Nontechnical Breadth Requirements
A. First-Year Course Requirements
38-101 EUREKA!: Discovery and Its Impact
76-10X First-Year Writing Course
99-101 Computing @ Carnegie Mellon
B. Science and Society Course Requirements
38-304 Reading and Writing Science or
Choose to take one of the preapproved electives
C. Engage courses
38-110 ENGAGE in Service
38-220 ENGAGE in the Arts
38-230 ENGAGE in Wellness: Looking Inward
38-330 ENGAGE in Wellness: Looking Outward
38-430 ENGAGE in Wellness: Looking Forward
D. Cultural/Global Understanding Course Requirement
Any student who finds an appropriate CMU course which is not on the list and might fulfill this requirement can contact Tara Primiero 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. Students must complete 9 units of this requirement.
19-291 Special Topics: Environmental Systems on a Changing Planet
57-173 Survey of Western Music History
57-209 The Beatles
57-306 World Music
66-213 The American Railroad: Decline and Renaissance in the Age of Deregulation
70-342 Managing Across Cultures
76-217 Literature & Culture of the 20th and 21st Century
76-221 Books You Should Have Read By Now
76-232 Introduction to African American Literature
76-239 Introduction to Film Studies
76-241 Introduction to Gender Studies
76-386 Language & Culture
79-104 Global Histories
79-145 Genocide and Weapons of Mass Destruction (beginning Fall 21)
79-189 History of Democracy: Thinking Beyond the Self (beginning Fall 21)
79-201 Introduction to Anthropology
79-202 Flesh and Spirit: Early Modern Europe, 1400-1750
79-202 The Other Europes: The Habsburgs, Communism, & Central/Eastern Europe, 1740-1990
79-205 20th & 21st Century Europe
79-208 Witchcraft and Witch-Hunting
79-210 Identity, Nationhood, and State
79-211 Modern Southeast Asia: Colonialism, Capitalism, and Cultural Exchange
79-214 Paris in Revolt: History, Literature, and Film
79-216 Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire
79-217 The War in Vietnam
79-219 Modern Cuba: A Travel Guide for Millennials, 1898 to the Present
79-220 Screening Mexico: Mexican Cinema, 1898 to Present
79-222 Between Revolutions: The Development of Modern Latin America
79-222 China and the Second World War
79-223 Mexico: From the Aztec Empire to the Drug War
79-227 Modern Africa: The Slave Trade to the End of Apartheid
79-229 Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1880-1948
79-230 Arab-Israeli Conflict Since 1948
79-231 American Civil Rights Movement: From Garveyism to Black Power
79-232 Arabian Peninsula Environmental History
79-233 The United States and the Middle East since 1945
79-234 Technology and Society
79-235 Caribbean Cultures
79-240 Development of American Culture
79-241 African American History: Africa to the Civil War
79-242 African American History: Reconstruction to the Present
79-244 Women in American History
79-245 Capitalism and Individualism in American Culture
79-250 Voting Rights: An Unexpected History
79-255 Irish History
79-257 Germany and the Second World War
79-261 The Last Emperors: Chinese History and Society, 1600-1900
79-262 Modern China: From the Birth of Mao ... to Now
79-263 Mao and the Chinese Cultural Revolution
79-264 Tibet and China: History and Propaganda
79-265 Russian History: From the First to the Last Tsar
79-266 Russian History: From Communism to Capitalism
79-267 The Soviet Union in World War II: Military, Political, and Social History
79-275 Introduction to Global Studies
79-280 Coffee and Capitalism
79-283 Hungry World: Food and Famine in Global Perspective
79-284 Modern War: Geopolitical Conflict in Historical Perspective
79-307 Religion and Politics in the Middle East
79-328 Photographers and Photography Since World War II
79-343 Education, Democracy, and Civil Rights
79-345 Roots of Rock & Roll
79-349 The Holocaust in Historical Perspective
79-350 Early Christianity
79-358 Nazi Ghettos: From Spatial Segregation to Killing Zones
79-375 Science & Religion
79-377 Food, Culture, and Power: A History of Eating
80-100 Introduction to Philosophy
80-101 Dangerous Ideas in Science and Society
80-250 Ancient Philosophy
80-251 Modern Philosophy
80-253 Continental Philosophy
80-254 Analytic Philosophy
80-255 Pragmatism
80-276 Philosophy of Religion
82-xxx Any course from Modern Languages
84-380 Grand Strategy in the United States
85-350 Psychology of Prejudice
85-352 Evolutionary Psychology
99-3xx Any of the "Country Today" courses