2024-2025 Bulletin Year

Basic Requirements

All students must complete four required basic courses (unless exempted through procedures established by the departments concerned):

Divisional Requirements

All students must complete courses in each of the five divisions of the undergraduate curriculum (unless exempted through procedures established by the departments concerned or by participation in the Open Curriculum). Together with the basic requirements these courses form the core of Wake Forest’s undergraduate liberal arts education.

Students are not allowed to exempt divisional core requirements through the Advanced Placement Examination, the College Level Examination Program or the International Baccalaureate Program.

Division I: Humanities

(Two courses required; May not choose two courses from same department)

Division II: Literatures

(One course required)

Literatures Written in English*

In English Translation

Division III: Fine Arts

(One course required)

Division IV: Social Sciences

(Two courses required; May not choose two courses from same department)

Division V: Math and Natural Sciences*

(Two courses required; May not choose two courses from same department; Credit not allowed for both CHM 120 and PHY 120)

Cultural Diversity

(One course required)

Quantitative Reasoning

(One course required)

*MUST BE TAKEN AT WAKE FOREST

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