General Education Requirements

College of Engineering

 

All engineering students must satisfy the university’s General Education Requirements as follows:

Mathematics (M) – 3 credits. Satisfied with required courses.

Natural Science (N) – 6 credits. Satisfied with required courses.

English Communications (EC, ECw) – 6 credits. A minimum of 3 credits must be a course designed specifically to improve written communication skills (usually WRT 104, 105 or 106). Only one 100-level writing course (ECw) will count towards this requirement.

Fine Arts and Literature (A) – 6 credits. (Note: IEP specifies 3 credits)

Letters (L) – 6 credits. IME, MCE, and OCE students are required to take EGR 316 (Engineering Ethics). (Note: IEP specifies 3 credits)

Social Sciences (S) – 6 credits. All engineering students are required to take ECN 201 (Principles of Economics: Microeconomics). IME students are required to take ECN 202 (Principles of Economics: Macroeconomics) as well.

Foreign Language/Cross-cultural Competence (FC) – 3 credits

The university also requires that at least two of the general education courses taken be diversity [D] courses. For example:

ENG 110 (Introduction to Literature) can satisfy either the Fine Arts and Literature (A) or the Letters (L) requirement; at the same time, the course has a [D] designation.

ECN 201 (Principles of Economics: Microeconomics) only satisfies the Social Sciences (S) requirement; it is not designated as a [D] course.

The list of general education courses can be found in the course catalog of the year the student joined URI (www.uri.edu/catalog/); for example: a student who joined URI in Spring 2003 follows the 2002–2003 course catalog. The 2005–2006 general-education list can also be found at: www.uri.edu/facsen/GENED_Program_May04.html#Approved.