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H&SS Requirements

All students working toward a B.S. degree are required to take a selection of Humanities and Social Science courses that is referred to as the H&SS core. It consists of 24 credit hours or six courses distributed in such a way as to afford students a breadth of perspective across the various disciplines as well as a more in-depth experience in at least one area.

Distribution Requirements:
To ensure that students have breadth in their core courses, students must select at least two courses (8 credit hours) from humanities and two courses (8 credit hours) of social sciences. H&SS interdisciplinary courses (IHSS) may be substituted for courses in either category.

To ensure that students have some depth in their H&SS core, students must take at least two courses within a single area prefix (STSH and STSS can be counted as a single area), at least one of which is taken at an advanced level (above 1000). No course within the depth sequence may be taken as Pass/No Credit. No more than three 1000-level H&SS courses may be applied toward the H&SS core requirement, no more than 6 credits may be taken as Pass/No credit and at least one course (4 credits) must be at the 4000 level.

Note: For IT students ITEC-1220 Politics and Economics of IT (Social Science) and ITEC-2210 Intro to Human Computer Interaction (Humanities) are counted towards your H&SS requirements. No other ITEC core courses or concentration courses can be counted towards your H&SS core requirements.



Suggested 2000/4000 H&SS Courses for IT Students

ARTS-2540 The Multimedia Century
COMM-4400 Cross-Cultural Design Research
COMM-4470 Information Design
COMM-4560 Media and Popular Culture
COMM-4710 Communication Design for the WWW
COMM-4770 User-Centered Design
COMM-4790 Social Impact of Electronic Media
COMM-4810 Electronic Media and Society
COMM-4830 Organizational Communication
ECON-4140 Structure of American Industry
ECON-4230 Environmental Economics
PHIL-4260 Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence
STSS-2250 Information, Society and Culture
STSS-2210 Design, Culture and Society
STSH-4220 Ethical Issues in Computing
STSH-4230 Engineering Ethics
STSS-4350 Politics of Design
STSH-4510 History of American Technology

Students may also want to consider foreign language courses as elective courses.


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