Foundational Courses

• College Success (INTG 105 College Success): Must be completed in the first year.
• Learning Foundations (INTG 100 Foundations): Must be completed in the first year.
• Transfer Seminar (INTG 205 Transfer Seminar): 2 credits (required for transfer students, completed in their first semester at CSB and SJU)
• Cultural and Social Difference: Identity (CSD 100 Cultural and Social Difference: Identity or CI designation) Must be completed in the first year, can be taught in any department, and can count towards majors. May be 100 or 200 level.
• Theological Explorations (THEO 100 Theological Explorations) Course must be completed in the first 4 semesters.

Foundational Courses will not carry engagements, QR, or Ways of Thinking.

Ways of Thinking and Themes - 5 Courses

Students will take 5 different Way of Thinking courses (4 credits in each Way of Thinking). Students cannot count more than 2 different Ways of Thinking in any 1 department or program. One course may carry 2 Ways of Thinking if the course is co-taught by 2 different instructors who applied for the course to carry 2 Ways of Thinking.

• Abstract Structures (AS designation)
• Artistic Expression (AE designation)
• Human Experience (HE designation)
• Natural World (NW designation)
• Social World (SW designation)

Themes: 3 courses in either Justice, Movement, or Truth

Student must have 3 different courses in the same theme. Students must complete themes in no fewer than two separate departments and courses may or may not have an associated way of thinking. Students must complete at least one thematic focus course with any combination of two other themed courses. (i.e., two Thematic Encounter at any level, one Thematic Encounter and one Thematic Focus, or two more Thematic Focus courses.) Students should complete Learning Foundations and Cultural & Social Difference: Identity courses before taking a Thematic Focus course.

• One Thematic Focus course
  • 200 or 300 level, typically a sophomore level course
  • Students should complete Learning Foundations and Cultural & Social Difference: Identity courses before taking a Thematic Focus course.
• Two additional courses with the same Theme (maybe either Thematic Encounter or Thematic Focus courses)
  • Must be from at least two different academic departments

Upper Level Coursework

• Theological Integrations (TI designation)
  • Course may carry engagements. Prerequisite: Theological Explorations
• Cultural and Social Difference: Systems (CSD 300 Cultural and Social Difference: Systems)
  • Course may carry engagements. Prerequisite: Cultural and Social Difference: Identity
• Learning Integrations
  • To be completed senior year.
  • Prerequisites:
    • Senior standing and a member of either the junior or senior cohort
    • Completion of THEO 100 Theological Explorations, CSD:I, INTG 100 Foundations/INTG 200
    • Theological Integration (TI)
      • TI course is a pre or co-requisite for enrollment in Learning Integrations until Spring 2024
      • Starting in Fall 2024, TI is a pre-requisite for enrollment in Learning Integrations
    • Completion of 1 Thematic Focus and 2 Thematic Focus or Thematic Encounter courses in the same theme are pre- or co-requisites

Global Language Proficiency

The study of a world language fosters communication skills while helping students understand cultural patterns other than their own and gaining a broader outlook on historical and contemporary issues.  The precise requirements differ by area as follows.

Students whose first language is English may satisfy this requirement in any of the following ways:

• Completion of a Language Course at the 211 level
• Completion of a Hispanic Studies or Languages and Cultures Department 212 course.
• Successful completion of a departmental language proficiency test.

Incoming students who have studied a global language previously will take a placement test which will indicate whether they should enroll in 111, 112, 211 or above. Students who place above 211 may fulfill the global language requirement by taking 212 in a language or by successful completion of a proficiency test administered by the Hispanic Studies or Languages and Cultures Department throughout the academic year. No student will fulfill the global language proficiency requirement simply on the basis of the placement exam.

The requirement for bilingual/multilingual students (when English is not the student's first or strongest language) may be satisfied by successful completion of one of the following:

• At least four credits from ESL 101 to 108 (English language);
• Sufficiently high score on a departmental language proficiency exam;
• Sufficiently high standard English test score (e.g. 80 on the internet-based TOEFL or 550 on the paper TOEFL), and an interview with the English as a Second Language Coordinator to demonstrate speaking proficiency.

Additional Requirements

• Quantitative Reasoning (QR designation): Attached to an existing course
• Benedictine (BN designation): Attached to an existing course
• Write Requirement (WR designation): Attached to an existing course
• Engagement Requirements (AR, EX, GL designations)
• Students will upload specific artifacts at the conclusion of each IC course to their e-Portfolio

Other Graduation Requirements

• 124 Total Credits
• 40 Upper-Division Credits
• 2.00 GPA* (both cumulative and major)

* Please note some majors/minors may require a higher GPA to earn their degree.