Of Historical Interest
Previous General Education Requirements
This section includes details of early Arts and Sciences general education requirements and who is eligible for each one. It is of mainly academic and historical interest. Most Arts and Sciences advisers will never need to apply any of the requirements described below except the green list pre-1985 proficiency requirement, which is described in detail in a separate AIF, Pre-1985 General Education and Basic Skills Requirements.
The single date advisers need commit to memory is 1985. Virtually all A&S students who entered college before autumn 1985 use the current Areas of Knowledge requirement and the pre-1985 proficiency requirement. Virtually all A&S students who entered college in autumn 1985 or later use the current general education and skills requirements.
A summary of previous Arts and Sciences requirements, and what students are eligible for each set of requirements, is the the chart below. This is followed by a detailed description of each set of requirements and some information about how each evolved. The last section of this AIF is devoted to a discussion of how to determine the student's date of college entry when this may not be clear.
Other colleges
In some UW schools and colleges, students who started college before 1994 (and students who transferred to the UW before 1996) are eligible for the pre-1994 general education requirements of that school or college. In many instances, however, the previous requirements of colleges meet or exceed the current requirements, and there is no advantage to claiming eligibility for earlier requirements. Most schools and colleges expect students to meet their current general education requirements. A student requesting an exception should petition the college. The Undergraduate Advising Office has UW bulletins dating back to the early 1930s and can assist advisers from other colleges who wish to research previous requirements.
University general education requirements
Before autumn 1985 there was no University-wide general education requirement; each school and college set its own requirements. For University requirements from 1985 on, see the AIFs on current requirements.
Summary
It is not uncommon for a student to start at the UW when one set of general education requirements is in effect and finish under a different set of requirements. The governing principle is that students are allowed to use the most liberal set of requirements available between the time the student entered college and the time the student graduates. Students are not allowed to elect a set of requirements that were retired before the student started college.
Basic skills
The current basic skills requirement (writing, math, and foreign language) was adopted in 1985 and is more rigorous than the previous requirement. Students who entered college before autumn 1985 are allowed to use the green-list, pre-1985 requirement, called "old proficiency," and to combine it with the current Areas of Knowledge requirement (or, if eligible, with the white list). Detailed information about the old proficiency requirement is in the AIF Pre-1985 General Education and Basic Skills Requirements.
General education
Because the current general education requirement (Areas of Knowledge) is more liberal than most earlier requirements, almost all students benefit from using the current requirement. This is certainly true for all students who started college in autumn 1980 or later. Students who are eligible for the pre-1980 white list and the even earlier 10-20-30 distribution plan may be better off following old requirements.
Electing old requirements
Students MAY choose to follow the requirement that was in effect when they started college, but those who choose to do so must follow the earlier requirement in its entirety, including the basic skills as well as the general education requirement.
The chart is followed by detailed descriptions of previous Arts and Sciences requirements. More information is available in a set of UW Bulletins ranging back to the 1930s, at the Undergraduate Advising Office.
Student started college ... | Requirement | Recommended substitution | Comments |
autumn 1994 or later | current requirements | ||
autumn 1985 through summer 1994 | blue list |
| basic skills requirements same; AoK more liberal than blue list |
autumn 1980 through summer 1985 | green list |
| old (green) proficiency more liberal than current requirement; AoK much more liberal than green list |
autumn 1969 through summer 1980 (see*footnote) | white list |
| old (green) proficiency more liberal than current requirement; eligible students may count some additional white-list courses toward VLPA |
autumn 1962 through summer 1969 | no nickname, but this was the period when two college years of foreign language was required |
| old (green) proficiency more liberal than current requirement and the 62-69 requirement; eligible students may count some additional white-list courses toward VLPA |
pre autumn 1962 | 10-20-30 |
| student may be better off using the entire 10-20-30 requirement, but MAY use old proficiency plus AoK; eligible students may count some additional white-list courses toward VLPA |
* Actually, it's a little more complicated. Students eligible for the white list are those who entered the UW as freshmen through summer 1980, or as transfer students through summer 1982. The date the student entered the UW, not the date the student started college, is the determining factor.
Pre-1962
Pre-1936
Before 1936, the College of Liberal Arts had the following Specific Requirements:
- Composition 1 and 2 (10 credits)
- Psychology 1 (5 credits)
- Philosophy 1, 2, 3, or 5 (5 credits)
- Foreign language - two high school years of Latin, Greek, French, German, Spanish, Scandinavian, or Italian, OR 20 college credits in one of these seven languages plus a passing score on a reading test
10-20-30
In 1936, the following Required Courses and Group Requirements were adopted. A few majors had "prescribed departmental curricula" which replaced the Group Requirements. These general education requirements remained in effect until autumn 1962.
- Required Courses
- English 101, 102, 103 (9 credits)
- Physical Education 110 (women) or 175 (men) (2 credits), plus six quarters of physical education activity
- All male students entering directly from high school must complete six quarters of military training.
- Group Requirements
- 60 credits from Group I (Humanities), II (Social Sciences), and III (Natural Sciences)
- At least 10 credits from one group, 20 credits from a second group, and 30 credits from the third group
- Individual courses were not listed; each Group consisted of departments in the College of Arts and Sciences. Thus, virtually all A&S courses counted toward Group Requirements.
- Courses used to satisfy the Required Courses could not be used.
- Courses in the student's major could be used.
1962-1969
In 1962 both the basic skills and breadth requirements were revised. This period was the only time in the College of Arts and Sciences when two college years of foreign language were required of all students.
- Basic Proficiencies
- English 101, 102, 103, or exemption by WPCT or AP score
- Math 101 or Philosophy 120, or placement into trigonometry or college algebra
- Completion of the sixth college quarter of a foreign language, or placement into the seventh quarter
- Distribution Requirement
- 20 credits each of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences, plus an additional 20 credits. No more than 30 credits could count toward each group.
- The lists included almost all courses in the College of Arts and Sciences.
- Up to 15 credits in the major department could count.
- Courses satisfying the Basic Proficiencies could not also count toward Distribution.
White list
In autumn 1969 both the basic skills and general education requirements were changed. The distribution requirement was dropped from 80 credits to 60. The most substantial changes, however, were in the basic skills requirement. This 1969 proficiency requirement is what we now refer to as "old proficiency," and it is the basic skills requirement now followed by any student who started college before autumn 1985. Because we now see many more students eligible for the next general education plan, the green list, than students eligible for the white list, we have come to associate this basic skills plan (old proficiency) with the green list, but it actually originated with the white list.
The white list is more liberal than even the current Areas of Knowledge list in that it include English composition courses and all foreign language courses, including first-year courses and conversation courses. Students who are eligible for the white list AND who took these courses before autumn 1994 are allowed to count the courses toward VLPA. The College no longer maintains the white list, but many courses that counted toward the white list but do not count toward Areas of Knowledge are listed in the General Education Course Archives.
- Proficiency requirement
- 15 credits from a list including English composition, foreign language, and math.
- Exemptions for students with a specified high school background or at least 85 transfer credits or an academic transfer associate degree from a Washinton community college.
- For details see Pre-1985 General Education and Basic Skills Requirements.
- Distribution requirement
- 20 credits each Humanities, Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences
- Almost all courses in the College of Arts and Sciences are on the "college lists." Also provided were "special lists" of introductory and fundamental courses. Special-list courses were not required; they were recommendations to help students with program planning.
- No courses from the student's major department counted.
- No courses used to satisfy the proficiency requirement counted.
Green list
A major revision of the distribution requirement was started in 1978. For a few years parts of the requirement were changed each year, resulting in a bewildering array of eligibility tables and flow charts to help advisers determine each student's requirements. Since the distribution lists became progressively more limited, each student wished to follow the earliest set of requirements for which he was eligible.
Although it was a challenge to follow the requirements at the time, when the revision of the basic skills and general education requirements was completed all the intermediate plans were discarded and all students were transferred to what we now refer to as the "pre-85" distribution requirement, or the "green list," which was the distribution plan finally achieved at the end of all the revisions that occurred during this period.
Throughout this period the 15-credit proficiency requirement described immediately above was maintained. Only the distribution requirement changed.
Distribution list revisions
The revisions actually started in 1978, although the changes made in 1978 and 1979 were eventually rolled back so that they applied only to students who started college in 1980 or later.
In 1978 a faculty committee was charged with the task of reducing the distribution lists. Ever since the institution of a breadth requirement in 1936, the lists of approved courses had included almost all courses taught in the College of Arts and Sciences. The committee was to limit the lists to courses with a strong general education component. For example, the revised social science list included, among other courses, six anthropology, four economics, five geography, and seven political science courses.
In autumn 1978 the revised social science list was instituted. Freshmen entering in autumn 1978 or later, and transfer students entering in autumn 1980 or later, were required to use the short social science list, but used the long humanities and natural science lists.
In autumn 1979 the revised natural science list was instituted. This list was not as restrictive as the social science list. It included, for example, 9 biology, 11 math, 23 chemistry, and 26 physics courses. Freshmen entering in autumn 1979 or later, and transfer students entering in autumn 1981 or later, were required to use the short social science and natural science lists, but continued to use the long humanities list.
In autumn 1980 the revised humanities list was instituted. By this time the standards had relaxed even more; this list included 23 art history, 21 music, and 66 English courses.
In autumn 1981 the intermediate lists were removed, the lists that were combinations of long and revised lists. Freshmen who entered in autumn 1980 or later, and transfer students entering in autumn 1982 or later, were required to use the shortened lists, which by now was referred to as the "green list," from the color of the 1980 Bachelor's Degree Planbook. Students who entered before those dates were eligible for the long list, now referred to as the "white list." This meant that quite a few students (those freshmen who entered in 1978 and 1979) were moved from the short lists back to the long lists.
In summary ...
All students who started college before autumn 1985 are eligible for the 1969 "old proficiency" list. Students who entered the UW as freshmen before 1980, and as transfer students before 1982, are eligible for the long "white" distribution lists. Students who entered the UW as freshmen after 1980, and as transfer students after 1982, were required to use the short "green" distribution list. Any of these students who graduate after 1994 are eligible to use instead the much more liberal Areas of Knowledge list.
The Humanities Grid
From 1978 through 1981 there was a faculty initiative called the Humanities Grid. This grouped humanities distribution courses by chronological period, geographical region, and type of expression, allowing interested students to structure the selection of their humanities distribution courses rather than choosing a random collection of subjects. A number of new Humanities course offerings were designed specifically to occupy cells of the grid.
Below is a sample humanities grid from the 1978 Bachelor's Degree Planbook.
Ancient | Medieval/Renaissance | Modern | Asian | Africa/Oceania/Americas | |
Literature | CLAS 210 NE 220 | HUM 212 | |||
Ideas | HUM 231 | HUM 233 | |||
Religion | RELIG 201 | RELIG 202 | |||
Visual/Environmental Arts | ART H 201 | ART H 202 | ART H 203 | ART H 204 | ART H 205 |
Interpretative/Performing Arts | HUM 291 | HUM 291 | HUM 294 |
Blue list
There were many changes in the period 1985-1994. During this time the basic skills requirement was revised into the current requirement of English composition, W courses, Q/SR, and foreign language. The distribution requirement during this period was significantly different than the requirements that came before and after. The lists were yet again revised to include many more courses than the green list, and requirements of subcategories and linked sets were added.
