CLA 153 Rhetoric (3 cr)

CLA 154 Crit­i­cal research Skills (3 cr)

CLA 161 Intro to Oral Com­mu­ni­ca­tion (3 cr)

A course in math­e­mat­ics (3 cr)

Two cours­es in sci­ence (one with a lab) (6 cr)

SOC 101 Soci­ol­o­gy of Reli­gion (3 cr)

OR a course in psychology/​sociology

A course in his­to­ry (3 cr)

HUM 302 West­ern Art (3 cr)

OR a course in the human­i­ties or fine arts (stu­dio and per­for­mance class­es are not eligible)

A course in lit­er­a­ture (3 cr)

MUS 315 Vocal Pro­fi­cien­cy* (2 cr)

MUS 350 The Art of Litur­gi­cal Music (3 cr)

*Com­muter stu­dents may sub­sti­tute 2 cred­it hours of elec­tives with per­mis­sion of the aca­d­e­m­ic advisor.

LAT 121 Intro­duc­to­ry Latin I (3 cr)

LAT 122 Intro­duc­to­ry Latin II (3 cr)

LAT 211 Inter­me­di­ate Latin I (3 cr)

LAT 212 Inter­me­di­ate Latin II (3 cr)

Span­ish or anoth­er pas­toral lan­guage* (3 cr)

*Com­muter stu­dents may sub­sti­tute 3 cred­it hours of elec­tives with per­mis­sion of the aca­d­e­m­ic advisor.

THE 123 Intro­duc­tion to the Catholic Faith (2 cr)

THE 210 Intro­duc­tion to Litur­gy and Sacra­ments (2 cr)

THE 219 Intro­duc­tion to the Catholic Church (2 cr)

THE 243 Intro­duc­tion to Spir­i­tu­al­i­ty (2 cr)

THE 249 Intro­duc­tion to Sacred Scrip­ture (3 cr)

THE 274 Intro­duc­tion to Moral The­ol­o­gy (2 cr)

PHL 225 Ancient Phi­los­o­phy (3 cr)

PHL 235 Medieval Phi­los­o­phy (3 cr)

PHL 242 Mod­ern Phi­los­o­phy (3 cr)

PHL 245 Con­tem­po­rary Phi­los­o­phy (3 cr)

PHL 250 Log­ic (3 cr)

PHL 300 Epis­te­mol­o­gy (3 cr)

PHL 350 Phi­los­o­phy of Nature (3 cr)

PHL 365 Philo­soph­i­cal Anthro­pol­o­gy (3 cr)

PHL 380 Nat­ur­al The­ol­o­gy (3 cr)

PHL 410 Ethics (3 cr)

PHL 420 Polit­i­cal Phi­los­o­phy (3 cr)

PHL 450 Meta­physics (3 cr)

PHL 493 Phi­los­o­phy The­sis Sem­i­nar I* (2 cr)

PHL 494 Phi­los­o­phy The­sis Sem­i­nar II* (2 cr) 

*This course is tak­en dur­ing the last four semes­ters of the pro­gram of study. Stu­dents will earn one cred­it per semester.

Stu­dents must take suf­fi­cient elec­tive cours­es to meet the grad­u­a­tion require­ment. Stu­dents are coun­seled to choose elec­tive cours­es accord­ing to a plan of study that will help them achieve their per­son­al goals for their under­grad­u­ate education.

Some of the course require­ments for the AB degree may be tak­en through the Detroit Area Catholic High­er Edu­ca­tion Con­sor­tium or through applied trans­fer cred­its, sub­ject to trans­fer cred­it guidelines.

Men enter­ing for­ma­tion for the Arch­dio­cese of Detroit must take a 3 cred­it Span­ish class as one of their electives.

Men enter­ing for­ma­tion who have not ful­filled course require­ments pri­or to enter­ing for­ma­tion must ful­fill these require­ments with SHMS cours­es when those cours­es are typ­i­cal­ly avail­able at SHMS.