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Core Requirements

Core Curriculum Requirements

Xavier's Core allows numerous possibilities for double majors, additional minors, immersion experiences, study abroad, and a wide range of electives that students can use to satisfy the overall number of 120 credit hours required for graduation.

Below is an outline of the core curriculum.  Each line represents a three-credit hour course, unless otherwise noted.

FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE

ETHICS, RELIGION & SOCIETY FOCUS

PERSPECTIVES

  • Creative Perspectives
  • Historical Perspectives
  • Mathematical Perspectives
  • Philosophical Perspectives (PHIL 200)
  • Scientific Perspectives
  • Theological Perspectives (THEO 200+)

SKILLS

  • ENGL 101 Composition or ENGL 115 Rhetoric
  • Language  (through 201 intermediate level I proficiency)

ELECTIVES

  • Humanities Elective
  • Natural Science Elective
  • Social Science Elective

FIVE FLAGS

Students also must satisfy five flags in addition to the credit hours listed above. A flag constitutes a significant portion of a course in any discipline that is devoted to one of the five topics. Flagged courses are approved by the committee or subcommittee devoted to each flag topic. No single course can be used to fulfill more than two flags. Flagged courses often double count for other courses in the core, for major requirements, and/or for minor requirements, and thus do not add to the total number of credit hours required in the Core Curriculum.

  • Diversity
  • Ethics/Religion and Society (E/RS)
  • Oral Communication
  • Quantitative Reasoning
  • Writing

CORE 499 (zero credit hour requirement)

  • All Bachelor degree students must successfully complete CORE 499 during their anticipated final semester as a requirement of their Bachelor degree.

NOTES

  • Students are required to take both CORE 100 and THEO 111 in the first year, one in the Fall and the other in the Spring.  They should not be taken together.
  • Literature and Moral Imagination can be fulfilled with CLAS 205, ENGL 205 , FREN 205 , GERM 205 , or SPAN 205 .
  • Humanities Elective can be satisfied by one course from any of the following categories: All Classics except 205, ENGL 121+ except 205, FREN 300+, GERM 300+, HIST 200+, PHIL 300+, SPAN 300+, or THEO 300+. The Humanities Elective may not double count as an E/RS flag (though may be an E/RS flagged course). While all Theology courses 200 and above count as Theological Perspectives, and all Theology courses 300 and above also count for Humanities Electives, no Theology course can double-count for both Theological Perspectives and Humanities Elective.

Core Curriculum Requirements (one page summary)