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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.
  • No course may be used to fulfill more than one Distribution Requirement, but it may apply toward your major or minor.

Requirements (Download the PDF version)

Writing Courses

Quantitative Reasoning

  • 1 course from
    • the SAS Approved Mathematics List: 01:640:103, 01:640:104, 01:640:105, 01:640:107, 01:640:112, 01:640:115, 01:640:135, 01:640:151, 01:640:139, 01:640:197
    • Placement into Calculus
  • 1 course from the SAS Approved Quantitative Reasoning Course List

Natural Sciences

2 courses from the SAS Natural Sciences Course List

  • Life Sciences
  • Chemistry
  • Geological Sciences
  • Marine and Coastal Sciences
  • Meteorology
  • Physics and Astronomy
  • approved Natural Science courses from:
    • *Anthropology
    • *Cognitive Sciences
    • *Exercise Science/Sports Studies
    • *Geography
    • *School of Environmental and Biological Sciences 

* 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
  • Planning and Public Policy
  • Psychology
  • Public Health
  • Sociology
  • approved Social Science courses from:
    • *Anthropology
    • *European Studies
    • *Geography
    • *Jewish Studies
    • *Journalism and Media Studies

Humanities

1 course from the SAS Humanities Course List

  • African Languages and Literature
  • Armenian
  • Art and Visual Arts
  • Catalan
  • Chinese
  • Classics
  • Comparative Literature
  • Dance
  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Greek
  • Hindi
  • Hungarian
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Latin
  • Music
  • Philosophy
  • 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

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
  • approved Interdisciplinary courses from:
    • *Art History
    • *Cinema Studies
    • *English
    • *Geography
    • *Jewish Studies
    • *Journalism and Media Studies
    • *Linguistics
    • *School of Environmental and Biological Sciences

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

Global Awareness


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