Core Courses
To receive any undergraduate degree, a student (in addition to the general requirements) must complete the following core course requirements within the requisite semester hours for graduation.
University Commitment to Writing
The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor recognizes that effective writing is essential not only to civic life but also to almost any career students are likely to enter. The University Academic Core Curriculum prepares students to write with reasonable clarity, organization, precision, and rhetorical development. The University’s Institutional Quality process governs the assessment of general-education goals and outcomes regarding written communication.
In addition, all undergraduate programs are committed to preparing students to communicate effectively and to develop writing skills specific to each discipline. To that end, each degree program has established models of effective professional writing as well as goals and outcomes to develop competent writers. Each program assesses its discipline-specific goals and outcomes regarding written communication.
Core Course Requirements
These core courses are incorporated into all the succeeding degree requirements.
English - 9 hours
Mathematics - 3 hours
MATH only
Lab Science - 4 hours
Fine Arts - 3 hours
First Year Experience - 1 hour
UMHB 1101: required for first-time freshmen with fewer than 12 semester hours of transfer credit only
Christian Studies - 6 hours
Social Science - 3 hours
US History or US Goverment - 3 hours
World Cultures - 3 hours
Public Speaking - 3 hours
Activity Courses - 2 courses
Any EXAC prefix course
Chapel - 1 to 4 credits
UMHB 1002: credits determined by admission classification
Fine Arts Experience - 2 to 8 credits
UMHB 1005: credits determined by admission classification
Total Credit Hours: 40
“Double-Dipping”
Except where it is explicitly disallowed by the core requirements, courses taken in the major or minor may also be used to meet a core requirement also. No course may be used by any one student to meet more than one core requirement. For example, if a literature course receives a world cultures designation, it can be used by a student to meet either the core literature requirement or the world cultures requirement, but that course cannot be used to meet both requirements.