Core Humanities Courses

In their first year of study, all School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) majors take a two-course sequence, the Foundations of Writing and Critical Inquiry, which offers an introduction to academic writing and communication (HASS 103) and an introduction to the humanities and social sciences (HASS 105).

Majors in the humanities must take a sequence of four (4) core courses which cover the humanistic disciplines as they pertain to topics in science and technology:

History of Science and Technology (HHS 130)

Introduction to Science and Technology Studies (HST 120)

Images of Science in Literature (HLI 220)

Science and Metaphysics (HPL 112)

Quantitative Social Science majors must complete two (2) courses from this list as well as two upper-division (300-level or higher) humanities courses outside of the HQSS/HSSC discipline.

Visual Arts & Technology majors must take any four (4) courses for humanities credit, with at least one course 300-level or higher.

Music & Technology majors must take a total of three (3) humanities courses.

Science Technology and Society and Science Communication majors must take HHS 130 and HST 120 plus four (4) additional humanities courses outlined in the Major Concentration Area. For Science Communication majors, one of these four additional courses must be HST 160.