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Enrollment rules
General College Requirements
30 Course Rule
Effective for all students who enter the College in Fall 2004 or later.
Students are required to complete no fewer than thirty post-College Matriculation
college credit courses as part of the thirty-two courses required for graduation.
Post-College Matriculation courses include all full, half, and cum courses (subject
to existing policies and limits) taken at any of the Claremont Colleges, eligible
credit from approved Pomona external studies programs (Study Abroad, Domestic Exchange,
CMC-Washington D.C. Internship semester, Biosphere semester), and faculty-approved
post-matriculation courses taken at eligible colleges and universities.
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32 Course Rule
Thirty-two courses are required for the degree. This requirement is normally completed
in eight semesters, taking an average of four courses per semester.
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Grade Points
In order to graduate, a student must attain an overall Pomona College grade point
average of at least 6.00.
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Major
In order to graduate, a student must complete one of the College’s approved
majors, which includes completion of a Senior Exercise, which may be a thesis,
oral comprehensive examinations, or other exercise suited to the discipline.
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Residency Requirement and 16-Course Rule for Transfer Students
Students admitted into transfer standing Fall 2004 or later must satisfy the 32- and
30-course rules, as well as the college’s residency requirement of four semesters and a
minimum of 16 post-matriculation courses at Pomona College or in an approved Pomona
College external study program. (A semester spent on an approved external studies
program is also counted toward the residency requirement.)
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General Education
Breadth Requirements
For all students.
Breadth of Study Requirements
Students will take one course in each of the following five areas; each of the
five courses must come from a unique discipline or department. Where
interdisciplinary programs (*) are listed, such as American Studies or
Environmental Analysis, only their core courses, indicated in parentheses,
satisfy the relevant area requirement. All full-credit courses satisfy area
requirements, with the following exceptions: the Critical Inquiry Seminar,
foreign language courses numbered below 100, most senior capstone courses
(numbered 190 and above), and Independent Study courses.
Area 1: Creative Expression
Art and Art History
Classics
Dance
Literatures
*Media Studies (MS 49, 51, 147, 148, 149)
Music
Theatre
Literatures includes English, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Russian,
Spanish, and Classical literatures, including literature in translation.
Foreign language courses numbered lower than 100 do not satisfy any area
requirement.
Area 2: Social Institutions and Human Behavior
Anthropology
Economics (except ECON 57)
*Environmental Analysis (EA 50, 51, 60, 85, 89A, 90)
*International Relations (IR 100)
Linguistics/Cognitive Science (except LGCS 60)
Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE 190)
Politics (except POLI 90)
Psychology (except PSYC 158)
*Public Policy Analysis (PPA 188F)
*Science, Technology, and Society (STS 1, 25, 80, 81, 82, 189)
Sociology (except SOC 104)
Mathematical reasoning courses offered in the disciplines above satisfy Area
5 rather than Area 2 (ECON 57, PSYC 158, POLI 90, SOC 104).
Area 3: History, Values, Ethics and Cultural Studies
*American Studies (AMST 103, 180, 190)
*Asian Studies (ASIA 190)
*Asian American Studies (ASAM 132, 135, 150, 151, 157)
*Black Studies (BLCK 10, 144A)
*Chicano/a Studies (CHST 60)
*Gender & Women’s Studies (GWS 26, 36, 175, 180, 181, 190)
History
*Latin American Studies (LAST 190)
Philosophy (except LGCS/PHIL 60)
Religious Studies
Area 4: Physical and Biological Sciences
Astronomy
Biology
Chemistry
Geology
Molecular Biology
Neuroscience
Physics
Area 5: Mathematical Reasoning
Mathematics (except pre-calculus)
Computer Science
Formal Logic (LGCS/PHIL 60)
Statistics (includes statistics courses offered by any department)
Students must complete Breadth of Study requirements with courses taken at
The Claremont Colleges. Breadth of Study credit is not awarded for Study Abroad
or other external program coursework. Students admitted as transfer students are
awarded Breadth of Study credit for work completed outside The Claremont
Colleges prior to matriculation, but once students matriculate, Breadth of Study
requirements can be fulfilled only by courses taken in residence at The
Claremont Colleges. Students are encouraged to fulfill all Breadth of Study
requirements within the first two years.
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Foreign
Language Requirement
The
requirement for foreign language may be met in any of the following ways:
- by passing the third semester or higher of a foreign language or
literature course at Pomona College (or an approved equivalent course at
another eligible institution);
- by earning a score of 4 or 5 on an Advanced Placement examination in a
foreign language;
- by earning a score of 6 or 7 on a Higher Level International
Baccalaureate (IB) foreign language exam;
- by earning a score of 650 or higher on the College Board SAT-II Subject
test in a foreign language, except the Asian language exams, which are not
eligible because the written portions of those exams do not test for
reading/writing in the language's writing system;
- an O-level (or G-CSE) grade of at least B in another language;
- by Academic Procedures Committee approval of a foreign school diploma
verifying a non-English language as the principle language of instruction,
through the eighth grade, or equivalent.
The College makes some provision for students who can speak and are literate
in a language that is not offered by the Colleges, and for which none of the
means listed above is relevant or possible. Such students may arrange for a
special examination to test for intermediate college-level proficiency in the
language. Such arrangements must be made with the approval of one of the chairs
of Pomona’s three language departments. In many cases, the language may be
outside the expertise of the department chair who is asked to approve the
arrangement; the chair’s role is to approve both the examiner and the
examination that the student engages for the purpose.
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Physical Education
A Physical Education activity course is required of all students in the first year at the College, except for transfer students who have been given credit for a Physical Activity through another institution.
Please note that CPR/First Aid (offered either at Pomona College or through Joint Physical Education) does not fulfill the Physical Education requirement. The only courses that will satisfy the PE requirement are
PE 004 and PE 005 at Pomona and PE 001 and PE 002 through Joint Physical Education.
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