If the results indicate that a student is not prepared to take mathematics courses in the general education program, he or she must first take MATH 100, Fundamentals of Mathematics . The General Education Program is required of all students and combines study in five major branches of knowledge with intercultural courses across the curriculum. The program builds on a first year integrated course and progresses through a final year intercultural course. Students move through three levels of courses to meet the general education requirement. The total number of courses required is ten, at least five of which courses must be intercultural or international in nature.
Intercultural courses are comparative in character.
They discuss recurrent patterns of similarity and difference between two or more cultures. Experiencing cultural diversity has become an important fact of life in the modern world. This is especially true of the student population at Richmond, which is drawn from over one hundred countries. The University's mission affirms its commitment to the value of understanding and appreciating human differences and commonalities. Students are, therefore, encouraged to explore and analyze a variety of cultural manifestations, and to search for meaningful comparisons.