Confused about distributional requirements

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<p>Distributional Requirements for the Bachelor's Degree</p>

<p>Students are required to take no fewer than two course credits in the humanities and arts, two course credits in the sciences, and two course credits in the social sciences. In addition to completing courses in these disciplinary areas, students are required to fulfill skills requirements by taking two course credits in quantitative reasoning, two course credits in writing, and courses to further their foreign language proficiency. Depending on their level of accomplishment in foreign languages at matriculation, students may fulfill this last requirement with one, two, or three courses or by a combination of course work and approved study abroad.</p>

<p>Courses that fulfill the distributional requirements are designated in the course listings in chapter IV of the Yale College Programs of Study (YCPS) by the abbreviations Hu, Sc, So, QR, WR, and, for the foreign language requirement, L1, L2, L3, L4, or L5.</p>

<p>No courses taken on a Credit/D/Fail basis may be used to fulfill the distributional requirements.</p>

<p>Question:</p>

<p>Do we have to take 2 science and 2 math? or can we do 2 math heavy science and kill 2 birds with one stone?</p>

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<p>Also I don't see the QR, WR...what are they talking about? Where?</p>

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<p>QR = Quantitative Reasoning = math
WR = Writing = some sort of english</p>

<p>(I think)</p>

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<p>i understand that, i don't see where in the course catalogue courses are labeled like that (maybe it's not in the online one)</p>

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<p>yeah, the online catalog hasn't been updated yet. it'll probably get changed sometime over the summer, and you'll receive a paper copy in the mail at the end of august that should have all of this info.</p>

<p>don't worry - relax! it's summer!</p>