Bourns College of Engineering
Breadth Requirements
2008-10

In order to graduate, students must complete campus breadth requirements as determined by the Executive Committee of the Bourns College of Engineering. The courses on this list have been approved effective Fall 2008. The references included with each section heading indicate the campus’ Senate regulation where the specific requirement may be found [for example: (UCR R6.1)].

To meet ABET standards for accreditation, the Bourns College of Engineering requires that at least two courses used for breadth must be upper division (courses numbered 100-199 at UCR). This depth requirement will be satisfied by taking upper division courses in the Humanities and/or Social Sciences.

Courses must carry 4 quarter units (or more) to satisfy the breadth requirements. Honors sections of all approved courses are also eligible.

While the College may revise the list of breadth requirements on an annual basis, students are allowed to satisfy the requirement criteria with any courses that were on the approved list at the time they were taken, or were subsequently added to the list.

Students who foresee a strong and justified reason to deviate from the list of approved breadth requirement courses may petition the Executive Committee of the Bourns College of Engineering, via the Office of Student Academic Affairs, for permission. Such requests must be submitted and approved in advance of actual enrollment. Requests submitted after the actual enrollment will be considered only in cases of new transfer students and changes of major. All petitions must provide an appropriate justification for the substitution.

IN ALL CASES: Students must note that major requirements may influence the choice of breadth requirements and may dictate which courses are most appropriate as breadth requirement selections. Always consult the list of requirements for the individual major before making selections for the breadth categories below.

On this list, courses are listed numerically by subject area. Courses with prerequisites have the prerequisite course/s noted in parentheses following the course title.


I. ENGLISH COMPOSITION: 3 courses (UCR R6.1)

Demonstrated proficiency in English Composition by completing the following three courses, or approved replacement testing:

ENGL 1A Beginning Composition (ELWR)
ENGL 1B Intermediate Composition (ENGL 1A)
ENGL 1C Applied Intermediate Composition (ENGL 1B)
– or –
ENGL 1SC Applied Intermediate Composition for Science and Engineering Majors (ENGL 1B)


II. HUMANITIES: 3 courses (UCR R6.3)

A. ONE course in world history, chosen from among:
HIST 10 World History: Prehistory to 1500
HIST 15 World History: 1500 to 1900
HIST 20 World History: Twentieth Century

B. ONE course in Fine Arts, Literature, Philosophy or Religious Studies, chosen from among:
AHS 7 World Art: Images, Issues, Ideas
AHS 8/FVC 8 Modern Western Visual Culture
AHS 15 Arts of Asia
AHS 17A History of Western Art: Prehistory to Byzantium
AHS 17B History of Western Art: Early Medieval to Renaissance
AHS 17C History of Western Art: Baroque to Modern
AHS 20/FVC 23 Introduction to Media Art
AHS 21/URST 21 Introduction to Architecture and Urbanism
AHS 27 Art of Pre-Columbian America
AHS 102/ANTH 102 Anthropology of Art (may fulfill either Humanities OR Social Science)
AHS 134/HISE 134 Art and Society: Patrons and Museums
AHS 178/URST 178 The Modern City

CLA 10A, B or C Ancient Civilization
CLA 40 Classical Mythology
CLA 112/CPLT 112/RLST 117 Mythology
CLA 114/CPLT 114 The Classical Tradition

CPAC 133/HISE 114 Ancient Writing and Literacy

CPLT 15 Language, Literature, and Culture
CPLT 17A, B or C Masterworks of Western Literature
CPLT 29 The Arts: Approach, Comparison, and Culture
CPLT 110 Literary Analysis and Criticism
WRLT 170/ETST 170 Third World Literature
CPLT 180(E-Z) Literature and Related Fields

CRWT 56 Introduction to Creative Writing (ENGL 1A prerequisite)

ENGL 12A Introduction to Poetry
ENGL 12B Introduction to Fiction
ENGL 12C Introduction to Drama
ENGL 14 Major American Writers
ENGL 15 Modern Literature
ENGL 17 Shakespeare
ENGL 20A/31 American Literary Traditions
ENGL 20B British Literary Traditions
ENGL 101 Critical Theory
ENGL 112 History of the English Language

ETST 114 Contemporary Latina Writing in the US
ETST 120 Contemporary Native American Literature
ETST 151 Contemporary Asian American Literature

MUS 2 Introduction to Western Music
MUS/ANTH 6 Introduction to World Music (may fulfill either Humanities OR Social Science)
MUS 8 Popular Music Cultures of the US
MUS 14/ETST14 Popular Music of the World
MUS 118 Music, Politics and Social Movements
MUS 127/ANTH 176/ETST 172 Music Cultures of Southeast Asia (may fulfill either Humanities OR Social Science)

