Degrees, Majors, Certification, and Minors
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)—Interdepartmental Concentrations
Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.)
Certificates
Secondary Teacher Certification
Optional Minors
Completing Minor Requirements
Associate of Arts Degree
Associate of Arts (A.A.)
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
The College of Arts and Sciences offers the Bachelor of Arts degree with the following majors:
Afro-American Studies
Anthropology
Biology
Biochemistry
Chemistry
Classical Civilization
(Art and Archaeology)
(Culture and Literature)
Classical Studies
(Latin and Greek)
Cognitive Science
Communication and Culture
Comparative Literature
Computer Science
Criminal Justice
East Asian Languages and Cultures
(Chinese, Japanese, and Korean)
East Asian Studies
Economics
English
Environmental Studies (as part of a double major)
Folklore
French
Gender Studies
Geography
Geological Sciences
Germanic Studies
History
History of Art
Individualized Major Program
Italian
Jewish Studies (as part of a double major)
Linguistics
Mathematics
Microbiology
Music
Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
Philosophy
Physics
Political Science
Portuguese
Psychology
Religious Studies
Slavic Languages and Literatures
(Russian; others by special arrangement)
Sociology
Spanish
Speech and Hearing Sciences
Studio Art
Telecommunications
Theatre and Drama
For further information, refer to individual departmental descriptions and degree requirements. To locate departments, see "Departments Page"
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Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)—Interdepartmental Concentrations
The College of Arts and Sciences offers the Bachelor of Arts degree with the following interdepartmental majors:
Computer Science and Philosophy
Economics and Mathematics
Economics and Political Science
Mathematics and Economics
Philosophy and Computer Science
Philosophy and Political Science
Philosophy and Religious Studies
Political Science and Economics
Political Science and Philosophy
Psychology and Speech and Hearing Sciences
Religious Studies and Philosophy
Speech and Hearing Sciences and Psychology
For further information, refer to individual departmental descriptions and degree requirements. To locate departments, see "Departments Page"
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Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
The College of Arts and Sciences offers the Bachelor of Science degree with the following majors:
Apparel Merchandising
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Biochemistry
Biology
Chemistry
Computer Science
Environmental Science (jointly administered with SPEA)
Geography
Geological Sciences
Interior Design
Mathematics
Microbiology
Physics
Psychology
Speech and Hearing Sciences
For further information, refer to individual departmental descriptions and the degree requirements. Students planning to earn the B.S. degree should see an advisor in the department offering the major. To locate departments, see "Departments Page"
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Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.)
The College of Arts and Sciences offers courses leading to the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in the School of Fine Arts. For further information, refer to "Fine Arts" and the
degree requirements that follow this section.
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Certificates
As part of completing the bachelor's degree and in addition to completing the requirements for the major, students may earn certificates in the following interdisciplinary areas:
African Studies
Animal Behavior
Central Eurasian Studies
Criminal Justice
Cultures of Science and Medicine (Department of History and Philosophy of Science)
Environmental Studies
India Studies
Jewish Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Liberal Arts and Management
Medieval Studies
Urban Studies
To locate departments or programs that offer these certificates, see "Departments Page"
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Secondary Teacher Certification
Students who receive degrees in the College can, if they plan their course work carefully, receive certification to teach in secondary schools. Information on the requirements for secondary teacher certification may be found by referring to "Education" in this bulletin or to the School of Education Undergraduate Program Bulletin. Students should also contact the academic advisor in their major department for full details.
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Optional Minors
Many departments in the College of Arts and Sciences offer minors of at least 15 College of Arts and Sciences credit hours (at least 6 credit hours must be earned in residence on the Bloomington campus). Students majoring in one department (e.g., English) may satisfy the requirements for a minor in a different department (e.g., Religious Studies). A student may also have more than one minor. Students' majors and minors may be listed on their transcripts. Students planning to complete a minor should obtain an Application for Minor form from the department in which they wish to complete a minor. This form must be completed, signed by an advisor or the chairperson of the student's minor department, and returned to the Recorders' Office, Kirkwood Hall 001.
Two departments (Spanish and Portuguese; Psychology) require that students in those departments complete a minor in a different department. Students with a major in those departments should check with the advisor in their major department about requirements for the minor. For students majoring in other departments, the minor is optional.
