The requirements listed below outline the kinds of courses you will need to take your first year and beyond in order to complete your degree and graduate from Bucknell. These requirements are different from the required courses you must take to major or minor in a program.
| College of Arts & Sciences | College of Engineering | Freeman College of Management |
| 32 | 34 | 32 |
Students in all three colleges must successfully complete three writing courses:
Students have all four years to complete the requirements for the College of Arts & Sciences Core Curriculum, or CASCC.
The abbreviations you see below in the list of College of Arts & Sciences Core Curriculum requirements indicate which requirements a course fulfills; these will also appear on the course description pages in myBucknell.
Some courses can fulfill more than one requirement, but it is not always possible to use the same course to fulfill two different requirements. Although you will see below and in course listings online which requirements a particular course fulfills, when you are filling in your online registration form you will only be asked to make course selections based on disciplinary exploration (i.e., Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences and Natural Sciences & Mathematics) and not by the other categories.
*These courses may double count in the Disciplinary Exploration section of the curriculum.
Students have all four years to complete the six requirements below. Some courses can fulfill more than one requirement, but it is not always possible to use the same course to fulfill two different requirements. Students should develop a plan, in concert with their academic advisers, for which courses will be used to fulfill the General Education requirements, free electives and in-major electives.
Students have all four years to complete the Freeman College of Management General Education requirements.
The abbreviations you see below in the list of General Education requirements indicate which requirements a course fulfills. These will also appear on the course description pages in myBucknell. Some courses can fulfill more than one requirement, but it is not always possible to use the same course to fulfill two different requirements. Students should develop a plan, in concert with their academic adviser, for which courses will be used to fulfill the General Education requirements, free electives and in-major electives.
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