The following is a partial listing of both Minnesota State University, Mankato and transfer courses seen at the beginning of an audit.
| F 01 | FYEX100 | 1.00 | P | First Year Seminar |
| F 01 | GEOGTRF | 4.00 | TC | World Regional Geography |
| INVER : GEOG1100 | ||||
| F 01 | GEOL121 | 3.00 | TC | Physical Geology |
| INVER : GEOL1101 | ||||
| F 00 | HIST151 | 3.00 | A | African-American History |
Note that whenever courses are shown on an audit, their information is displayed in the order shown--term taken, department or subject of the course, course number, credits, grade, and title.
Also note that transfer courses are listed via their Minnesota State University, Mankato equivalent, with the original course number and title appearing on the right side. Transfer courses display the originating school and their grades are always prefaced with a "T". In the above example, GEOG1100 from Inver Hills is listed as the course GEOGTRF--meaning that it is a geography course taken in transfer, but has no equivalent here.
Next is the beginning of the general education area, specifically the total credits.
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GENERAL EDUCATION TOTAL CREDITS ******** |
A total of 44 general
education credits and categories 1-11 |
must be completed to
satisfy the General Education Program |
at Minnesota State
University, Mankato. |
******NOTE****** |
8/2 RULE |
NO MORE THAN 8 CREDITS
OR 2 COURSES (WHICHEVER IS GREATER) |
IN GENERAL EDUCATION
MAY COME FROM THE SAME DISCIPLINE. |
General education encompasses a large number of courses, of which students need a minimum of 44 credits distributed across 13 different categories. Often students end up taking more general education courses than are needed, simply because so many courses are considered part of general education.
GENERAL EDUCATION: 44 credits required. |
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EARNED: 49.0 CREDITS |
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******** WARNING ******** |
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Possible
violation of the 8/2 Rule (see NOTE: 8/2 RULE above) |
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with regard
to the following discipline |
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| F 02 | HLTH210 | 3.00 | B | First Aid & CPR |
| F 02 | HLTH212 | 3.00 | A | Consumer Health Issues |
| F 02 | HLTH310 | 3.00 | B | Drug Education |
The total credit portion for general education on the audit lists all of the courses taken that are considered general eduation courses. However, because of the 8/2 rule (no more than 8 credits or 2 courses can be from the same department), not all of those credits can necessarily be applied toward the 44 needed. In this particular case, since there are too many HLTH courses, 3 credits will have to be deducted.
The other component needed to satisfy the general education requirement is to have all of the required categories fulfilled. The individual categories follow the total credit component on the audit.
This is general education category 9, which had no courses placed into it. Note that the requirement displays "NO", signifying that it has not been completed, and that it tells you what the requirement is along with the courses that can be taken to fulfill it.
| NO | CATEGORY 9: ETHICAL & CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY |
| Minimum of one course and three credits required. | |
| SELECT FROM: BLAW131 CHEM131 CORR106, 250 EDFN101 | |
| EDFN250 ENG 213 HIST158, 180 MASS110 PHIL120, 222 | |
| PHIL224, 226, 321 POL 101, 107, 111 SOC 255 SOWK190 | |
| SPEE300 URBS230 WOST120, 220 | |
| - | 1) |
This is general education category 3, which is completed. Note that there is an "OK" and that both parts of the requirement have plus signs next to them. Also there are no courses listed to show what could be selected to fulfill this requirement--there is no need, since the requirement is completed.
| OK | CATEGORY 3: NATURAL SCIENCE | ||||
| Minimum of two courses from different disciplines and | |||||
| six credits required. One course must be a lab course. | |||||
| + | 1) First Discipline/Lab Course | ||||
| F 01 | BIOL105 | 4.00 | P | General Biology I | |
| + | 2) Second Discipline/Lab or Non-Lab Course | ||||
| F 01 | CHEM100 | 4.00 | TP | Intro to Chemistry | |
| INVER : CHEM100 | |||||
This is general education category 6, which is partially completed.
| NO | CATEGORY 6: HUMANITIES & THE ARTS | ||||
| Minimum of two courses from different disciplines and | |||||
| six credits required. | |||||
| SELECT FROM: ART100,160,231,260,261,275 ENG110,112,113 | |||||
| ENG114,211,212,213,214 HUM150,155,250,251,280,281,282 | |||||
| MUS120,125,126,221,222 PHIL100,115,120,205,222,224,321 | |||||
| PHIL334,336,337,358 THEA100,101,283 URBS110 WOST251 | |||||
| + | 1) First Discipline/One Course Required | ||||
| F 00 | HUM 281 | 4.00 | B | Native Amer Traditions | |
| - | 2) Second Discipline/One Course Required | ||||
the Transfer Evaluation Department
(room: WA 132, phone: 389-5948)
