TCNJ - School of Engineering - Liberal Learning Requirements

Liberal Learning Requirements

For students admitted on or after Fall 2004

SECTOR	COURSE REQUIREMENT
Arts & Humanities (3 Courses)	TST 161/Creative Design
	IDS 252/Society, Ethics & Technology
	Elective: Literary, Visual & Performing Arts or World Views and Ways of Knowing category
Social Sciences & History (3 Courses)	ECO 101/Microeconomics
	Elective: Social Change in Historical Perspectives category
	Elective: Behavioral, Social or Cultural Perspectives or Social Change in Historical Perspectives category
Natural Science & Quantitative Reasoning (3 Courses)	CHE 201/General Chemistry I
	MAT 127/Calculus A
	PHY 201/General Physics I
Intellectual & Scholarly Growth	FSP 1xx/First Seminar
	WRI 102/Academic Writing (if required)
	Engineering Laboratories
	Senior Project or Capstone course
Information Literacy	IDS 102/Information Literacy Proficiency

The above three mentioned electives must also fulfill the following Civic Responsibilities

Race & Ethnicity

Gender

Global Awareness

Liberal Learning courses may fulfill none, one or two civic responsibilities. Engineering majors must fulfill the three civic responsibilities with their three Liberal Learning electives (It is important to note that the FSP 1xx/First Seminar can also count towards one of the three Liberal Learning electives).

A list of all approved Liberal Learning courses and what Civic Responsibilities they satisfy can be found in the following URL: http://www.tcnj.edu/~liberal/totallist.html

Notes:

FSP course counts towards one of the Liberal Learning elective requirements listed in the table above. The FSP course number identifies which Liberal Learning category and civic responsibilities are fulfilled by the course as follows:

Liberal Learning Category	Civic Responsibilities
Liberal Learning Category	None	Race & Ethnicity	Gender	Global Awareness	Community Engagement
Literary, Visual & Performing Arts	FSP 101	FSP 102	FSP 103	FSP 104	FSP 105
World Views & Ways of Knowing	FSP 111	FSP 112	FSP 113	FSP 114	FSP 115
Behavioral, Social, and Cultural Perspectives	FSP 121	FSP 122	FSP 123	FSP 124	FSP 125
Social Change in Historical Perspectives	FSP 131	FSP 132	FSP 133	FSP 134	FSP 135
Natural Science	FSP 141	FSP 142	FSP 143	FSP 144	FSP 145
Quantitative Reasoning	FSP 151	FSP 152	FSP 153	FSP 154	FSP 155

For example, FSP 132 fulfills the Behavioral, Social or Cultural Perspectives requirement, as well as the Race & Ethnicity civic responsibility.

PDF listings of Liberal Learning and General Education courses offered during the current semester, sorted by category and civic responsibility (students must check with TESS to ensure that seats are available in the offered sections) http://www.tcnj.edu/~recreg/schedules/index.html

Some students are exempt from WRI 102/Academic Writing.

Last Updated: 06/28/2007

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