H&SS and Fine Arts Requirements
These are the courses which satisfy the humanities, social sciences, and fine arts requirements for students in the Mellon College of Science. Also included are lists of courses which do NOT satisfy the requirements and lists of courses outside of H&SS and CFA which DO satisfy the requirements. If you have questions about whether a particular course satisfies your requirements, contact your advisor.

H&SS and Fine Arts Requirements

Deletions: courses that do NOT satisfy H&SS/Fine Arts requirements

Additions: non-H&SS courses that DO satisfy H&SS/Fine Arts requirements


Humanities, Social Sciences, and Fine Arts Requirements
(Adopted by MCS College Council during 1994-95 academic year)

All candidates for the bachelor's degree must complete a minimum of 72 units offered by the College of Humanities and Social Science and/or the College of Fine Arts. The humanities, social sciences, and fine arts courses for MCS students are to meet the following distribution requirements:

A. Common Course Requirement, Writing/Expression (9 units)
B. Distributional Course Requirements (27 units)
C. Electives (36 units)

A. Common Course Requirement, Writing/Expression (9 units)
Complete the following:

76-101 Interpretation and Argument

B. Distributional Course Requirements (27 units)
Complete three courses, one each from Category 1, Category 2, and Category 3.

Category 1: Cognition Choice and Behavior
80-150 Nature of Reason
80-180 Nature of Language
80-181 Language and Thought
80-242 Conflict and Dispute Resolution
85-100 Cognitive Processes: Theory and Practice
85-102 Introduction to Psychology
85-150 Introduction to Social Problems
85-211 Cognitive Psychology
85-221 Developmental Psychology
85-241 Social Psychology
85-251 Introduction to Personality
88-120 Reason, Passion, and Social Cognition

Category 2: Economic, Political and Social Institutions
36-303 Sampling, Surveys, and Society *
73-100 Principles of Economics
73-110 Experiments with Economic Principles
79-115 Education and Inequality
79-266 Times of Feast/Famine: Population and Family in History
80-135 Classical Political Philosophy
80-136 Ethics and Public Policy
88-104 Decision Processes in American Political Institutions
88-105 Introduction to World Politics
88-109 Institutions and Individuals

Category 3: Cultural Analysis
76-201 Cultural Practices and Literary Production
76-227 Comedy
79-104 Introduction to World History
79-110 The Development of European Culture
79-111 Cultural and Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the Environment
79-112 Race, Nationality, and the Development of American Cultures
79-113 Culture and Identity in American Social Life
79-116 Debates and Controversies: Cultural Differences in Action
79-201 Introduction to Anthropology
79-206 Development of American Culture
79-368 Poverty, Charity, and Welfare
80-100 What Philosophy Is
80-182 Language, Culture and Thought
80-250 Ancient Philosophy
80-251 Modern Philosophy
80-253 Continental Philosophy
80-254 Analytic Philosophy
80-255 American Pragmatism
82-107 Introduction to French Film
82-193 The Faust Legend from Europe to Russia
82-304 Introduction to French/Francophone Cultures *
82-396 The Faust Legend
82-409 French Literature of the 19th Century *
82-412 20th Century French Theater *
82-413 20th Century French Novel *
82-415 Studies in French Literature *
82-427 The New Germany *
82-428 German Classical Literature *
82-429 German Literature of the 19th Century *
82-430 German Literature of the Early 20th Century
82-431 Postwar German Literature *
82-436 Studies in German Literature *
82-437 Nazi and Resistance Culture *
82-441 Survey of Spanish Literature *
82-451 Introduction to Latin American Literature and Culture *
82-452 The Latin American Fin de Siglo *
82-454 Floating Continents/Whispering Voices *
82-455 Studies in Spanish and Latin American Literature *
82-491 Literature, Politics and Film in Russia and East Europe Today
82-492 The Historical Imagination in 19th Century Russian Literature

* These courses have one or more prerequisites. Check the course descriptions for specifics by following the link for the course number.

C. Electives (36 units)
Complete 4 non-technical courses of at least 9 units each from any of the departments in H&SS, CFA or BA. These can include language and music courses, for instance.

H&SS and Fine Arts Deletions
The intent of the H&SS/CFA requirements is to provide breadth in background and exposure to non-technical areas. For this reason, certain technical courses from H&SS are excluded. These courses are listed below, though this list is not presumed to be exhaustive - new courses will undoubtedly be offered which are not currently listed.

The following H&SS courses are considered technical courses and may not be used to fulfill any H&SS requirement.

Statistics
All courses.

Economics
73-260 Econometrics I
73-360 Econometrics II

Philosophy
80-210 Introduction to Formal Logic
80-211 Arguments and Inquiry
80-310 Logic and Computability I
80-311 Computability and Incompleteness
80-312 Probability and Artificial Intelligence
80-410 Goedel and Undecidability

Psychology
85-111 LISP-lab for 85-213
85-213 Information Processing Psychology & AI
85-219 Biological Foundations of Behavior

Social and Decision Sciences
88-211 Introduction to Cobol Programming
88-250 Regression Methods in Social Sciences

H&SS and Fine Arts Additions
Certain courses offered in academic units other than H&SS and CFA are considered non-technical and may be taken to fulfill H&SS/Fine Arts requirements. The following courses offered by the EPP and Business Administration departments and by the Heinz School may be used to satisfy the unrestricted H&SS/CFA requirement. Again, this list is not presumed to be exhaustive; we'll try to update it as we learn about new courses.

Engineering and Public Policy
19-319 Law and the Engineer

Business Administration
70-160 Introduction to Graphic Communications I
70-311 Organizational Behavior I
70-312 Organizational Behavior II
70-313 Organizational Power and Politics
70-332 Business and Society
70-335 Business and Labor
70-340 Business Communications
70-343 Interpersonal Communications
70-345 Oral Communications
70-361 Foundations of Law
70-363 Law in Modern American Society
70-365 International Trade and International Law
70-430 International Management

Heinz School
90-650 Introduction to Health Care Management
90-712 Public Policy Issues
90-717 Professional Writing
90-718 Professional Speaking
90-733 Urban Development
90-762 Financing Economic Development
90-765 Historical Perspectives on the City
90-767 Politics of Economic Development
90-778 Media and Public Policy
90-799 Negotiation
90-810 Leadership: Innovation and Organizational Change
90-818 Strategic Marketing and Communications
90-820 Strategic Planning
90-821 U.S. Labor Relations
90-828 Ethical Issues in Management
90-841 Management Strategies in a Global Context
90-846 Advanced Topics in Ethics
90-847 Gender and Language in Management