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For any degree in the School of Arts and Sciences (formerly known as the College or Arts and Sciences, or CAS), courses must be taken in a broad range of fields;
these courses provide breadth to your undergraduate education. Consult
our Departmental advisors for guidence in fulfilling these requirements. For more detailed information on the following Arts and Sciences requirements, as well as
links to courses that fulfill these requirements see the Arts and Sciences Degree Requirements page.
There are two major classes of Arts and Sciences requirements : Foundation Skills Requirements and
Disciplinary Approaches Requirements.
Foundational Skills Requirements
Foundational Skills Requirements help ensure that all students attain reasonable levels of competence in
composition and writing and quantitative and formal reasoning. Students who fail to satisfy Foundational
Skills Requirements within the specified time periods may be subject to academic suspension or dismissal.
- Intensive Workshop in Composition and Seminar in Composition
- Completed either through exemption based on writing placement test score or by completing 3-4 credits of approved course work.
- Students scoring above 600 on SAT Verbal are automatically placed in Seminar in Composition without placement test.
- Students scoring above 600 on SAT Verbal and earning a 5 on the English AP exam will automatically receive credit for Seminar in Composition.
- Writing (W) Courses
- Beyond the Seminar in Composition requirement, students must complete one W course in any CAS department and one W course in the major.
- CAS W courses may also fulfill a Disciplinary Approaches requirement.
- W courses in the Biological Sciences Department are listed on the courses page, and on the
Writing Courses page.
- Algebra
- Students who score less then 600 on the SAT Math and do not receive a satisfactory score on the
algebra placement test must complete an approved algebra or pre-calculus course.
- Quantitative Reasoning
- This requirement is fulfilled by the calculus course (MATH 0220) required of all majors in the Biological Sciences Department.
Disciplinary Approaches Requirements
Disciplinary Approach Requirements provide the framework of a liberal education that includes course work
in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and global citizenship.
Humanities Requirements
- First-level Literature
- First-level Music or Art
- Creative Expression (Please Note : All majors in the Department of Biological Sciences who matriculated before Fall 2003 are exempt from this requirement.
Students entering CAS starting in Fall 2003 must complete this requirement.)
- Philosophy
Social Sciences Requirements
Natural Sciences Requirements
- These requirements are fulfilled by the required courses of any major within the
Department of Biological Sciences.
Global Citizenship Requirements
- Foreign Language
- All students must demonstrate basic competency in a foreign language by completing three years of the same language in high school with at least a C average,
scoring satisfactorily on the University's or the College Board's placement test, or by completing course work with at least a C- average through level two of a language in CAS.
- International Foreign Cultures
- Foreign Culture courses are classified as Regional, Global, or Comparative.
- Students must take three foreign culture courses in at least two of the above categories (i.e., two regional and one global).
- Non-Western Foreign Culture Requirement
- Students must take at least one course that is classified as non-western.
- This course can also fulfill one of the general education requirements above.
Dancing with a Skeleton Requirement
This rarely-enforced requirement is specific for majors within the Department of Biological Sciences, and may be fulfilled by personal interview or by authorized videotape.
Nicole Masian completes the skeleton dance requirement with Gina.
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