<p>[Pomona</a> College : Academics : Overview : General Education](<a href=“http://www.pomona.edu/ADWR/Registrar/Overview/GeneralEducation.shtml]Pomona”>http://www.pomona.edu/ADWR/Registrar/Overview/GeneralEducation.shtml)
[Pomona</a> College : Office of the Registrar](<a href=“http://www.pomona.edu/ADWR/Registrar/gradrequirements.shtml]Pomona”>http://www.pomona.edu/ADWR/Registrar/gradrequirements.shtml)</p>
<p>Summarized:</p>
<p>Students take at least one course in each of five areas: Creative Expression; Social Institutions and Human Behavior; History, Values, Ethics and Cultural Studies; Physical and Biological Sciences; and Mathematical Reasoning. </p>
<p>All first-year students take part in one of Critical Inquiry seminars, which emphasize writing and critical discourse in a small discussion setting.</p>
<p>A Physical Education activity course is required of all students in the first year at the College, except for transfer students who have been given credit for a Physical Activity through another institution.</p>
<p>The College also has a foreign language proficiency requirement to further our aspiration that students develop global perspectives and the capacity for intercultural understanding. Students demonstrate proficiency in a foreign language by passing a third-semester college-level foreign language (modern or classical) course (normally within the first two years), or by appropriate scores on eligible language exams.</p>