GENERAL EDUCATION
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To acquire an associate degree or a bachelor’s degree from MCBS, students must take nearly 25%-30% of the credits offered by the Department of General Education. All courses are either required or elective depending on the degree audit of the students. The courses are categorized into Communication, Social Sciences, Humanities, Natural Sciences. Courses under the category of Communication are Required courses while courses under other categories are Electives. The pass grade for the required courses is C- while for the Electives is D.
The Department of General Education does not offer programs, however all the active courses offered by the department are listed below under four heads.
Communication
Course Code | Course Name | Credits |
---|---|---|
ENG 101 | English Composition 1 | 3 |
ENG 102 | English Composition 2 | 3 |
ENG 212 | Business Writing | 3 |
ENG 213 | Technical Writing | 3 |
ENG 214 | Business Writing (Commercial Law) | 3 |
Natural Sciences
Course Code | Course Name | Credits |
---|---|---|
BIO 100 | General Biology | 3 |
PHY 1 | How Things Work | 3 |
Social Sciences
Course Code | Course Name | Credits |
---|---|---|
ECON 110 | Principles of Microeconomics | 3 |
ECON 120 | Principles of Macroeconomics | 3 |
EDU 132 | Personal Health | 3 |
ENT 201 | Entrepreneurship - Creativity and Innovation | 3 |
HIST 100 | History of Islamic Science | 3 |
POLSCI 140 | Public Administration | 3 |
POLSCI 180 | International Relations | 3 |
POLSCI 1820 | Global Issues | 3 |
PSYCH 003 | Introduction to Psychology | 3 |
PSYCH 160 | Social Psychology | 3 |
SOC 10 | Introduction to Sociology | 3 |
SOC 120 | Social Issues | 3 |
SOC 140 | Critical Thinking | 3 |
SOC 1311 | Social Change | 3 |
Humanities
Course Code | Course Name | Credits |
---|---|---|
ARA 100 | Elementary Arabic for Non-Arabic Speakers | 3 |
ARA 110 | Arabic for Native speakers | 3 |
COM 030 | Interpersonal Communication | 3 |
COM 040 | Intercultural Communication | 3 |
ENG 105 | Introduction to Public Speaking | 3 |
ENG 106 | Introduction to Public Speaking (Commercial Law) | 3 |
ENG 112 | Topics in Writing | 3 |
ENG 120 | Introduction to Literature | 3 |
ENG 140 | World Literature | 3 |
ENG 220 | Introduction to Literary Studies | 3 |
ENG 250 | Critical Reading | 3 |
HIST 250 | Islam in the modern World | 3 |
PHIL 154 | Business Ethics | 3 |
PHIL 160 | Formal Logic | 3 |
PHIL 258 | Computers and Ethics | 3 |
TRAN 200 | Topics in Translation | 3 |
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