H&SS Requirements for Undergraduate Students Entering CU Engineering in the
Fall Semester 2007 or Later

Undergraduate students entering between Fall Semester 2006 and Fall Semester 2007 may choose to follow either the policy described below or the one described at http://engineering.colorado.edu/homer/Prefall2006.htm. (They may not, however, choose to follow a mixture of elements drawn from these two separate policies.)

The following minimum requirements apply:

A. Writing: 3 credit hours in an approved upper-division course.

AND

B. Humanities and Social Sciences: 15 credit hours of approved courses, of which 6 must be at the upper-division level (3000 or higher).

The Writing Requirement may be fulfilled by WRTG 3030, WRTG 3035, GEEN 3000, HUEN 3100, PHYS 3050, or other writing courses as approved by the Undergraduate Education Council.

The Humanities and Social Science Requirements may be fulfilled by a very long list of courses. Here is how this list is defined:

1)      Any course included in any of the following eight categories of courses in the A&S Core also counts as an H&SS elective in the College of Engineering and Applied Science:

1. Contemporary Societies 

2. Critical Thinking

3. Culture and Gender Diversity 

4. Foreign Language

5. Historical Context

6. Ideals and Values

7. Literature and the Arts

8. United States Context

Exceptions: Critical Thinking courses taught in the following departments do NOT count for H&SS credit: ASTR, CHEM, EBIO, MATH, MCDB, PHYS.

The particular courses included in these categories are easily found on the Arts and Sciences Core Curriculum web page and through the PLUS system.

2)    The Herbst Program of Humanities teaches H&SS courses designed especially for Engineers, including Engineering Honors courses. These all have “HUEN” or “EHON” as their prefix, and all of them count as H&SS electives. For a list of offerings by the Herbst Program, see http://engineering.colorado.edu/herbst/courses.asp.

3)    The college is eager to see meaningful groupings of courses in related subjects and hence will approve H&SS electives, even if they are not courses in the A&S Core, when they are grouped so as to form a coherent plan of study. Prior approval is granted for any group of four courses that would count toward a minor field in any of the following departments in the College of Arts and Sciences: Economics, Ethnic Studies, History, Linguistics, Philosophy, Political Science, Religious Studies, or Women’s Studies.  (Note: These courses are approved for H&SS credit only if taken as a group of four courses that would count toward a minor field.)  For further information on minor fields, see http://www.colorado.edu/ArtsSciences/students/undergraduate/academics/minors.html.
For other possible exceptions, see points 4 and 5 below.

4)   Any other course specifically approved for all students by the Undergraduate Education Council of the College of Engineering and Applied Science.

       The following courses are so approved:

• ARCH 3114 — History and Theories of Architecture I

• ARCH 3214 — History and Theories of Architecture II

• ARCH 4010 — Architectural Appreciation and Design

• ATLS 2000 — The Meaning of Information Technology

• CVEN 4700 — Sustainability and the Built Environment

• ECON 3070 — Intermediate Microeconomic Theory

• ECON 3080 — Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory

• EMUS 3642 (through summer 2007) — History of Jazz

• GEEN 1100 — Social Impact of Technology

• GEEN 3300 — Sustainability Ethics and Practice

• GEOG 1992 — Human Geographies

• PSYC 1001 — General Psychology

        Up to six-credits of the following ROTC courses also
count as H&SS electives:

• NAVR 2020, 3101, 4020, 4101

• AIRR 2010, 2020, 4010, 4020

• MILR 4082

• HIST 4146

5)     Any other purposeful grouping of H&SS courses approved for an individual student by the H&SS Subcommittee of the Undergraduate Education Council.

Additional web sites that may be helpful:

                Schedule Planner
                PLUS System
                Herbst Humanities
                Online Writing Lab (OWL)
                University of Colorado Home