Advising Services

The Counseling and Advising Center, located in Ferguson Hall, Room 112 (432) 837-8203, is responsible for providing academic advisement and other related services to students who do not declare a major, who are admitted on probation, or who do not meet TSI (Texas Success Initiative) requirements.

The center assists students in taking courses to complete the Core Curriculum requirements at Sul Ross State University. The core curriculum consists of 46 hours of 16 classes. The classes fall into three areas:

1. Basic Skills Component
2. Basic General Knowledge
3. Integrity, Tolerance, Ethical Values and Citizenship

Please refer to your specific bachelor's degree requirements for more detailed information.

Remember: The basic skills component must be completed within the first 45 semester hours of enrollment. However, before English Composition and Mathematics can be taken, the corresponding areas of TSI must be passed.

Basic General Knowledge: 19 hours in seven classes

Fine Arts – three semester hours from:FA 1301 – Fine Arts Appreciation
ART 1301 – Intro to Visual Arts
MUS 1312, 1313 – Music Literature
THEA 1302 – Intro to Theatre

Kinesiology – two semester hours from:PE 1150 – Concepts of Wellness
1 semester credit hour activity course (PE 2101 cannot fulfill this requirement)

Social Sciences – three semester hours from:ANTH 1301 – Cultural Anthropology
ECO 2300 – Prin of Microeconomics
ECO 2305 – Prin of Macroeconomics
GEOG 1302 – World Regional Geography
GEOG 2302 – Geography of the U.S.
PHIL 1301 – Intro to Philosophy
PSY 1302 – Intro to Psychology
SOC 2303 – Intro to Sociology

Literature – three semester hours from:ENG 2301 – Literary Types (or other literature course in English)

Laboratory Science – eight semester hours from:ASTR 1401 – Descriptive Astronomy
ASTR 1402 – Descriptive Astronomy II
BIOL 1401 – General Botany
BIOL 1402 – General Zoology
CHEM 1401 – General Chemistry I
CHEM 1402 – General Chemistry II
GEOL 1401 – Introductory Geology I
GEOL 1402 – Introductory Geology II
GEOL 2404 – Intro to Environment Giol.
PHYS 1401 – General Physics I
PHYS 1402 – General Physics II
PHYS 2401 – Calculus-based Physics I
PHYS 2402 – Calculus-based Physics II

BASIC Skills Component: 12 hours in four classes

English Composition – two classes (six semester hours) from:ENG 1301 – Composition and Rhetoric I
ENG 1302 – Composition and Rhetoric II

Mathematics – one class (three semester hours) from:
MATH 1310 – University Math
MATH 1315 – University Algebra
MATH 1316 – Trigonometry
MATH 1320 – Intro to Calculus
MATH 1342 – Statistics

Oral Communications – one class (three semester hours) from:
COMM 1303 – Intro to Speech Comm
THEA 2304 – Oral Perform for non-majors