Requirements Common to All Bachelor's Degrees

To obtain a bachelor’s degree, students must meet the following requirements:

• Total credits
• Cumulative Grade Point Average
• Residency
• Mathematics proficiency
• Paracurricular courses
• Experiential Learning
• The Linfield Curriculum (general education requirements)
• Major field

Total Credits

To earn a BA, BS, or BSN degree, a candidate must earn 125 credits.

Cumulative Grade Point Average (GPA)

To earn a bachelor’s degree a candidate must have achieved a cumulative GPA of at least 2.00. In addition, a student must obtain a cumulative GPA of 2.00 in courses contributing to the major. Additional majors and minors are subject to the same 2.00 cumulative GPA requirement. Departments may have additional GPA requirements.

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Residency

No fewer than 30 credits must be from Linfield College, including 20 of the last 30 credits and 15 credits in the major. Residence credits do not include credit through challenge examinations, achievement examinations, Advanced Placement, CLEP examinations, or portfolio evaluation credits.

As a qualification to the policy above, a student with at least 30 credits earned at Linfield may, with prior approval of the Curriculum Committee, spend the senior year at a foreign university.

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Mathematics Proficiency Requirement

All students must demonstrate math proficiency by the time they have completed 60 semester hours of credit. DCE and transfer students must demonstrate math proficiency by the end of their first year of enrollment at Linfield.

This requirement can be met in the following ways:

• Scoring 520 or higher on the mathematics portion of the SAT.
• Scoring 22 or higher on the mathematics portion of the ACT.
• Completing Math 115 (Intermediate Algebra), MAT 116 (Great Ideas in Mathematics), or any three-credit course at or above the level of Math 130 with a grade of C or above. (Note that a grade of C- does not satisfy this requirement.)
• Passing the math proficiency test, which is only given during fall orientation. Students may take this test only once. Those students who fail it must take an approved college math course as indicated above.
  

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The Paracurriculum Requirement

In recognition of the value of acquiring certain skills and participating in various activities, the college has established a group of personal skill and creative activity courses called the paracurriculum. These courses are part of the Experiential Learning component of a Linfield degree. Paracurricular courses are identified by course numbers below 100; they normally carry one or two credits. To graduate,
a student must have three credits in paracurricular courses, one of which must be in physical education or dance. All paracurricular courses are graded satisfactory/unsatisfactory.

Experiential Learning (EL) Credit Caps

Courses in the Experiential Learning categories of Internships, Peer Instruction (those courses numbered 439), and Paracurricular courses are denoted by an EL designation in the catalog. Students may count toward graduation no more than 20 credits total from courses designated as EL.

Within this 20-credit maximum, the following more specific
limitations also apply:

• No more than two internship courses, with no more than five credits from a single internship, may count toward graduation.
• No more than eight credits in paracurricular courses, with no more than four courses from any one department, may count toward graduation. (Colloquium [IDS 007]), taken by all first-year students, is included in the eight credit maximum.)
• Only one peer instruction course may count toward graduation. Note: Successfully completed EL courses above the 20-credit maximum will be recorded on a student’s transcript, but will not count toward graduation.

Any Questions? If you are interested in learning more about the curriculum at Linfield, please contact the Office of Admissions at (800) 640-2287 or email admission@linfield.edu. An admissions counselor will be happy to answer your questions or put you in touch with a faculty member.

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