Emory College of Arts and Sciences has established general academic requirements that all students must fulfill in order to obtain a baccalaureate degree.

Emory College of Arts and Sciences students who are graduating in or after the Fall 2009 semester may satisfy either set of General Education Requirements (GERs): GER Effective Fall 2009 or GER Effective Fall 2005.

• Students who are graduating in or prior to August 2009 must satisfy the Fall 2005 GERs.
• Students who enter in or after the Fall 2009 semester must satisfy the Fall 2009 GERs.

The general education component of an Emory undergraduate education is organized to present an array of intellectual approaches and perspectives as ways of learning rather than a prescribed body of content. Its purposes are to develop students’ competencies in the skills and methods of writing, quantitative methods, a second language, and physical education; to acquaint students with methodologies that characterize the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences as the three broad divisions of learning in the arts and sciences; to deepen students’ perspectives on national, regional, and global history and culture, and to give every student some exposure to an interactive seminar experience. These purposes are met by a student’s choosing from a range of individual courses within a clearly defined framework. The list of courses satisfying General Education Requirements is constantly under review. For the latest version of the list, please see below.

Emory College of Arts and Sciences Fall 2009 GER Details and Class Search

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   I. First-Year Seminar Classes (FSEM)

Requirement: One course. Must be completed in first two semesters. Any course that satisfies the First-Year Seminar Class requirement may not satisfy another general education requirement.

  II. First-Year Writing Requirement (FWRT)

Requirement: One course. Must be completed in first two semesters.

  III. Continuing Writing Requirement (WRT)

Requirement: Three courses. Must be taken at Emory College of Arts and Sciences. Must earn a grade of C or better.

  IV. Math & Quantitative Reasoning (MQR)

Requirement: One course.

  V. Science, Nature, Technology (SNT)

Requirement: Two courses, one with a laboratory component.

  VI. History, Society, Cultures (HSC)

Requirement: Two courses.

  VII. Humanities, Arts, Performance (HAP) & (HAL)

Requirement: Four courses. Must include 8 hours of coursework in a single foreign language wherein the language of instruction is not English.  (Note that foreign language courses carry the tag "HAL" and that all HAL courses may also be used to satisfy the non-foreign language HAP requirements.)

  VIII. Personal Health (HTH)

Requirement: One one-hour course.

  IX. Physical Education and Dance (PED)

Requirement: Two one-hour courses, one of which must be a Principles of Physical Fitness (PPF) course

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General Stipulations

A score of 4 or 5 on certain Advanced Placement examinations can be used to satisfy General Education Requirements. These Advanced Placement examination scores must be submitted to the Office of Admission prior to the end of the student's first semester at Emory College of Arts and Sciences.

All courses used to satisfy the General Education Requirements must be taken for a letter-grade, except for physical education courses other than PE 101: Health Education.