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Liberal Studies Requirements

Liberal Studies Requirements

Honors program requirements can be found in the individual Colleges & Schools section of the University Catalog. Select the appropriate college or school, followed by Undergraduate Academics and scroll down.

Plan of Study Grid
First Year ProgramHours
Chicago Quarter
LSP 110
or LSP 111
DISCOVER CHICAGO
or EXPLORE CHICAGO
4
Focal Point
LSP 112 FOCAL POINT SEMINAR 4
Writing
WRD 103 COMPOSITION AND RHETORIC I 1 4
WRD 104 COMPOSITION AND RHETORIC II 1 4
Quantitative Reasoning
MAT 120 QUANTITATIVE REASONING 2 4
Sophomore Year
Race, Power, and Resistance
LSP 200 SEMINAR ON RACE, POWER, AND RESISTANCE 4
Junior Year
Experiential Learning
Required 4
Senior Year
Capstone
CMN 396 CAPSTONE IN COMMUNICATION 1 4
1

Students must earn a C- or better in this course.

2

Readiness for MAT 120 is determined by the math placement test taken online after admission. Students may need to take developmental coursework prior to MAT 120. Students who complete MAT 120 and both a Computational Reasoning course and a Statistical Reasoning course in the Math and Computing Learning Domain take one less Learning Domain course. Students may not apply the course reduction to any Domain where only one course is required, and cannot be applied to the Scientific Inquiry Learning Domain.  The MAT 120 requirement may be waived by passing a dedicated proficiency exam or it may be fulfilled by credit for advanced math coursework earned  in-residence at DePaul (MAT 135MAT 136MAT 147MAT 148MAT 149MAT 150MAT 151MAT 152 MAT 155MAT 156MAT 160MAT 161MAT 162 MAT 170MAT 171MAT 172, or equivalent) or earned externally either as transfer credit from another college/university or as test credit through AP, CLEP, IB, or International A and A/S Level exams. Calculus course(s) may be used to fulfill any of the three QR/MCD requirements.

Learning Domains

Arts and Literature (AL)

  • 2 Courses Required

Historical Inquiry (HI)

  • 2 Courses Required

Math and Computing (MC)

  • 2 Courses Required
    [1 CR Course and 1 SR Course]

Philosophical Inquiry (PI)

  • 2 Courses Required

Religious Dimensions (RD)

  • 2 Courses Required

Scientific Inquiry (SI)

  • 2 Courses Required
    [1 Lab Course and 1 SWK Course]​

Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Inquiry (SCBI)

  • 2 Courses Required

Note

Courses offered in the student's primary major cannot be taken to fulfill LSP Domain requirements. If students double major, LSP Domain courses may double count for both LSP credit and the second major. Students who choose to take an experiential learning course offered by the major may count it either as a major requirement or the Experiential Learning requirement.

In meeting learning domain requirements, no more than one course that is outside the student’s major and is cross-listed with a course within the student’s major, can be applied to count for LSP domain credit. This policy does not apply to those who are pursuing a double major or earning BFA or BM degrees.

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LSP Learning Domain Courses Offered Specifically Through CMN*

Arts and Literature
CMNS 230 Performance: Communication, Creativity and the Body
CMNS 367 Performance for Social Change
MCS 207 History of Cinema I
MCS 208 History of Cinema II
MCS 209 History of Cinema III
MCS 251 Spaces of Cinema in Rome
MCS 273 Storytelling and Style in Cinema

Philosophical Inquiry
MCS 343 Media Ethics

Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Inquiry
CMN 101 Introduction to Human Communication
CMN 102 Intro to Mass Communication
CMN 104 Public Speaking
CMNS 211 Interpersonal Communication
CMNS 310 Discourse Analysis
CMNS 339 Performance of Gender and Sexuality
CMNS 361 Gender and Communication
JOUR 361 Journalism Law and Ethics
MCS 231 Introduction to Documentary Studies
MCS 271 Media and Cultural Studies
MCS 350 Topics in Global Cinema
MCS 355 Sex in the Box: U.S. Television, Sex, and Sexuality

Understanding the Past
‪CMNS 328 History of Rhetoric and Communication
JOUR 343 Journalism and the American Experience
MCS 342 History of Television & Radio

Experiential Learning
CMN 394 Advanced Communication Internship
CMN 398 Study Abroad
CMNS 205 Communication, Culture and Community
 
* Communication students cannot take Learning Domain classes from their major (i.e. Intercultural students can't use INTC classes as Learning Domains).