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 Language and Literatures, Slavic and Eastern Languages & Literatures
• One course in Mathematics
• Two courses in Natural Science
  Biology, Chemistry, Geology-Geophysics, 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