Arts and Sciences General Education
Requirements for First Year Students Entering in Fall 2009 or later
I. First-Year Seminar
- First year, fall semester
- Designed to instill intellectual passion in first-year students
II. Foundations of Citizenship
(These courses may also be used to fulfill an arts, humanities, or social science distribution requirement.)
III. Exploration and Breadth
- One mathematics course
- Any mathematics course except M 118 taught by the A&S math department
- One arts course
- One course from:
- Art History (ART)
- Music (HLM)
- Cinema (CIN)
- Drama (DRA)
- Three humanities courses
- Three courses from three different disciplines from the following:
- Literature (ENG, but not writing classes)
- Foreign language (FR, GER, ITA, SPA)
- History (HIS)
- Philosophy (PHI)
- Two social science courses
- Two courses from two different disciplines from the following:
- Economics (EC)
- Politics and Government (POL)
- Psychology (PSY)
- Sociology (SOC)
- If Social science major: must take two courses from outside the major and from two different disciplines
- Two 4-credit lab sciences courses
- Two 4 credit laboratory courses from the following:
IV. Foundational Competencies
- Two writing courses
- RPW 110 (first year, second semester)
- RPW 210 (second year, first semester)
- One information technology literacy course
- One course from the list found here.
- Two writing-intensive courses
- In addition to RPW 110 and 210, students must take two writing-intensive courses, one of which must be taken in the major. Writing-intensive courses are indicated by a W following the course code (E.g., CMM 250W)
V. Four AUC Courses
- Four courses from four categories, designated by major
