The following courses comprise The Core Curriculum and are required for all students entering Boston College:

• One course in Arts - Fine Arts, Music, Theatre
• One course in Cultural Diversity
  The Cultural Diversity requirement may be fulfilled by an appropriate course taken to fulfill another Core requirement, a major requirement, or an elective
• Two courses in History - Modern History
• One course in Literature - Classics, English, Germanic Studies, Romance Languages and Literatures, Slavic & Eastern Languages and Literatures
• One course in Mathematics
• Two courses in Natural Science - Biology, Chemistry, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Physics
• Two courses in Philosophy
• Two courses in Social Science - Psychology in Education, Economics, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology
• Two courses in Theology
• One course in Writing

Certain summer courses offered through the Office of International Programs (OIP) may count towards Core requirements. For further information please refer to their web site.