Core Curriculum Course List
Undergraduate education at Towson University serves a greater purpose than simply providing basic occupational training. It is designed to prepare students to deal with complexity, diversity, and change in their academic, professional and personal lives by:
- Developing crucial skills, such as writing and communication, critical thinking, quantitative analysis, problem solving and creativity.
- Exposing students to broad knowledge of the wider world through a general education curriculum that draws on multiple disciplines, coupled with in-depth study in a specific area of interest (a major).
Students hone crucial skills and gain broad knowledge of the world through our Core Curriculum. It provides the flexibility to pursue individual interests and goals while also satisfying the general education requirements mandated by the State of Maryland and achieving the educational effectiveness standards held by our accrediting body, the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.
The following rules apply:
- To fulfill Towson University’s core curriculum requirements, students must complete a minimum of 43 units of coursework in the 14 categories in this part of the curriculum.
- A student may not count more than four courses in the same subject code for both the major and the University Core (e.g., ENGL or HIST).
- Cores 4 & 5 must be taken in different disciplines (subjects).
- Cores 7 & 8 must be taken in different disciplines or sequentially in the same discipline (subjects).
The course lists for each category can be found