distribution requirements

Colleges and Universities A-Z Stanford University
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<p>After poking around on the Stanford website and Google for a little under half an hour, I haven't been able to find any definitive information about distribution requirements. I am aware that there are 2 or so required classes that everyone at Stanford must take. So, if there are any current students/informed sources around here who have the time/are willing to say what courses these are and what requirements there are course-wise at Stanford (I don't mean for a major; I mean overall in order to graduate), I'd really appreciate it.
Maybe I could find this information by spending another few hours on the internet. But that's not something I want to do right now, and I'm sure that there are CC'ers who can help me out with this question!</p>

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<p>^ PWR & IHUM, I think</p>

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<p>I remember reading about this somewhere, but the only requirement of several that I remember is that each quarter of freshman year you need a humanities course. Of course I may have read this on an older website, so the requirements may have changed in the past few years. One of my friends at Stanford said that there is a difficult english/composition class freshman year, and that everyone has to take it, although I have never confirmed his statement.</p>

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<p>bump
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<p>IHUM – 2nd and 3rd quarter. PWR is easy.</p>

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<p>Here is a link to all of Stanford’s general education requirements (GER):</p>

<p><a href=“http://stanford.edu/dept/registrar/students/courses/GER.htm?id=1[/url]”>http://stanford.edu/dept/registrar/students/courses/GER.htm?id=1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>GER’S:
PWR (2 quarters)
IHUM (3 quarters)
Language (depending upon your preparation)
Disciplinary Breadth - Math, Engineering, Social Science, Natural Science, Humanities
Education for Citizenship - (two of the following) Ethical Reasoning, The Global Community, American Cultures, Gender Studies</p>

<p>The DB and EC requirements are not too hard to fulfill. I’ll have completed all but 1 by the end of my first year. You can take SLE instead of PWR and IHUM which is 9 units all three quarters of frosh year.</p>

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<p>thanks evig! that was really helpful.
you have to take a class in engineering? uh oh…</p>

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<p>I have to take a class in humanities? uh oh…</p>

<p>JK. One of the things I love about Stanford is that even though I’m gonna be in engineering, I still will get a great education in tons of different fields.</p>

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<p>you have to take math/engineering classes?! </p>

<p>NOOOOOOO</p>