Additional All-University Requirements

• First-Year Seminar (2 credits): CLWS 101 (excluding students entering with 20 or more credits).
• University Forum Series: CLFS 050: Participation is required for all full-time students registered for 12 credits or more.
• Upper-Division Rhetoric requirement: (Also known as UDRWOPS) Required of all candidates for a bachelor’s degree.
• Senior Seminar or Project: Requirement for each major field.
• A minimum of 124 credits with a GPA of 2.0.
• A 2.0 minimum GPA in each major and in each minor unless otherwise stated in the departmental major and minor requirements listed in the Program Descriptions and Courses section of this catalog.
• At least 60 credits taken at a four-year college or university.
• Thirty of the last 36 credits taken at Rockford University (see “Residency Requirements”).
• At least 30 credits of study at 300-level and above.
• At least 15 credits taken at Rockford University in each major and at least eight credits taken at Rockford University in each minor.
• No more than 15 percent of credits taken in internships (18.5 credits out of 124 total).
• No more than 30 credits of extension and/or correspondence credit, with no more than six credits of correspondence courses.

Please see the section on each major for specific course and degree requirements.