General Education Requirements

• UMN Morris General Education Requirements

  • You will fill many of your UMN Morris general education requirements as you complete your high school graduation requirements with UMN Morris courses.

  • There are three areas of general education requirements: Intellectual Community, Skills for Liberal Arts, and Expanding Perspectives.

    1. Intellectual Community (IC)—One two or four credit course.

    2. Skills for the Liberal Arts—One to five courses

       • • Writing for the Liberal Arts (WLA)—One course

         • Writing Enriched (WE)—One course

         • World Language (WL)—Proficiency in a single language other than English at the level equivalent to the first full year of college language study. This requirement can be met in any one of the following ways:

           • • by successfully completing a beginning language II course;

             • by successfully completing a 2xxx- or 3xxx-level language course;

             • by passing a proctored proficiency exam;

             • by achieving appropriate AP, CLEP, or IB examination scores; or

             • through the Scholastic Committee if English is not the student’s first language.

         • Mathematical/Symbolic Reasoning (M/SR)—One course.

         • Artistic Performance (ARTP)—One course.

    3. Expanding Perspectives—Eight courses of at least two credits each.

       • • Historical Perspectives (HIST)—One course.

         • Human Behavior, Social Processes, and Institutions (SS)—One course.

         • Fine Arts (FA)—One course.

         • Physical and Biological Sciences (SCI without lab; SCIL with lab)—Two courses, at least one with lab.

         • The Global Village—Two courses from two different areas

           • • Human Diversity (HDIV)

             • People and the Environment (ENVT)

             • International Perspective (IP)

             • Ethical and Civic Responsibility (E/CR)

How do I find which courses fulfill which general education requirements (GenEds)?

Schedule Builder is the best place to search for courses you may take to fulfill each general education (GenEd) requirement. 

• Writing enriched courses are the easiest to check. If a course number ends with a "W" (e.g. ENGL 1509W, ANTH 2151W), it is writing enriched.