General Studies: Courses

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