Core Curriculum - All Bachelor's Degree Programs

At the heart of MSPS's Bachelor’s degree programs is a robust core curriculum designed to provide a strong liberal arts education. The education core affords students a particularly broad and engaging educational experience. MSPS offers the following core curriculum:

Requirement Courses Credits
English Composition (6 credits)
MHU 151 Rhetoric and Composition (required) 3
(Select one)
MHU 152 Composition and Research 3
MHU 131 Presiding, Presenting, Speaking 3
Humanities (9 credits)

Explorations in Literature of Art (required) 3

Humanities/Literature Elective 3

Humanities/Literature Elective 3
Mathematics (3credits)*
(Select one according to degree requirement)
MID 150 College Mathematics 3
(or) (or)
MBU 370 Statistics 3
Philosophy (9 credits)
MPH 200 Classical Mind (required) 3
MPH 201 Modern Philosophy (required) 3

Philosophy Elective or required course* 3
Theology and Religious Studies (9 credits)
MRE 201 Foundation in Theology I (required) 3
MRE 202 Foundation in Theology 2 (required) 3

(or) select from approved list of courses

Theology Elective 3
Social Science (9 credits)
MSO 200 Human Cultural Diversity(required) 3

Social Science electives or 6

required Social Science courses*
Technology (3 credits)
MIS 105 Microcomputer Applications I 3
Capstone/Synthesis (3 credits)
MID 499 Senior Seminar 3
Total 19 courses 57

*Some degree programs may specify a particular course that must be taken to meet this requirement.