Basic skills
The revision of the basic skills requirement actually began in 1983 with the addition of a 10-credit W course requirement. This implementation was eventually rolled back and students who entered before autumn 1985 were not required to complete the W-course requirement.
The revised basic skills requirement took effect in autumn 1985. This requirement, with minor revisions, has remained in effect since autumn 1985.
- English composition, 5 credits
- W courses, 10 credits
- Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning (Q/SR), 5 credits
- Foreign language, proficiency through the third college quarter
A minimum grade of 2.0 was required in English composition, the Q/SR course, and the third quarter of foreign language. The minimum 2.0 requirement was removed from the Q/SR in 1994, and the change was retroactive.
Distribution
The distribution requirement was extensively revised in 1983. The 1983 plan was referred to as the "yellow list:" old proficiency, W courses, and the new distribution plan. In 1985 the new proficiency described above was added and this 1985 collection of requirements was referred to as the "blue list:" new proficiency and new distribution. In 1994, when the requirements were revised yet again, the yellow list was eliminated and those students were rolled back to the green list: old proficiency and old distribution. It was at this point that 1985 became the major point of division that still remains: pre-1985 students do old proficiency (foreign language not required) and post-1985 students do new proficiency (foreign language required).
The 1985 distribution requirement, the blue list, was the most complex yet.
- Group I - Humanities: 20 credits, including 5 credits in Language and Literature and 5 credits in Fine Arts
- Group II - Social Sciences: 20 credits, including 5 credits in Social Sciences and 5 credits in History, Philosophy, and Civilization
- Group III - Natural Sciences: 20 credits
- Two linked sets required, one in natural sciences and the other in humanities, social sciences, or humanities/social sciences combined (crossover)
The distribution lists were somewhat expanded and included more courses than the previous "green list." The lists were still more restrictive, however, than the lists that preceded the green list and more restrictive than the current Areas of Knowledge list.
Blue-list students were allowed to complete as few as 15 credits in the Group in which the student's major fell, as long as the student presented additional credits in one or both of the other Groups so that the student still completed at least 60 total distribution credits. In departments that had courses in more than one Group, the student was allowed to choose the Group in which s/he would complete fewer credits, as long as the student completed at least one course in the major in that Group.
The yellow list required only one linked set, in natural sciences. The humanities/social science/crossover linked set was added in 1985, with the blue list. The linked sets were determined by the faculty and approved lists were provided along with the distribution lists. Linked sets were two or three courses. Examples: OCEAN 101 and FISH 101 (natural sciences), ART H 201 and 202 (humanities), ECON 200 and 201 (social sciences), ART H 202 and HST 112 (crossover).
The College Studies Alternative
College Studies was an alternative general education plan first offered in 1988 and available through 1997. Instead of 20 credits in each distribution area, students could complete a coordinated 15-credit sequence. For information, see The College Studies Program.
Current requirements
The current basic skills requirements (English composition, additional writing, Q/SR, and foreign language) were adopted in 1985, as described above. All Arts and Sciences students who started college in autumn 1985 or later must follow the current basic skills requirements described in the AIF. See General Education Requirements.
The current general education requirement (Areas of Knowledge) was adopted in 1994. All Arts and Sciences students who started college in autumn 1994 or later must follow the current Areas of Knowledge requirement described in the AIF. See General Education Requirements.
Determining the quarter of entry
Eligibility for distribution plans is determined by either the quarter the student first entered college or, for the white list, the quarter the student first entered the UW.
Quarter of UW entry
The quarter of entry can be determined easily from the student number. The first two digits of the student number are the year the student entered the UW, and the third digit refers to the quarter of entry: summer quarter is 1, autumn is 2 or 3, winter is 4, and spring is 5. A student number of 9133265, therefore, indicates UW entry in autumn quarter of 1991. Student numbers are assigned to nonmatriculated and credit-extension students, and are used to determine the date of UW enrollment for these students as well. An Arts and Sciences student who enrolls at the UW, then attends another college, and then returns to the UW, is assigned eligibility for requirements by the date of his/her first enrollment at the UW.
Quarter of college entry
This is the quarter in which the student first enrolled in a course at a college-level institution -- even if the course was not transferable to the UW, or even if the course was never completed.
THE FOLLOWING CONSTITUTE COLLEGE ENTRY.
Note: "Any course" means any credit or non-credit course.
- Enrolling in any course, including courses evaluated by the UW as vocational/technical, at an accredited college
- Enrolling in any course at a non-accredited college (e.g., a Bible college)
- Enrolling in any course as a nonmatriculated student
- Enrolling in a college-level course while still attending high school (even if the course was taught at the high school, as long as it appears on a college transcript)
- Enrolling in any college-level extension or correspondence courses, including MATH 098
- Completing a high-school course for which the student receives college credit, if that course was taught at the high school rather than at the college
ENROLLING IN OR EVEN COMPLETING THE FOLLOWING TYPES OF COURSES DOES NOT CONSTITUTE COLLEGE ENTRY:
- High school Advanced Placement courses, even if college credit is granted by the UW. (The credit is actually earned at the time of admission to UW, not before.)
- A course taken at a community college for high-school credit rather than college credit, even if others received college credit for the same course
- Non-credit UW Extension courses, except MATH 098
- UW Experimental College courses, or any similar general-interest courses offered to the community at large
- Non-credit vocational programs offered by proprietary schools, such as "beauty college," computer training, or real-estate classes.
In most cases, students transfer in credits and it is clear from the transfer evaluation when the student started college. When students have only non-credit courses, a good general rule is that they started college whenever they thought they did. For example, UW nonmatriculated students think of themselves as being in college, while a person taking a tour of the Arboretum from UW Extension does not. Since a student applying to the UW must submit transcripts from all other institutions attended, the adviser can in case of doubt verify enrollment from the transfer evaluation or by calling an admissions specialist in the Admissions Office. The adviser may need to have the student provide a transcript verifying enrollment in non-credit courses, although if the adviser feels the student is trustworthy this is not necessary. If the date of college entry is still unclear, contact one of the counselors at Undergraduate Advising.
General Education Course Archives
The administration of general education requirements at the UW follows the basic principle that no student should be disadvantaged by a change in requirements. Thus, a student is allowed to use a course toward general education requirements that was applicable to when s/he took it, even if it no longer counts that way if taken currently. In addition, there are many courses on students' records that no longer exist, or that are no longer recognizable because they have changed numbers or department prefixes. This section is a guide for advisers concerning courses that no longer count the way they once did.
From autumn 1962 to autumn 1994, UW students chose their general-education courses from various "distribution lists." The graduation requirements were substantially revised effective autumn quarters of 1969, 1980, 1983, and 1985; meanwhile, adjustments to the several lists were made on an ongoing basis. Because successive versions of the lists were increasingly restrictive, students were allowed to continue to use the requirements they had been following, and new requirements were applied only to new students.
Because the current "Area of Knowledge" requirement adopted in 1994 is very generous, it has been possible to eliminate the confusion of maintaining several distribution lists. All students, regardless of when they entered college or the UW, choose their general-education coursework from the same set of courses, namely the current Areas of Knowledge lists.
Students eligible for the green or white distribution lists, which preceded the current Areas of Knowledge requirement, are eligible to count some additional courses, and/or to count some courses in different ways than are currently allowed. These exceptions are noted in the course list.
Variable-topic courses
Starting in the academic year 2000-2001, individual sections of variable-topic courses, in a specific quarter, can be identified as VLPA, I&S, and/or NW. Any course so tagged will be assigned properly in a DARS report.
Variable-topic courses offered earlier (and many offered since this change, since departments often don't bother to request an AoK designation for temporary courses) can count toward AoK if it seems appropriate. Any academic adviser, after discussing the content of such a course with the student, can assign the course to an Area and either enter a DARS exception or send a message to dars@u.washington.edu, requesting that the variable-topic course be tagged for the student.
Advisers not certain how to evaluate a variable-topic course may refer the student to Undergraduate Advising.
This table lists some sections of variable-topics courses that were approved for AofK value by request of the department, or that automatically count for an Area because of a temporary joint listing. Any course can be counted in the same way as a jointly offered course, even if not listed below.
Independent-study courses
These courses, often numbered 498 or 499, do not routinely count toward Areas of Knowledge. An Arts and Sciences student who wishes to count such a course toward AoK must submit a description of the course content to Scott Winter at the Undergraduate Advising; an email is usually sufficient. If the content of the independent-study project is similar to courses already on the AoK lists, the request should be approved.
A "white-list" student, a student who entered the UW as a freshman before autumn 1980, or entered the College of Arts and Sciences as a transfer student (even if from another college of the University) before autumn 1982, may count independent-study courses toward AoK without petition, if the courses were taken before autumn 1994. A DARS exception will be necessary and can be made by any adviser.
Joint listings
A course counts toward Areas of Knowledge in the same way as any joint-listed course. Permanent joint listings are already appropriately identified in the Course Catalog and the Time Schedule. Each quarter, however, there are temporary joint listings, usually in variable-topic courses, that may not be properly identified. In all such cases, the joint-listed courses share AoK designations. For example, if course A is VLPA and it is temporarily joint-listed with course B which is I&S, the student who takes course A or B in that quarter may count either course toward VLPA or I&S.
In most cases, since these are usually upper-division courses, the student has already completed the Areas of Knowledge requirement and doesn't need the course to count toward AoK. If the student does need to have such a course properly tagged VLPA, I&S, or NW, the adviser can enter a DARS exception or send the request to dars@u.washington.edu
Time schedule errors
Courses with an incorrect AoK designation in the Time Schedule may be counted as indicated by students who were not aware of the error. It is the student's responsibility to call the adviser's attention to the situation. The adviser should first check the Student Database for the course and quarter in question; quarterly course information is available in the SDB back through spring 1984. It is possible, however, that the AoK designation was corrected in the SDB when the error was discovered. Undergraduate Advising maintains an archive of old print Time Schedules and should be able to verify errors that occurred through summer 2002, which was the last quarter the Time Schedule was printed.
GIS and A&S courses
A variety of interdisciplinary courses are taught on a temporary basis under the designation GIS (and, before that, A&S). These are listed, with their assigned general education designation, in AoK for A&S, GIS, and GEN ST Courses. From 1971-1975 some GIS courses were offered through the Residential Program.
Transfer courses
Students who enter the UW with a transfer associate degree from a Washington community college may count transfer courses toward AoK in the same way that the courses counted at the community college. See the Transfer Associate Degree Agreement.
A transfer course assigned a UW course number can normally be counted only the way the UW equivalent counts at the time of transfer and thereafter. If the course was taken at a Washington community college it can, however, be counted as listed in the equivalencies tablesat the time it was taken, even if no longer counted that way at the UW. That is to say, if the student was following the tables and acting in good faith, the student will not be penalized for an incorrect listing.
If a course is listed below as having been dropped from the UW curriculum, or as not currently offered, then transfer credit for the course can be used toward the Area of Knowledge indicated in the transfer equivalencies. The presumption is that if the course were still offered at the UW, it would still count as it did in the past.
