Nontechnical Breadth Requirements
A.聽 First-Year Course Requirements
38-101聽 EUREKA!:聽 Discovery and Its Impact
76-10齿听 First-Year Writing Course
99-101聽 Computing @ Carnegie Mellon
B.聽 Science and Society Course Requirements
38-304 Reading and Writing Science or聽choose to take one of the preapproved electives
C.聽 Engage courses
38-110聽 ENGAGE in Service
38-220聽 ENGAGE in the Arts
38-230聽 ENGAGE in Wellness: Looking Inward
38-330聽 ENGAGE in Wellness: Looking Outward
38-430聽 ENGAGE in Wellness: Looking Forward
D.聽 Cultural/Global Understanding Course Requirement
Any student who finds an appropriate 麻豆村 course which is not on the list and might fulfill this requirement can contact Kevin Hunter to see if the course can be added to the list. Study abroad and transfer courses will be considered for this category. However, this requirement cannot be fulfilled with AP, IB, or Cambridge credit.聽 Students must complete 9 units of this requirement.
19-291聽 Special Topics: Environmental Systems on a Changing Planet
57-173聽 Survey of Western Music History
57-209聽 The Beatles
57-306聽 World Music
66-213聽 The American Railroad: Decline and Renaissance in the Age of Deregulation
70-342聽 Managing Across Cultures
76-217 Literature & Culture of the 20th and 21st Century
76-221聽 Books You Should Have Read By Now
76-232聽 Introduction to African American Literature
76-239聽 Introduction to Film Studies
76-241聽 Introduction to Gender Studies
76-386聽 Language & Culture
79-104聽 Global Histories
79-145聽 Genocide and Weapons of Mass Destruction (beginning Fall 21)
79-189聽 History of Democracy: Thinking Beyond the Self (beginning Fall 21)
79-201聽 Introduction to Anthropology
79-202聽 Flesh and Spirit: Early Modern Europe, 1400-1750
79-202聽 The Other Europes: The Habsburgs, Communism, & Central/Eastern Europe, 1740-1990
79-205聽 20th & 21st Century Europe
79-208聽 Witchcraft and Witch-Hunting
79-210聽 Identity, Nationhood, and State
79-211聽 Modern Southeast Asia: Colonialism, Capitalism, and Cultural Exchange
79-214聽 Paris in Revolt: History, Literature, and Film
79-216聽 Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire
79-217聽 The War in Vietnam
79-219聽 Modern Cuba: A Travel Guide for Millennials, 1898 to the Present
79-220聽 Screening Mexico: Mexican Cinema, 1898 to Present
79-222聽 Between Revolutions: The Development of Modern Latin America
79-222聽 China and the Second World War
79-223聽 Mexico: From the Aztec Empire to the Drug War
79-227聽 Modern Africa: The Slave Trade to the End of Apartheid
79-229聽 Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1880-1948
79-230聽 Arab-Israeli Conflict Since 1948
79-231聽 American Civil Rights Movement: From Garveyism to Black Power
79-232聽 Arabian Peninsula Environmental History
79-233聽 The United States and the Middle East since 1945
79-234 Technology and Society
79-235聽 Caribbean Cultures
79-240聽 Development of American Culture
79-241聽 African American History: Africa to the Civil War
79-242聽 African American History: Reconstruction to the Present
79-244聽 Women in American History
79-245聽 Capitalism and Individualism in American Culture
79-250聽 Voting Rights: An Unexpected History
79-255聽 Irish History
79-257聽 Germany and the Second World War
79-261聽 The Last Emperors: Chinese History and Society, 1600-1900
79-262聽 Modern China: From the Birth of Mao ... to Now
79-263聽 Mao and the Chinese Cultural Revolution
79-264聽 Tibet and China: History and Propaganda
79-265聽 Russian History: From the First to the Last Tsar
79-266聽 Russian History: From Communism to Capitalism
79-267聽 The Soviet Union in World War II: Military, Political, and Social History
79-275聽 Introduction to Global Studies
79-280聽 Coffee and Capitalism
79-283聽 Hungry World: Food and Famine in Global Perspective
79-284聽 Modern War: Geopolitical Conflict in Historical Perspective
79-307聽 Religion and Politics in the Middle East
79-328聽 Photographers and Photography Since World War II
79-343聽 Education, Democracy, and Civil Rights
79-345聽 Roots of Rock & Roll
79-349聽 The Holocaust in Historical Perspective
79-350聽 Early Christianity
79-358聽 Nazi Ghettos: From Spatial Segregation to Killing Zones
79-375聽 Science & Religion
79-377聽 Food, Culture, and Power: A History of Eating
80-100聽 Introduction to Philosophy
80-101聽 Dangerous Ideas in Science and Society
80-250聽 Ancient Philosophy
80-251聽 Modern Philosophy
80-253聽 Continental Philosophy
80-254聽 Analytic Philosophy
80-255聽 Pragmatism
80-276聽 Philosophy of Religion
82-xxx聽 Any course from Modern Languages
84-380聽 Grand Strategy in the United States
85-350聽 Psychology of Prejudice
85-352聽 Evolutionary Psychology
99-3xx聽 Any of the "Country Today" courses
E.聽 Nontechnical Elective Requirements
To fulfill this requirement, students must complete a minimum of four nontechnical courses totaling at least 36 units. These courses should be from the College of Fine Arts, the Tepper School of Business and/or Dietrich College. Lists of exceptions can be found in the links below. A maximum of 18 units may be fulfilled with AP, IB, and Cambridge credit.
