The Core Program is intended to
ensure that the degree has sufficient breadth. It is through the Core that
students learn to improve their basic academic skills, to think critically and
independently about a broad range of subjects, and to develop their awareness of
social, cultural, scientific, and political issues.
The Core includes a Literacy
Requirement, a Quantitative Reasoning & Analysis Requirement,
Breadth of Knowledge Requirement:
Literacy
The Literacy Requirement is intended to ensure that graduates of Grenfell
College are able to express themselves clearly and correctly, and that they have
a broad appreciation of the English language as a means of communication. It
includes thirty credit hours in Writing Courses (W) including a first
year English sequence. Six credit hours in language courses may be substituted
for any six credit hours in Writing Courses except for first year English.
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Quantitative Reasoning and Analysis
The Quantitative Reasoning and Analysis (QRA) Requirement is intended to
help students develop a degree of appreciation of numerical, statistical and/or
symbolic modes of representation, as well as an appreciation of the analysis,
interpretation and broader quantitative application of such
representations.
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Breadth of Knowledge
Six credit hours from each of Group A, B, and C for a total of 18 credit
hours. The courses chosen can be any courses within the disciplines identified.
However, students are not permitted to use these courses to meet the
Quantitative Reasoning and Analysis requirement nor the first-year English
requirements.
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Electives
Courses to make up the total of one hundred and twenty credit hours,
other than those required for the Core Program and Major and Minor Requirements,
may be chosen according to the following guidelines:
any courses in arts, social science, science, and fine arts;
up to fifteen credit hours in other subject areas
Waiver of Requirements
Course pre-requisites may be waived by heads/program chairs of the
disciplines in question.
In special circumstances the Academic Studies Committee may waive the
requirements that apply to this degree program.
Explanatory Notes
Courses
will be designated
Writing Courses (W) by the Academic Studies
Committee.
Breadth of Knowledge courses are from various subject areas that help to
provide a broad body of shared knowledge. Breadth of Knowledge Courses cover
material across a number of disciplines that contributes to the general body of
knowledge common to educated members of society.
- Courses that are designated both Breadth
of Knowledge and Writing Courses may be used to satisfy both requirements.