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Core Requirements

Providing Meaning In Life and Work

MercyPLUS Core Requirements

Mercy College PLUS's Core requirements reflects our Core Values of knowledge, reverence, integrity, compassion, and excellence and underlies our work, how we interact with each other, and which strategies we employ to fulfill our mission, rooted in the heritage of the Sisters of Mercy. General education challenges students to think critically and independently, increase social and global consciousness, embrace change and make informed decisions. General education, provides a broad foundational basis of knowledge which serves to develop within students’ intellectual and cognitive capabilities, cultural and moral awareness and integrative abilities to connect bodies of knowledge.

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CORE REQUIREMENTS

ASSOCIATE DEGREE

Natural Science (4 cr)

Math or Statistics (3 cr)

Social Science (3 cr)

Communication (7 cr)

  • Composition (6 cr)
  • Speech (1 cr)

Humanities (3 cr)

Servant Leadership (3 cr)

Core Elective (6 cr)

​TOTAL: 29 CREDITS (100 LEVEL OR HIGHER)

CORE REQUIREMENTS

BACHELOR’S DEGREE

For all bachelor’s degree programs, a minimum of 30 credits must be upper division courses (300 and 400 level).

Natural Science (7 cr)

Math or Statistics (6 cr)

Social Science (6 cr)

Communication (7 cr)

  • Composition (6 cr)
  • Speech (1 cr)

Humanities (6 cr)

  • Philosophy or Religion (3 cr)
  • Humanities (3 cr)

Cultural Appreciation and Diversity (3 cr)

Servant Leadership (3 cr)

Core Elective (3 cr)

TOTAL: 41 CREDITS
CORE REQUIREMENT

SERVANT LEADERSHIP

Mercy College's Servant Leadership course will inspire students to embrace practices that enrich the lives of individuals, build better organizations, and ultimately create a more just and caring world.

 

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Mercy College of Health Sciences has been transforming students into healthcare professionals since 1899. Located in downtown Des Moines, Iowa, we offer online and face-to-face or hybrid master's degrees, bachelor’s degrees, associate degrees, certificate programs, and continuing education courses. Mercy College is fully accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC), in addition to numerous programmatic accreditors.

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