University General Education Requirements
A full description of General Education Requirements as well as a complete list of courses which fulfill those requirements is available on the COIN web site: http://www.umassd.edu/courselistings/. Many courses fulfilling College Distribution and Major requirements can also be used to meet General Education Requirements.
NOTE: A course can only be used to fulfill a single content General Education requirement (C, G, D, S, M, E) even if it is approved for a number of different categories. A single course can be used to fulfill a content Gen Ed and a skill Gen Ed requirement (Tier II I, O, & W). A single course can also satisfy both the O and W requirement. In some cases, substitutions or waivers can, with the approval of the advisor and Department Chair, be made for Tier II (I, O, W) requirements.
See the university course catalog for information on courses in other departments.
Area C – Cultural and Artistic Literacy 9 credits
Courses fulfilling the Humanities Distribution Requirement will meet this requirement.
Area E – Ethics and Social Responsibility 3 credits
Courses that fulfill this requirement in the Sociology/Anthropology Department are:
SOC 164, SOC 177, ANT/SOC 323, ANT/SOC 325.
Other courses recommended for fulfilling this requirement are:
AAS/ECO/WMS/LST 103 Cities, Minorities Poverty
ECO 101 Introduction to Economics
ECO/WMS/LST 111 Jobs and Discrimination
ECO 231 Principles of Microeconomics
ECO 232 Principles of Macroeconomics
ECO/LST/WMS/AAS 343 The Economics of Sex and Race Discrimination
ECO/LST 345 Education, Work, Discrimination
HST 355 Anti-Semitism and its Ethical Issues
PHL 101 Introduction to Philosophy
PHL 215 Introduction to Ethics
PHL/WMS 307 Ecofeminism: Philosophy and Practice
PHL 317 Ethics and Health Care Professionals
PHY 162 Science, Technology and Society II
PSC 101 Introduction to Political Science
PSC 237 Politics of Free Speech and Religion
PSC 323 Civil Liberties
WMS 306 Contemporary Feminist Theory and Practice
Area G – Global Awareness 3 credits
Courses that fulfill this requirement in the Sociology/Anthropology Department are:
ANT 111, ANT 262, SOC/ANT 319, SOC/ANT 344, SOC/ANT 363.
There are many other courses that fulfill this requirement including any Foreign Language course and many from HST (History), ARH (Art History), MUS (Music), and PSC (Political Science).
Area D – Diversity 3 credits
Courses that fulfill this requirement in the Sociology/Anthropology Department are:
SOC 101, SOC/ANT 315, SOC/ANT 332, SOC/ANT 337, SOC/ANT 359.
Some other courses recommended for fulfilling this requirement are:
AAS/ECO/WMS/LST 103 Cities, Minorities, Poverty
ECO/WMS/LST 111 Jobs and Discrimination
HST 115 History of the United States I
HST 116 History of the United States II
WMS 101 Introduction to Women’s Studies
WMS 208 Global Perspectives on Women
Area M – Mathematics 3 credits
Courses recommended to fulfill this requirement are:
MTH 104 Statistics and MTH 120 Quantitative Reasoning.
MTH 101 will also meet this requirement, but is not recommended for majors.
Area S - Natural Science and Technology 6 credits
Courses fulfilling the Science Distribution requirement will meet this requirement.
Area W – Written Skills, Tier II 3 credits
Courses recommended for fulfilling this requirement are:
Art History
ARH 200 Studies in Visual Culture: Ancient, Medieval, and World Art
ARH 325 Italian Renaissance Art
ARH 342 Impressionism to Symbolism
ARH 360 Survey of Primitive Art
ARH/WMS 380 Feminist Perspectives on Art History
English
ENL 265 Business Communication
ENL 266 Technical Communication
ENL 350 Report and Proposal Writing
ENL/WMS 370 Women, Writing, and the Media
other 300-level ENL courses (360, 361, 362, 363, 364).
Philosophy
PHL 102 Philosophical Aspects of Feminism
PHL 215 Introduction to Ethics
other 200 & 300-level PHL courses (210, 221, 227, 301, 311, 320, 332, 371)
Political Science
PSC 207 Problems in Public Policy
PSC 322 Constitutional Law
other 300-level PSC courses (362, 368, 383)
Area O - Oral Skills, Tier II 3 credits
The SOC/ANT 316 Research Methods course satisfies this requirement (SOC 206 does NOT). If a student has already taken the 206 Methods course, the following courses are recommended for fulfilling this requirement:
AAS/ECO/WMS/LST 103 Cities, Minorities, Poverty
AAS 271 Oral Interpretation of Literature
ECO/WMS/LST 111 Jobs and Discrimination
ENL 265 Business Communication
ENL 266 Technical Communication
ENL 270 Speech Communications
ENL 271 Oral Interpretation of Literature
PSC 322 Constitutional Law
Area I – Information and Computer Literacy
Tier I 6 credits
ENL 101 & ENL 102
Tier II 3 credits
Recommended courses include:
ARH (see catalogue)
WMS 210 Research Methods
CIS 115 Computer Programming with C
NUR 105 Human Nutrition
PSC 207 Problems in Public Policy
