Skip Navigation

University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Undergraduate Office of Admissions

Become a Husker!

Iowa Western Community College

Suggested Courses to Remove UNL Admission Deficiencies for Students who Graduated High School January 1997 or Later

Units Required for Admission Courses to clear the deficiency [one community college course = one unit (year) of high school work]

English: 4 units
Intensive reading & writing experience

  • ENG 101A English Comp I
  • ENG 102A English Comp II
  • ENG 202A Creative Writing

Foreign Language: 2 units
In one language


  • ITP 593T American Sign Language II (some students may need to take ITP 592T to prepare for ITP 593T; 593T is the course which will fulfill the UNL admissions deficiency).

Mathematics: 4 units
Algebra I
Algebra II
Geometry
A fourth year that builds on algebra

  • Algebra I: (Not Available) [See UNL’s Division of Continuing Studies Independent Study program]
  • Geometry: (Not Available)
  • Algebra II: MAT 101 Intermediate Algebra
  • Fourth Year Math (Course that builds on Algebra II): MAT 120 College Algebra

Natural Sciences: 3 units
At least 2 from biology, chemistry, physics & earth sciences.
At least one lab

If you are deficient in a lab, you MUST take a science course that has a lab.

  • Not Available [See UNL’s Division of Continuing Studies Independent Study program]

Social Sciences: 3 units
One or 2 units history AND 1 or 2 units American government, geography or one other social science

  • GEO 108A Regional Geography
  • HIS 110 Western Civ. Ancient to Early Modern
  • HIS 111 Western Civ Early Modern to Present
  • HIS 151 US History to 1877
  • HIS 152 US History after 1877
  • POL 111 American National Government
  • PSY 121 Developmental Psychology
  • SOC 110 Intro to Sociology

Note: Your UNL college will determine whether or not courses used to meet admission requirements can also apply toward your UNL degree requirements.