General Education Requirements for All Online Undergraduate Majors

Students entering with fewer than 24 credits will take:

Students entering with 25-48 credits will take:

Students entering with 49 or more credits or an Associate’s Degree will take:

As laid out in the Fair Transfer Guarantee, a completed Associate of Arts, Associate of Science, or Associate of Fine Arts degree from a Virginia community college will satisfy the general education breadth requirements, ENG 105, WES 100, WES 200, and the Foreign Languages Requirement.

Breadth Requirement (24 semester hours)

The breadth requirement ensures a well-rounded education.  Students will take six courses to ensure a breadth of knowledge that is fundamental to a university education.  The requirements span arts and humanities, social sciences, professional studies, mathematics, and the natural sciences. 

  • From the Goode School of Arts and Humanities (8 semester hours)
    • One course in the Creative Arts
    • One upper-level course in the Humanities
  • From the Brock School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences (8 semester hours)
    • One course in the Mathematical Sciences
    • One course in the Natural Sciences (with laboratory)
  • From the Birdsong School of Social Sciences and the Watts School of Professional Studies (8 semester hours)
    • One course in the traditional Social Sciences
    • One course in the traditional or in the applied Social Sciences

These courses must be taken from six different departmental rubrics (eg. ENG, MATH, REC) and must also be outside of a student’s major department(s).