Humanities Requirements

All undergraduate students are required to complete CAL 103, Writing and Communications, and CAL 105, Knowledge, Nature, Culture. Please refer to page 573 for a more detailed explanation of this requirement.

Following the completion of CAL 103 and CAL 105, students must meet the humanities requirements below:

Engineering students: Four additional humanities classes. At least one must be at the 100 or 200 level, at least one must be at the 300 or 400 level, and courses must cover at least two different disciplines within CAL.

Science and Math students: Six additional humanities classes. At least one must be at the 100 or 200 level, at least one must be at the 300 or 400 level, and courses must cover at least two different disciplines within CAL.

Computer Science, Cybersecurity, and Information Systems (for 2011 & 2012 incoming classes) students: Six additional humanities classes. At least one must be at the 100 or 200 level, at least one must be at the 300 or 400 level, and courses must cover at least two different disciplines within CAL. One of the six additional classes must be either HSS 371 or HPL 455.

Cybersecurity (for 2014 incoming class and LATER): Four additional humanities classes. At least one must beat the 100 or 200 level, at least one must be at the 300 or 400 level, and courses must cover at least two different disciplines within CAL. One of the four additional classes must be either HSS 371 or HPL 455.

Business & Technology (Marketing, Finance, Economics, & Information Systems) and Quantitative Finance students: Two additional humanities classes. One must be at the 100 or 200 level, one must be at the 300 or 400 level, and courses must cover at least two different disciplines within CAL.

BT 243, Macroeconomics, and BT 244, Microeconomics, may be counted as upper-level humanities courses, provided they are not required courses in the student’s major.

Please note the following about Stevens Humanities Requirements:

Not all courses offered by the College of Arts & Letters satisfy the general humanities requirement for undergraduate programs at Stevens. All courses with the prefixes HHS, HLI, HPL, HSS, and HST offer humanities credit. Courses with the prefixes LFR or LSP do not offer humanities credit. The HTH, HAR and HMU courses listed below offer humanities credit. If you are not sure about a course, please contact the program director, your academic advisor or the CAL office for confirmation.

The only theater, music, and visual arts classes that fulfill humanities requirements are: