Degree Requirements
60 credit hours and approved assessment portfolio
General Education Requirements
•12 credits of interdisciplinary Core Curriculum coursework (6 credits for students who transfer in more than 30 credits)
• Demonstration of proficiency in academic computing
• Vision and Revision (or assessment of writing sample)
• Research and Reflection
• Evidence of proficiency in the 4 fundamental learning skills:
– Written Communication
– Oral Communication
– Critical Thinking
– Research Methods
• 3 credits in each of the following areas:
– Creative Expression
– Cultural Awareness
– Historical Consciousness
– Media Literacy
– Quantitative Reasoning
– Responsible Action
– Scientific Thought
– Social Awareness
Other Requirements
• Students develop and submit to the Assessment Committee a portfolio of original work that demonstrates proficiency in the four fundamental learning skills.
• Students complete the last 18 credits of coursework at Burlington College over two or more semesters.
• Students maintain a completion ratio of 75%.
Restrictions
• Completion requires no more than 6.67 semesters of 12 credits each or equivalent part-time attendance.
• No more than 6 low-pass credits are accepted toward the degree.
• No low-pass credits are accepted for Vision and Revision, Research and Reflection, or Quantitative Reasoning.
• Total credits in workshops may not exceed 9.
• Total credits in Action Learning may not exceed 9.
• Total combined credits in guided independent study, tutorials, and independent study may not exceed 18.
General Education Courses
• Probabilities & Statistics
• Social Choice & Mathematics
• Introduction to Ecology
• The Structure & Function of the Human Body
• Wildlife Ecology
• Herbalism
• Nutrition
• Introduction to Microcomputers
• Coming to Terms: Writing as Self-Expression
• Vision and Revision
• Vision and Revision: Essay Writing for Visual Learners
• Research and Reflection
• Life Experience Assessment Program (LEAP)
Core Courses
• First-Year Seminar
• Alienation and Madness in Modern Literature
• Environmental Science
• Social Ecology
• Lake Champlain: The ‘Great Lake’ Controversy
• Campaign Fever: The Race for Power
• Art History I & II
• Philosophy through Literature
• Po-Mo 101, or Life in the Third Age of Simulacra
• Media Studies I
• Andean History, Culture, and Environment
• Ties that Bind: American Family Dynamics in Historical Contexts
• Holocaust: Shadow and Light
• Women’s Lives
• World Religions
• The City in History
• Women, Art, and Society
• The Unfinished Revolution:
Racism in American History
• The Creation of the New World: A Society Unlike Any Other
• Moments in Revolution
• In Search of an American Identity
• United States Foreign Policy Since 1898
• Men’s Lives: Exploring Gender, Intimacy, and Power
• Psychoanalysis and Humanism
• Biopsychology, the Science of Being Human
• Patterns of Wealth and Poverty: Understanding the Global Economy
• Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender
• Psychology of Science Fiction
• Globalization and Resistance
