Bucket 7 Proposed Edits

Proposed Edits

Bucket 7: Institutional Designated Area

Students must complete 6 credit hours of additional general education courses in Bucket 7. These credit hours will include 3 credit hours of First-Year Seminar and 3 credit hours of general education credit hours of student’s choice from the approved list of general education courses from Buckets 4, 5, 6, or 7.

First-Year Seminar Requirement

Students who have earned an Associate Degree or 30 credit hours prior to high school graduation and before starting classes at WSU as a degree-bound student, may be exempt from taking a First-Year Seminar course. Those students must take additional general education approved courses to reach a total of 6 credit hours in Bucket 7.  **Catalog will then list all FYS courses.**

Diversity Requirement

The diversity requirement may be satisfied by a general education course in Buckets 4-6. If so, students must take additional general education approved courses to reach a total of 6 credit hours in Bucket 7.

·       Move list of Diversity courses to FYS list or bucket 4, 5, & 6 or additional General Education Courses

Additional General Education Courses

The following general education courses¹ cannot fulfill the requirements of any other Bucket. They can fulfill Bucket 7 requirements. if the student is exempt from taking an FYS course, the diversity requirement has been fulfilled in Buckets 4-6, or the course can be used to fulfill the diversity requirement.

¹Certain science courses in this list may fulfill the Bucket 4 requirement when taken with the optional lab course. Those lecture and lab combinations are: ANTH 101/ ANTH 106, BIOL 106/ BIOL 107, BIOL 370/ BIOL 371, GEOL 102/ GEOL 102L,  PHYS 195/ PHYS 196, PHYS 313/ PHYS 315 and PHYS 314/ PHYS 316.

**List General Education Courses Only for Bucket 7**