Rend Lake College General Education Courses
Which Meet Southeast University Studies Requirements

Students who complete a transfer Associate Degree from Rend Lake College have completed the lower level University Studies (general education) courses at Southeast Missouri State University.  However, for the student who plans to transfer to Southeast without completing the Associate Degree, the following courses taken at Rend Lake will meet University Studies requirements at Southeast.

ARTISTIC EXPRESSION (Choose ONE Course):
ART 1101 Art Appreciation (elementary, early, & exceptional child ed majors should select this course)
ART 1111 Photography I
HUMT 1102 Humanities I
HUMT 1103 Humanities II
HUMT 1104 Introduction to Film
HUMT 1105 The Humanities through the Arts
MUSI 1100 Music Appreciation
THEA 1101 Acting
THEA 1106 Introduction to Theatre

LITERARY EXPRESSION (Choose ONE Course):
ENGL 2101 Classical Literature
ENGL 2102 Modern Literature
ENGL 2104 The Short Story
ENGL 2105 Introduction to Poetry
ENGL 2107 Mythology
ENGL 2109 British Literature (Beowulf - 1799)
ENGL 2110 British Literature (1800 - Present)
ENGL 2111 American Literature to 1865
ENGL 2112 American Literature to Present
ENGL 2113 Introduction to Drama
PHIL 1101 Introduction to Philosophy

ORAL EXPRESSION (Choose ONE Course)
FREN 1101 Elementary French I
FREN 1102 Elementary French II
FREN 2101 Modern French I
GRMN 1101 Elementary German I
GRMN 1102 Elementary German II
GRMN 2101 Modern German I
SPAN 1101 Elementary Spanish I
SPAN 1102 Elementary Spanish II
SPAN 2101 Modern Spanish I
SPCH 1101 Principles of Effective Speaking (required for all education & business majors)
SPCH 1104 Interpersonal Communication

WRITTEN EXPRESSION (Choose ONE Course):
ENGL 1102 Rhetoric and Composition II
  [Engl 1101 is equivalent to English Composition I (EN 100) at Southeast]

BEHAVIORAL SYSTEMS (Choose ONE Course):
ECE 1201 Child Development
PHIL 2104 Ethics
PSYC 2101 Introduction to Psychology
PSYC 2102 Child Psychology (required for elementary, early & exceptional child ed majors)
  (middle and secondary ed majors should wait and take the required psychology course at Southeast)

LIVING SYSTEMS (Choose ONE Course):
BIO 1100 *Biology for Non-Majors
BIO 1101 *College Biology
BIO 1102 Environmental Ecology
BOT 1101 General Botany
HEA 1103 Introduction to Nutriion
ZOO 1101 General Zoology
  *elememtary, early, exceptional child & middle ed majors should select one of these two courses)

LOGICAL SYSTEMS (Choose ONE Course):
MATH 1105 Basic Concepts of Statistics
MATH 1107 Contemporary College Mathematics
MATH 1108 College Algebra
MATH 1110 College Algebra & Trigonometry
MATH 1111 Statistics
MATH 1121 Calculus & Analytic Geometry I
MATH 1130 Algebraic & Arithmetic Systems (required for elementary., early, exceptional child & middle ed majors)
MATH 2115 Calculus for Business
PHIL 2101 Logic
(business majors should choose MATH1108 and a calculus course)

PHYSICAL SYSTEMS (Choose ONE Course):
CHE 1101 *General Chemistry I
CHE 1103 *Inorganic Chemistry
GEOL 1101 Physical Geology
PHSC 1101 *Physical Science
PHY 1101 *College Physics I
PHY 1103 *University Physics I
  *elementary, early childhood, & exceptional child ed majors should select one of these five courses

DEVELOPMENT OF A MAJOR CIVILIZATION (Choose ONE Course):
HIST 1101 Western Civilization
HIST 1102 Western Civilization II
HIST 2101 American History I
HIST 2102 American History II
HIST 2107 Latin American History
  (all education majors should select one of the American History courses

ECONOMIC SYSTEMS  (Choose ONE Course):
ECON 2101 Principles of Economics I
ECON 2102 Principles of Economics II
  (micro & macroeconomics are both required for business administration majors)

POLITICAL SYSTEMS  (Choose ONE Course):
  (A one hour Missouri Government course must be taken at Southeast in addition to the following course:)
POLI 2101 American Government

SOCIAL SYSTEMS  (Choose ONE Course):
GEOG 1101 Introduction to Geography
JOUR 1101 Mass Media in Modern Society
PHIL 2103 World Religions
PYED 1142 Sport and Modern Society
SOCI 1101 Introduction to Sociology (elementary, early, & except child ed majors should select this course)

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