Humanities Requirements
All undergraduate students are required to complete:
HASS 103, Writing and Communications
HASS 105, Knowledge, Nature, Culture.
Following the completion of HASS 103 and HASS 105 students must meet the requirements below:
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE
Humanities, Social Sciences and Science and Technology Requirements
Biology, Chemical Biology, and Chemistry
1 Course - Humanities
1 Course - Social Science or Science & Technology Studies
2 Course - Humanities or Social Science or Science & Technology Studies
Biomedical Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Civil Engineering
Computer Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Environmental Engineering,
Engineering with Naval Concentration
Engineering with Optical Concentration
Mechanical Engineering
Software Engineering
1 Course - Humanities
1 Course - Social Science or Science & Technology Studies
1 Course - Humanities or Social Science or Science & Technology Studies
Computer Science
1 Course - Humanities
1 Course - Social Science or Science & Technology Studies
1 Course - Humanities or Social Science or Science & Technology Studies
HSS 371 or HPL 455
Cybersecurity
1 Course - Humanities
1 Course - Humanities or Social Science or Science & Technology Studies
HSS 371 or HPL 455
Engineering Management
1 Course - Humanities
BT 244
BT 243
Industrial and Systems Engineering
1 Course - Humanities
1 Course - Social Science or Science & Technology Studies
BT 244
Mathematics
1 Course - Humanities
1 Course - Social Science or Science & Technology Studies
1 Course - Humanities or Social Science or Science & Technology Studies
Physics
2 Courses - Humanities
2 Courses - Social Science or Science & Technology Studies
SOCIAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINES:
HQSS – Quantitative Social Sciences
* Exception: HQSS 300 does not offer Social Science or Humanities or
Science & Technology Studies credit.
HSSC – Humanities Social Sciences
BT 243 and BT 244, provided they are not required courses in a major.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY STUDIES:
HST – Humanities/Science and Technology Studies
HUMANITIES:
HHS – Humanities/History
HLI – Humanities/Literature
HPL – Humanities/Philosophy
Only the following Language, Music, Theater and Visual Arts courses below offer humanities credit.
SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
Accounting & Analytics
Business & Technology
Economics
Finance
Information Systems
Marketing Innovation & Analytics
Management
Quantitative Finance
1 Course - 100 or 200 lower level
1 Course - 300 or 400 upper level
*Courses must cover at least two different disciplines within HASS. For example, if 1 course has a prefix, HLI, the other one must have a different prefix.
Select any course from the following disciplines:
General Social Science (HSSC)
Literature (HLI)
Quantitative Social Science (HQSS) *Exception: HQSS 300 does not offer humanities credit.
Science and Technology (HST)
Philosophy (HPL)
Only the following Language, Music, Theater and Visual Arts courses below offer humanities credit.
Language
Course Options
LSP 305 | Latin American Literature and Culture | 3 |
LSP 310 | Spanish Literature and Culture | 3 |
Theater
Course Options
HTH 201 | Introduction to Theater | 3 |
HTH 221 | Introduction to Cinema | 3 |
Music
Course Options
HMU 101 | History of European Music I | 3 |
HMU 102 | History of European Music II | 3 |
HMU 192 | Music Appreciation I | 3 |
HMU 193 | Music Appreciation II | 3 |
HMU 194 | History of American Popular Music | 3 |
HMU 195 | History of Electronic and Experimental Music | 3 |
HMU 350 | Music of the Eastern Mediterranean | 3 |
HMU 394 | History of Jazz | 3 |
HMU 494 | Seminar in Music and Technology | 3 - 6 |
Other classes in Music & Technology can qualify. Please contact the program director for details.
Students may complete 6 semesters of HMU 490, Music Performance: Concert Band or HMU 491, Music Performance: Jazz Ensemble or HMU 492, Music Performance: Stevens Choir as a general elective.
Visual Arts
Course Options
HAR 180 | History of Art: Prehistory to Modern Era | 3 |
HAR 280 | Modern Art History and Theory | 3 |
HAR 281 | History of Photography | 3 |
HAR 282 | History of Middle Eastern Art | 3 |
HAR 283 | African Art and Architecture | 3 |
HAR 307 | Afrofuturism | 3 |
HAR 372 | Technology and the Landscape | 3 |
HAR 380 | Media Culture and Theory | 3 |
HAR 384 | Modern Utopias in Art, Design, and Architecture | 3 |
HAR 385 | Contemporary Art | 3 |
HAR 386 | Feminist Theory and Artistic Practice | 3 |
HAR 388 | History of American Art | 3 |
HAR 494 | Seminar in Art and Technology | 3 - 6 |