Do More of What Matters
Your UW-Stout education starts with 33 foundational Stout Core credits. These classes are designed to build confidence—and the leadership, analytical/quantitative, communication, and critical-thinking skills in high demand by employers—while offering you the freedom to choose options that enhance your degree. Whichever polytechnic programs you pursue, Stout Core will give you more time in your field of study and make sure that you graduate ready to do more on day one.
Earn a Minor or Certificate Along the Way
Stout Core is more than an opportunity to develop the foundational skills to success along your degree path and in your career. With a little planning, you can complete most, if not, all of the credits you need to earn a number of UW-Stout's degree minors and certificates.
Complete Through Stout Core
Minors
Certificates
Get Started Through Stout Core
Minors
- Cultural Anthropology (9/15 Credits)
- English Writing & Literature (12/15 Credits)
- History (15/24 Credits)
- Human Development & Family Studies (9/15 Credits)
- Performing Arts (12/18 Credits)
- Psychology (9/18 credits)
- Sociology (15/18 credits)
- Spanish (12/22 credits)
- Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies (15/18 credits)
Stout Core General Education Requirements at a Glance
Communication & Literacy Skills
Written and verbal expression is at the heart of who we are as individuals and how we interact with the world. These communication classes won't just improve your reading, writing and speaking skills, they'll help you discover interpersonal, career-focused and civic-minded ways to be a bigger, better part of an ever-evolving world.
Math & Quantitative Reasoning
Analytic reasoning is core to your intellectual development—it's how you build knowledge and critical-thinking skills and what you use to solve problems. In these classes, we'll use math and/or statistics learning experiences to make sure you're ready to get the most out of your degree program.
Natural Science & Wellness
Enhance your knowledge of the physical world and your personal wellness with through a hands-on lab experience, and you'll have plenty of choices to capture your curiosity—astronomy, biology, chemistry, physics, sustainability, fitness, and nutrition.
Humanities & Arts
Building on your critical-thinking, core arts classes at the university level engage your imagination in ideation, production and analysis of artistic and cultural objects or performances, and they offer you an avenue to explore the unconventional. Our related humanities classes will deepen your cultural appreciation using literary, aesthetic and intellectual experiences to reinforce the value thought and emotions play in your education at Stout.
Social & Behavioral Sciences
Your core social and behavioral sciences classes will both familiarize you with societal, cultural and group behaviors through the lens of sociology, economics, political science and cultural anthropology and raise awareness of your personal psychological behaviors and how they impact your relationship with others.
Civics & Perspectives
Develop the knowledge, skills, and motivation for meaningful civic involvement by identifying how personal values shape decision-making and engagement. Explore diverse and unfamiliar perspectives; examine how systems of power operate across local, national, and global contexts; and analyze the forces that shape our democratic society. These courses will help you build the intellectual flexibility and ethical awareness to contribute thoughtfully and responsibly in a complex world.
