or Economics or Geography or Psychology or Sociology or Criminal Justice)