college requirements
Major Requirements
Students who have a special need to apply a January course for credit toward their major may do so if the chairperson of the major department and the Registrar approve their petition. Both students and departments are discouraged from exercising this option for many reasons, especially the one noted above: January Term should free you to explore what most calls to your heart independent of fulfilling other requirements. We are determined to keep this one area of the academic life of the College free from the utilitarian constraints of fulfilling requirements other than the January Term requirement itself.
General Education Requirements
anuary Term courses may not be used to fulfill the basic two Religious Studies courses required for graduation. Similarly, the School of Science will not accept any current January Term courses to satisfy the Area B requirement.
Courses which have departmental listings (e.g., German 001 and Math 014), in addition to fulfilling a students' January Term requirement, may also be used to satisfy the area requirement which a course in that department would normally satisfy. No special petition is required. These classes are clearly marked in the catalog.
