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2018-2019 University Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Environmental and Ecological Engineering Gen Ed Requirements


Courses


EEE General Education Program Requirements

Students are strongly encouraged to develop a coherent general education plan, and distribute their general education credits throughout their academic program. The collection of courses used to fulfill this requirement must meet all of the following conditions:

1. Students must select from the list of courses approved by the University Core Council to satisfy each of the six Foundational Learning Outcomes listed below. Some courses may have been approved to meet more than one of the Foundational Learning Outcomes, so fewer than six courses can be used to fulfill this condition. There is no minimum number of credit hours needed to satisfy this component of the College of Engineering General Education Program.

  • Written Communication (WC)
  • Oral Communication (OC)
  • Information Literacy (IL)
  • Human Cultures: Humanities (H)
  • Human Cultures: Behavior/Social Science (BSS)
  • Science, Technology, and Society (STS)

Students must earn a C- or better in courses used to satisfy this component of the EEE General Education Program.


2. Students must take additional approved courses to reach the minimum requirement of 24 credit hours, selected as follows:

  • All courses approved by the University Core Council as meeting a Foundational Learning Outcome.
  • Courses must be drawn from those offered by the departments of Agricultural Economics, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Child Development and Family Studies, Communication, Economics, English, Foreign Languages and Literatures, History, Interdisciplinary Studies, Philosophy, Political Sciences, Psychological Sciences, Sociology and Anthropology, Visual and Performing Arts. In general, this relates to the following subject codes: AAS, AD, AGEC, AMST, ANTH, ARAB, ASAM, ASL, CHNS, CLCS, CMPL, COM, DANC, ECON, ENGL, FLL/LC, FR, GER, GREK, HDFS, HEBR, HIST, IDIS, ITAL, JWST, JPNS, LALS, LATN, LING, MARS, MUS, PHIL, POL, PSY, PTGS, REL, RUSS, SLHS, SOC, SPAN, THTR, WGSS.
  • Any course offered by these departments is allowable, provided that it is open to students in the offering department and is not focused primarily on professional training, natural science or mathematics.


3. At least 6 of the 24 required credit hours must come from courses at the 30000-level or above, or from courses with a required prerequisite in the same department.


4. At least 3 credit hours in a course at the intersection of Society and the Environment. These are generally in environmental law, environmental policy, environmental history, environmental humanities, or environmental education. The current list is:

  • AD 39700: Sustainability In The Built Environment
  • AGEC 40600: Natural Resources and Environmental Economics
  • AGEC 41500: Community and Resource Development
  • AGEC 52500: Environmental Policy Analysis
  • ANTH 32700: Environment And Culture
  • ENGL 23400: Ecological Literature
  • ENGL 34400: Environmental Ethics, Policy, And Sustainability
  • HIST 39400: Environmental History of the United States
  • PHIL 29000: Environmental Ethics
  • PHIL 49000 (variable title): Climate Change & the Moral Psychology of Existential Threat
  • POL 22300: Introduction to Environmental Policy
  • POL 32300: Comparative Environmental Policy
  • POL 32700: Global Green Politics
  • POL 42300: International Environmental Policy
  • POL 42500: Environmental Law and Politics
  • POL 42800: Politics of Regulation
  • POL 42900 (variable title): Health, Sustainability & Built Environment
  • POL 52300: Environmental Politics and Public Policy


5. At least 12 of the 24 required credit hours must be taken from the College of Liberal Arts, and/or the Honors College provided such courses are not focused primarily on engineering, technology, the natural sciences, or mathematics.


6. In order to ensure sufficient exposure to topics dealing with global, societal and contemporary issues, at least 9 credit hours must be drawn from courses offered by the departments of Agricultural Economics, Economics, Communication, Foreign Languages and Literatures, History, Interdisciplinary Studies, Philosophy, Political Sciences, Psychological Sciences, or Sociology and Anthropology.