DARS reports
Many of the courses listed below will not be properly identified on a DARS report. To have any course properly tagged with an AoK or other general education designation, as listed below, send a request to dars@u.washington.edu
Adviser responsibilities
Obviously, no adviser is expected to commit any part of the list below to memory. Neither is it the responsiblity of advisers to check every course taken by a student in an exhaustive search for courses that will count toward requirements. This list is provided as a resource for the adviser to check whenever a student recalls that a course should count toward a particular requirement, even though it doesn't appear on the current Areas of Knowledge list.
Types of courses listed
"Green-list" courses taken before autumn 1994
These courses may be used by students who were formerly eligible for the green distribution list-i.e., students whose first enrollment in college (anywhere) was before autumn 1985. The courses may be used only if they were taken before autumn 1994.
"White-list" courses taken before autumn 1994
These courses may be used by students who were formerly eligible for the white distribution list-i.e., students who entered UW as freshmen before autumn of 1980 or who entered the College of Arts and Sciences as transfer students (even if only from another college of the University) before autumn 1982. These courses also may be used only if they were taken before autumn 1994.
Courses whose AoK designation has changed
A few courses have been moved from one Area to another, either because the course was re-evaluated or because the content of the course was changed. There are also a few instances in which the blue distribution list (1985-94) allowed courses that the current Areas of Knowledge requirement does not.
Courses (or course numbers) not in the current curriculum
These courses no longer appear in the curriculum with the prefix and number listed, but may be counted as indicated by all students who completed the courses.
Changes in prefixes
This information should help advisers identify courses on the UW transcript that carry prefixes no longer in use.
Course | Can be counted for | Comments |
A&S | changed to GIS | |
A ORG | changed to O E (and other Business departments) | |
A ORG 420, 440, 460 | I&S | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994; changed prefixes and numbers |
AAS 400 | VLPA only | replaced by 401, 402, 403 |
AES 214 | VLPA only | changed to AFRAM/ENGL 214 |
AES 321 | VLPA only | dropped from curriculum |
AFRAM 210 | VLPA | changed to AFRAM 211 |
AFRAM 215, 220, 350, 410 | VLPA or I&S | not currently offered |
AFRAM 406, 407, 408 (Intermediate Krio) | VLPA only | not currently offered |
AFSTU | changed to SISAF | |
AIS 215, 309, 310 | VLPA or I&S | not currently offered |
ANTH 220, 320 | NW or I&S | number changed to 206 |
ANTH 230 | VLPA | if student began college anywhere before autumn 1985, and took the course before autumn 1994 |
ANTH 333, 334, 335 | VLPA only | replaced by 331 |
ANTH 359, 403 | VLPA | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994 |
ANTH 450 | VLPA | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994; changed to ANTH 359 |
ANTH 456, 457 | VLPA | dropped from curriculum |
ARAM | changed to ARAMIC (Aramaic; Near E L&L) | |
ARCH 152 | I&S | dropped from curriculum |
ARCH 450 | VLPA | dropped from curriculum |
ARCHY 105 | VLPA | if student began college anywhere before autumn 1985, and took the course before autumn 1994 |
BALTIC 200 | VLPA or I&S | changed to SCAND/SISRE 345 |
BI HS (Biomedical History) | changed to MHE (Medical History & Ethics) | |
BI HS (MHE) 401, 403, 419, 430 | VLPA | if student began college anywhere before autumn 1985, and took the course before autumn 1994 |
BI HS 421 | NW | changed to grad students only; (MHE 421 taken now would count for I&S instead of NW) |
BI HS 425, 431 | NW | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994; dropped from curriculum |
BLK S | changed to AFRAM | |
BOT | changed to BOTANY; in autumn 2003 changed to BIOL with some course number changes | |
BG&S (Business, Governmentt, and Society) | changed to O E | |
BG&S 101 | I&S | Introduction to Business, dropped from curriculum; still offered at a number of community colleges (usually transfers as BA 1XX) |
BG&S 200 | I&S | changed to O E 200; then changed to MGMT 200) |
BG&S 333 | I&S | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994; changed to OE 302 |
C LIT 240 | English comp | can be used for VLPA only if taken before autumn 1994; cannot be used for both English comp and VLPA, regardless of when taken |
C SCI | changed to CSE | |
C SCI 201, 210, 211 | NW and Q/SR (orold proficiency) | dropped from curriculum |
CAUP 200 | VLPA or I&S | changed to ARCH 200 |
CEWA | changed to CIVE | |
CEWA 450 | NW | changed to CIVE 250 |
CEWA 456 | NW | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994; dropped from curriculum |
CINE | VLPA (all) | Cinema Studies; no longer offered |
CLAS 324 | VLPA | if student began college anywhere before autumn 1985, and took the course before autumn 1994 |
CLAS 420, 422 | VLPA or I&S | not currently offered |
CMU | changed to COM with some numbering changes | |
CMU 201 | may be used for VLPA if taken autumn 1983 | if student began college anywhere before autumn 1985, and took the course before autumn 1994; formerly 214 |
CMU 214 | VLPA or I&S | replaced by 201 |
CMU 214, 377, 480 | VLPA | if student began college anywhere before autumn 1985, and took the course before autumn 1994 |
CMU 302 | VLPA or I&S | dropped from curriculum |
CMU 321, 324, 326, 373 | VLPA | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994 |
CHID 207 | VLPA | if student began college anywhere before autumn 1985, and took the course before autumn 1994 |
CHID 221, 340 | VLPA | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994; dropped from curriculum |
CHID 380 | VLPA | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994 |
DAN | changed to DANISH | |
DRDNC | changed to DANCE | |
EASIA | changed to SISEA | |
ECON 281 | I&S or NW | changed to ECON 311 |
ECON 311 | NW | formerly joint-listed with STAT 311 |
EDEPS | changed to EDPGA | |
EDPGA 479 | I&S | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994 |
All ENGL courses, including composition | VLPA | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994 |
ENGL 111, 121 | VLPA if taken before autumn 1986 | not allowed toward VLPA if taken autumn 1986 or later; cannot be used for both English composition and VLPA |
ENGL 122 | VLPA; old proficiency | dropped from curriculum |
ENGL 170 | old proficiency | not currently offered |
ENGL 171 | old proficiency | not currently offered |
ENGL 172 | old proficiency | dropped from curriculum |
ENGL 181 | old proficiency; English composition proficiency | changed to ENGL 131; may request credit for both if 131 taken winter or spring 1988 |
ENGL 270 (grammar) | old proficiency | changed to ENGL 170 |
ENGL 271 | VLPA if taken before autumn 1985 | not allowed if taken autumn 1985 or later |
ENGL 272 | VLPA; old proficiency | changed to ENGL 379 (now 381) |
ENGL 274, 275, 276, 277,278, 386, 387, 388 | old proficiency(now also VLPA) | not allowed for proficiency if student entered UW in autumn 1981 or later |
ENGR 130 | English composition | dropped from curriculum; may still be counted if taken at another college |
ENGR 141 | NW and Q/SR (orold proficiency) | dropped from curriculum |
ENGR 190 | NW | dropped from curriculum |
ENGR 305, 307, 308 | NW | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994; dropped from curriculum |
ENGR 378 | VLPA | dropped from curriculum |
ENGR 421 | I&S | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994 |
ENV S 250 | Q/SR and NW | same as CIVE 250; dropped from curriculum |
ENV S 307 | Q/SR and NW | dropped from curriculum |
ENV S 301 | I&S | dropped from curriculum |
ENV S 342, 432 | I&S | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994; dropped from curriculum |
ESC 490C | NW, winter 2000 | first offering of ESC 111 |
FOR B, FOR M, FRM | changed to F M; some courses changed to ESC | |
FRENCH 480, 498 | VLPA or I&S | not currently offered |
FRM 100 | I&S or NW | dropped from curriculum (Changed from natural science to I&S effective autumn 1994, but not offered thereafter.) |
FRM 102, 200, 202, 210, 310, 350 | NW | changed to ESC |
F M 421 | I&S or NW | changed to 321 |
FOR B 300 | NW | dropped from curriculum |
FOR B/FRM 301 | I&S | dropped from curriculum |
FOR B 329, 453, 460 | NW | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994; changed prefixes and numbers |
FREN | changed to FRENCH | |
G ST | changed to GEN ST | |
GENET | changed to GENOME | |
GEOL | changed to ESS | |
GEOPHYS | changed to GEOPHYS | |
GERM | changed to GERMAN | |
GERMAN 354 | VLPA or I&S | not currently offered |
GERMAN 497, 498 | VLPA if taken before autumn 1994 | individual study courses taken now do not count for Areas of Knowledge requirements |
GIS | see A&S, GIS, and GEN ST Courses and The Residential Program | |
GRK | changed to GREEK | |
H A&S 220, 221, 222 | NW | Honors science sequence, normally open to Honors Program students only. Courses may be used for NW if student graduates with regular AofK instead of meeting Honors requirements. |
H A&S 251, 252, 253; 261, 262, 263 | VLPA or I&S | Honors Western Civilization and World Civilization sequences, normally open to Honors Program students. Courses may be used for either VLPA or I&S if student graduates with regular AofK instead of meeting Honors requirements. |
H EC | Home Economics; no longer offered (except NUTR); see also TSCS | |
H EC 240, 321, 322, 329, 347, 429, 432, 433 | VLPA | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994; dropped from curriculum |
H EC 307, 408, 415 | NW | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994; dropped from curriculum |
H EC 350, 354, 356, 409, 454, 457 | I&S | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994; dropped from curriculum |
H EC 407 | NW | changed to NUTR 421; later dropped from curriculum |
H ED | Health Education; no longer offered | |
HD UR | changed to HINDI | |
HST | changed to HIST | |
HIST 205, 207, 242, 307, 310, 311, 312, 313, 315, 410 | VLPA | if student began college anywhere before autumn 1985, and took the course before autumn 1994 |
HIST 234 | VLPA | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994; dropped from curriculum |
HIST 308 | VLPA | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994; not currently being offered |
HIST 411, 412; HSTAS 401, 402; HSTEU 421 | VLPA | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994 |
HRMOB 400 | I&S | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994 |
HSS | Humanistic-Social Studies, College of Engineering; no longer offered | |
HSS 301 | I&S | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994; changed to ENGR 301 |
HSS 319, 410, 420, 422, 425, 431, 435 | I&S | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994; dropped from curriculum |
HSS 351, 352, 461 | VLPA | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994; dropped from curriculum |
HSS 310, 320, 419, 421, | I&S | dropped from curriculum |
HSS 450 | VLPA | changed to ENGL/ENGR 378 |
HSS 451, 465, 471, 472, 480 | VLPA | dropped from curriculum |
HSTAA 402 | VLPA | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994; dropped from curriculum |
HSTAA 421 | VLPA | if student began college anywhere before autumn 1985, and took the course before autumn 1994 |
HSTAM 203, 336, 452, 453 | VLPA | if student began college anywhere before autumn 1985, and took the course before autumn 1994 |
HSTAM 334, 335, 415 | VLPA | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994; dropped from curriculum |
HSTEU 370 | VLPA or I&S | changed to HSTAM 370 |
