Dec 05, 2025  
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

- Accelerated Core


The Core Curriculum

Mount St. Mary’s recognizes that to be truly educated one needs an understanding of the world, of the history and traditions of Western and non-Western culture and of science. College graduates should have proficiency in written and quantitative skills. To that end, the University requires students in its degree-completion programs to complete a core curriculum designed to give students general knowledge of the world around them. It includes the following courses:

 

Mount Seminar (3 Credits)

College Writing (3 Credits)

Social Science Requirement (3 Credits)

Lab Science Requirement (3 Credits)

Mathematics Requirement (3 Credits)

History Requirement (3 Credits)

Non-West Requirement (3 Credits)

Arts, Lang Lit (3 Credits)

Additional Humanities Requirement (3 Credits)

Intro Philosophy (3 Credits)

Introductory Theology (3 Credits)

Upper Level Theology (3 Credits)

Ethics (3 Credits)