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Credit Limits for Major Department

  2. Majors and Minors
  3. Departments and Units
  4. Courses
  5. LSA Degrees
  6. LSA Requirements
  7. LSA Academic Policies and Procedures
    1. Academic Integrity
    2. Academic Standing
    3. Add/Drop
    4. Auditing a Course
    5. Class Attendance
    6. Class Standing
    7. Course Credit and Contact Hours
    8. Course Sequencing
    9. Credit Limits for Major Department
    10. Credit Load
    11. Credit Overloads
    12. Dean's Recommendation Forms
    13. Distinction Levels
    14. Experiential and Independent Study Courses
    15. Final Exams
    16. Grade Changes
    17. Grade Grievance Process
    18. Grade Point Average
    19. Graded and Non-Graded Coursework
    20. Grades and Grading
    21. Honors and Awards
    22. Incompletes
    23. LSA and Non-LSA Credit
    24. Prerequisites
    25. Registration
    26. Repeating a Course
    27. Residency Requirements
    28. Returning Students
    29. Student Records and FERPA
    30. Term Withdrawal
    31. Test Credit and Language Credit
    32. Transfer Credit
    33. Waitlists and Overrides
  9. LSA Commitment to Academic Freedom
  10. LSA First-Semester Grade Covering Pilot
  11. Dates and Deadlines
  12. Academic Integrity
  13. Engaged Learning
  14. STEM
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  16. What Will You Do with an LSA Degree?

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The credit limit

  • Students may count a maximum of 60 credits for a single major toward the 120 credits required for a degree. This includes both major courses and any required related courses.
  • The same 60-credit limit applies to a single department. Some departments offer more than one subject (for example, Romance Languages includes French, Spanish, and Italian). In these cases, the 60-credit limit applies to the entire department combined, not to each subject separately.
  • Check LSA's Majors and Minors page to see which subjects belong to which department.

Exceptions 

  • Language requirement: Credits above 60 that were used to meet the language requirement do not count against this limit.
  • Cross-listed courses: A major course that is cross-listed with another department and is not being used to fulfill a major requirement may still be counted.

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