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Undergraduate Announcements > The Undergraduate Curriculum > The Liberal Arts Courses > Exceptions for Professional Programs

Exceptions for Professional Programs

To accommodate for extensive major requirements, students in the programs listed below complete 10 liberal arts courses (requirements 1-10 in the liberal arts course requirements list above) and may have exceptions specific to their program. Additionally, students in these programs DO NOT complete the language requirement or a focus area:

• B.S. Architecture
• Early Childhood and Elementary Education
• Engineering (all programs)*
• Music BM (not Music BA)**
• Nursing BSN***

*Engineering students complete only 8 liberal arts courses by picking one of the following: Fine Arts, Literature, or Social Science.

**Music BM students complete only 9 liberal arts courses by picking either a Mathematics or a Natural Science.

***Nursing BSN students complete only 9 liberal arts courses by picking either a Literature or Fine Arts