The Bachelor of General Studies is designed for individuals who are currently employed in or who wish to be employed in fields that do not require a degree in a specific subject area. It is also an appropriate program for persons who desire a degree only for purposes of personal enrichment.
To receive a Bachelor of General Studies degree, a student must fulfill the following course requirements:
Degree Requirements
A. Core Courses - 46 hours
Capstone (determined by concentrations)
Christian Studies - 6 hours
English - 9 hours
Exercise & Sport Science- 2 activity courses
Fine Arts - 3 hours
Global Issues or Social Science - 3 hours
Lab Science - 4 hours
Public Speaking - 3 hours
Quantitative Reasoning - 3 hours
MATH only
Scientific Inquiry or Natural Sciences - 3 hours
Social Science - 6 hours
two different subject areas outside of major
Chapel - 1 to 4 credits
UMHB 1002: credits determined by admission classification
Fine Arts Experience - 2-8 credits
UMHB 1005: credits determined by admission classification
Freshman Seminar - 1 hour
UMHB 1101: required for first-time freshmen with fewer than 12 semester hours of transfer credit only
World Ideas or Philosophy or Non-US History - 3 hours
B. Two Concentrations - 48 hours
Each Concentration must have:
24 hours chosen from one college. “College” refers to Business, Christian Studies, Education, Exercise Science, Humanities (Communications, English, History, Political Science, Spanish), Nursing (only if the student is coming from Nursing with sufficient hours), Science (natural sciences and social sciences—Criminal Justice, Psychology, Social Work, Sociology), Visual and Performing Arts
12 hours upper-level
12 hours at UMHB, 6 of which must be upper-level
Associate degree academic or technical fields (excluding General Studies) may be a concentration
Courses in the general education core will not also count towards hours in the concentration
Courses from the College of Humanities and Sciences may be separated into a Concentration in Humanities and/or a Concentration in Sciences.
C. Electives - as needed to bring total to 124 hours
D. Total for Bachelor of General Studies Degree - 124 hours