Gettysburg Curriculum Check Sheet

GETTYSBURG CURRICULUM For Those admitted before Fall, 2025

Check Sheet

Multiple Inquires

  • Arts (1 course)
  • Humanities (1 course)
  • Social Science (1 course)
  • Natural Science (2 courses) at least one course with a lab
  • Quantitative, Inductive, and Deductive Reasoning (1 course)

Integrative Thinking

  • Two Interdisciplinary Courses or a Course Cluster (2 courses or IDS 90)

Effective Communication

  • First-Year Writing (1 course)

Informed Citizenship

  • Global Understanding (1 course)
  • Conceptualizing Diversity (1 course)
  • Science, Technology, and Society (1 course)
  • Second Language (2 courses in sequence in the same language)

First-Year Seminar

  • First-Year Seminar (1 course)

Notes:

  • Individualized Study and Internships may not be used to fulfill Curricular Goals
  • Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory graded courses may not be used to fulfill Curricular Goals

Gettysburg Curriculum For Those Admitted in Fall, 2025 or After

First-Year Critical Skills

  • First-Year Writing (1 course)
  • First-Year Data & Society (1 course)

Gettysburg Seminars

  • First-Year Seminar (1 course)
  • Sophomore Year Seminar Communities & Change (1 course)

Modes of Inquiry

  • Arts (1 course)
  • Humanities (1 course)
  • Formal Science (1 course)
  • Natural Science with lab (1 course)
  • Social Science (1 course)

Perspectives & Social Change

  • Identities & Cultures (1 course)
  • Race, Power, & Equity (1 course)
  • Non-Native Language (2 courses in sequence in the same language)

Notes:

  • Individualized Study and Internships may not be used to fulfill Curricular Goals
  • Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory graded courses may not be used to fulfill Curricular Goals
  • First-Year Critical Skills and Gettysburg Seminars cannot count as Modes of Inquiry or Perspectives & Social Change courses and vice versa