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Q&I - Enduring Questions & Ideas - General Education

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Requirements

Overview

Concordia University Irvine's Enduring Questions & Ideas (Q&I) general education curriculum is composed of Core and Exploration courses. Students must complete the requisite course(s) for each big question under the Core and Exploration sections.

Completion requirement

Students entering with 29 or fewer transferred semester units take 19 Core units as follows:

Freshman

What Are Truth, Goodness, and Beauty?

Complete ALL of the following Courses:
  • CMTH101
  • CPHI101

What is Truth?

Complete ALL of the following Courses:
  • CBIO101
  • CTHL101

Sophomore

What is Freedom?

Complete ALL of the following Courses:
  • CENG203
  • CHST203
Completion requirement

Students entering with 30 or more transferred semester units take 6 Core units from the courses below:

What Does It Mean to Be Human?

Complete ALL of the following Courses:
  • CPHI200
  • CTHL200

Exploration Courses - All Students

Completion requirement

"Who Do You Say that I Am?"

Complete at least 2 of the following Courses:
  • THL105
  • THL201
  • THL202
  • THL311
  • THL312

How Shall I Live?

Complete at least 1 of the following Courses:
  • CSC228
  • DAN145
  • INT105
  • KIN105
  • PHI211
  • PHI467
  • POL321
  • POL322
  • PSY331
  • THL465

NOTE: Students must take at least 1 Social Science course (ANT, ECO, PSY, SOC, course or course) in answering the question, "How Shall I Live?" or the question, "Who Am I and Who Are They?"

Why Art?

Complete at least 1 of the following Courses:
  • ART111
  • ART311
  • ART312
  • ART315
  • MUS111
  • MUS112
  • MUS352
  • MUS482
  • THR111
  • THR251
  • WRT223

What Is Eloquence?

Complete ALL of the following Courses:
  • COM111
    OR     COM211
  • WRT102
    OR     WRT201

How Do I Understand Nature?

Complete at least 1 of the following Courses:
  • CHE101
  • CHE221
  • PHY211
  • PHY221
  • PHY231
  • PHY232
  • SCI115
  • SCI118

Who Am I and Who Are They?

Complete at least 1 of the following Courses:
  • ANT210
  • ANT314
  • COM216
  • COM324
  • ECO201
  • ECO202
  • ECO221
  • PSY101
  • SOC101
  • REL321

NOTE: Students must take at least 1 Social Science course (ANT, ECO, PSY, SOC, course or course) in answering the question, "How Shall I Live?" or the question, "Who Am I and Who Are They?"