Humanities and Social Sciences Info Center  

Your engineering courses prepare you to analyze the physical or material world,but not all important questions can be well addressed by scientific knowledge or technical skills. To help prepare you to overcome life’s non-technical challenges and to embrace its opportunities, the College of Engineering and Applied Science requires students to take courses in the humanities and social sciences.

Chosen carefully, such courses can help you learn more about contemporary issues such as globalization and the impact of science on society, the complexity of ethical decision-making, the sources of conflict between different cultures and nation-states, or the power and insight of poetry and drama. With so much at stake, we encourage you to choose all of your courses thoughtfully. 

Humanities and Social Sciences Requirements for the

College of Engineering and Applied Science

This Advising Guide has been designed to help you choose your humanities and social sciences (H&SS) courses wisely, but the first step is to understand your H&SS degree requirements. The college sets minimum requirements, but some majors have higher requirements. Be sure to check with your major as well.

All students need at least 18 credit hours in H&SS and writing to graduate. This usually means 6 courses, but the particular distribution of these 18 credits depends on when you entered CU.

Please select the link that applies to you.

Undergraduate students who entered before Fall Semester 2007 may choose to follow either one of these two policies. They may not, however, choose to follow a mixture of elements drawn from these two separate policies. Students entering in the fall of 2007 or later must follow the new policy.

• Old Policy: Undergraduate Students Who Entered CU Engineering Before the Fall Semester 2007
• New Policy: Undergraduate Students Entering CU Engineering in the Fall Semester 2007 or Later