PHIL 1 Introduction to Philosophy
PHIL 2 Contemporary Moral Issues
PHIL 3 Ethics and the Meaning of Life
PHIL 6 Reason, Belief, and Truth
PHIL 7 Introduction to Critical Thinking
PHIL 8 Introduction to Logic
PHIL 30E-Z Introduction to the History of Philosophy
PHIL 114 Science and Human Understanding
PHIL 116 Business Ethics
PHIL 124 Formal Logic (CS/EE 120A or CS 150 or PHIL 8)
PHIL 130 Theory of Knowledge
PHIL 131 Twentieth Century Analytical Philosophy (1 PHIL course)
PHIL 132 Philosophy of Language
PHIL 167 Biomedical Ethics

RLST 2 Introduction to Comparative Scripture
RLST 5 Introduction to Asian Religions
RLST 7 Introduction to Western Religion
RLST 11 Modern Christianities and World Cultures
RLST/ETST12 Religious Myths and Rituals
RLST 14 Religion and Science
RLST 15 Death
RLST 111 Islam
RLST 113 Topics in Modern Islam
RLST 116 Religion and Violence
RLST 175 Religion and Human Rights
RLST 179 Pilgrimage

C. ONE course in the history of science, chosen from among:

HIST 103 History of Science from Antiquity to Copernicus
HIST 104 The Scientific Revolution
HIST 105 Science in the Modern World
HIST 106 Science in Triumph and Crisis
HIST 107 Myth and Science in Antiquity
HIST 108 Technology in Pre-modern World
HIST 109 Technology in Modern Europe and America, 1700 to Present
PHIL 137 Philosophy Science (one course in PHIL)
CLA 131/CPAC 131 Readings in the Origins of Science in China and Greece

III. SOCIAL SCIENCES: 3 courses (UCR R6.4)

A. ONE course in Economics or Political Science, chosen from among:

ECON 2 Introduction to Macroeconomics
ECON 3 Introduction to Microeconomics
ECON 6 Man, Scarcity, and the Environment
ECON 102A Microeconomic Theory (ECON 3)
ECON 103A Macroeconomic Theory (ECON 2)
ECON 111 Research Methods on Business and Economics (ECON 2 or 3 or 4)
ECON 119 Law and Economics (ECON 2 or 3 or 4)
ECON 120 The Great Economists (SUMMER ONLY)
ECON 123/HISA 123 American Economic History
ECON 124 World Economic History (ECON 2 or 3 or 4)
ECON 125 History of Economic Thought (ECON 2 or 3 or 4)
ECON 129 Health Economics (ECON 3)
ECON 143A Environmental Economics (ECON 3 or 4, MATH022 or equivalent prerequisite)
ECON 155/WMST 155 Women’s Labor and The Economy (ECON 2 or 3 or 4)
ECON 178/BUS 178 International Trade (ECON 3)
ECON 181 Economic Development: Theory and Policy (ECON 2, 3 or 4)

POSC 10 American Politics
POSC 15 Comparative Politics
POSC 20 World Politics
POSC 110 The Origins of Political Ideas
POSC 111 Democracy and the Social Contract
POSC 112 Modern Political Theory
POSC 113 American Political Thought
POSC 119 Political Thinkers in Depth
POSC 124 International Relations (POSC 20)
POSC 126 The Politics of International Trade, Finance and Development (POSC 20)
POSC 127 International Environmental Politics (POSC 20)
POSC 130 Politics and Economics of the Pacific Rim
POSC 135 Ethics and International Politics
POSC 154 The Government and Politics of the European Community
POSC 164S The Nation State and Capitalism
POSC 182 Politics and Economic Policy
POSC 183 Administrative Politics and Theory (POSC 10)
POSC 186 Regulation: A Political Perspective

B. ONE course in Anthropology, Psychology or Sociology, chosen from among:

ANTH 1 Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 2 Biological Anthropology
ANTH 3 World Prehistory
ANTH 4 World Civilizations
ANTH 5 Introduction to Archaeology
ANTH 6/MUS 6 Introduction to World Music (may fulfill either Humanities OR Social Science)
ANTH 12 Great Discoveries in Archaeology
ANTH 20 Culture, Health and Healing
ANTH 102/AHS 102 Anthropology of Art (may fulfill either Humanities OR Social Science)
ANTH 104 Human Social Organization
ANTH 105/BUS 158 Organizations as Cultural Systems (SUMMER ONLY)
ANTH 107 Evolution of the Capacity for Culture (ANTH 1 or 2 or 3)
ANTH 109/WMST 109 Women, Politics and Social Movements: Global Perspectives
ANTH 110 Prehistoric Agriculture
ANTH 111 Peopling of the New World
ANTH 118 Origins of Cities (ANTH 1 or 3 or 5)
ANTH 122 Economic Anthropology (ANTH 1 and ECON 1)
ANTH 124 Ritual and Religion
ANTH 125 Kinship Organization (ANTH 1)
ANTH 127 Political Anthropology (ANTH 1)
ANTH 129 Human Evolutionary Ecology (ANTH 1)
ANTH 132 Cultural Ecology
ANTH 134 Anthropology of Resource Management (ANTH 1)
ANTH 160 Political Economy of Health
ANTH 162 Culture and Medicine
ANTH 163 Transnational and Global Communities
ANTH 173 Social Meaning of Space
ANTH 176/MUS 127/ETST 172 Music Cultures of Southeast Asia (may fulfill either Humanities OR Social Science)

