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Humanities Social Sciences Curricular Requirements

The undergraduate curricula of the College of Engineering contain required and elective courses in the Humanities and the Social Sciences (abbreviated H/S) for the Classes of 2001 through 2005. The Classes of 2006 and beyond will instead need to meet the College of Engineering's version of the General Education Breadth of Knowledge (BoK) requirements.

The following statements are excerpts from the Criteria for Accrediting Programs in Engineering in the United States as published by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (EAC/ABET).

"Studies in the humanities and social sciences serve not only to meet the objectives of a broad education, but also to meet the objectives of the engineering profession. Therefore, studies in the humanities and social sciences must be planned to reflect a rationale or fulfill an objective appropriate to the engineering profession and the institution's educational objectives. In the interests of making engineers fully aware of their social responsibilities and better able to consider related factors in the decision-making process, institutions must require course work in the humanities and social sciences as an integral part of the engineering program. This philosophy cannot be overemphasized. Further, this subject area must include some courses at an advanced level rather than be limited to a selection of unrelated introductory courses.

"Such course work must meet the generally accepted definitions that humanities are the branches of knowledge concerned with man and his culture, while social sciences are the studies of individual relationships in and to society. Examples of traditional subjects in these areas are philosophy, religion, history, literature, fine arts, sociology, psychology, political science, anthropology, economics, and foreign languages other than a student's native language(s). Non-traditional subjects are exemplified by courses such as technology and human affairs, history of technology, and professional ethics and social responsibility. Courses are acceptable only if a substantial amount of material relating to cultural values is involved as contrasted to routine exercises to enhance the student's performance.

"Subjects such as accounting, industrial management, finance, personnel administration, engineering economy, and military training may be appropriately included either as required or elective courses in engineering curricula to satisfy desired program objectives of the institution. However, such courses usually do not fulfill the objectives desired of the humanities and social science content." .

COLLEGE of ENGINEERING H/S REQUIREMENTS

1. English Composition:

English composition (15-ENGL-101 and 102) is required in all undergraduate engineering curricula. The Computer Science curriculum also requires 15-ENGL-103. These courses appear on the curriculum checksheets and Degree Program Audits (DPAs) separately from the remaining H/S requirements. They are not used to meet any of the depth and distribution requirements listed below. No other 100-level English courses may be used to meet H/S elective requirements.

2. Other required H/S courses:

Two engineering majors require additional specific H/S courses.
Civil Engineering: All CE students must take introductory courses in micro- and macroeconomics (15-ECON-101 and 102 or approved parallel courses).
Computer Science: All CompSci students must take two specific philosophy courses:
15-PHIL-341 - Symbolic Logic I or 20-ECES 130
15-PHIL-243 - Computers and Controversy or 15-PHIL 244 or 15-PHIL 345 as required by class and section..
The above two pairs of courses appear by name and number on the students' curriculum checksheets. They also count toward the depth and distribution requirements listed below.

3. H/S elective courses:

All students must take a certain minimum number of elective credits selected from the College's "List of Approved H/S Courses" so as to complete 30 credit hours (54 for Computer Science).

The above three sets of requirements are summarized here:

major	Computer Science	Civil Engineering	all others
English Comp.	15-ENGL-101,2,3	15-ENGL-101,2	15-ENGL-101,2
Other required:	15-PHIL-341, 244	15-ECON-101,2	none
additional credits:	39	18	24

4. H/S areas and "upper level" (depth and distribution subrequirements):

Courses on the College's "List of Approved H/S Courses" are divided into 13 different areas (also called categories or brackets) of humanities and nine more of social sciences. In most of these areas, certain courses are designated as "upper level" courses, marked "UL" on the lists themselves.

The H/S elective credits must be chosen so as to satisfy all of the depth and distribution subrequirements listed below. English composition courses may not be used in helping to meet these subrequirements, but any other required H/S courses may.

Computer Science majors must successfully complete

at least 9 credits (including at least 3 upper level) in a single area of humanities,
at least 9 credits (including at least 3 upper level) in a single area of social science,
at least 15 credits (including the 9 above) in humanities,
at least 15 credits (including the 9 above) in social science, and
at least 12 upper level credits (including the 6 above).

All other majors must successfully complete

at least 9 credits in a single area of humanities,
at least 9 credits in a single area of social science,
at least 3 upper level credits in humanities (possibly included above),
at least 3 upper level credits in social science (possibly included above), and
at least 3 upper level credits included in one of the 9-credit groupings above

This last subrequirement has confused many students and advisors. The required upper level credits may be counted toward the 9 credits required in a single area. While they could be earned by taking a fourth course, they do not have to be earned that way. Here are two illustrations of common ways to meet these subrequirements.