The following minors are available in the College of Arts and Sciences:
Afro-American Studies
American Studies
Animal Behavior
Anthropology
Apparel Merchandising
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Biology
Classical Civilization
Cognitive Science
Communication and Culture
Comparative Literature
Computer Science
Criminal Justice
Dutch Studies (Department of Germanic Studies)
East Asian Languages
East Asian Studies
Economics
Economics and Political Science
English
Folklore
French
Gender Studies
Geography
Geological Sciences
Germanic Studies
Greek (Department of Classical Studies)
History
History and Philosophy of Science
History of Art (Department of Fine Arts)
India Studies
Information Technology (Department of Computer Science)
International Studies (International Studies Program)
Italian
Latin (Department of Classical Studies)
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Linguistics
Mathematics
Medieval Studies
Music
Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
Philosophy
Physics
Political Science
Political Science and Economics
Portuguese
Psychology
Religious Studies
Russian and East European Studies
Slavic Languages and Literatures
Sociology
Sociology of Work and Business
Social Science and Medicine (Department of Sociology)
Spanish
Speech and Hearing Sciences
Speech and Hearing Sciences (Pre-professional)
Studio Art (School of Fine Arts)
Telecommunications
Theatre and Drama
West European Studies
Yiddish Studies
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Completing Minor Requirements
In completing requirements for minors, students should be aware of the following College of Arts and Sciences policies and procedures:
- A minor must consist of 15 or more credit hours in College of Arts and Sciences courses.
- The 100-level courses in French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish will not count towards a minor in these languages. Consult the lists of requirements for individual minors to see which 200-level courses will count towards a minor in each language.
- Any course in which the student receives a grade below C- may not be used to fulfill a minor requirement.
- The grade point average of all courses taken in the minor must be at least 2.0.
- Courses taken to satisfy the English composition requirement (W110, W131, W143, or W170) may not be applied towards a minor requirement.
- Students majoring in Portuguese, Psychology, and Spanish must consult the advisor in their major department about requirements for a minor.
- Some minors have an overall grade point average requirement. See lists of requirements for specific minors for more information.
- A student may complete one, two, or three minors.
For specific minors, see departments page.
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Associate of Arts Degree
General Requirements
Course Requirements
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General Requirements
- Students must complete 61 credit hours to graduate, including general-education courses, a concentration (a set of courses in a single College of Arts and Sciences discipline), and elective courses. No more than 6 credit hours can be taken outside of the College of Arts and Sciences.
- Students must have a minimum GPA of 2.0 in order to receive the Associate of Arts degree. The student's GPA in the concentration, which consists of at least 15 credit hours in a single College of Arts and Sciences department or program (see description of "Course Requirements" below), must be 2.0 or higher. No course completed with a grade lower than C- can count towards the concentration.
- Students must complete at least 30 credit hours in residence in the Indiana University system, including at least 20 credit hours at or above sophomore standing at IU Bloomington. A minimum of 13 credit hours must be completed once the student has been admitted to candidacy for the A.A. degree. A minimum of 5 credit hours in the concentration must be completed in residence at IU Bloomington. No more than 30 credit hours can be transferred from accredited junior colleges.
- Only elective courses may be taken on a Pass/Fail basis. For more information, see "Pass/Fail Option" under "Academic Regulations."
- No more than one course taken by correspondence may be counted towards the 61 credit hours required for the A.A. degree without special permission of the dean.
- A student cannot be simultaneously enrolled in a baccalaureate degree program in the College of Arts and Sciences and an A.A. program in the College of Arts and Sciences. Under certain circumstances, a candidate for a degree in another school can obtain an A.A. degree in the College of Arts and Sciences; further information can be obtained from the office of the Academic Assistant Deans.
- No more than 25 credit hours in the concentration can count towards total credit hours for the A.A. degree.
- Students must complete at least 6 credit hours at the 300 level or above.
- The IU Bloomington A.A. degree requirements that are in effect at the time the student matriculates at Indiana University (at any campus) as a degree-seeking student will be the ones that apply to a student pursuing an A.A. degree in the College of Arts and Sciences at Bloomington. A student who fails to complete the A.A. degree within four years of matriculation will forfeit the automatic right to use the requirements in effect at the time of matriculation. Students who move from the A.A. program to a bachelor's degree program in the College of Arts and Sciences (whether or not they have completed the associate degree) will be allowed to use the B.A., B.S., or B.F.A. requirements in effect at the time they matriculated at IU (any campus) as an A.A. candidate. However, a student who fails to complete a bachelor's degree within eight years of matriculation as an A.A. student forfeits the automatic right to use the bachelor's degree requirements in effect at the time of matriculation.
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Course Requirements
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Course Requirements
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Credit Hours
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Fundamental Skills Requirements
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6-17
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English Composition: exemption with or without credit, as outlined for the B.A.
program in the College of Arts and Sciences Bulletin, or completion of any of the
following options with a minimum grade of C-. (The expectation that this requirement
can be met with 3 credit hours of course work is based on the assumption that most
students will choose W131 to fulfill the requirement; if students choose an option that
requires more than 3 credit hours of course work, they may need more than a total of
61 credit hours to complete an A.A. degree.)
