The Foundation requirement is met by taking 36 semester hours of Foundation Courses in five specific areas. The Focus requirement is met by a minimum of nine hours in a Thematic Sequence outside your department of major and a minimum of three hours in a Senior Capstone Experience taken in your final year of study. If you choose to declare a minor and complete all the requirements for that minor, it will be posted to your academic record. The Miami Plan is an expanding liberal education curriculum. Additions to its range of courses or modifications of its requirements may be learned by contacting the Office of Liberal Education or any divisional advising office.
Students are responsible for initiating the extra-hour proposals.
Instructors will determine whether the proposed work represents an extra credit hour and if their teaching schedules and related professional activities will permit them to sponsor and monitor these projects. The maximum number of hours of extended study or service-learning that can be applied to graduation is four. An instructor should write a memo of understandingpreferably with the studentoutlining expectations that must be fulfilled either by the end of the current semester or the semester immediately succeeding for the extra hour to be awarded. The academic department approves this memo before the project begins. For more information, consult the Office of Liberal Education or the Office of Student Leadership and Service Learning and Service Learning.