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Undergraduate Study

General Education Requirements



College of Engineering Social Science and Humanities Requirements:

  1. 6 hours Campus Humanities and the Arts and 6 hours Social and Behavioral Science (see below)
  2. 6 more hours:
  3. 1 Cultural Studies: Western and 1 Cultural Studies: Non-western. These courses can be incorporated in the above 18 hours.


Campus General Education Requirements


Complete Rules and Lists at: http://www.courses.uiuc.edu/gened/

Campus General Education courses MUST be taken for a letter grade.

1. Composition I: Rhet 105 (also Rhet 101+2; 103+4; 108; SpCom111+112; ESL 114+115)

2. Advanced Composition (Composition II) -- SEE LIST.

3,4. Social and Behavioral Sciences. Humanities and the Arts -- SEE LIST.

5,6. Western Culture. Non-Western or American Minority Culture -- SEE LIST

7. Foreign Language - Complete a third level college foreign language course.

8,9. Natural Sciences and Technology and Quantitative Reasoning.


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