Completion of any of the following options with a minimum grade of C-:
ENG W110 (primarily for Collins cluster students) (3 cr.); ENG W131 (3 cr.); ENG W170 (3 cr.); ENG L141 and L142 (4-4 cr.); AFRO A141-A142 (4-4 cr.); two semesters of ENG W143 (1 cr.), combined with two introductory courses (3 cr.) from the following: a combination of any two courses from (d), (e), and (f) above.
Note: Courses taken under these options, except for ENG W110, W131, W143, and W170, may, if they are so designated, be applied towards distribution requirements.
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0-3
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Mathematics: exemption with or without credit, as outlined for the B.A. program
in the College of Arts and Sciences Bulletin, or completion of any of the following
courses with a minimum grade of C-:
MATH A118, M118, M119, M211 or M215, M213 or M217, D116 and D117 (both courses must be successfully completed), or X118, or MATH courses that directly presuppose the fundamental skill proficiency.
(Students with deficiencies in mathematics should take M025, which will fulfill the fundamental skill requirement for the A.A. degree. Students who are not prepared for M025 should take M014 before taking M025; neither M025 nor M014 carries degree credit.)
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0- 4
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Foreign Language: Proficiency equivalent to two semesters of college-level study
in a single foreign language. All or part of this requirement may be fulfilled by
performance on placement examinations. Completion of high school foreign language
courses will not be accepted as a basis for exemption. Students who earn exemption
from one or more semesters of a single foreign language may be eligible for special
credit towards graduation. Students earning exemption from the first or second semester
may receive 4 or 8 credit hours of special credit in some languages when they apply.
For complete information, consult "Language Placement Tests." Students
may fulfill the entire A.A. foreign language requirement and apply for 8 credit hours
in some languages by placing into the second-year level of instruction without enrolling
in an additional foreign language course.
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4-8
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Distribution Requirements
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27-29
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Arts and Humanities: One course in AHLA, one course in AHTI, and
one COAS E103
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9
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Social and Historical Studies: One course in SHSI, one course in SHHS, and
one COAS E104
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9
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Natural and Mathematical Sciences: One course in NMNS, one
course in NMMC, and one COAS E105
(NOTE: Students are advised to choose NMNS and NMMC courses that carry 3 or 4 credits. If they choose courses that carry 5 credit hours they may require more than 61 credit hours to complete the A.A. degree, depending on the credit hours required to fulfill the foreign language requirement and whether they can be exempted from English composition or mathematics requirements without course work.)
These are the same areas of distribution used for the B.A. degree. See the B.A. degree requirements in this bulletin for details. For the A.A. degree, students are required to take three of the four courses in each area required for the B.A. In addition, students who want to obtain a B.A. from IU Bloomington are advised to choose two courses for distributional requirements that will simultaneously fulfill the culture studies requirement.
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9-11
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Courses in Concentration
For a concentration, students must take at least 15 credit hours in a single College of Arts and Sciences discipline that grants a minor of 15 credit hours or more for B.A. degrees and that grants a B.A. in the same area (see list below under "Degrees and Majors Offered" for A.A. concentrations available; this list includes the vast majority of minors); the specific course requirements for the concentration will be the same as the specific course requirements for an undergraduate minor in the College of Arts and Sciences.
(Note: Most minors require 15 credit hours in College of Arts and Sciences courses, hence the expectation that the concentration can be fulfilled with 15 credit hours in the College of Arts and Sciences. Students who opt for a concentration/minor that requires more than 15 credit hours in College of Arts and Sciences courses may require more than 61 credit hours to complete the A.A. degree.)
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15
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Electives
Total
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2-15
61
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Associate of Arts (A.A.)
The College of Arts and Sciences offers the A.A. degree with the following majors:
Afro-American Studies
Anthropology
Biology (Only the biology minor for science majors is available as an A.A. concentration.)
Classical Civilization
Classical Studies: Greek
Classical Studies: Latin
Cognitive Science
Communication and Culture
Comparative Literature
Computer Science (A.A. for minor in Computer Science only-no A.A. available for Information Technology.)
Criminal Justice
East Asian Languages
East Asian Studies
Economics (requires mathematics preparation)
English
Folklore
French (requires language preparation)
Gender Studies
Geography
Geological Sciences
Germanic Studies (requires language preparation)
History
History of Art
Italian (requires language preparation)
Linguistics
Mathematics (requires mathematics preparation)
Music (careful sequential ordering required)
Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (three A.A. tracks: Arabic, Hebrew, Persian)
Philosophy
Physics
Political Science
Portuguese (requires language preparation)
Psychology
Religious Studies
Slavic Languages and Literature (requires language preparation)
Sociology (Sociology minor only-no A.A. available for minor in Work and Business)
Spanish (requires language preparation)
Speech and Hearing Sciences
Studio Art
Telecommunications
Theatre and Drama
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