HSTEU 401, 410 | VLPA | if student began college anywhere before autumn 1985, and took the course before autumn 1994 |
HSTEU 403 | I&S if taken before autumn 2002; VLPA or I&S if taken autumn 2002 or later | |
HUM | Humanities; no longer in existence; courses count for VLPA | |
HUM 201 | VLPA | dropped from curriculum |
I BUS 300, 310 | I&S | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994 |
INDN | Indian; some classes transferred to URDU autumn 2004 | |
IASIA | Inner Asia; all courses dropped from curriculum or transferred to other departments; courses count for I&S | |
KIN, KINPE | Kinesiology/Physical Education; no longer offered | |
KIN 325, 331, 332 | NW | dropped from curriculum |
KIN 414 | VLPA (or I&S) | if student began college anywhere before autumn 1985, and took the course before autumn 1994; changed to BI HS 481 |
KIN 480 | NW | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994; dropped from curriculum |
KINPE 220 | VLPA | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994; dropped from curriculum |
KOR | changed to KOREAN | |
L ARC | changed to L ARCH | |
LAT | changed to LATIN | |
LIBR 450, 451, 453, 470 | VLPA | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994 |
MATH 100, 102, 103 | NW | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994 |
MATH 101 | NW if taken before autumn 1970 | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994; no longer carries credit |
MATH 104 | NW if taken before autumn 1972 | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994; no longer carries credit |
MHE 401,403, 430, 481 | VLPA | if student began college anywhere before autumn 1985, and took the course before autumn 1994 |
MHE 419 | VLPA | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994 |
MICRO | changed to MICROM | |
MUSIC 343 | NW if taken before autumn 1994 | can be used for VLPA regardless of when taken |
MUSIC 389 | VLPA or I&S | changed to MUSAP |
MUSIC 453 | I&S | changed to 345 |
N E | changed to NEAR E | |
NEAR E 320, 430 | VLPA or I&S | changed to 211 |
NUTR 307, 321, 407, 415, 440 | NW | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994; dropped from curriculum |
NUTR 409, 457 | I&S | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994; dropped from curriculum |
NUTR 400, 409, 422, 457 | I&S | dropped from curriculum |
NUTR 421 | NW | dropped from curriculum |
O E 200 | I&S | changed to MGMT 200 |
O E 302, 440 | I&S | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994 |
P E | Physical Education; no longer offered. (Later KIN, KINPE) | |
P E 220, 414 | VLPA | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994; dropped from curriculum |
P E 325, 331, 332, 480 | NW | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994; dropped from curriculum |
PBSCI | Psychiatry & Behavioral Science; no longer offers undergrad general ed course | |
PBSCI 267 | I&S | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994; dropped from curriculum |
PBSCI 451, 452 | I&S | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994 |
PEDNC | changed to DANCE | |
PHCOL (Pharmacology) | changed to PHARM | |
PHCOL 300 | NW | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994; dropped from curriculum |
PHIL 100 | VLPA if taken before autumn 1978 | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994; changed to social science (I&S) |
PHIL 160 | VLPA if taken before autumn 1979 | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994; changed to natural science autumn 1979, and to I&S autumn 1994 |
PHIL 101, 104, 105, 106, 206, 250, 267, 320, 321, 322, 327, 350 | VLPA | if student began college anywhere before autumn 1985, and took the course before autumn 1994 |
PHIL 370, 372, 473 | NW | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994 |
PHIL 484 | I&S | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994 |
POL S 205 before winter 1987 | Q/SR orold proficiency | changed to POL S 290, winter 1987; new 205 does not count for Q/SR |
POL S 212 | VLPA | if student began college anywhere before autumn 1985, and took the course before autumn 1994 |
PSYCH 102 | NW | dropped from curriculum |
PSYCH 222 | NW | dropped from curriculum |
PSYCH 209 | I&S or NW if taken before spring 1980; NW if taken before autumn 1990 | does not count for Areas of Knowledge if taken autumn 1990 or later |
PSYCH 209, 213, 217, 218, 231, 406, 475 | NW | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994 |
PSYCH 210 | NW if taken before autumn 1994, or if taken summer 1995 or 1996 | can be used for I&S regardless of when taken; listed as NW by error in summer Quarter Bulletin, 1995 and 1996 |
PSYCH 439 | I&S | dropped from curriculum |
QMETH 200 | old proficiencyand NW | dropped from curriculum (replaced by I S 300) |
QMETH 403 | NW | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994 |
RECPL | Recreation Planning and Administration; no longer offered | |
REEU | changed to SISRE (Russian & East European) | |
RELIG 201, 202, 203, 210, 301, 310, 311, 313, 315, 320, 321, 322, 324, 330, 352, 354, 415, 420, 421 | VLPA | if student began college anywhere before autumn 1985, and took the course before autumn 1994 |
RELIG 325, 326, 380, 439, 467, 468, 491, 492 | VLPA | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994 |
ROM | changed to ROMAN +ROM LI (Romance L&L; Romance Linguistics) | |
SASIA | changed to SISSA (South Asian studies) | |
SASIA 100 | VLPA | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994; dropped from curriculum |
SASIA 472, 491, SISSA 472, 491 | VLPA or I&S | if student began college anywhere before autumn 1985, and took the course before autumn 1994; changed to RELIG 354, 352 |
SCAND 382 | I&S | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994 |
SCAND 383 | VLPA or I&S | dropped from curriculum |
SCAND 390 | I&S | if student began college anywhere before autumn 1985, and took the course before autumn 1994 |
SCAND 426 | I&S only | dropped from curriculum |
SER C | changed to CR SB (Croatian-Serbian) | |
SISAF 265 | VLPA | if student began college anywhere before autumn 1985, and took the course before autumn 1994 |
SISAF 410 | VLPA | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994; changed to AFRAM 410 |
SISAF 416, 417, 418 | VLPA | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994; dropped from curriculum |
SISAF 450 | VLPA or I&S | not currently offered |
SISEA 234 | VLPA | if student began college anywhere before autumn 1985, and took the course before autumn 1994 |
SISEA 240 | VLPA or I&S | no longer in curriculum; transfer credit may be used for either I&S or VLPA |
SISEA 240; SISJE 421; SISRE 403, 450; SISSA 386 | VLPA | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994 |
SISEA 417 | VLPA | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994; dropped from curriculum |
SISIA | Inner Asia; no longer in use; courses dropped from curriculum or transferred to other departments | |
SISJE 421 | VLPA or I&S | not currently offered |
SISRE 243 | VLPA | if student began college anywhere before autumn 1985, and took the course before autumn 1994 |
SISSA 100 | VLPA | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994; dropped from curriculum |
SISSA 210 | VLPA | if student began college anywhere before autumn 1985, and took the course before autumn 1994 |
SOC W | changed to SOCWF (Social Welfare, School of Social Work) | |
SOC 223 | I&S; Q/SR or old proficiency | changed to SOC 323 |
SOC 323 | Q/SR or old proficiency, and I&S | not currently offered |
SP CMU | Changed to COM with some renumbering; see http://www.com.washington.edu/Program/Undergrad/ spcrenumber.html | |
SPAN 231 | VLPA or I&S | not currently offered |
SPCH | changed to SP CMU; also SPHSC, ca. 1975 | |
SPCH [SP CMU] 100 | VLPA | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994; changed to SPHSC 100 |
SPCH [SP CMU] 101 | VLPA | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994; changed to SPHSC 101; later dropped from curriculum |
SPCH [SP CMU] 300 | NW | changed to SPHSC 300 |
SPCH [SP CMU] 301 | NW | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994; changed to SPHSC 201 |
SPHSC 101, 104 | VLPA | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994; dropped from curriculum |
SPHSC 302 | I&S | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994; dropped from curriculum |
SPHSC 310 | Q/SR and NW | dropped from curriculum |
TSCS | Textile Studies & Costume Studies; no longer offered | |
TSCS 321, 322, 329, 429 | VLPA | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994; dropped from curriculum |
TSCS 432 | VLPA | dropped from curriculum |
TSCS 433 | VLPA | dropped from curriculum |
UDRE 315 | I&S | dropped from curriculum |
UGAR | changed to UGARIT (Ugaritic; Near E L&L) | |
URB P | changed to URBDP (Urban Design & Planning) | |
URB P 300 | VLPA if taken before winter 1984 | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994 |
URB P 400 | VLPA or I&S | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994; changed to URBDP 300 |
URBDP 340 | VLPA | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994; dropped from curriculum |
URBDP 450 | I&S | if student is white list, and took the course before autumn 1994; dropped from curriculum |
WLF S (Wildlife Science) | changed to ESC (Ecosystem Science and Conservation, College of Forest Resources) | |
WLF S 350 | NW | changed to FOR B 350, later to FRM 350 |
WOMEN 206 | VLPA | if student began college anywhere before autumn 1985, and took the course before autumn 1994 |
White list: Student entered the UW as a freshman before autumn 1980, or entered the College of Arts and Sciences as a transfer student (even if from another college of the University) before autumn 1982, and took the course before autumn 1994.
A&S, GIS, and GEN ST Courses
Starting below is a list of Arts and Sciences (A&S), General and Interdisciplinary Studies (GIS), and General Studies (GEN ST, formerly G ST) courses for past quarters, to be used in determining how these courses may be applied toward the pre-1985 15-credit proficiency requirement and the current Areas of Knowledge requirement.
A&S
"Arts and Sciences" courses were initiated in winter 1969, covering topics outside the province of any single department. On student transcripts, the course title for A&S courses is always "Perspectives and Issues." Note that in some cases different A&S courses in succeeding quarters carried the same numbers; applicability to requirements, therefore, depends on the quarter in which the course was taken.
GIS
Beginning in autumn 1970, the A&S designation was replaced by GIS. Again, different GIS courses in succeeding quarters may carry the same number, so the adviser must determine the quarter in which the course was taken before assigning the course to requirements.
GEN ST
General Studies (GEN ST, previously G ST) courses are frequently confused with General and Interdisciplinary Studies (GIS) courses. Although some writing-link courses were offered under the G ST heading from 1982 to 1984 (shown as GEN ST on current transcripts), the General Studies prefix is not used for general-education courses. None of the current GEN ST courses count toward general education requirements.
Writing links
GIS (and GEN ST) writing labs, first offered in autumn 1977, became ENGL 197, 198, and 199 in autumn 1984. All writing labs, now called writing links, count toward the pre-1985 A&S 15-credit proficiency requirement, and/or the English composition requirement of any UW college or major. All writing labs/links may also count toward VLPA for students who were formerly on the white distribution list (see Previous General Education Requirements). These are marked "Prof/VLPA" below if before autumn 1980, when entering students were no longer eligible for the white distribution list. From then onward, they are marked "Prof/None."
