This detailed Gen Ed Course Planning Guide is designed
to help you plan your Gen Ed experience.
Each General Education requirement has a special letter designation. To find out whether a course satisfies a
General Education requirement (for students entering September 2005 and
thereafter), consult SPIRE. For further
information about Gen Ed, visit the Gen Ed website at UUhttp://www.umass.edu/genedUU.
A. WRITING: 2 COURSES
_______________________ COLLEGE WRITING (CW): Completion of either
EnglWP 112 (CW) or EnglWP 113 (CW) OR a satisfactory score on the Writing
Placement Test II, combined SAT I Verbal and SAT II Writing Test, OR Advanced
Placement Exam (Language and Composition).
_______________________ JUNIOR YEAR WRITING (No special letter
designation): To be in the student's major department.
B. BASIC MATHEMATICS: 1 COURSE in Basic Math Skills (R1) or a satisfactory score on
the Basic Mathematics Skill Exemption Test. This requirement can also be
satisfied with some higher level courses that presuppose knowledge of basic
math skills. A student who takes an R2 course from this list can satisfy both
the R1 and R2 requirements with the same course.
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C. ANALYTICAL REASONING: 1 COURSE (R2)
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D. BIOLOGICAL AND PHYSICAL WORLD: 3 COURSES
_______________________ Biological Science (BS)
_______________________ Physical Science (PS)
_______________________ A third science course.
Undergraduate students entering the University in Fall 2005 or thereafter can
also satisfy this requirement with a BS, PS or Science Interdisciplinary (SI)
course. Students who entered the University before Fall 2005 can satisfy this
requirement with a BS, PS, Interdisciplinary (I) or Science Interdisciplinary
(SI) course.
E. SOCIAL WORLD: 6 COURSES
_______________________ One course in Literature (AL/ALG/ALU)
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One course in Arts/Liberal Arts (AL/ALG/ALU, AT/ATG/ATU) or Interdisciplinary
(I/IG/IU/SI)
_______________________ One course in Historical Studies
(HS/HSU/HSG)
_______________________ One course in Social and Behavioral
Sciences (SB/SBU/SBG)
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One course in Social and Behavioral Sciences (SB/SBU/SBG) or Interdisciplinary
(I/IG/IU/SI)
_______________________ One additional course in any
of the areas within the Social World (AL/ALG/ALU, AT/ATG/ATU, HS/HSU/HSG, or
SB/SBU/SBG) or Interdisciplinary (I/IG/IU/SI)
F. SOCIAL AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY: 2 COURSES Undergraduate students entering the University in
Fall 2002 or thereafter need to take one Diversity class which focuses on
Diversity in the
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