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The School of Arts and Sciences requires that all students complete a set of Distribution Requirements in addition to the requirements of their majors and minors.
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General Rules
- All courses must be at least 3 credits.
- All courses must be taken for degree credit.
- Pass/No Credit courses cannot fulfill requirements.
- Courses used to fulfill any of the liberal arts distribution requirements may be counted as fulfilling a requirement in more than one broad category of requirements, but courses may not be counted more than once within one of the five broad categories: Writing; Quantitative Reasoning; Natural Sciences; ‘Social Sciences, Humanities and Interdisciplinary;’ and ‘Diversity and Global Awareness.’ Effective for students graduating in January 2010 and beyond.
- Courses used to fulfill any of the liberal arts distribution requirements may be counted as fulfilling major or minor requirements, and vice versa, unless specifically prohibited by the particular major or minor program.
Requirements
Writing Courses
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Quantitative Reasoning
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Natural Sciences
2 courses from the SAS Natural Sciences Course List
- Life Sciences
- Chemistry
- Geological Sciences
- Marine and Coastal Sciences
- Meteorology
- Physics and Astronomy
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- approved Natural Science courses from:
- *Anthropology
- *Cognitive Sciences
- *Exercise Science/Sports Studies
- *Geography
- *School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
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* not all courses in this department fulfill this requirement |
Social Sciences, Humanities, and Interdisciplinary
4 courses from the following:
Social Sciences
1 course from the SAS Social Sciences Course List
- Communication
- Criminal Justice
- Economics
- Education
- Environmental Policy, Institutions, and Behavior
- Exercise Science and Sports Studies
- Information Technology and Informatics
- Labor Studies and Employment Relations
- Latin American Studies
- Political Science
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- Planning and Public Policy
- Psychology
- Public Health
- Sociology
- approved Social Science courses from:
- *Anthropology
- *European Studies
- *Geography
- *Jewish Studies
- *Journalism and Media Studies
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Humanities
1 course from the SAS Humanities Course List
- African, Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Literatures
- American Sign Language
- Armenian
- Art and Visual Arts
- Catalan
- Chinese
- Classics
- Comparative Literature
- Dance
- French
- German
- Greek
- Hindi
- Hungarian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Latin
- Music
- Philosophy
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- Polish
- Portuguese
- Religion
- Russian
- Spanish
- Ukrainian
- Theater Arts
- approved Humanities courses from:
- *American Studies
- *Art History
- *Cinema Studies
- *English
- *European Studies
- *Jewish Studies
- *Journalism and Media Studies
- *Linguistics
- *Middle Eastern Studies
- *South Asian Studies
- *School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
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Interdisciplinary
1 course from the SAS Interdisciplinary Course List
- Africana Studies
- African Area Studies
- American Studies
- Asian Studies
- East Asian Languages and Literatures
- European Studies
- History
- Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies
- Medieval Studies
- Middle Eastern Studies
- South Asian Studies
- Women's and Gender Studies
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- approved Interdisciplinary courses from:
- *Art History
- *Cinema Studies
- *English
- *Geography
- *Italian Studies
- *Jewish Studies
- *Journalism and Media Studies
- *Linguistics
- *School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
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1 additional course from any of the above lists of Social Science, Humanities, or Interdisciplinary courses
* not all courses in this department fulfill this requirement |
Diversity and Global Awareness
Two courses, each credit bearing and worth at least 3 credits, from an approved list of courses, with at least 3 credits from each of the two subdivisions below.
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Diversity
An approved list of courses SAS Diversity Course List that engage students in theoretical issues and political debates pertaining to questions of "diversity," namely race, ethnicity, language, migration and diasporas, gender, and sexualities. These courses must juxtapose two or more visions or methods which enable an understanding of an increasingly globalized world. Sample topics include the following: histories of religion, social movements, cultural conflicts, racial tensions, visual culture and representation of transnational identities and differences, international feminisms, and sexual prejudice. Study abroad does not ipso facto satisfy this requirement, although individual courses taken abroad may qualify.
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Global Awareness
An approved list of courses SAS Global Awareness Course List that promote enhanced knowledge of the interconnectedness of the world’s peoples, cultures, environments, regions, or nations whether historically, politically, economically, socially, linguistically, technologically, ecologically, or epidemiologically. Courses in this category deepen area based knowledge and encourage analysis of global or transnational processes. They help students to recognize the need for an understanding of local, regional, international, transnational and/or global dynamics that inhibit or promote solutions to contemporary world problems. Introductory language courses do not fulfill this requirement.
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