General Education Requirements

All Berea College degrees include the following General Education Requirements

• GSTR 110: Writing Seminar I: Critical Thinking in the Liberal Arts

• Note: credit for this course cannot be transferred in; however, transfer students who took College Composition while attending a regionally-accredited college or university as a degree-seeking student—and who earned a grade of B or higher in the course—can waive this requirement and take GSTR 210 in their first term of attendance.

• GSTR 210: Writing Seminar II: Identity and Diversity in the United States (credit cannot be transferred in or waived)
• GSTR 310: Understandings of Christianity (credit cannot be transferred in or waived)
• GSTR 332: Scientific Knowledge and Inquiry  OR the optional alternative of two approved Natural Science courses in two different disciplines, at least one of which must be approved as a Natural Science Laboratory course. To date, the following courses have been approved to meet this alternative (all of them approved to meet a Natural Science Laboratory course)—ANR 110, ANR 130, BIO 100, BIO 101, BIO 110, CHM 101, CHM 113, CHM 131, CHM 134, PHY 111, PHY 127, and PHY 221.
• GSTR 410: Seminar in Contemporary Global Issues (credit cannot be transferred in or waived)
• Practical Reasoning Requirement (two approved courses, at least one of which must be firmly grounded in mathematics or statistics)
• Six Perspectives Areas—Arts; Social Science; Western History; Religion; African Americans', Appalachians', Women's; and International (Language or World Culture option)
• Lifetime Health and Fitness: HLT 100 and Physical Activity Requirement
• Active Learning Experience (ALE)
• Developmental Mathematics Requirement
• Twenty (20) courses taken outside the major
• Convocation Requirement