Course list 1969 to present
Quarter | Course | Requirement |
Winter 1969 | A&S 103 A&S 105 | I&S NW |
Spring 1969 | A&S 102 A&S 104 A&S 401 A&S 403 A&S 405 A&S 406 | VLPA or I&S I&S VLPA I&S I&S or NW VLPA or NW |
Autumn 1969 | A&S 102 A&S 103 A&S 105 A&S 106 A&S 401 A&S 402 A&S 403 | VLPA or I&S I&S NW NW VLPA or I&S VLPA I&S |
Winter 1970 | A&S 102 A&S 106 A&S 402 | VLPA or I&S NW NW |
Spring 1970 | A&S 101H A&S 103 A&S 104 A&S 105 A&S 106 A&S 401 A&S 402 A&S 403 A&S 404 A&S 405 A&S 406 | None None None NW NW None VLPA or I&S I&S VLPA or I&S I&S or NW I&S |
Summer 1970 | A&S 101 A&S 401 A&S 403 A&S 404 | I&S None I&S None |
Autumn 1970 | GIS 101 GIS 102 GIS 103 GIS 106 GIS 200H GIS 201H GIS 209 GIS 210 GIS 300 GIS 301 GIS 302 GIS 305 GIS 310 GIS 361 GIS 370 GIS 400H GIS 405 GIS 407 GIS 420 GIS 425 GIS 431 GIS 451 GIS 460 GIS 466 GIS 480 GIS 481 | None VLPA or I&S I&S NW None None None I&S VLPA None None I&S I&S None VLPA None I&S or NW None None I&S I&S VLPA I&S None VLPA I&S |
Winter 1971 | GIS 101 GIS 102 GIS 107 GIS 200H GIS 206 GIS 207 GIS 208 GIS 301 GIS 303 GIS 305 GIS 313 GIS 315 GIS 321 GIS 335 GIS 371 GIS 375 GIS 378 GIS 379 GIS 380 GIS 400H GIS 401 GIS 404 GIS 406 GIS 407 GIS 408 GIS 410 GIS 412 | None VLPA or I&S NW None I&S VLPA None None None I&S I&S I&S VLPA None VLPA I&S I&S VLPA VLPA VLPA VLPA VLPA or I&S VLPA or I&S None I&S I&S I&S |
Spring 1971 | GIS 108 GIS 109 GIS 110 GIS 251 GIS 252 GIS 253 GIS 254 GIS 299 GIS 304 GIS 306 GIS 314 GIS 316 GIS 317 GIS 318 GIS 319 GIS 320 GIS 322 GIS 323H GIS 335 GIS 372 GIS 375 GIS 376 GIS 380 GIS 381 GIS 382 GIS 402 GIS 405 GIS 407 GIS 409 GIS 410 GIS 411 GIS 461 GIS 462 GIS 463 GIS 464 GIS 465 GIS 466 GIS 467 | NW NW VLPA VLPA I&S None I&S None None I&S I&S I&S None I&S I&S I&S None VLPA I&S VLPA None None VLPA VLPA I&S VLPA or I&S I&S or NW None None I&S I&S I&S None VLPA or I&S VLPA I&S NW I&S |
Summer 1971 | GIS 326 GIS 403 GIS 413 GIS 462 GIS 468 GIS 469 GIS 470 | VLPA I&S I&S None I&S None None |
Autumn 1971 | GIS 102 GIS 112 GIS 113 GIS 200H GIS 252 GIS 255 GIS 299 GIS 307 GIS 308 GIS 323 GIS 324 GIS 327 GIS 328 GIS 369 GIS 373 GIS 400H GIS 406 GIS 410 GIS 411 GIS 421 | VLPA or I&S See Residential Program See Residential Program None I&S None None None None VLPA None None None VLPA VLPA None VLPA or I&S I&S I&S None |
Winter 1972 | GIS 114 GIS 115 GIS 200H GIS 202 GIS 207 GIS 299 GIS 305 GIS 306 GIS 309 GIS 320 GIS 321 GIS 327 GIS 328 GIS 329 GIS 342 GIS 374 GIS 381 GIS 386 GIS 387 GIS 400H GIS 410 GIS 411 GIS 414 GIS 415 GIS 416 GIS 417 GIS 418 GIS 419 GIS 421 GIS 445 GIS 466 GIS 471 | See Residential Program See Residential Program None None VLPA None I&S I&S I&S I&S VLPA None None I&S I&S VLPA VLPA VLPA VLPA None I&S I&S I&S VLPA I&S I&S I&S I&S None I&S NW None |
Spring 1972 | GIS 109 GIS 116 GIS 117 GIS 203 GIS 212 GIS 245 GIS 255 GIS 299 GIS 305 GIS 317 GIS 327 GIS 330 GIS 331 GIS 332 GIS 337 GIS 338 GIS 339 GIS 341 GIS 345 GIS 352 GIS 355 GIS 357 GIS 360 GIS 366 GIS 369 GIS 377 GIS 411 GIS 421 GIS 462 GIS 467 GIS 474 GIS 475 GIS 476 | NW See Residential Program See Residential Program VLPA or I&S None VLPA None None I&S None None None None VLPA VLPA I&S VLPA VLPA I&S VLPA I&S NW I&S VLPA VLPA VLPA I&S None None I&S I&S None VLPA or I&S |
Summer 1972 | GIS 305 GIS 426 GIS 472 GIS 473 | I&S I&S I&S I&S |
Autumn 1972 | GIS 118 GIS 119 GIS 122 GIS 123 GIS 126 GIS 127 GIS 200 GIS 213 GIS 215 GIS 221 GIS 256 GIS 257 GIS 260 GIS 261 GIS 262 GIS 266 GIS 267 GIS 268 GIS 300 GIS 305 GIS 307 GIS 323 GIS 333 GIS 334 GIS 353 GIS 355 GIS 369 GIS 383 GIS 384 GIS 385 GIS 392 GIS 393 GIS 400 GIS 410 GIS 421 GIS 429 GIS 430 GIS 432 GIS 433 GIS 434 GIS 435 GIS 440 GIS 443 GIS 449 | See Residential Program See Residential Program See Residential Program See Residential Program See Residential Program See Residential Program None None VLPA VLPA or I&S None VLPA or NW None None None None None None Nat or I&S I&S None VLPA VLPA or I&S None I&S I&S VLPA VLPA I&S VLPA None Nat or I&S None I&S None None None None None None Nat or I&S I&S None VLPA |
Winter 1973 | GIS 118 GIS 119 GIS 120 GIS 121 GIS 122 GIS 123 GIS 124 GIS 125 GIS 126 GIS 127 GIS 128 GIS 129 GIS 200 GIS 203 GIS 205 GIS 216 GIS 219 GIS 223 GIS 245 GIS 260 GIS 261 GIS 262 GIS 266 GIS 267 GIS 268 GIS 305 GIS 308 GIS 310 GIS 317 GIS 320 GIS 335 GIS 338 GIS 367 GIS 369 GIS 376 GIS 378 GIS 379 GIS 400 GIS 410 GIS 411 GIS 421 GIS 430 GIS 436 GIS 438 GIS 446 GIS 447 GIS 448 GIS 449 GIS 450 GIS 474 GIS 475 | See Residential Program See Residential Program See Residential Program See Residential Program See Residential Program See Residential Program See Residential Program See Residential Program See Residential Program See Residential Program See Residential Program See Residential Program None VLPA or I&S None VLPA NW VLPA VLPA None None None None None None I&S None I&S None I&S VLPA I&S VLPA VLPA VLPA VLPA or I&S None None I&S I&S None None I&S or NW None None None None VLPA VLPA VLPA or I&S None |
Spring 1973 | GIS 109 GIS 118 GIS 119 GIS 120 GIS 121 GIS 122 GIS 123 GIS 124 GIS 125 GIS 126 GIS 127 GIS 128 GIS 129 GIS 205 GIS 217 GIS 219 GIS 222 GIS 224 GIS 238 GIS 256 GIS 258 GIS 260 GIS 261 GIS 262 GIS 266 GIS 267 GIS 268 GIS 311 GIS 313 GIS 332 GIS 335 GIS 340 GIS 365 GIS 368 GIS 370 GIS 371 GIS 372 GIS 373 GIS 375 GIS 382 GIS 390 GIS 401 GIS 402 GIS 403 GIS 410 GIS 411 GIS 430 GIS 444 GIS 448 GIS 452 GIS 453 GIS 456 GIS 457 GIS 458 GIS 459 GIS 467 GIS 473 GIS 477 GIS 482 GIS 483 GIS 490 | NW See Residential Program See Residential Program See Residential Program See Residential Program See Residential Program See Residential Program See Residential Program See Residential Program See Residential Program See Residential Program See Residential Program See Residential Program None VLPA NW None VLPA I&S None None None None None None None None VLPA I&S VLPA VLPA I&S VLPA VLPA None None None I&S None VLPA VLPA I&S I&S I&S I&S I&S None I&S None VLPA VLPA VLPA I&S None None I&S VLPA or I&S VLPA I&S I&S None |
Summer 1973 | GIS 305 GIS 343 GIS 354 GIS 430 GIS 473 GIS 479 GIS 491 GIS 492 | I&S I&S VLPA None VLPA or I&S VLPA I&S I&S |
Autumn 1973 | GIS 118 GIS 119 GIS 120 GIS 121 GIS 122 GIS 123 GIS 124 GIS 125 GIS 126 GIS 127 GIS 128 GIS 129 GIS 200 GIS 223 GIS 225 GIS 256 GIS 266 GIS 267 GIS 268 GIS 305 GIS 309 GIS 313 GIS 317 GIS 320 GIS 322 GIS 325 GIS 355 GIS 400 GIS 410 GIS 411 GIS 430 GIS 443 GIS 448 GIS 450 GIS 485 | See Residential Program See Residential Program See Residential Program See Residential Program See Residential Program See Residential Program See Residential Program See Residential Program See Residential Program See Residential Program See Residential Program See Residential Program None VLPA VLPA None None None None I&S VLPA or I&S I&S None I&S VLPA VLPA I&S None I&S I&S None I&S None VLPA VLPA |
Winter 1974 | GIS 118 GIS 119 GIS 120 GIS 121 GIS 122 GIS 123 GIS 124 GIS 125 GIS 126 GIS 127 GIS 128 GIS 129 GIS 200 GIS 224 GIS 237 GIS 239 GIS 244 GIS 252 GIS 266 GIS 267 GIS 268 GIS 305 GIS 322 GIS 333 GIS 338 GIS 339 GIS 341 GIS 342 GIS 358 GIS 363 GIS 369 GIS 380 GIS 400 GIS 410 GIS 411 GIS 448 GIS 449 GIS 467 GIS 483 GIS 488 | See Residential Program See Residential Program See Residential Program See Residential Program See Residential Program See Residential Program See Residential Program See Residential Program See Residential Program See Residential Program See Residential Program See Residential Program None VLPA VLPA VLPA or NW I&S I&S None None None I&S VLPA None I&S I&S I&S VLPA VLPA I&S VLPA I&S None I&S I&S None VLPA I&S I&S VLPA |
Spring 1974 | GIS 109 GIS 118 GIS 119 GIS 120 GIS 121 GIS 122 GIS 123 GIS 124 GIS 125 GIS 126 GIS 127 GIS 128 GIS 129 GIS 200 GIS 201 GIS 205 GIS 238 GIS 257 GIS 266 GIS 267 GIS 268 GIS 301 GIS 302 GIS 313 GIS 315 GIS 325 GIS 330 GIS 334 GIS 335 GIS 337 GIS 345 GIS 357 GIS 360 GIS 364 GIS 373 GIS 374 GIS 410 GIS 411 GIS 414 GIS 451 GIS 453 GIS 459 GIS 468 GIS 475 GIS 489 GIS 494 GIS 495 | NW See Residential Program See Residential Program See Residential Program See Residential Program See Residential Program See Residential Program See Residential Program See Residential Program See Residential Program See Residential Program See Residential Program See Residential Program None I&S None VLPA VLPA or NW None None None VLPA I&S I&S VLPA VLPA I&S None VLPA VLPA I&S NW I&S I&S I&S VLPA I&S I&S I&S I&S VLPA None I&S None I&S VLPA VLPA |
