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