General Education and Basic Skills Requirements

The University of Washington Tacoma (UWT) has established minimum general education and basic skills requirements for baccalaurete degrees. Each UWT academic program and major meets or exceeds these minimum requirements.

The minimum requirements are:

• 15 credits in writing to include no fewer than 5 credits in English composition [C] and 10 additional credits in writing-intensive [W] courses
• 5 credits in Quantitative/ Symbolic Reasoning [Q] (Students enrolled in college prior to 1985 are exempt)
• 40 credits of Areas of Knowledge courses including no fewer than 10 credits in each area of study: Visual, Literary and Performing Arts (VLPA) [V], Individual and Societies (IS) [I], and Natural World (NW) [N]

Courses taken to fulfill the writing [W], reasoning [Q] and academic major requirements may apply as appropriate to the Areas of Knowledge requirement.

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