Summer 1974 | GIS 300 GIS 304 GIS 305 GIS 308 GIS 313 GIS 331 GIS 352 GIS 410 GIS 411 GIS 420 GIS 437 GIS 483 GIS 496 GIS 497 | VLPA I&S I&S None I&S VLPA None I&S I&S None VLPA I&S VLPA VLPA or I&S |
Autumn 1974 | GIS 138 GIS 140 GIS 200 GIS 206 GIS 244 GIS 253 GIS 309 GIS 317 GIS 318 GIS 325 GIS 400 GIS 404 GIS 427 GIS 431 GIS 448 GIS 490 | None None None VLPA I&S None None None VLPA VLPA None VLPA VLPA I&S None None |
Winter 1975 | GIS 106 GIS 141 GIS 200H GIS 220 GIS 240 GIS 243 GIS 254 GIS 302 GIS 313 GIS 316 GIS 325 GIS 326 GIS 327 GIS 335 GIS 340 GIS 361 GIS 400H GIS 405 GIS 420 GIS 428 GIS 452 GIS 480 GIS 488 | VLPA None None I&S VLPA or NW I&S None I&S I&S I&S VLPA I&S VLPA VLPA I&S I&S None VLPA None VLPA VLPA VLPA VLPA |
Spring 1975 | GIS 135 GIS 142 GIS 185 GIS 200H GIS 202 GIS 210 GIS 253 GIS 257 GIS 306 GIS 317 GIS 332 GIS 335 GIS 338 GIS 353 GIS 357 GIS 381 GIS 400H GIS 406 GIS 408 GIS 412 GIS 429 GIS 448 GIS 451 GIS 454 GIS 467 | None None None None I&S I&S None VLPA or NW VLPA or I&S I&S VLPA VLPA or I&S I&S VLPA NW VLPA or I&S None VLPA VLPA I&S VLPA None I&S VLPA I&S |
Summer 1975 | GIS 209 GIS 218 GIS 243 GIS 301 | VLPA None I&S VLPA |
Autumn 1975 | GIS 110 GIS 140 GIS 200 GIS 207 GIS 219 GIS 223- GIS 254 GIS 302 GIS 303 GIS 309 GIS 356 GIS 400 GIS 487 | None I&S or NW None None None VLPA None I&S VLPA VLPA or I&S VLPA None I&S |
Winter 1976 | GIS 111 GIS 141 GIS 200H GIS 203 GIS 207 GIS 213 GIS 221 GIS -224 GIS 227 GIS 228 GIS 246 GIS 253 GIS 381 GIS 400H GIS 432 GIS 485 GIS 491 | None I&S or NW None None None VLPA VLPA VLPA None None None None VLPA or I&S None None VLPA I&S |
Spring 1976 | GIS 112 GIS 142 GIS 202 GIS 208 GIS 214 GIS 221 GIS 229 GIS 231 GIS 254 GIS 302 GIS 304 GIS 312 GIS 319 GIS 409 GIS 432 GIS 465 | None I&S or NW VLPA None VLPA VLPA None None None I&S I&S I&S or NW I&S VLPA None VLPA |
Summer 1976 | GIS 209 | VLPA |
Autumn 1976 | GIS 110 GIS 140 GIS 200 GIS 205 GIS 207 GIS 215 GIS 221 GIS 223 GIS 242 GIS 247 GIS 253 GIS 302 GIS 305 GIS 377 GIS 399 GIS 400 GIS 487 | None I&S or NW None None None None VLPA VLPA VLPA None None I&S None VLPA or I&S VLPA None None |
Winter 1977 | GIS 111 GIS 141 GIS 200 GIS 213 GIS 216 GIS 222 GIS 254 GIS 310 GIS 340 GIS 354 GIS 356 GIS 366 GIS 381 GIS 400 | None I&S or NW None VLPA None None None None None VLPA None VLPA or I&S None None |
Spring 1977 | GIS 112 GIS 142 GIS 202 GIS 208 GIS 214 GIS 217 GIS 253 GIS 311 GIS 314 GIS 353 | None I&S or NW None None VLPA None None None None VLPA |
Summer 1977 | no courses | |
Autumn 1977 | GIS 140 GIS 200 GIS 209 GIS 210 GIS 215 GIS 225 GIS 238 GIS 320 GIS 353 GIS 400 GIS 407 | I&S or NW None Prof/VLPA Prof/VLPA Prof/VLPA Prof/VLPA Prof/VLPA VLPA or I&S VLPA None None |
Winter 1978 | GIS 141 GIS 200 GIS 209 GIS 210 GIS 213 GIS 216 GIS 239 GIS 241 GIS 245 GIS 310 GIS 321 GIS 352 GIS 400 GIS 407 | I&S or NW None Prof/VLPA Prof/VLPA VLPA or NW Prof/VLPA Prof/VLPA Prof/VLPA Prof/VLPA None VLPA or I&S VLPA None None |
Spring 1978 | GIS 142 GIS 209 GIS 210 GIS 214 GIS 217 GIS 239 GIS 285 GIS 290 GIS 295 GIS 314 GIS 322 GIS 354 GIS 408 GIS 413 | I&S or NW Prof/VLPA Prof/VLPA VLPA or NW Prof/VLPA Prof/VLPA Prof/VLPA Prof/VLPA Prof/VLPA None VLPA or I&S VLPA None VLPA |
Summer 1978 | GIS 357 | None |
Autumn 1978 | GIS 140 GIS 200 GIS 201 GIS 209 GIS 210 GIS 222 GIS 235 GIS 239 GIS 320 GIS 336 GIS 400 | I&S or NW None Prof/VLPA Prof/VLPA Prof/VLPA Prof/VLPA Prof/VLPA Prof/VLPA VLPA or I&S None None |
Winter 1979 | GIS 141 GIS 200 GIS 201 GIS 209 GIS 210 GIS 213 GIS 216 GIS 222 GIS 239 GIS 321 GIS 400 | I&S or NW None Prof/VLPA Prof/VLPA Prof/VLPA None Prof/VLPA Prof/VLPA Prof/VLPA VLPA or I&S None |
Spring 1979 | GIS 142 GIS 209 GIS 210 GIS 214 GIS 217 GIS 232 GIS 233 GIS 239 GIS 314 GIS 322 GIS 355 GIS 408 | I&S or NW Prof/VLPA Prof/VLPA None Prof/VLPA Prof/VLPA Prof/VLPA Prof/VLPA None VLPA or I&S VLPA None |
Summer 1979 | No courses offered | |
Autumn 1979 | GIS 210 GIS 215 GIS 370 | Prof/VLPA Prof/VLPA None |
Winter 1980 | GIS 200 GIS 209 GIS 216 GIS 400 | None Prof/VLPA Prof/VLPA None |
Spring 1980 | GIS 209 GIS 210 GIS 214 GIS 314 GIS 408 | Prof/VLPA Prof/VLPA None None None |
Summer 1980 | No courses offered | |
Autumn 1980 | GIS 200 GIS 209 GIS 210 GIS 213 GIS 216 GIS 239 GIS 400 | None Prof/None* Prof/None* None Prof/None* Prof/None* None |
Winter 1981 | GIS 200 GIS 209 GIS 210 GIS 213 GIS 216 GIS 239 | None Prof/None* Prof/None* None Prof/None* Prof/None* |
Spring 1981 | GIS 209 GIS 210 GIS 217 GIS 239 GIS 353 GIS 367 GIS 422 | Prof/None* Prof/None* Prof/None* Prof/None* None None None |
Summer 1981 | No courses offered. | |
Autumn 1981 | GIS 200 GIS 209 GIS 210 GIS 215 GIS 383 GIS 400 | None Prof/None* Prof/None* Prof/None* None None |
NOTE: Beginning Winter 1982, most GIS writing labs were transferred to GEN ST.
Winter 1982 | GIS 200 GIS 223 GIS 383 GIS 400 GEN ST 209 GEN ST 210 GEN ST 216 GEN ST 220 GEN ST 239 | None Prof/None* None None Prof/None* Prof/None* Prof/None* Prof/None* Prof/None* |
Spring 1982 | GIS 222 GIS 353 GIS 383 GEN ST 209 GEN ST 210 GEN ST 217 GEN ST 221 GEN ST 239 | Prof/None* None None Prof/None* Prof/None* Prof/None* Prof/None* Prof/None* |
Summer 1982 | No courses offered. | |
Autumn 1982 | GIS 200H GIS 271H GIS 272H GIS 273H GIS 353 GEN ST 209 GEN ST 210 GEN ST 215 | None Prof/None* Prof/None* Prof/None* None Prof/None* Prof/None* Prof/None* |
Winter 1983 | GIS 200H GIS 222 GIS 275 GIS 281H GIS 282H GIS 283H GIS 400H GEN ST 209 GEN ST 210 GEN ST 216 | None Prof/None* Prof/None* Prof/None* Prof/None* Prof/None* None Prof/None* Prof/None* Prof/None* |
Spring 1983 | GIS 137 GIS 223 GIS 275 GEN ST 209 GEN ST 210 GEN ST 217 | None Prof/None* Prof/None* Prof/None* Prof/None* Prof/None* |
Summer 1983 | No courses offered. | |
Autumn 1983 | GIS 200 GIS 271 GIS 272 GIS 273 GIS 400 GEN ST 209 GEN ST 210 GEN ST 215 | None Prof/None* Prof/None* Prof/None* None Prof/None* Prof/None* Prof/None* |
Winter 1984 | GIS 200 GIS 205 GIS 222 GIS 275 GIS 277 GIS 400 GEN ST 209 GEN ST 210 GEN ST 216 GEN ST 221 GEN ST 239 | None Prof/None* Prof/None* Prof/None* Prof/None* None Prof/None* Prof/None* Prof/None* Prof/None* Prof/None* |
Spring 1984 | GIS 205 GIS 212 GIS 223 GIS 274 GIS 275 GIS 278 GEN ST 209 GEN ST 210 GEN ST 217 GEN ST 239 | Prof/None* Prof/None* Prof/None* Prof/None* Prof/None* Prof/None* Prof/None* Prof/None* Prof/None* Prof/None* |
Summer 1984 | GIS 291 GEN ST 215 | Prof/None* Prof/None* |
Autumn 1984 | GIS 200H GIS 265 GIS 271H GIS 272H GIS 273H GIS 274H GIS 400H | None None Prof/None* Prof/None* Prof/None* Prof/None* None |
Winter 1985 | GIS 200H GIS 265 GIS 400H | None None None |
Spring 1985 | GIS 265 | None |
Summer 1985 | GIS 265 | None |
Autumn 1985- Summer 2000 | GEN ST GIS 200H GIS 250 GIS 271H GIS 272H GIS 273H GIS 274H GIS 400H | None toward AoK None None Comp/None* Comp/None* Comp/None* Comp/None* None |
Autumn 2000 (Early Fall Start) | GEN ST GIS 160 GIS 165 GIS 170 | None toward AoK I&S I&S NW |
Autumn 2001 (Early Fall Start) | GEN ST GIS 160 GIS 170 GIS 175 GIS 177 GIS 185 GIS 192 | None toward AoK I&S NW I&S or NW I&S I&S I&S |
Autumn 2002 (Early Fall Start) | GEN ST GIS 160 GIS 170 GIS 172 GIS 177 | None toward AoK I&S NW VLPA I&S, W |
Winter 2003 | GEN ST GIS 130 | None toward AoK NW |
Autumn 2003 (Early Fall Start) | GEN ST GIS 130 GIS 160 GIS 170 GIS 171 GIS 173 GIS 174 GIS 176 GIS 178 GIS 179 GIS 180 GIS 181 GIS 182 GIS 210 | None toward AoK NW I&S or NW NW I&S I&S I&S I&S I&S I&S NW and Q NW NW None |
Winter 2004 | GEN ST GIS 130 GIS 215 GIS 310 | None toward AoK NW I&S None |
Spring 2004 | GEN ST GIS 215 GIS 410 | None toward AoK I&S None |
Autumn 2004 (Early Fall Start) | GEN ST GIS 160 GIS 161 GIS 163 GIS 164 GIS 165 GIS 167 GIS 168 GIS 169 GIS 170 GIS 178 GIS 180 GIS 182 GIS 210 GIS 490 | None toward AoK I&S or NW NW VLPA VLPA or I&S I&S NW I&S I&S NW I&S NW and Q NW None I&S |
Winter 2005 | GEN ST GIS 310 | None toward AoK None |
* May be counted for VLPA by students formerly on the white distribution list.
