Letters, Arts, & Sciences, B.A. (LASAL)
Recommended Academic Plan
Freshman Year
| Semester 1 | Credits |
| ENGL 015 (GWS): Rhetoric and Composition OR ENGL 030 GWS: Honors Freshman Composition | 3 |
| Quantification GQ | 3 |
| Humanities (GH) | 3 |
| Natural Sciences (GN) | 3 |
| First-Year Seminar (FYS) | 1 |
| Health and Physical Activity (GHA) | 2 |
| Total Credits | 15 |
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| Semester 2 | Credits |
| CAS 100 GWS: Effective Speech | 3 |
| LAS Additional Selection or Core*** | 3 |
| Arts (G)A | 3 |
| Natural Sciences (GN) | 3 |
| Social and Behavioral Sciences (GS) | 3 |
| Health and Physical Activity (GHA) | 1 |
| Total Credits | 17 |
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Sophomore Year
| Semester 3 | Credits |
| Quantification (GQ) | 3 |
| Arts (GA) | 3 |
| B.A. Foreign Language* | 4 |
| LAS Additional Selection or Core*** | 3 |
| Social Behavioral Sciences (GS) | 3 |
| Total Credits | 16 |
|
| Semester 4 | Credits |
| Natural Sciences GN | 3 |
| B.A. Foreign Language* | 4 |
| LAS Additional Selection or Core*** | 3 |
| B.A. Knowledge Domain** | 3 |
| Humanities (GH) or Elective | 3 |
| Total Credits | 16 |
|
Junior Year
| Semester 5 | Credits |
| LAS Additional Selection or Core*** | 3 |
| LAS 400-level*** | 3 |
| B.A. Knowledge Domain or Elective | 3 |
| B.A. Foreign Language* | 4 |
| ENGL 202D GWS: Effective Writing: Business Writing | 3 |
| Total Credits | 16 |
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| Semester 6 | Credits |
| LAS, Additional Selection or Core*** | 3 |
| LAS, 400-level*** | 3 |
| B.A. Other Cultures** | 3 |
| B.A. Knowledge Domain** | 3 |
| Electives | 3 |
| Total Credits | 15 |
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Senior Year
| Semester 7 | Credits |
| LAS Additional Selection or Core*** | 3 |
| LAS 400-level (may be capstone)*** | 6 |
| Electives | 6 |
| Total Credits | 15 |
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| Semester 8 | Credits |
| LAS 400-level (may be capstone)*** | 3 |
| LAS Additional Selection or Core*** | 3 |
| Electives | 9 |
| Total Credits | 15 |
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Bold type indicates courses requiring a grade of C or higher.
Italics type indicate courses that satisfy both major and General Education requirements.
Italic Bold type indicate courses requiring a grade of C or
higher that satisfy both major and General Education requirements.
GWS, GHA, GQ, GN, GA, GH and GS are codes used to identify General Education
requirements.
US, IL are codes used to designate courses that satisfy the University's United
States and International Cultures requirements. Students are required to
complete 3 credits in each area, and often these courses can "double-count" with
General Education selections, typically in the GA, GH, GS categories, or with
major requirements.
W is the code used to designate courses that satisfy the University's Writing
Across the Curriculum requirement.
FYS is the code used to designate courses that satisfy the First-Year Seminar
requirement. Note that students who began their studies Summer 2009 or
later may not be required to complete a FYS course. Check with your
advisor for clarification.
Of the total credits taken, students must take one course with each of the following designations:
W: writing intensive; US and IL for International and US competency; S and IL: international and US competency
* 12th credit proficiency required
** Choose course(s) in consultation with advisor and from list at http://www.psu.edu/bulletins/bluebook/gened/bad.html.
*** Choose course(s) in consultation with advisor and according to Academic Plan. For examples of these courses, see the Course Matrix at www.altoona.psu.edu/academics/lasal_outcomes.php.
For more information:
Dr. Sandra H. Petrulionis
Professor of English and American Studies
Arts and Humanities
Office: 129 Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts
Phone: 814-949-5365
Email: @psu.edu
WWW: http://www.personal.psu.edu/shp2
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Sandra Harbert Petrulionis received her M.A. and Ph.D. in English from Georgia State University; she specializes in 19th-century American Literature and the literature of slavery and abolition. She is the author _To Set This World Right: The Antislavery Movement in Thoreau’s Concord_ (2006), the editor of _Thoreau In His Own Time_ (2012) and Thoreau’s _Journal 8: 1854_ (2002), and the co-editor of _The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism_ (2010) and _More Day to Dawn: Thoreau’s Walden for the 21st Century_ (2007). In addition to Thoreau, she has also published on Herman Melville, Louisa May Alcott, and other American writers and reformers. She is currently working on two projects: a digital edition of Mary Moody Emerson’s manuscript Almanacks, which she is co-editing with Noelle Baker and in collaboration with the Brown University Writers Project, and which is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. She is also underway in the research for a cultural biography of 19th-century activist, author, and editor Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
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