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Hi. I'm Kurt, and I'm an advisor
in the Labovitz School of Business and Economics, and today I want to talk to you
about how our pre-major courses meet a large majority of the Liberal Education
requirements at the University of Minnesota Duluth. The University of Minnesota Duluth
has a Liberal Education Program at three different parts: Part
1 is Language and Reasoning Skills. Part 1.a., Writing and Information
Literacy - College Writing meets that. Part b., Oral
Communication & Languages - our Communications option meets that, and part c.,
our Calculus-based requirement and our Statistics class meet
that requirement - so Part 1, Language and Reasoning Skills in the Liberal Education
requirements: business students will automatically get met by completing our pre-major
courses. Part 2: Knowledge Domains of the Liberal Education
Program - all students need two courses from this area, and one needs to have
a laboratory. Business students can choose anything from the Liberal Education
menu that meets this area - we do not have pre-major courses in the sciences
that would meet this requirement. Note that these two courses do have to
have different designators, or come from different subject areas. For example,
BIOL is a designator for Biology - it's the letter code
before the course. Part 2.b., Social Sciences,
that is an area that business students will have the entire social science
Liberal Education area met by completion of our pre-major classes: Macro
and Micro Economics and General Psychology are all social sciences, so that means
this part of the Liberal Education program. Part c.,
Knowledge Domains: Humanities, Business Law - a pre-major
class - meets half of the Humanities group. I say "half of the Humanities group"
because students need two classes in Humanities or 6 credits,
so the second Humanities course, students can pick anything they want from the Liberal Education
choice menu. Finally, Fine Arts: that is an
area that students can also pick anything they want from the Liberal Education menu
because we do not have a pre-major course that would meet the Fine Arts requirement.
The third part of the Liberal Education program has three areas: Global Perspectives,
Cultural Diversity in the United States, and Sustainability.
These are also areas that students would not get met by our pre-major coursework.
However, students could get these Key Topics met simultaneously
with one of the Knowledge Domain areas. For example, you could take
Environmental Science for one of your Natural Science Knowledge Domain courses,
you would also get Sustainability met. For more information, please contact
the Advising Office and we can work with you to figure out your specific situation.
Thanks!