Many of the checklists have a non-math Breadth and Depth requirement that includes Humanities (Hum), Social Sciences (SS), Pure Sciences (PS), and Applied Sciences (AS). The following chart indicates which category each subject area is classified under for students using a 2015/2016 calendar.
Some depth examples are at the bottom of this page.
For the breadth and depth requirements for previous years, see Major plan requirement checklists.
Subject | Description | Hum | SS | PS | AS |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
ACTSC | Actuarial Science | ||||
AFM | Accounting and Financial Management | √ | |||
AHS | Applied Health Sciences | ||||
AMATH | Applied Mathematics | ||||
ANTH | Anthropology | √ | |||
APPLS | Applied Language Studies | √ | |||
ARBUS | Arts and Business | ||||
ARCH | Architecture | ||||
ARTS | Arts | √ | |||
AVIA | Aviation | ||||
BIOL | Biology | √ | √ | ||
BUS | Business (WLU) | √ | |||
BET | Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology | ||||
BASE | Bridge to Academic Success in English | ||||
CHEM | Chemistry | √ | √ | ||
CHINA | Chinese | √ | |||
CLAS | Classical Studies | √ | |||
CM | Computational Mathematics | ||||
CMW | Church Music and Worship | √ | |||
CO | Combinatorics and Optimization | ||||
COMM | Commerce | ||||
CROAT | Croatian | √ | |||
CS | Computer Science | ||||
DAC | Digital Arts Communication | √ | |||
DRAMA | Drama | √ | |||
DUTCH | Dutch | √ | |||
EARTH | Earth Sciences | √ | √ | ||
EASIA | East Asian Studies | √ | |||
ECE | Electrical and Computer Engineering | ||||
ECON | Economics | √ | |||
ENBUS | Environment and Business | ||||
ENGL | English | √ | |||
ENVS | Environmental Studies | √ | |||
ERS | Environment and Resource Studies | √ | |||
ESL | English as a Second Language | ||||
EFAS | English for Academic Success | ||||
FINE | Fine Arts | √ | |||
FR | French Studies | √ | |||
GENE | General Engineering | ||||
GEOG | Geography and Environmental Management | √ | |||
GER | German | √ | |||
GERON | Gerontology | √ | |||
GRK | Greek | √ | |||
GBDA | Global Business and Digital Arts | ||||
HIST | History | √ | |||
HLTH | Health | √ | |||
HRM | Human Resources Management | √ | |||
HUMSC | Human Sciences | √ | |||
INDEV | International Development | ||||
INTEG | Knowledge Integration | ||||
INTST | International Studies | √ | |||
INTTS | International Trade | √ | |||
IS | Independent Studies | ||||
ISS | Interdisciplinary Social Science | √ | |||
ITAL | Italian | √ | |||
ITALST | Italian Studies | √ | |||
JAPAN | Japanese | √ | |||
JS | Jewish Studies | √ | |||
KIN | Kinesiology | √ | |||
KOREA | Korean | √ | |||
LAT | Latin | √ | |||
LS | Legal Studies | √ | |||
MATBUS | Mathematical Business | ||||
MATH | Mathematics | ||||
MEDVL | Medieval Studies | ||||
MSCI | Management Sciences | √ | |||
MNS | Materials and Nano-Sciences | ||||
MTHEL | Mathematics Electives | ||||
MUSIC | Music | √ | |||
NATST | Native Studies | √ | |||
OPTOM | Optometry | ||||
PACS | Peace and Conflict Studies | √ | |||
PHARM | Pharmacy | ||||
PHIL | Philosophy | √ | |||
PHYS | Physics | √ | √ | ||
PLAN | Planning | ||||
PMATH | Pure Mathematics | ||||
POLSH | Polish | √ | |||
PORT | Portuguese | √ | |||
PSCI | Political Science | √ | |||
PSYCH | Psychology | √ | |||
REC | Recreation and Leisure Studies | √ | |||
REES | Russian and East European Studies | √ | |||
RS | Religious Studies | √ | |||
RUSS | Russian | √ | |||
SCBUS | Science and Business | ||||
SCI | Science | √ | √ | ||
SE | Software Engineering | ||||
SI | Studies in Islam | √ | |||
SMF | Sexuality, Marriage, and Family | √ | |||
SOC | Sociology | √ | |||
SOCWK | Social Work | √ | |||
SDS | Social Development Studies | ||||
SPAN | Spanish | √ | |||
SPCOM | Speech Communication | √ | |||
SPD | Spirituality and Personal Development | √ | |||
STAT | Statistics | ||||
STV | Society, Technology and Values | √ | |||
SWREN | Social Work | √ | |||
UNIV | University | ||||
VCULT | Visual Culture | ||||
WS | Women's Studies | √ |
The "Depth" requirement can be met in two ways:
- 3 courses (1.5 units) that have the same subject with at least one of them (0.5 units) at the third-year level or higher, or
- 3 courses (1.5 units) with the same subject forming a prerequisite chain of length three
Here are some examples of prerequisite chains of length three. In each case, course Z has course Y as a prerequisite and course Y has course X as a prerequisite.
- BU 121, followed by BU 352, followed by BU 362
- ECON 101, followed by 201, followed by one of 301, 332, 341, 342, 355, 357, 361, etc.
- ECON 101 and 102, followed by 202, followed by 302 (note that 2 courses are required before taking 202 but they do not form a chain)
- JAPAN 101R followed by 102R, followed by 201R
- PHYS 121, followed by 122, followed by one of 226, 234, 242, 256, 263, 358, 375, 380, 383
- PSYCH 101 followed by 207, followed by one of 306, 307, 308, 320
Many subject areas do not have prerequisite chains. Students interested in these areas should use the first option for satisfying the requirement.