Humanities Requirements

All undergraduate students are required to complete CAL 103, Writing and Communications, and CAL 105, Knowledge, Nature, Culture.

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.

Math 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.

Biology, Chemical Biology, and Chemistry 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.

Physics 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.

Computer Science 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 HSS 371 or HPL 455.

Cybersecurity: 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 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 School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences 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 unless indicated below. The LSP, HTH, HAR and HMU courses listed below offer humanities credit. If you are not sure about a course, please contact your academic advisor or the HASS office for confirmation.

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