The Residential Program
During the three school years from autumn 1971 through spring 1974, certain students participated in what was called the Residential Program. These students lived in Lander Hall and took some of their classes there. Participants in the program were allowed special dispensations regarding the proficiency and distribution requirements that were in effect at the time, as explained below.
All Residential Program students were eligible to use the "white-list" requirements. As former white-list students, they may continue to use the 15-credit pre-1985 proficiency requirement; they must now complete the current Areas of Knowledge requirement, but may use any white-list courses that they had completed before autumn 1994, counting humanities courses for Visual, Literary, and Performing Arts, social science courses for Individuals and Societies, and natural science courses for The Natural World. (Look for unfamiliar courses in the General Education Course Archives.)
Pre-1985 proficiency requirement
The original plan was that anyone who had been in the Residential Program at all would have the fifteen-credit proficiency requirement waived, so anyone who was in the program during 1971-72, even if for only one quarter, is exempt from the old proficiency requirement. Students who joined the program in 1972-73 or 1973-74, however, have only 5 credits of the proficiency requirement waived for each quarter they were in the program. The actual course numbers used in the program (e.g., GIS 112) are not assigned to proficiency. The waiver can simply be indicated on the student's graduation application by a notation such as: "Waived, Res. Prog., Aut 19725 cr."
Areas of Knowledge
The original plan was that students in the Residential Program would take 10 of their credits each quarter in the program, and that 5 of these would go toward humanities and 5 toward social science distribution (i.e., VLPA and I&S Areas of Knowledge). But there are complications, as shown in the chart below.
Distribution (Areas of Knowledge) designations of Residential Program courses
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College Studies
The College Studies Program was an alternative to the general education requirement which was at that time called the distribution requirement and is now called Areas of Knowledge. The program was available to undergraduates in the College of Arts and Sciences from autumn quarter 1988 through summer quarter 1997.
College Studies sequences were 15-credit sequences of related general education courses. These sequences provided opportunities for non-majors to explore disciplines that are an essential part of a coIlege education, in courses designed to show how the disciplines and fields of study are organized, how they develop and change, and how they are related to other disciplines and the culture at large.
Fulfilling general education with College Studies sequences
A student could use a College Studies sequence to replace the regular 20-credit distribution (Areas of Knowledge) requirement in one, two, or all three of the distribution categories (Areas). The student was required to complete all other general education requirements, including the basic skills requirements (currently, English composition, additional writing, quantitative and symbolic reasoning, and foreign language.)
Under the old distribution requirement, students were not allowed to count courses in their major department toward distribution. Students who satisfied all three distribution areas (Areas of Knowledge) with College Studies sequences were allowed to count College Studies sequences that included courses in the student's major department, with no credit restriction. In other words, such students were allowed to overlap College Studies sequences with their major.
Under the current Areas of Knowledge policies, an eligible student who satisfies one or two Areas with College Studies sequences is allowed a total of 15 credits of overlap with his/her major. As in the past, an eligible student who satisfies all three Areas with College Studies sequences is allowed any amount of overlap with the major.
Eligibility for College Studies
Students who began a College Studies sequence when the program was in effect are still allowed to use College Studies sequences to meet either the old distribution requirement or the current Areas of Knowledge requirement, under the following conditions:
- The student must have been matriculated in UW's College of Arts and Sciences at some time during the period from autumn quarter 1988 through summer quarter 1997.
- The student must have completed with a passing grade at least one of the courses from the College Studies sequence during this period.
- A College Studies sequence completed after summer 1997 can still be counted, as long as it was started when the program was active. If the courses needed to complete the sequence are no longer offered, the student can propose one or more substitutions in a petition to the Arts and Sciences Graduation Committee.
- During the period when the College Studies program was available, sequences were both added to and removed from the program.
- If a sequence was added to the program after the student enrolled in one or more of the courses, the student may count the sequence.
- If a sequence was removed from the program before the student enrolled in any course in the sequence, the student may not count the sequence.
Humanities/Fine Arts (Visual, Literary, and Performing Arts)
Interpretation, Community, and Culture
Offered autumn 1988 - summer 1992
This sequence focuses on the interpretive nature of all activity and inquiry, not only at the university, but in an increasingly complicated world where cultures and interpretations clash in dramatic ways. The courses are structured to direct attention to written texts, to visual messags, and to books, artistic works, and social, political, and cultural events, as well as scientific experiment. The sequence also studies the situation of interpretive acts in interpretive communities distinguishable by their cultural, disciplinary, and institutional contingencies, interests, demands, and constraints.
Required courses:
- C LIT 260 Interpretation as a Human Activity (5)
- C LIT 360 Interpretation in Culture and Community (5)
- C LIT 460 Interpretation in Humanistic Disciplines in the University (5)
Literature, Imagination, and Culture
Offered autumn 1988 - summer 1997
This is a set of courses devoted to ways of thinking about literature and its relation to culture. Each course explores literature from a different point of view and provides exercise in critical and reflective thought.
Required, three of the following courses:
- ENGL 205 Method, Imagination, and Inquiry (5)
- ENGL 302 Critical Practice (5) (formerly 346)
- ENGL 307 Cultural Studies: Literature and the Age (5)
The following topics were offered in different quarters:- Renaissance Culture
- Men and Women in Eighteenth-Century Culture
- Romanticism
- Modernism
- ENGL 363 Literature and the Other Arts and Disciplines (5) (formerly 408)
- ENGL 470 Literature, Literary Study, and Society (5) (formerly 306)
The Arts and Aesthetics
Offered autumn 1989 - summer 1997
An exploration of historically changing concepts of the visual arts, music, and aesthetic history through an examination of art and music from various periods, as well as philosophical writing on the arts. Emphasis is on the flux in which artistic and aesthetic endeavors operate, so that it may be seen that current views of the function or purpose of the arts do not necessarily represent the views held in earlier periods.
Required, two of the following courses:
- ART H 300 Ideas in Art (5) (formerly ART H 200)
- ART H 382 Theory and Practice of Art Criticism (3)-Concurrently with 2 credits of ART H 499
- MUSIC 384 Ideas in Music (5)
Plus one of the following courses.
- PHIL 445 Philosophy of Art (5)
- PHIL 446 Development of Aesthetic Theory (5)
How to Think about Moral Problems
Offered autumn 1989 - summer 1997
This sequence is intended to improve the understanding of moral decision making, in the belief that a basic knowledge of what others have advised can make a real difference to us when we come to make our own decisions. The courses consider specific contemporary moral problems and the kinds of reasoning available for dealing with them.
Required, one course from:
- PHIL 102 Contemporary Moral Problems (5)
- PHIL 240 Introduction to Ethics (5)
Plus two courses from:
- PHIL 241 Topics in Ethics (5)
- PHIL 340 History of Ancient Ethics (5)
- PHIL 342 History of Modern Ethics (5)
- PHIL 344 History of Recent Ethics (5)
- PHIL 345 Moral Issues of Life and Death (5)
- MHE 474/PHIL 411 Justice in Health Care (5)
The Classics in Literature and Life
Offered autumn 1989 - summer 1997
Classics as a scholarly discipline, treating the classical world from a number of vantage points: political and social, intellectual, literary, and artistic.
Required, three of the following:
- CLAS 210 Greek and Roman Classics in English (5) (added 1991)
- CLAS 320 Greek and Roman Private and Public Life (5)
- CLAS 322 Intellectual History of Classical Greece (5)
- CLAS 410 The Classical Tradition (5) (through 1992 only)
- CLAS 427 Greek and Roman Tragedy in English (5)
The Spectrum of Literature
Offered autumn 1998 - summer 1997
An introduction to the nature of literary and critical studies and an explanation of the discipline of literature in a comparative framework, these courses ask a number of fundamental questions. What is literature? What forms does it take in different social and historical contexts? What functions does it serve? What are its relationships with other arts and disciplines? What approaches are required to analyze and enjoy it? What does it mean to study literature as one studies philosophy, the other arts, the social sciences, and the natural sciences?
Required, three of the following:
- C LIT 200 Introduction to Comparative Literature (5)
- C LIT 300 The Scope of Literary History (5) (formerly 370)
- C LIT 371 Literature and the Visual Arts (5) (added 1995)
- C LIT 400 Introduction to the Theory of Literature (5)
Argumentation in Society
Offered autumn 1988 - summer 1997
An exploration of the forms of argument used by speakers and writers when they seek to persuade audiences to accept actions and beliefs. A study in the essentials of argument, types of arguments, ways of making arguments, strategies for criticizing and responding to arguments, argument as it is practiced in society, and theoretical approaches to the study of argument.
Required:
- SP CMU 334 Essentials of Argument (5)
Plus two courses from:
- SP CMU 424 Rhetorical Perspective in Revolutionary Documents (5)
- SP CMU 426 American Public Address (5)
- SP CMU 428 British Public Address (5)
- SP CMU 434 Argumentation Theory (5)
Art in Public Places
Offered autumn 1988 - summer 1997
This sequence looks at art in the public domain in a variety of ways: with respect to history, with respect to aesthetic and conceptual issues, and with respect to the processes and roles of artists, art administrators, communities, public officials, tradesmen, and industries. It also involves actual experience in the challenge of making art in a public place.
