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Auburn University's Core Curriculum

Auburn University’s Core Curriculum provides a shared learning experience to all Auburn undergraduates.  To this effect, the core curriculum is based on the principles of common learning, coherence and integration.  Common learning refers to a body of knowledge, skills, and emphasis that will be required in every student’s program.  Coherence is achieved by course sequences and by providing connections among courses.  Integration is accomplished through interdisciplinary courses.

 

The core curriculum seeks to foster the development of educated citizens through its pursuit of three goals:

The development of the student’s analytical skills.   Courses are designed and taught to allow students to discern significant issues and events; ask appropriate questions; approach problems; gather, synthesize, and interpret information; critically analyze established positions; and use knowledge creatively for the enhancement of society. 

The nurture of the student’s ability to communicate.  The core curriculum requires extensive reading in literature, history, and the sciences.  The core curriculum promotes writing by requiring courses designed for that purpose and by including writing reinforcement courses in the student’s curriculum.

The encouragement of the student’s appreciation for their culture and the world in which they live.  The core curriculum is concerned with the natural world, human behavior, history, moral values, technology, great ideas, aesthetic relationships, and society.

Core Curriculum and Pre-Pharmacy Requirements

Course Requirements                    Course Options        

English Composition (6)                ENGL1100 – 1120                English Composition  I & II (3,3)

Students who began collegiate study at Auburn University between Summer 1998 and Summer 2000 have met the core English composition requirements if they have completed both ENGL0110 and 0112 with a grade of C or better in each.  If they have completed only the first course in the composition sequence, they must complete ENGL1120 with a grade of C or better.  If they have not completed either course in the composition sequence, they must complete ENGL1100and 1120 with a grade of C or better.

Students who began collegiate study at Auburn University between Fall 1991 and Spring 1998 have met the core composition requirements if they have completed ENGL0110.  For students in this group graduating after Summer 1998, the core junior-level writing requirement was waived by the Provost.

Transfer students beginning collegiate study at another institution in Fall 2000 or after must meet Auburn’s 6-hour freshman composition requirement.  They may do so either by completing ENGL1100-1120 with a grade of C or better in each or by transferring writing courses taken at another institution, provided these courses are comparable in scope and coverage to ENGL1100-1120, and providing the student has earned a grade of C or better in these courses.  If transfer students have five quarter hours or three semester hours of credit in a two-course sequence, they must complete ENGL1120.  If transfer students have earned eight or more quarter hours or six semester hours and have met the first year English composition requirement of the other institution, credit will be allowed for ENGL1100-1120-, provided the minimum of eight hours involves no duplication, and provided a grade of C or better is earned in each course.

 Transfer students who began collegiate study at another institution between Summer 1998 and Summer 2000 must meet Auburn’s 6 hour freshman composition requirements.  They may also do so in the ways explained in the preceding paragraph. 

Transfer students who began collegiate study at another institution between Fall 1991 and Spring 1998 must meet the same requirements as students who began Auburn during the same period.  They may of course satisfy these requirements by transferring a writing course taken at another institution, provided this course is comparable in scope and coverage to ENGL0110 or ENGL1100, and provided the student earned a grade of C or better in this course.

All students who enter an undergraduate school at Auburn University after receiving a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution are exempt from meeting the above requirements. 

Literature (6)                                          ENGL 2200 – 2210                World Literature I and II (3,3)

Literature courses taken at other institutions may fulfill the Core literature requirement with the following provisions: 

  1. As courses similar to ENGL2200-2210, students may transfer sophomore-level literature surveys. These are defined by their coverage of a designated and reasonably broad historical period.

  2. Students may receive a Core literature credit for any combination of historical surveys, whether or not the surveys are in the same sequence.

  3. Students transferring a single literature course may receive credit for ENGL2200 only if it is the first course in a World Literature sequence.  Any other single literature survey will transfer as credit for ENGL2210; students making such a transfer must take ENGL2200.

  4. Literature courses based on genres (poetry, the short story, the novel), themes, or narrowly defined historical periods will not fulfill the Core requirement but are eligible for transfer as electives.

  5. Freshman-level literature courses will not fulfill the Core requirements but are eligible for transfer as electives.

Social Science (6)                    Select one course from each group

Group 1:

    
  ANTH1000 Intro. to Anthropology (3) or
  GEOG1010 Global Geography (3) or
  PSYC2010 Intro to PSYC (3) or
  SOCY1000 Sociology: Global Perspectives (3)

Group 2:

    
  ECON2020 Principles of Microeconomics (3) or
  POLI1020 Political Economy (3)
     
Fine Art (3) ARCH2600 Appreciation of Architecture
Place & Culture (3) or
  ARTS1710 Introduction to Art History I (3) or
  ARTS1720 Introduction to Art History II (3) or
  ARTS1730 Introduction to Art History III (3) or
  MUSI2730 Appreciation of Music (3) or
  THEA2010 Introduction to Theatre (3)
     
Philosophy (3) PHIL1030 Ethics and the Health Sciences (3)
     
History (6) HIST1010–1020 World History I & II (3,3) or
  HIST1210–1220 Technology & Civilization I & II (3,3) or
  UNIV2710-2720 Human Odyssey I & II (3,3)

Credit in history earned at another institution may be allowed on transfer as shown below in meeting this particular requirement.

  1. If transfer students have three hours in the first course of a broad, introductory two-course sequence in world history or western civilization or technology and civilization or U.S. History, they must complete HIST 1020 (for world history and western civilization), HIST1220 (for technology and civilization) or HIST2020 (for U.S. History).  A transfer student who has taken the last course in a similar two course sequence would take HIST1010 or HIST1210 or HIST2010.

  2. Students entering an undergraduate program at Auburn, after earning bachelor’s degrees from other accredited universities, may be exempted from the history requirements unless their curricula specify one of the three sequences described in this section.
Statistics (3) STAT2510 Statistics for Biological and Health Sciences (3)
     
Math (4) MATH1610 Calculus I (4)
     
Chemistry (16) CHEM1030 Fundamentals of Chemistry I (3) &
  CHEM1031 Fundamentals of Chemistry I Lab(1)
  CHEM1040 Fundamentals of Chemistry II (3) &
  CHEM1041 Fundamentals of Chemistry II Lab(1)
  CHEM2070 Organic Chemistry I (3)and
  CHEM2071 Organic Chemistry I Lab (1)
  CHEM2080 Organic Chemistry II (3) and
  CHEM2081 Organic Chemistry II Lab (1)
     
Biology (26) BIOL1020 Principles of Biology (4)
  BIOL2500 Human Anatomy & Physiology I (4)
  BIOL2510 Human Anatomy & Physiology II (4)
  BIOL3000 Genetics (4) OR
  BIOL3020 Genomic Biology (3)
  BIOL3200 General Microbiology/Lab (4)
  BIOL3500 Perspectives in Immunology (3) OR
  BIOL5500 Immunology (3)
  BCHE3200 Principles of Biochemistry (3)
     
Physics (4) PHYS1500 General Physics I (4)
    (Trigonometry Based)

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