Program Requirements
Students can transfer up to 72 credit hours of defined general education courses from their community college. Students should be aware of WVU's General Education Curriculum requirements because some of them can be fulfilled at the community college. Otherwise, WVU offers online courses for these GEC requirements.
The BA pathway Multidisciplinary Studies degree program requirements include the following:
- Completion of the General Education Curriculum
- Completion of English 101 and 102, or 103
- Completion of a writing (W) course in addition to English 101 and 102, or 103
- Completion of a mathematics course in addition to any additional math requirements of the selected minors
- Completion of three minors in which none of the courses have been used to satisfy General Education Curriculum requirements
- A grade of C or better in all minor coursework
- Completion of at least 60 credit hours of 200-level or above coursework. Of the 60 hours, 30 must be 300/400 level coursework
- Completion of the MDS 199 orientation course with a grade of C or better
- Completion of the MDS 492 capstone course with a grade of C or better
- Achievement of a cumulative grade point average of at least 2.0
- Completion of at least 128 credit hours
The required MDS capstone course must be taken in the student's semester of graduation. Students wishing to transfer to WVU campus based programs must meet the minimum entrance requirements to the respective programs as established by WVU. Such requirements may change from time to time, at the discretion of WVU.