PSYC 1 Introductory Psychology
PSYC 2 Introductory Psychology
PSYC 13 Skepticism and Pseudoscience in Psychology (C- or better in ENGL 1A)
PYSC 110 The Brain and Behavior (BIO 2 or 3 or 5A with C- or better)
PSYC 142 Industrial/Organizational Psychology (PSYC 2)
PSYC 178 Health Psychology (PSYC 2 or SOC 1)
PSYC 179 Health and Behavior Change (PSYC 2 or PSYC 178 with C- or better)

SOC 1 Introduction to Sociology
SOC 10/URST 10 The City: An Introduction
SOC 15 Social Problems
SOC 20 American Society
SOC 120 Human Social Institutions (SOC 1)
SOC 122 Social Change (SOC 1)
SOC 123 Human Societies (SOC 1 or ANTH 1)
SOC 137 Population (SOC 1)
SOC 143/URST 143 Urban Sociology (SOC 1)
SOC 150 The Sociology of Economic Organizations
SOC 151 Formal Organizations
SOC 156 Community (SOC 1)
SOC 157 Social Networks (SOC 1)
SOC 160 Sociology of Education
SOC 169 Modern Sociological Theory (SOC 1)
SOC 176/BUS 176 The Sociology of Work in Organizations
SOC 181 World-Systems and Globalizations (SOC 1)
SOC 182/URST 182 Urban Problems
SOC 184 Environmental Sociology (SOC 1)

C. ONE additional course (a course numbered 100 or higher is required) chosen from among the Social Science courses in categories A and B above, or from the Women’s Studies or the Social Science Ethnic Studies courses below.

WMST 1 Gender and Sexuality
WMST 10 Women and Culture
WMST 100 Gender Theory
WMST 109/ANTH 109 Women, Politics and Social Movements: Global Perspectives
WMST 161 Gender and Science (WMST 1)
WMST 187 Women, Gender and Technology (WMST 1)


IV. ETHNICITY: 1 course (UCR R6.5)

In order to satisfy the campus-wide requirement of at least ONE course in ethnicity, students may choose from one of the following classes to simultaneously fulfill the second Humanities requirement (category II, part B):

ETST/RLST 12 Religious Myths and Rituals
ETST/MUS 14 Popular Music of the World
ETST 114 Contemporary Latina Writing in the US
ETST 120 Contemporary Native American Literature
ETST 151 Contemporary Asian American Literature
ETST/WRLT 170 Third World Literature

One of the following courses can be chosen to simultaneously fulfill ethnicity and the third Social Science requirement (category III, part C):

ETST 1 Introduction to the Study of Race and Ethnicity
ETST 2 Introduction to Chicano Studies in Comparative Perspective
ETST 3 Introduction to African American Studies in Comparative Perspective
ETST 5 Introduction to Asian American Studies in Comparative Perspective
ETST 7 Introduction to Native American Studies in Comparative Perspective
ETST 102 The Political Economy of Race and Class
ETST 106 Theory in Asian American Studies
ETST 109I The Black Diaspora: Cultural, Political, and Historical Connections (ETST 3)
ETST 131 Race, Class, and Gender
ETST 172/ANTH 176/MUS 127 Music Cultures of Southeast Asia (may fulfill either Humanities OR Social Science)

V. NATURAL SCIENCES: 4 courses (UCR R6.2)

A. One course, chosen from among:
BIOL 2 Cellular Basis of Life
BIOL 3 Organisms in Their Environment
BIOL 5A/LA Introduction to Cell and Molecular Biology (CHEM 1A)

B. One course, chosen from among:
CHEM 1A/1LA General Chemistry (C- in MATH 5 or concurrent enrollment in MATH 8B)
CHEM 1B/1LB General Chemistry (CHEM 1A/1LA)
CHEM 1C/1LC General Chemistry (CHEM 1B/1LB)

PHYS 40A General Physics (MATH 8B or MATH 9A with C- or better)
PHYS 40B General Physics (MATH 9B, PHYS 40A)
PHYS 40C General Physics (MATH 9C, PHYS 40B)

C. Two additional courses, chosen from among the Natural Science courses listed above (category V, parts A and B).**
BIOL 5A/LA may not be taken in addition to BIOL 2.

Business Informatics students ONLY may also choose from the following:
GEO 1 The Earth’s Crust and Interior
ENSC 1 Intro to Environmental Sciences, Natural Resources

**These requirements are typically already fulfilled by courses required for the major.