<p>These required courses are quite extensive. There are like 20 of them. No AP credits can be used. Can CZ be combined with CCI and can NS be combined with STS? How many of these Gen Ed courses can be satisfied by the major requirement in Economics?</p>
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Areas of Knowledge:
Arts, Literatures, and Performance (ALP) 2 courses are required
Civilizations (CZ) 2 courses are required
Natural Sciences (NS) 2 courses are required
Social Sciences (SS) 2 courses are required
Quantitative Studies (QS) 2 courses are required
Modes of Inquiry:
Cross-Cultural Inquiry (CCI) 2 courses required
Ethical Inquiry (EI) 2 courses required
Science, Technology, and Society (STS) 2 courses required
Foreign Language (FL) 1-3 courses required - see below
Research (R) 1 or 2 courses required - see below
Writing (W) Writing 101 and 2 additional courses coded W required
<p>I think you are misunderstanding the requirements. Each course has two separate designations, it belongs to one (or more) areas of knowledge PLUS it teaches one (or more) modes of inquiry. So Sociology 132A: Methods in Social Research may be coded: SS, EI, R, W meaning it’s a social science, it is writing intensive, it is a research course, and it teaches ethical inquiry (Note: I know for sure it has at least SS and W). You can use only one area of knowledge designation per course (if it has more than one), but you can use up to 3 modes of inquiry per course (if it has 3 or more). That means if you took SOC132A and it had those designations, you’d get half of the SS requirement done and 1/3 of the writing, half of EI, and potentially all of research done. </p>
<p>So in short, if you choose your classes well, the minimum number of courses you’d need is 10, 2 for each area of knowledge.</p>
<p>It is really not as hard as you would think to get these requirements. I just finished my sophomore year and I’ve almost got all of them, just through taking courses for my major and a handful of other courses that seemed interesting. The hardest scenario would be getting the math and science requirements if you’re strictly a humanities person, but even in that case you can find classes tailored to your interests.</p>
<p>Pretty sure you’ll get at least 1 math course on an econ major through math 102 and probably another statistics course too and that should cover the QS. Science can be done by taking just some basic intro courses</p>
<p>In the case of 210D, it will either be counted as QS + STS OR SS + STS since you are only allowed to count one area of knowledge code per course.</p>