Shawnee Community College General Education Courses
Which Meet Southeast University Studies Requirements

Students who complete a transfer Associate Degree from Shawnee Community 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 Shawnee will meet University Studies requirements at Southeast.

ARTISTIC EXPRESSION (Choose ONE Course):
ART 114 Art Appreciation
ART 216 Photography I
MUS 112 Fundamentals of Music
MUS 115 Music Appreciation
SPC 113 Creative Drama

LITERARY EXPRESSION (Choose ONE Course):
ECE 222 Children's Literature (required for elementary, early & exceptional child education majors)
FRN 212 French
LIT 210 Introduction to Literature
LIT 211 Introduction to Poetry
LIT 212 Modern Fiction
LIT 214 English Literature
LIT 215 English Literature
LIT 216 American Literature
LIT 217 American Literature
LIT 218 World Literature
LIT 219 Contemporary Multicultural Literature
LIT 220 Literature and Gender
LIT 221 African American Literature
PHI 215 Philosophy
SPA 212 Spanish
SPC 112 Oral Interpretation

ORAL EXPRESSION (Choose ONE Course):
FRN 111 French
FRN 112 French
FRN 211 French
SPA 111 Spanish
SPA 112 Spanish
SPA 211 Spanish
SPC 111 Speech (required for all education & business administration majors)
SPC 210 Interpersonal Communications

WRITTEN EXPRESSION (Choose ONE Course):
ENG 112 English Composition
  [ENG 111 is equivalent to English Composition I (EN 100) at Southeast]

BEHAVIORAL SYSTEMS (Choose ONE Course):
ECE 114 Child Growth and Development
PHI 218 Introduction to Ethics and Values
PSY 211 Introduction to Psychology
PSY 218 Human Growth and Development (required for elementary, early, & exceptional child ed majors)
PSY 217 Developmental Psychology: Lifespan
(middle and secondary ed majors should wait and take the required psychology course at Southeast)

LIVING SYSTEMS  (Choose ONE Course):
BIO 111 Intro to Biology (elementary, early, exceptional child & middle ed majors should select this course)
BIO 211 Environmental Biology
BIO 213 Botany
BIO 216 Survey of the Animal Kingdom
FOS 116 Nutrition

LOGICAL SYSTEMS  (Choose ONE Course):
MAT 110 General Education Mathematics
MAT 111 Math for Elementary Teachers I (required for elementary, early, exceptional child & middle ed majors)
MAT 113 Quantitative Literacy
MAT 115 Pre-calculus
MAT 116 College Algebra
MAT 117 Analytic Geometry and Calculus I
MAT 210 Elementary Statistics
MAT 215 Calculus for Business/Social Science
PHI 216 Logic
  (business majors should choose MAT116 and a calculus course)

PHYSICAL SYSTEMS (Choose ONE Course):
AST 111 Introduction to Astronomy
CHE 114 *Inorganic Chemistry
GEO 213 Geology
GEO 215 Introduction to Environmental Geology
GRY 214 Introduction to Physical Geography
PHS 111 *Physical Science (Chemistry)
PHS 112 *Physical Science (Physics)
PHY 116 Introductory Physics I
PHY 120 *Conceptual Physics
PHY 216 *University Physics I
  *elementary, early, exceptional child & middle ed majors should select one of these five courses

DEVELOPMENT OF A MAJOR CIVILIZATION (Choose ONE Course):
HIS 116 Western Civilization
HIS 117 Western Civilization
HIS 214 *History of the United States
HIS 215 *History of the United States
HIS 217 History of Eastern Civilizations
HIS 241 History of Latin America
  *all education majors should select one of these two courses

ECONOMIC SYSTEMS  (Choose ONE Course):
ECO 211 *Economics (Macro)
ECO 212 *Economics (Micro)
  *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:)
GOV 117 Introduction to American Government

SOCIAL SYSTEMS  (Choose ONE Course):
SOC 212 Sociology

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