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Structure of the University

The academic instructional component of LHU consists of two separate colleges: the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Education and Human Services.  Each college is further divided into departments, some disciplinary and others multidisciplinary.

College of Arts and Sciences

  • Department of Art
  • Department of Biological Sciences
  • Department of Business Administration, Computer Science and
    Information Technology
  • Department of Chemistry
  • Department of Communication
  • Department of Criminal Justice
  • Department of English
  • Department of Foreign Languages
  • Department of Geology and Physics
  • Department of History, Political Science, Economics, Geography
  • Department of Mathematics
  • Department of Performing Arts
  • Department of Philosophy
  • Department of Psychology
  • Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Social Work

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College of Education and Human Services

  • Academic Development and Counseling
  • Department of Elementary & Middle Level Education
  • Department of Health and Physical Education
  • Department of Health Science
  • Department of Nursing
  • Department of PreK-4/Early Childhood Education
  • School of Graduate Studies
  • Department of Physician Assistant Studies
  • Department of Recreation Management
  • Department of Special Education
  • Department of Athletics
  • Department of Library

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Course Description Codes
 
  • sh – semester hours
  • f – fall term
  • sp – spring term
  • s – summer term
  • alt – offered alternate years or upon request
  • odd/even – offered odd or even numbered years
  • or – course offered either term
  • and – courses offered both terms as dual courses
  • tba – to be announced
  • 2/3 (example) – numerical fraction indicates number of lecture hours/lab hours per week
  • permission – Unless otherwise indicated, this means permission
    of the course instructor.
  • chairperson – Unless otherwise indicated, this refers to the chairperson of the department in which the particular subject falls.
  • GE – General Education
  • does not fulfill GE –indicates
    that the course does not meet the general education requirement in that particular discipline
  • fulfills GE – indicates that
    the course meets the general education requirement in that particular discipline
  • 300+ level – courses numbered
    300 or above (e.g. "two additional 300+ courses required")
  • GPA or QPA – grade point
    average or quality point average
  • HLTH151, 152 and 251 (example) – Consecutive listings such as
    this indicate that all courses in the sequence carry the same prefix
    (in this example, "HLTH").
  • Major – refers to a major in the particular discipline/subject being described unless otherwise indicated
  • Minor – refers to a minor in the particular discipline/subject being described unless otherwise indicated

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General Education Requirements

General education is a required program of study developed and approved by Lock Haven’s faculty to ensure that our students acquire a broad intellectual context for their majors as
well as a foundation for the complex and multiple roles they will undertake as citizens of the twenty-first century.  As students begin upper-division study, faculty will assume their abilities, based on successful completion of general education courses, to communicate effectively in both written and oral form and demonstrate an appropriate level of numerical literacy.

Our students, as citizens, will have futures extending beyond service to professions and places of employment.  They will have responsibilities as members of a family, community, nation, and world.  Increasingly, our graduates will be called upon to make informed choices regarding public policy, health care, education, the environment, and technology.  While a general education program cannot equip them with information relevant to every situation they will encounter, our goal is to provide them with the skills, research tools, modes of inquiry, and knowledge of the arts, humanities, and social and natural sciences that will assist them in making responsible decisions.

In creating a general education program, the faculty makes certain assumptions about the future: on-going advances in technology, rapidly expanding sources of information, growing global interdependence and increasing multicultural interactions, changing natural resources, varying practices in labor and employment, and revised conceptions of the nature of knowledge.  Lock Haven’s faculty has developed a wide variety of educational experiences that allow students to explore topics from different points of view and to integrate information from various sources with the intent of creating knowledge or forming new perspectives.

Our program challenges students intellectually, encourages them to raise questions and helps them in establishing the foundation for active and effective participation in an ever-changing world and complex future.

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General Education Requirements for the B. Ed., B.F.A. and
B.S. Degrees

I.

II.
 

 


 
Wellness Core

Skills Core (total of 9 sh)
English Composition
Mathematics
Speech

3 sh


3 sh
3 sh
3
sh

       
III.   Content Core (total of 30 sh)  
  A.


 
Humanities (total of 12 sh)
Art/Music/Theatre/Dance
Literature
Philosophy

6 sh
3 sh
3
sh
  B. Social and Behavioral Sciences (total of 12 sh)  
    World History 3 sh
    Political Science or Economics 3 sh
    Psychology 3 sh
    Sociology or Anthropology or Geography 3 sh
  C. Natural Sciences (total of 6 sh)  
    Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Earth and Space Science,
Geology or Physics

6
sh
       
IV.   Electives 10 sh
V.   Additional Requirements  
  A.
 
Multicultural (MC)
Students will take two courses designated Multicultural (MC).
 
  B.



 
Writing Emphasis (WE)
Students will take three courses designated Writing Emphasis (WE)The courses are beyond the first-year English composition class.  Ideally, these will be taken as one class per year to maintain the writing skills developed in the first-year composition class.
 
  C.
 
Information Literacy (IL)
Students will take two courses designated Information Literacy (IL).
 
  D.


 
External Experience (EE)
Students will take two units of External Experience (EE), either as part of regular courses so designated or as approved and evaluated non-credit experience.
 
Total     52 sh
    NOTE:  If a single course contains more than one designation (e.g., WE, MC, and IL), then students may count all of the designations towards fulfilling their emphases requirements.  These requirements may be fulfilled by any course so designated.  
       
    General Education Requirements for the B.A. Degree 
(a total of 73 sh are required)
 
   
The General Education requirements are the same as for the
degrees of B.Ed., B.F.A. and B.S. (total of 52 sh) with the following additions:
52 sh
 
  I. Foreign Language (completion through Level IV)* 12 sh
  II.


 
Liberal Arts Seminars (9 semester hours total)
   A.   Humanities
   B.   Social Sciences
   C.   Natural Sciences

3 sh
3 sh
3
sh
Total     73 sh
    * A student with no foreign language proficiency must take 12 sh.  Students may earn foreign language credits by passing departmental examinations.  
   
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Updated as of  01/22/2010

 

 

 


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