Summary Table

Cleveland State University

Must be completed in the first year or prior to completion of the first 30 hours of coursework. Courses used to fulfill this requirement must be passed with C grades or better.

First course must be completed in the first year or prior to completion of the first 30 hours of coursework.

Each course must be a minimum of 3 hours.

  1. Each course must be a minimum of 3 hours.
  2. At least one of these courses, or one of the approved Arts and Humanities courses, must be focused on Africa, Asia, Latin America or the Middle East.

Arts and Humanities

  1. Each course must be a minimum of 3 hours.
  2. At least one of these courses, or one of the approved Social Sciences courses, must be focused on Africa, Asia, Latin America or the Middle East.

Each course must be a minimum of 3 hours.

  1. One course must be African-American.
  2. One course must be U.S. diversity course.

Transfer students with 60+ credit hours only have to fulfill half of the Social Diversity requirement. They may take either an African American Experience or a U.S. Diversity course.

Writing Across the Curriculum (including Speaking Across the Curriculum)

3 courses (must be passed with C grades or better)

At least 1 credit for each course

Three courses are required. One course must be in the major program. A student may substitute one approved SPAC course for one of the WAC courses.

Individual courses cannot be used to earn both WAC and SPAC credit.

A student must earn a C grade or better in a WAC or SPAC course to earn WAC or SPAC credit.

WAC and SPAC courses must be completed at CSU. A student cannot receive WAC or SPAC credit for a transfer course.

Pre-requisite for all WAC courses: Completion of the general education Writing/Composition requirement.

1 course or equivalent

The Capstone course must be completed at CSU.

A student cannot receive Capstone credit for a transfer course.