General Education Requirements
All OIT degree programs, regardless of specialty, prepare students for roles as employees, citizens and humanists through required and elective general-education courses. These courses, integrated with the majors technical courses, ensure that graduates have made progress toward becoming educated persons and provide a foundation for lifelong learning. General education courses are organized within the curriculum in such a manner that students will acquire knowledge, abilities and appreciation as integrated elements of the education experience. If a student holds a baccalaureate degree or higher from a recognized, accredited institution, as determined by OIT, the general-education requirements for the OIT baccalaureate may be waived subject to departmental program requirements.

Baccalaureate General Education Requirements

I.  Communication
SPE 111 Fundamentals of Speech
WRI 121 English Composition
WRI 122 English Composition

Plus nine credits from speech/writing courses having SPE 111 or WRI 122 as a prerequisite or specified by the major department from the following: COM 205*, COM 225, COM 320*, COM 347, COM 411, COM 412, COM 413; SPE 321; WRI 123, WRI 214, WRI 227, WRI 321, WRI 322, WRI 323, WRI 327, WRI 328, WRI 350, WRI 410.

II. Humanities

Nine credits selected by student or specified by a major department from the following: ARTArt; ENGLiterature; HUMHumanities; MUSMusic; PHILPhilosophy; Languages (second year); COM 205*, COM 320*. Other transfer courses, defined as "humanities" by the Registrars Office, may be used in this category. No more than three credits of activity or performance-based courses may be used in this category.

Twelve credits selected by student or specified by major department from the following: ANTH Anthropology; ECO Economics (ECO 202 may not be used to satisfy both Business electives and Social Science general-education requirements.); GEOG Geography; HIST History; PSCI Political Science; PSY Psychology; SOC Sociology.Other transfer courses, defined as "social science" by the Registrars Office, may be used in this category. GEOG 105 and GEOG 115 may not be used to satisfy social science credits.
* COM 205 and COM 320 may not be used to satisfy both Communication and Humanities credits.

Specific requirements for demonstrating computer proficiency may be established by

One college-level mathematics course for which at least intermediate algebra is the course prerequisite. Plus 12 credits selected by student or specified by major department from biological sciences (BIO, CHE), mathematics (MATH), physical sciences (PHY), geography (GEOG) or geology. At least four credits must be completed from a laboratory-based science course in BIO, CHE, GEOG 115 or PHY.

Baccalaureate Upper-Division Requirement
Baccalaureate students must complete a minimum of 60 credits of upper-division work before a degree will be awarded. Upper-division work is defined as 300- and 400-level classes at a bachelors-degree-granting institution.

Bachelor of Science Degree
The Bachelor of Science degree requires the student to opt between completion of 36 credits in mathematics and science or 45 credits in mathematics, science and social science. Students placed at a higher beginning level of mathematics than is published in the curriculum of their major may choose to substitute those mathematics credits surpassed by their accelerated level of placement with electives from any department to attain the required number of general-education credits required by the university for graduation.

Intercultural Studies
Students are encouraged to select at least one class from the following lists of intercultural courses. These courses satisfy general-education requirements. Humanities: COM 205 Intercultural Communication, HUM 350 World Myth: Origins and Transitions, COM 320 Advanced Intercultural Communication, SPAN 201/202/203 Second-Year Spanish. Social Science: ANTH 103 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, GEOG 106 Cultural Geography I, GEOG 107 Cultural Geography II.

Notes:
Students who graduated from high school in 1997 or after, who did not complete two years of a foreign language in high school, must complete two terms of college-level foreign or second language in order to receive an OIT degree. Remedial or developmental courses, including MATH 100 and WRI 115, cannot be used for graduation.