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.

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.

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 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 your academic advisor or the CAL office for confirmation.

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

Theater

Course Options

HTH 201Introduction to Theater

3

HTH 221Introduction to Cinema

3

Music

Course Options

HMU 101Music History I

3

HMU 102Music History II

3

HMU 192Music Appreciation I

3

HMU 193Music Appreciation II

3

HMU 194History of American Popular Music

3

HMU 195History of Electronic and Experimental Music

3

HMU 350Music of the Eastern Mediterranean

3

HMU 394History of Jazz

3

HMU 494Seminar 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 180History of Art: Prehistory to Modern Era

3

HAR 280Modern Art History and Theory

3

HAR 281History of Photography

3

HAR 282History of Middle Eastern Art

3

HAR 372Technology and the Landscape

3

HAR 380Media Culture and Theory

3

HAR 385Contemporary Art

3

HAR 494Seminar in Art and Technology

3-6