Certain courses offered in academic units other than CFA, DC and Tepper are considered non-technical and may be taken to fulfill Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Business Course Requirements.聽 The following courses may be used to satisfy those requirements.聽 Again, this list is not presumed to be exhaustive.聽 Students who would like to petition to add a course to the list can contact Kevin Hunter.
Computer Science
05-392聽 Interaction Design Overview
15-221聽 Technical Communication for Computer Scientists
MCS Interdisciplinary
38-132 DC Grand Challenge First-Year Seminar: Health in Unhealthy Times
Public Policy & Management
90-717聽 Writing for Public Policy
90-718聽 Strategic Presentation Skills
90-733聽 Urban Development
90-765聽 Cities, Technology and the Environment
90-767聽 Welfare Policy
90-778聽 Media and Public Policy Making
90-810聽 Population and Policy
90-818聽 Health Care Quality & Performance Improvement
90-828聽 Energy, Climate Change, and Economic Growth in the 21st Century
90-847聽 Grand Corruption and Rule of Law
麻豆村-Wide Studies
99-241 Revolutions of Circularity
99-421聽 Faces of Wo/Men
The intent of the Nontechnical Breadth Requirements is to provide breadth in background and exposure to non-technical areas.聽 For this reason, certain technical courses from these colleges are excluded.聽 These courses are listed below, though this list is not presumed to be exhaustive.聽 New courses will undoubtedly be offered which are not currently listed.聽 Students who have concerns about whether or not a course can fulfill the requirement can contact Kevin Hunter.
The following courses are considered to be technical courses and may not be used to fulfill the Nontechnical Breadth Requirement:
Statistics
36-011聽 AP Statistics
36-200聽 Reasoning with Data
36-201聽 Statistical Reasoning and Practice
36-202聽 Statistics & Data Science Methods
36-207聽 Probability and Statistics for Business Applications
36-208聽 Regression Analysis
36-217聽 Probability Theory and Random Processes
36-225聽 Introduction to Probability Theory
36-226聽 Introduction to Statistical Inference
36-247聽 Statistics for Lab Sciences
36-295聽 Independent Study
36-303聽 Sampling, Survey and Society
36-309聽 Experimental Design for Behavioral & Social Sciences
36-315聽 Statistical Graphics and Visualization
36-401聽 Modern Regression
36-402聽 Advanced Methods Data Mining
36-410聽 Introduction to Probability Modeling
36-461聽 Special Topics in Statistics
36-462聽 Special Topics in Statistics
36-625聽 Probability and Mathematical Statistics I
MCS Interdisciplinary
38-012聽 AP Environmental Science
Architecture
48-215聽 Materials and Assembly
48-217聽 Structures
48-315聽 Environment I:聽 Climate & Energy
48-400聽 Advanced Synthesis Options Studio I
48-410聽 Advanced Synthesis Options Studio II
48-412聽 Environment II:聽 Mechanical Systems
48-500聽 Advanced Synthesis Options Studio III
48-510聽 Advanced Synthesis Options Studio IV
48-752聽 Zero Energy Housing
Design
51-341聽 How Things Are Made
51-401聽 Senior Design Lab
Art
60-223聽 IDeATe Portal:聽 Introduction to Physical Computing
College of Fine Arts
62-150聽 IDeATe Portal:聽 Introduction to Media Synthesis and Analysis
Business Administration
70-110聽 Business Computing
70-122聽 Introduction to Accounting
70-207聽 Probability and Statistics for Business Applications
70-208聽 Regression Analysis
70-371聽 Operations Management
70-391聽 Finance
70-428聽 Financial Statement Analysis
70-451聽 Management Information Systems
70-453聽 Business Technology for Consulting
70-460聽 Mathematical Models for Consulting
70-461聽 Real Time Decisions with Resource Planning Systems
70-465聽 Technology Strategy
70-471聽 Supply Chain Management
70-492聽 Investment Analysis
70-495聽 Corporate Finance
70-497聽 Derivative Securities
Economics
73-252聽 Advanced Microeconomic Theory
73-253聽 Advanced Macroeconomic Theory
73-265聽 Economics and Data Science
73-372聽 International Money and Finance
Philosophy
80-110聽 Nature Mathematical Reasoning
80-210聽 Logic and Proofs
80-211聽 Logic and Mathematical Inquiry
80-223聽 Causality and Probability
80-305聽 Choices, Decisions, and Games
80-310聽 Formal Logic
80-311聽 Undecidability and Incompleteness
80-314聽 Causal Discovery, Statistics, and Machine Learning
80-315聽 Modal Logic
80-316 Causation Probability & AI聽
80-317聽 Introduction to Ramsey Theory
80-405聽 Game Theory
80-411聽 Proof Theory
80-413聽 Category Theory
80-511聽 Thesis Seminar
80-513聽 Seminar of Philosophy of Mathematics
80-514聽 Categorical Logic
80-516聽 Causality and Learning
Psychology
85-111聽 Self-Paced Lisp Lab
85-213聽 Human Information Processing and Artificial Intelligence
85-219聽 Biological Foundations of Behavior
85-310聽 Research Methods in Cognitive Psychology
Social & Decision Sciences
88-198聽 Research Training:聽 Social and Decision Sciences
88-223聽 Decision Analysis
88-251聽 Empirical Research Methods