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Oct 04, 2024
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
Science, General Science Concentration, B.S.
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Department of Chemistry
615-898-5085
Patricia Patterson, program coordinator
Patricia.Patterson@mtsu.edu
The General Science concentration is a broad-based science degree requiring 19 semester hours acceptable for a minor in each of two fields selected from biology, chemistry, and physics plus 8 semester hours from the third field. Each student should work closely with his/her advisor in completing the program for the General Science concentration. A minimum of 12 semester hours of upper-division courses in the Science major must be taken at MTSU. The Science major requires only one minor which must include at least 3 semester hours at the upper-division level taken at MTSU.
NOTE: A grade of C or better is required on all transfer credits accepted as part of a major or minor in the Department of Chemistry. Students must have a grade point average of at least 2.00 on courses counting toward a major or minor in any of the department’s programs.
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Academic Maps
Following are printable, suggested four-year schedules of courses:
Science, General Science (Biology Chemistry), B.S., Academic Map
Science, General Science (Biology Physics), B.S., Academic Map
Science, General Science (Chemistry Physics), B.S., Academic Map
Degree Requirements
True Blue Core (TBC) |
41 hours |
Major Requirements |
46 hours* |
Supporting Course |
4 hours* |
Minor |
15-18 hours |
Electives |
11-25 hours |
TOTAL |
120 hours |
*This program requires courses that can also fulfill requirements of the True Blue Core curriculum. If program requirements are also used to fulfill True Blue Core requirements, the number of elective hours will increase.
True Blue Core (41 hours)
True Blue Core (TBC) requirements (shown in curricular listings below) include courses in the Foundational Skills areas of Written Communication (WC), Information Literacy (Info Lit), Non-Written Communication (NWC), and Quantitative Literacy (Quant Lit). Knowledge Domains include Human Society and Social Relationships (HSSR), Scientific Literacy (Sci Lit), Creativity and Cultural Expression (CCE), and History and Civic Learning (HCL), which include Discovery and Explorations categories. Students must choose at least one course from each Discovery category.
The following courses required by the major meet True Blue Core requirements:
Major Requirements (46 hours)
Emphasis Areas (22 hours)
- Selected from the designated areas of biology, chemistry, and physics; at least 9 credit hours must be 3000/4000 level courses.
Supporting Course (4 hours)
Electives (11-25 hours)
- Sufficient upper-division credit hours must be taken to equal 36 credit hours
Curriculum: Science, General Science
Junior
- History and Civic Learning 6 credit hours
- Science major electives 8 credit hours
- Minor 6 credit hours
- Human Society and Social Relationships 6 credit hours
- Electives (upper division) 6 credit hours
Senior
- Science major electives 6 credit hours
- Creativity and Cultural Expression 3 credit hours
- Minor 3 credit hours
- Minor or elective (upper division) 3 credit hours
- Electives (upper division) 12 credit hours
- Elective 3 credit hours
NOTE:
Included in the electives will be the hours necessary for the completion of the required 36 upper-division hours for graduation requirements and the necessary hours to satisfy the 120-hour graduation requirement.
NOTE 1: A student who has a sufficiently high score on the ACT Mathematics test may begin with MATH 1910 . If the background in math is weak, MATH 1710 should be taken before MATH 1730 .
NOTE 2: A student who has had little or no high school chemistry or is not satisfied with his/her high school chemistry should first take CHEM 1010 /CHEM 1011 before taking CHEM 1110 /CHEM 1111 .
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