Degree Requirements

Pomona College awards the Bachelor of Arts degree to students who complete the following requirements. General Education Requirements may be completed on a Credit/No Credit basis, so long as Credit/No Credit grading is not prohibited for a specific course, as indicated in the course schedule. Students are advised that courses taken for General Education requirements may sometimes be requirements for their eventual major, which might require a letter-grade for the course.

1. General Education Requirements

   • The Critical Inquiry seminar for first-year students ( course) is taken in the first semester. (The seminar is not required of transfer students and enrollment in it is restricted to students admitted as first-year students in the first semester.)

   • The Breadth of Study Requirements

     • The Breadth of Study area that a course fulfills is determined by the department that offers it, except as noted. Much of the Pomona curriculum is interdisciplinary; it is understood that students may be exposed to more than one curricular area in a single course, but that course can only satisfy the requirement associated with the department offering it as reflected in the department designation of the course number. The Critical Inquiry seminar, senior exercises, independent studies and lower-division foreign language courses do not satisfy any area requirement. Partial-credit courses are ineligible, except for Area 6 as explained in the chapters for the Departments of Dance, Music and Theatre.

   • The Language Requirement

   • The Physical Education Requirement

   • The Writing Intensive Requirement

   • The Speaking Intensive Requirement

   • The Analyzing Difference Requirement

2. Credit Requirements

Thirty-two course credits or the equivalent are required to graduate, 30 of which must be completed with post-college matriculation coursework, and 16 of which must be completed at Pomona College (or through one of its programs), in a minimum of four semesters, with the final semester in residence at Pomona College.

3. Grade Point Average Requirement

A minimum overall grade point average of 2.00 (C) is necessary to be eligible to graduate.

4. Major Requirements

Students must complete a major, including any required senior exercises.

Students may petition to complete a second major. When a second major is undertaken separate and unique senior exercises must be completed for each major. Third majors are not allowed.

Unless otherwise noted, all courses taken to satisfy major requirements must be completed with a letter grade.