Required courses:
- ART 275 A World History of Art in Public Places (5)
- ART 276 Contemporary Directions, Art in Public Places (5)
- ART 332 Intermediate Sculpture Composition (5, max 15)
Social Sciences (Individuals and Societies)
Science in Civilization
Offered autumn 1988 - summer 1997
This sequence studies the role of the natural sciences in the development of Western culture from the time of ancient Greece to the present. It investigates how scientists have organized knowledge of the natural world and how they have organized themselves in order to pursue that knowledge. Examines how the categories of modern science do not match those of earlier times and how the evolution of Western scientific thought has developed.
Required:
- HIST 311/MHE 419 Science in Civilization: Antiquity to 1600 (5)
- HIST 312 Science in Civilization: Science in Modern Society (5)
Plus one from:
- HIST/ASTR 313 Science in Civilization: Physics and Astrophysics Since 1850 (5)
- MHE 424 Modern Biology in Historical Perspective (5)
Western Civilization
Offered autumn 1988 - summer 1990
This sequence studies the history of Western civilization with special attention given to problems faced by the historian, especially those problems of evidence and causation, and the relationship of the discipline of history to other disciplines. There will be special discussion sections for students in the College Studies Program.
Required courses:
- HIST 121 The Ancient World: Special Problems (5)
- HIST 122 The Medieval World: Special Problems (5)
- HIST 123 The Modern World: Special Problems (5)
Students were allowed to substitute HIST 111 for 121, HIST 112 for 122, and HIST 113 for 123.
American Ethnic Studies
Offered autumn 1988 - summer 1992
This sequence is a study of sociological, political, and humanistic approaches to the study of ethnicity in America, with emphasis on a multidisciplinary approach and an examination of American race and ethnic relations.
Required courses:
- AES/SOC 362 American Race and Ethnic Relations (5)
- AES 363 Foundations of Ethnic Studies (5)
- AES 364 American Ethnicity in the Twenty-first Century (5)
Political Economy
Offered autumn 1988 - summer 1992
The sequence explores the perspectives of political science as a discipline and emphasizes the theories, methods, and concerns that it shares with other social sciences. Thus, students taking this sequence are exposed to economics, psychology, and anthropology as well as political science; and, thereby, they should emerge with a greater capacity to understand and evaluate our political process.
Required courses:
- POL S 270 Introduction to Political Economy (5)
- POL S 474 Government and the Economy (5) (formerly 370)
- POL S 475 Public Choice (5)
The Evolution of Political Power
Offered autumn 1988 - summer 1997
The aim of this sequence is to bring together the insights of several disciplines into the problems of institutional development and change, particularly the development of the state.
Required courses:
- POL S 273 The Concept of Political Power (5)
- ANTH 373 Stateless Societies: An Ethnographic Approach (5)
- POL S 411 Theories of the State (5)
People as Scientists of Themselves
Offered autumn 1988 - summer 1997
This sequence endeavors to study metacognition, wherein people act as scientists of the self. It is especially targeted for students with a strong interest in science who would like to know about a body of research in behavioral science.
Required:
- PHIL 460 Philosophy of Science (5)
- PSYCH 464 Metacognition (5)
Plus one course from:
- PSYCH 462 Human Memory (5)
- PSYCH 466 Psychological Aspects of Judgment and Decision (5)
American Political Culture
Offered autumn 1989 - summer 1997
This sequence examines the political content and character of both elite and popular cultural forms in America. By "political culture" is meant the language, symbols, icons, ideas, and ideals that have governed American public life.
Required:
- ENGL 251/POL S 281 Introduction to American Political Culture (5) (formerly ENGL 281/POL S 281)
Plus two of the following courses:
- ENGL 360 American Literature and Political Culture: Origins to 1865 (5)(formerly ENGL 282)
- ENGL 361 American Literature and Political Culture: After1865 (5) (formerly ENGL 283)
- POL S 318 American Political Thought (5)
- HSTAA 410 American Social History: The Modern Era (5)
Language and Society
Offered autumn 1990 - summer 1997
This sequence examines the underlying relationships between language and society from a multidisciplinary perspective. It considers the historical processes by which language and language policies shape social relationships, principally through education; the impact of language policy on migration and the education of the labor force; and the use of language to control access to resources and institutions. It focuses in particular on the role of English as a world language and upon the impact of geography, class, gender, and ethnicity on language variation in North America.
Required courses:
- ANTH 203 Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology (5)
- ENGL 478 Language and Social Policy (5) (formerly ENGL 465)
- ENGL 479 Language Variation and Language Policy in North America (5) (formerly ENGL 466)
Peace and War
Offered autumn 1994 - summer 1997
The sequence approaches the study of society through a broad examination of issues of peace and war.
Required, three of the following courses, including at least one of the * courses:
- *HIST 345 War and society (5)
- HIST 346 Images of War (5)
- *PSYCH 207 Psychology.of Peace (5)
- SIS 421 National Security and International Affairs (5)
- WOMEN 250 Gender, War, and Peace (5)
Medicine, Self, and Society
Offered autumn 1990 - summer 1997
A multidisciplinary inquiry into the relation of medical theory and practice to society through the disciplines of literary interpretation, anthropology, philosophy, and medical history and ethics.
Required:
- ENGL 364 Literature and Medicine (5) (formerly ENGL 409 or 408)
Plus one course from:
- ANTH 475 Comparative Systems of Healing (5) (1990-91 only)
- ANTH 476 Culture, Medicine and the Body (5)
- MHE 401 Disease and Medicine in History (5)
Plus one course from:
- MHE 440/PHIL 459 Philosophy of Medicine (5)
- MHE 481 The Pursuit of Health in American Society (5)
Creativity, Technology, and Innovation
Offered autumn 1991 - summer 1997
Provides a framework for the critical understanding of relations between creativity and technology, for individuals and in the broader historical context of society. Considers "technology" very broadly; technology is itself a human product, deriving from creative activity and social, material organization, which then becomes a factor in further inquiry, production, and social change.
Required, three of the following courses:
- ART H 232 Photography: Theory and Criticism (3)/ART H 499 Individual Projects (2)
- ENGL 305 Theories of the Imagination (5) (formerly ENGL 350)
- HIST 315 Introduction to the History of Technology (5)
- T C 420 Introduction to Technology as a Social and Political Phenomenon (5)
Natural Sciences (The Natural World)
The Universe
Offered autumn 1988 - summer 1997
This sequence is designed to provide an understanding and appreciation of the way by which physicists and astronomers explore the scale of the universe. It seeks to make familiar the nature of quantitative reasoning and to develop an appreciation of the successes of this mode of thought in revealing and manipulating order in the physical universe.
Required courses:
- ASTR 210 Distance and Time: Size and Age in the Universe (5)
- ASTR 211 The Universe and Change (5)
- ASTR 212 Life in the Universe (5)
The Physical World
Offered autumn 1988 - summer 1997
This is a comprehensive sequence designed to guide the nonscience student's thinking about the physical world. By studying familiar structures that appear in nature, including their motions and transformations, students are introduced to many of the successful ideas of classical and modem physics. The emphasis is on the approaches found most useful (e.g., symmetry, quantification, and scaling) and the history of the major ideas. High school mathematics, especially geometry, is a prerequisite.
Required courses:
- PHYS 214 Light and Color (5)
- PHYS 215 Order and Disorder (5)
- PHYS 216 Time and Change (5)
Natural Science and the Environment
Offered autumn 1988 - summer 1997
Global environmental change resulting from human industrial activity is an increasingly important issue facing everyone. This sequence gives nonscience majors an understanding of the basic concepts of natural sciences as they apply to the study of the effects of industrial and agricultural practices on the atmosphere, ocean, lithosphere, and biosphere.
Required courses:
- ENV S 203/GEOG 205 Introduction to Physical Sciences and the Environment (5)
- ENV S 204 Introduction to the Biological Sciences and the Environment (5)
- ENV S 307 Introduction to Global Environmental Issues (5) (formerly 207)
Biological Perspectives
Offered autumn 1989 - summer 1997
Three major points of view from which to examine a host of questions addressed by the biological sciences: the individual, the cell, and the environment. The biologist's approach to living systems, and how we know, why we know, and what we know. Laboratory experience including living material and computer simulation exercises that develop and test hypotheses.
Required courses:
- BIOL 100 Biology: The Organism (5) autumn quarter (formerly BIOL 150)
- BIOL 100 Biology: The Cell (5) winter quarter (formerly BIOL 151)
- BIOL 100 Biology: Ecology and Evolution of Organisms (5) spring quarter (formerly BIOL 152)
Cognitive Science
Offered autumn 1989 - summer 1994
Philosophers think about what thought means, psychologists study how "people in general" think, anthropologists examine the interaction between culture and individual cognition, and linguists study that most unique of all human cognitive abilities, language. In addition, there is a mechanistic aspect to thought. The creation of artificial intelligence systems using modern computers has been a goal of research in computer science. Finally, neuroscientists are interested in the relationship between the organization of the brain and the capabilities of the mind. This sequence examines thinking from these different points of view.
Required:
- PSYCH 354 Introduction to Cognitive Science (5)
Plus two courses from:
- ANTH 358 Culture and Cognition (5)
- CSE 415 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (5)
- LING 442 Introduction to Semantics (4) and LING 499 Undergraduate Research (1)
- PHIL 464 Philosophical issues in the Cognitive Sciences (5)
Human Biology and Behavior
Offered autumn 1988 - summer 1997
Explorations of human behavior at the species level. Historical summary of views of the human species as they have developed over time and modem views of the species. Throughout the sequence, the organizing paradigm is human evolution.
Required, three of the following:
- ANTH 220 Biological and Cultural Bases of Human Behavior (5)
- PHY A 372 Uses and Abuses of Evolutionary Views of Human Behavior (5) and PHY A 499 Undergraduate Research (1)
- WOMEN 453/ANTH 483 Women in Evolutionary Perspective (5)
- ZOOL 409 Sociobiology (4)
Listed as a social science sequence in 1988-89 brochure; changed to natural science in July 1988.
Our Chemical World
Offered autumn 1990 - summer 1995
The purpose of this sequence is to give nonscience majors an understanding of the chemical basis of our world and to help prepare them to be educated citizens of an increasingly technological society.
Required, one course from:
- CHEM 120 Chemical Science (5) (formerly CHEM 100)
- CHEM 140/141 General Chemistry and Laboratory (4, 1)
Plus sequence 1, 2, or 3:
- CHEM 203 Chemistry and the Environment (5) (formerly CHEM 303)
CHEM 205 Chemistry of Life (5) (formerly CHEM 305) - CHEM 203 Chemistry and the Environment (5) (formerly CHEM 305)
CHEM 220 General and Organic Chemistry (5) (formerly CHEM 102) - CHEM 205 Chemistry of Life (5) (formerly CHEM 305)
CHEM 150/151 General Chemistry and Laboratory (4, 1)
Credit/No Credit Grading Option
A Credit/No Credit (CR/NC) option for undergraduate students was in effect from autumn 1972 through spring 1980. Students who chose the CR/NC program took all their classes on a Credit/No Credit basis for as long as they remained in the program.
For information about current CR/NC courses see Credit/No Credit.