University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC

Chapel Hill says its general education program is designed to ensure students have "the fundamental skills that will facilitate future learning," "broad experience with the methods and results of the most widely employed approaches to knowledge," and "a sense of how one might integrate these approaches to knowledge in a way that can cross traditional disciplinary and spatial boundaries." [Source]

General Education Requirements

  • 1. Composition

    NO

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    No credit given for Composition because students may test out of the "English Composition and Rhetoric" requirement through SAT or ACT scores.

  • 2. Literature

    NO

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    No credit given for Literature because the "Literary Arts" requirement may be satisfied by courses that are narrow in scope.

  • 3. Foreign Language

    YES
  • 4. U.S. Government or History

    NO
  • 5. Economics

    NO
  • 6. Mathematics

    NO

    See Note

    No credit given for Mathematics because the "Quantitative Reasoning" requirement may be satisfied by courses with little college-level content.

  • 7. Science

    YES

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