Illustrations for majors other than Computer Science:

6 lower plus 3 upper level credits in one area of humanities (satisfies rules 1, 3 and 5)
6 lower plus 3 upper level credits in one area of social science (satisfies rules 2 and 4, and, redundantly, 5 again)
6 more credits to obtain the total of 24.

6 lower plus 3 upper level credits in one area of humanities (satisfies rules 1, 3 and 5)
9 lower level credits in one area of social science (satisfies rule 2)
3 upper level credits in a different area of social science (satisfies rule 4)
3 more credits to obtain the total of 24
(Obviously, the roles of humanities and social science could be reversed here.)

H/S AREAS (also called categories or numbered brackets)

HUMANITIES	SOCIAL SCIENCE
H-1 English	S-1 Geography
H-2 Classics	S-2 Psychology
H-3 Communication	S-3 Economics
H-4 Germanic Lang. & Lit.	S-4 Political Science
H-5 Romance Lang. & Lit.	S-5 Sociology
H-6 Slavic Lang. & Lit.	S-6 Anthropology
H-7 Asian Studies	S-7 African-American Studies
H-8 Philosophy	S-8 Planning
H-9 History	S-9 Women's Studies
H-10 Music Appreciation
H-11 Art Appreciation
H-12 African-American Studies

Notes on the Use of the "LIST of APPROVED H/S COURSES"

There are several important things to keep in mind when selecting and registering for courses from the H/S area lists. Please read through these notes so as to avoid costly misunderstandings or extra paperwork. Most of these notes have to do with the inclusion of courses from the Evening College, Clermont College and Raymond Walters College on the lists. Even though the Evening College is being phased out, those courses already listed continue to count and are retained on the list as a guide to those who have taken them.

Courses in a given area are in a list sorted first by college code, then by discipline name, then by course number. For space considerations, honors versions of listed courses are not themselves separately listed. If a course is listed, its honors counterpart is included automatically.

Pass-fail and audit registration:

H/S electives (but NOT H/S courses required by name and number in a student's curriculum) may be taken on a pass-fail basis, subject to the College's overall pass-fail rules. However, those rules require that any courses taken from other institutions or from UC access colleges (e.g. Evening, Clermont, Raymond Walters) must be passed with a grade of C- or better to be counted toward a degree. Thus H/S courses from those colleges may NOT be taken pass-fail, because a pass could include D grades. Those courses are marked on the lists under Note A.

Audit grades may NOT be used as progress toward a degree.

Parallel courses:

Many of the courses on the list, particularly (but not solely) those offered through the access colleges, substantially duplicate the content of other courses on the list. These courses are called parallel courses and are identified in the "Note B" column, where the similar A&S (or other) course is noted. A student may not take two or more such courses and count them all as progress toward a degree. Because one "key" course (e.g. 15-ECON-101) might have several parallel courses, no attempt is made to list them there. Each such parallel course, however, will reference the key course. Courses parallel to the same key course are considered parallel to each other.

Parallel courses and upper level:

Upper level classification is arrived at in consultation with the providing departments. A course should have two or more prerequisites or be targeted primarily at juniors and seniors for it to be listed as upper level. This means that even though two courses might be listed in Note B as parallel, because content does not equal rigor one course might be listed as upper level and the other one not.

Petitions to take H/S courses:

One must petition if one wants to use a course not already on the H/S list.

During a study quarter there is no need to petition to use any course that is already on the list. During a co-op quarter, however, one must always petition so as to obtain Professional Practice verification that the course is outside the student's regular co-op work hours.

H/S CATEGORIES (Numbered Brackets) visit the link.

HUMANITIES AREA

H-1: English
H-2: Classics
H-3: Communication
H-4: Germanic Lang. & Lit.
H-5: Romance Lang. & Lit.
H-6: Slavic Lang. & Lit.
H-7: Asian Studies
H-8: Philosophy
H-9: History
H-10: Music Appreciation
H-11: Art Appreciation
H-12: African-American Studies
H-13: Judaic & Arabic Studies

SOCIAL SCIENCES AREA

S-1: Geography
S-2: Psychology
S-3: Economics
S-4: Political Science
S-5: Sociology
S-6: Anthropology
S-7: African -American Studies
S-8: Planning
S-9: Women’s Studies