Bachelor's Degrees — For students pursuing a baccalaureate degree, at least 30 of the last 40 credits must be residence credits.

Business Majors — For students majoring in a program in the Miller College of Business, the last 30 credits must be earned in residence. 

Medical Technology — See Medical Technology, Department of Biology.

Pre-audiology — See Pre-audiology, Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology.

Predental Preparation — See Predental Preparation, Department of Biology.

Pre-engineering — See Pre-engineering Preparation, Department of Physics and Astronomy.

Associate Degrees — For an associate degree, a student must complete at least 15 of the last 20 credits in residence at Ball State University.

Second Bachelor's Degree — Students who are pursuing a second bachelor's degree must complete at least 30 semester hours in residence once the first degree is finished.

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The central purpose of the University Core Curriculum is to enable women and men to live rich, satisfying lives and to undertake the broad responsibilities of citizenship in a free society. Although it seeks to discover and nurture individual talents, the core curriculum's primary emphasis is on preparation for roles that people share in common as human beings as well as members of family and community groups.

The University Core Curriculum program consists of more than the requirement that students have contact with the major fields of knowledge. Program suggests concern for direction, organization, spirit, appropriate instruction, and the objectives of component courses.  The spirit of the core curriculum emerges from the kinds of intellectual attitudes the university strives to develop in students. Through their core curriculum courses, students will be able to

• engage in lifelong education by learning to acquire knowledge and to use it for intelligent ends.

• communicate at a level acceptable for college graduates.

• clarify their personal values and be sensitive to those held by others.

• recognize and seek solutions for the common problems of living by drawing on a knowledge of historical and contemporary events and elements of the cultural heritage surrounding those events.

• work with others to solve life's common problems.

• assess their unique interests, talents, and goals and choose specialized learning experiences that will foster their fulfillment.

All students graduating from Ball State with baccalaureate degrees must complete the 41 credit-hour core curriculum requirement. The UCC program consists of core requirements (a series of five or six foundation courses) and distribution requirements (groups of courses from which students may choose among several disciplines). 

Foundation courses, 15 hours
PREFIX	NO	SHORT TITLE	CR HRS
ENG	103	Eng Comp 1	3
	104	Eng Comp 2	3
HIST	150	West World	3
MATHS	125	Math Applic	3
COMM	210	Fund Pub Com	3
Students who have not completed the equivalent of ENG 104 when entering Ball State will be placed in one of the following sequences based on high school rank and their scores on the standardized entrance examinations. These examinations include the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT), the SAT II, or the American College Testing Program (ACT), or another examination acceptable to the English department.  Students must complete MATHS 125 or an approved equivalent.
ENG	101	Fund Comp 1 (2)
	102	Fund Comp 2 (2)
	or
	103	Eng Comp 1 (3)
Completion of either ENG 101 and 102 or ENG 103 with a grade of C or better is required before enrollment in ENG 104. Students must earn a grade of C or better in all required University Core Curriculum composition courses, and they can withdraw only once from these courses.
Students must complete the University Core Curriculum foundation courses in English before completing 63 credit hours.

Social and Behavioral Sciences, 6 hours
One course each from two subjects:
ANTH	101	Intr Culturl (3)
	103	Archaeology (3)
	105	Int Bio Anth (3)
ECON	116	Survey Ideas (3)
	201	Elem Micro (3)
GEOG	121	Cultural Env (3)
HIST	201	US 1492-1876 (3)
	202	US 1877-Pres (3)
POLS	130	Amer Nat Gov (3)
PSYSC	100	General (3)
SOC	100	Principles (3)	6
			____
			6 hrs

Fine Arts and Humanities, 6 hours
One course from each of two categories:
Fine Arts			3
AHS	100	Intro Art (3)
DANCE	100	In Dnce Hist (3)
MUHIS	100	Intro Music (3)
THEAT	100	Intro Theat (3)
Humanities			3
CC	101	Word Origins (3)
	105	Classic Wrld (3)
CH, FR, GER, GRK, ITAL, JAPAN, LAT, or SP (3--4)
ENG	205	Wrld Litertr (3)
PHIL	100	Introduction (3)
RELST	160	Rel & Cultur (3)
			____
			6 hrs

Credit by Examination. University Core Curriculum courses are available on a credit-by-examination basis. Contact the appropriate department for more information.

Teaching Majors. Students who complete a major in elementary education, early childhood education, or the  major in special education will have satisfied all University Core Curriculum requirements except for the writing competency examination. Students who are completing another teaching major will choose the additional distribution elective course from the humanities or fine arts categories.

Honors College. Those enrolled in the Honors College, may substitute ENG 114 for ENG 104; HONRS 199 for 3 of the 6 credits required in social and behavioral sciences; HONRS 296, 297, or 298 for the physical, earth, or life sciences (respectively); HONRS 201 and 202 for 6 credits in humanities and fine arts; HONRS 203 for the additional distribution elective; and HONRS 189 for the 6 hours in international/global studies.

Art Majors. Those pursuing a bachelor of fine arts degree program must complete AHS 101 for 3 credits of the fine arts requirement.

Nursing Majors. A student majoring in nursing may substitute BIO 113 for the life sciences requirement.

Social Studies Teaching Majors with an Area in Historical Perspectives. Students majoring in this area substitute HIST 151 and 152 for HIST 150.

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Courses numbered below 100 are not offered for credit toward graduation.
Courses numbered from 100 to 199 are primarily freshman courses.
Courses numbered from 200 to 299 are primarily sophomore courses.
Courses numbered from 300 to 399 are primarily junior courses.
Courses numbered from 400 to 499 are primarily senior courses.
Courses numbered 500 and higher are graduate courses.

In course descriptions, the course number is immediately after the prefix. If a number in parentheses follows, it is the most recent former number of the course.

A student who earns credit in a course under any other number may not earn credit in it under its current number except under the terms of course repetition. It is the responsibility of the student to not duplicate courses.

The number in parentheses after the descriptive title of the course is the credit-hour value of the course. It shows the specific total number of credit hours that can be earned in the course unless another statement in the description permits earning a greater number of credits. The hours may also be listed as a range (for example, 1-5, which means a student can earn up to 5 hours of credit in the course); or as two possibilities (for example, 3 or 6, which means a student can earn either 3 or 6 hours of credit in the course).

Prerequisite refers to a course or courses or other requirements that must be satisfied before the described course.

Parallel indicates a course or courses that must be taken at the same time as the described course.

Prerequisite recommended  indicates a course that is not required but would provide additional preparation for the course described.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

Details about programs, financial aid, or other rules are available in the following publications:

Code of Student Rights and Responsibilities

Competency Credit Alternatives

Student Advising Handbook

For additional information about admission, transfer credit, etc., contact the Office of Admissions, 765-285-8300 or 800-482-4BSU; TDD users only 765-285-2205.