Pace University offers an innovative, cutting-edge core curriculum of liberal arts and sciences courses central to all undergraduate degrees and required of all Pace undergraduate majors.
The Core Curriculum requires a minimum of 38 credits in the liberal arts and sciences, grouped into three distinct sections: Foundation Courses, the General Core, and Required Learning Experiences. Foundation courses include courses in writing, mathematics, science, computer science, and languages. The General Core provides students flexibility and choice in selecting courses, including the option of developing a concentration in a specific arts and science discipline.
Core Curriculum courses, regardless of a student’s major, address fundamental problems and issues in the liberal arts and sciences from diverse perspectives and approaches. ensuring that Pace graduates will develop abilities essential to success in college study and future careers. Core courses are intellectually enriching, personally rewarding, and serve to prepare students to become lifelong learners and respond to the inevitable changes and challenges of their professional and personal lives.
Section I of the Core Curriculum ensures that you will achieve competency in a variety of communication and quantitative skills. You may be eligible to place out of some foundational requirements by taking proficiency or placement exams in English, language, or computing. If you require additional work and support in these vital skill areas, you will find the help you need through this series of courses.
New students entering as 1st Years (less than 25 credits) are required to complete the Foundations courses within their first 66 credits.
Section II of the Core Curriculum offers broad exposure to a variety of approaches and perspectives in the Arts, Humanities, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences, and to different modes of analysis and understanding. These courses are intended to develop a sense of social, civic, and global awareness and responsibility. Within the hundreds of courses to choose from, students have the opportunity to develop a concentration or pursue a minor.
12 Learning Outcomes of the Core Curriculum are:
Features of the Pace University Core Curriculum are:
The Required Learning Experiences are types of courses that provide students with the distinct advantages of a Pace education. Designated by the attributes below, they may be satisfied by courses from within the Foundations , General Core, major requirements, or open electives. They include:
Moreover, school advisors are available to provide students with assistance in choosing these and other Core courses.
New students entering as 1st Years (less than 17 credits) are required to complete a first-year seminar, UNV 101. This course is offered in both 1-credit and 3-credit versions.
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Foundational Requirements | ||
| ENG | Composition 1 | |
| ENG | Critical Writing | |
| ENG | Writing in the Disciplines | |
| COM | Public Speaking | |
| MAT | Mathematics | |
| SCI | Science | |
| CIS | Computer Science | |
| Second Language Proficiency 1 | ||
| General Core Requirements | ||
| AH | Arts & Humanties (3 courses) | |
| NS or SS | Natural or Social Science (3 courses) | |
| University 101 | ||
| UNV 101 | First-Year Seminar: Introduction to University Community 2 | 1 |
Can test out
University 101 is a Required First0Year Learning Experience. Full-time day students that transfer to Pace University with fewer than 17 credits are required to enroll in a UNV 101 First-Year Seminar: Introduction to University Community class in their first semester unless they have received transfer credit for the equivalent of Pace University’s UNV 101 First-Year Seminar: Introduction to University Community course. University 101 is not offered as an evening course.
Transfer students must complete 38 credits in the University Core. They must fulfill the Foundations courses and the Civic Engagement and Public Values (CE) course, with flexibility for the remaining credits from available General Core courses.
For purposes of determining the appropriate University Core Curriculum requirements for students who come to Pace with transfer credits, a transfer student is defined as one who successfully completes (grade of "C" or better) a minimum of 25 college-level credits prior to the student’s attendance at Pace University. Students with fewer than 25 transfer credits (freshmen) will be required to take the entire new core.
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