<p>Can anyone please explain a bit about the core class requirements for Lafayette? Especially in connection with foreign language (do you have to take a foreign language or can something be substitued?) and what are the Religous Studies classes? If it helps this is for a Computer Science Major. Thank you.</p>
<p>The Common Course of Study</p>
<p>First-Year Seminar, taken in the fall semester of the first year, is designed to introduce students to intellectual inquiry by engaging them as thinkers, speakers, and writers.</p>
<p>College Writing (English 110), taken in the spring semester of the first year or the fall semester of the sophomore year, provides intensive experience in writing and reading complex texts.</p>
<p>Values and Science/Technology (VAST) Seminar, normally taken in spring semester of the second year, is a one-semester interdisciplinary course addressing the value issues occasioned by developments in science and technology. For B.S. Engineering majors, the VAST requirement will be satisfied through ES 225 (Engineering Professionalism and Ethics); for B.S. Computer Science majors through VAST 200 (Computers and Society).</p>
<p>A Humanities/Social Sciences Unit, requiring the completion of at least three courses in the Humanities/Social Sciences Divisions, with at least one course in each division. B.S. majors should be guided by their major programs for the distribution and timing of their Humanities/Social Sciences courses.</p>
<p>A Natural Sciences Unit, requiring the completion of at least two courses in the Natural Sciences Division, consisting of two laboratory courses in Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Physics, or Psychology, not necessarily in the same science.</p>
<p>A Mathematics Unit, requiring one mathematics course, Philosophy 150, or Computer Science 102.</p>
<p>A Writing Requirement, to be satisfied through courses in the Common Course of Study (First-Year Seminar, English 110, and VAST), plus, for A.B. majors and B.S. science majors, at least two additional writing courses in the junior and senior years, normally taken one per year.</p>
<p>There no foreign culture requirement for BS in Computer Science so you could get by without taking a foreign language. A Religous Studies class would one way to meet the Humanities requirement.</p>
<p>Thank you Gasdoc! This is so helpful!</p>