Humanities Requirements

All undergraduate students are required to complete:

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
Enviromental 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

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 305Latin American Literature and Culture

3

LSP 310Spanish Literature and Culture

3

Theater

Course Options

HTH 201Introduction to Theater

3

HTH 221Introduction toCinema

3

Music

Course Options

HMU 101History of European Music I

3

HMU 102History of European Music 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 283African Art and Architecture

3

HAR 307Afrofuturism

3

HAR 372Technology and the Landscape

3

HAR 380Media Culture and Theory

3

HAR 384Modern Utopias in Art, Design, and Architecture

3

HAR 385Contemporary Art

3

HAR 386Feminist Theory and Artistic Practice

3

HAR 388History of American Art

3

HAR 494Seminar in Art and Technology

3 - 6