{"id":32840,"date":"2026-05-27T13:14:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T17:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/advising\/?p=32840"},"modified":"2026-06-09T10:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T14:15:09","slug":"general-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/advising\/general-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"General Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cl-wrapper cl-card-wrapper\"><a class=\"cl-card   right\" href=\"https:\/\/career.uri.edu\/channels\/general-studies\/\" title=\"\"><div class=\"cl-card-container media\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/advising\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1740\/card-accent-blue.jpg\" srcset=\"\" alt=\"\"><\/div><div class=\"cl-card-container text\"><div class=\"cl-card-text\"><h2>Major to Career<\/h2><p>Explore career outcomes, jobs, internships and more for this major.<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"cl-card-container button\">CCEE Virtual Career Center<\/div><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Academic Advising Resources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"fullwidth\">The BIS in General Studies is an online degree completion&nbsp;program designed for students who have completed prior college credits and are looking to finish their&nbsp;bachelor&#8217;s degree fully online. The program offers courses in effective communication, strategic thinking, and ethics and leadership. Students will complete the major core and then choose major electives that support their interests and career goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"fullwidth\">Courses are offered in 7-week sessions through our accelerated online calendar, with two sessions in each term (Spring, Summer, Fall). Students can start the program in Spring, Summer, or Fall semester.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Curriculum Sheets<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-regular\"><table><tbody><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/advising\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1740\/General-Studies-BIS-Online-2026.pdf\">2026<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Major Entry Requirements<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Minimum 24 credits at an accredited post-secondary institution<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Minimum 2.00 cumulative GPA in credits taken at all institutions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Academic Advising Resources The BIS in General Studies is an online degree completion&nbsp;program designed for students who have completed prior college credits and are looking to finish their&nbsp;bachelor&#8217;s degree fully online. The program offers courses in effective communication, strategic thinking, and ethics and leadership. Students will complete the major core and then choose major electives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":706,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[701],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-of-arts-and-sciences"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/advising\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/advising\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/advising\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/advising\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/advising\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32840"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/advising\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32990,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/advising\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32840\/revisions\/32990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/advising\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/advising\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/advising\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}