General Education Requirements for the B.A. and B.S. Degrees (A&S)

Citizenship/Community

Courses that fulfill the citizenship/community requirement can be found here .

Notes: Citizenship/Community

Students majoring in a program with more than 58 credits required for the degree and students pursuing a double major may select one of the following AUC courses to fulfill the college’s citizenship/community requirement:

• AUCT 140 - Epidemics and AIDS 3–4 credit(s)

Diversity

Courses that fulfill the diversity requirement can be found here .

Notes: (Diversity)

Students majoring in a program with more than 58 credits required for the degree and students pursuing a double major may select one of the following AUC courses to fulfill the college’s diversity requirement:

• AUCA 150 - Ethnic Roots and Urban Arts 3 credit(s)
• AUCC 110 - Hunger: Problems of Scarcity and Choice 3 credit(s)
• AUCC 120 - Literature and Films of Other Cultures 3 credit(s)
• AUCC 140 - Native American Cultures 3 credit(s)
• AUCC 150 - The Caribbean Mosaic 3 credit(s)
• AUCC 160 - Literature and Culture of Immigrant Groups in America 3 credit(s)
• AUCS 110 - Sources of Power 3 credit(s)
• AUCS 150 - Gender, Identity, and Society 3 credit(s)

Mathematics (0 or 3 credits)

The college believes that students must demonstrate basic college-level mathematics skills by successfully completing any mathematics course (except M 118 ) taught by the A&S mathematics department.

Arts* (3 credits)

Select

• one course from art history, music, cinema, or drama.

Humanities* (9 credits)

Select

• three courses from three different disciplines from the following list: literature, foreign language, history, philosophy.

Laboratory Science (4 or 8 credits)

• Two 4-credit laboratory courses from biology, chemistry, physics, or SCI.
• One laboratory course may be a 4-credit, college-approved AUCT course.
• The list of approved courses may be found at www.hartford.edu/A_and_S/academic_services/gen_ed/approved_AUCT.aspx.

Social Science (6 credits)

Note(s):

*Students who are pursuing a double major and students in degree programs requiring more than 58 credits in the major may use an AUC course to fulfill one requirement among the arts and humanities within the exploration and breadth category.

Writing Courses (0 or 3 or 6 credits)

• RPW 110 - Rhetoric and Writing I 3 credit(s) (first year, second semester)
• RPW 210 - Foundations of Argument 3 credit(s) (second year, first semester)

Information Technology Literacy (0 or 3 credits)

Students must take one course from a list of approved courses in informational technology literacy. The list of approved courses is found in the majors book or at http://uhaweb.hartford.edu/artsci/gened. If approved by the major department, a course in this category may also count toward the major.

Courses that fulfill the information technology literacy requirement:

• CS 110 - Introduction to Computers 3 credit(s)
• CS 111 - Programming Foundations 3 credit(s)
• CS 114 - Fundamentals of Computing I 4 credit(s)
• MWD 110 - Foundations of Web Design and Development 4 credit(s)
• RPW 375 - Professional Editing 3 credit(s)

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• The list of approved courses may also be found in the majors book at http://www.hartford.edu/a_and_s/academic_services/files/pdfs/Majors_book/info_tech.pdf

Writing-Intensive Courses (0 or 3 credits)

In addition to RPW 110  and RPW 210 , students must take two writing-intensive courses, one of which must be taken in the major. Writing-intensive courses are indicated by a W following a course code (e.g., CMM 250W ).

A writing-intensive course is one in which students do some writing for most class meetings, in addition to the writing they do for examinations and term projects. The nature of the writing varies from course to course; it may include journals, laboratory reports, short essays, or substantial research projects. Besides covering the usual content, a writing-intensive course devotes class time to the writing process: planning, drafting, revising, or editing. While each discipline has its own research methods and distinctive scholarly style, writing-intensive courses stress the common denominators of academic discourse. Writing-intensive courses have met the guidelines approved by the faculty.