<p>If I want to major in mathematics at LSA, how many humanities/arts classes do I have to take?</p>
<p>At least two, and you can make that lower bound strict =P.</p>
<p>You have to meet distribution requirements, which consists of 30 credits. You need 7 in natural science, 7 in social sciences, 7 in humanities. Then you take 3 additional credits in 3 out of the following 6 categories: natural science, social science, humanities, creative expression, math and symbolic analysis, interdisciplinary. Generally math majors do something like 10 credits of physics for natural science (physics 390,400+ will count for distribution if you ask an advisor, even though it's not labeled that way on the courseguide), 10 credits of economics (same deal, if you take 400+ level econ classes, you'll need to ask an advisor to count them for distribution), 7 credits of humanities, and then 3 credits of math and symbolic analysis with computer science (you can't count classes from your primary major towards distribution, so you have to take something else to meet MSA).</p>
<p>There's also a first year writing requirement. If you're not in Honors, you will likely take english 124/125 to meet this. If you're in Honors, then you take great books for freshmen writing (it also counts as 4 credits of humanities for distribution), and you have to do a second "literature and ideas" course, which most likely will also count towards distribution.</p>
<p>So if you're not in Honors, you'll need to do one english class and two other humanities classes. If you're in Honors, you can finish off writing and humanities with only 2 classes.</p>