32 Units with 12-20 units from Arts & Humanities and 12-20 units from Social Sciences. All courses can be lower division.
- General Education 3 Worksheet for Civil Engineering Majors
- General Education 3 Worksheet for Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering Double Majors
- General Education 3 Worksheet for Environmental Engineering Majors
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Popular GEs – General
Course descriptions and prerequisites can be found in the General Catalog: http://catalog.ucdavis.edu/programs.html
Subject | Title | Units | Topical Breadth | Core Literacies |
AAS 10 | African-American Culture and Society | 4 | SS | ACGH, DD, WE |
AAS 181 | Hip Hop in Urban America | 4 | AH | DD, VL |
AHI 1A | Ancient Mediterranean Art | 4 | AH | VL, WC |
AHI 1B | Medieval and Renaissance Art | 4 | AH | VL, WC |
AHI 1C | Baroque to Modern Art | 4 | AH | VL, WC |
AMS 10 | Introduction to American Studies | 4 | AH or SS | ACGH, DD, WE |
ANT 2 | Cultural Anthropology | 4 | SS | ACGH, DD, WC, WE |
ASA 1 | Historical Experience of Asian Americans | 4 | AH or SS | ACGH, DD, VL, WC, WE |
CHI 10 | Introduction to Chicana/o Studies | 4 | AH or SS | ACGH, DD, OL, WE |
CHI 50 | Chicana and Chicano Culture | 4 | AH | ACGH, DD, WC, WE |
CHI 65 | New Latin American Cinema | 4 | AH | VL, WC, WE |
CLA 3 | Rome and the Mediterranean | 4 | AH | WE, WC |
CLA 10 | Greek, Roman, and Near Eastern Mythology | 3 | AH | VL, WC |
COM 6 | Myths and Legends | 4 | AH | WC, WE |
ECN 1A | Principles of Microeconomics | 4 | SS | ACGH, QL |
ECN 1B | Principles of Macroeconomics | 4 | SS | ACGH, QL |
FMS 1 | Introduction to Film Studies | 4 | AH | OL, VL, WC, WE |
FMS 45 | Vampires and Other Horrors in Film and Media | 4 | AH | ACGH, DD, OL, VL, WC, WE |
FST 10 | Food Science, Folklore and Health | 3 | SS | SL VL, WC |
HDE 12 | Human Sexuality | 3 | SS | ACGH, DD |
HIS 4A, B | History of Western Civilization | 4 | AH or SS | WC, WE |
HIS 4C | History of Western Civilization | 4 | AH or SS | VL, WC, WE |
HIS 7A, B, C | History of Latin America; A: to 1700; B: 1700-1900; C: 1900-present | 4 | AH or SS | WC, WE |
HIS 9A, B | History of East Asian Civilization | 4 | AH or SS | WC, WE |
HIS 17A, B | History of the United States | 4 | AH or SS | ACGH, DD, WE |
HIS 111A, B, C | Ancient History | 4 | AH or SS | WC, WE |
HUM 13 | Witches: Myth and Historical Reality | 4 | AH | WC, WE |
LIN 1 | Introduction to Linguistics | 4 | AH or SS | |
MUS 10 | Introduction to Musical Literature | 4 | AH | VL, WC |
MUS 11 | Musics of the World | 4 | AH | VL, WC |
MUS 105 | History and Analysis of Jazz | 4 | AH, | ACGH, DD, WE |
MUS 106 | History of Rock Music | 4 | AH | ACGH, VL, WE |
NAS 10 | Native American Experience | 4 | AH or SS | DD, WC, WE |
PHE 120 | Sport in American Society | 3 | SS | |
PHI 1 | Introduction to Philosophy | 4 | AH | WE |
PHI 13 | Minds, Brains, and Computers | 4 | SS | |
POL 1 | American National Government | 4 | SS | ACGH, WE |
POL 3 | International Relations | 4 | SS | WC, WE |
PSC 1 | General Psychology | 4 | SS | |
RST 10 | Contemporary Ethical Issues | 2 | AH | WE |
SAS 30 | Mushrooms, Molds, and Society | 3 | SS | |
SOC 1 | Introduction to Sociology | 5 | SS | ACGH, DD |
WMS 50 | Introduction to Critical Gender Studies | 4 | AH or SS | ACGH, DD, VL, WE |
General Education Courses with Topics that May Be of Greater Interest for Civil Engineering Students
Note: Most of these courses are Social Science topical breadth, not Arts & Humanities, and many lack core literacies.
Subject | Title | Units | Topical Breadth | Core Literacies |
AMS 5 | Technology in American Lives | 4 | AH or SS | WE |
AMS 21 | Objects and Everyday Life | 4 | AH | ACGH, DD, WE |
AHI 25 | Understanding Architecture | 4 | AH | DD, VL, WC |
ARE 15 | Population, Environment and World Agriculture | 4 | SS | WC, WE |
ARE 18 | Business Law | 4 | SS | |
ENG 3 | Introduction to Engineering Design | 4 | SS | OL |
ENG 10 | The Science Behind the Technology in Our Lives | 4 | SS | |
ECI 123 | Urban Systems and Sustainability | 4 | SS | ACGH, DD, WE |
ECI 137 | Construction Principles and Project Management | 4 | SS | ACGH, OL, VL, WE |
ECI 143 | Green Engineering Design and Sustainability | 4 | SS | |
ECI 155 | Water Resources Engineering Planning | 4 | SS | WE |
ECI 163 | Energy and Environmental Aspects of Transportation | 4 | SS | WE |
ESP 1 | Environmental Analysis | 4 | SS | |
ESP 10 | Current Issues in the Environment | 3 | SS | WE |
HIS 2 | Intro to History of Science | 4 | AH, SS | WC, WE |
HYD 10 | Water, Power, Society | 3 | SS | |
LDA 1 | Introduction to Environmental Design | 4 | AH or SS | VL, WC, WE |
LDA 2 | Place, Culture and Community | 4 | SS | ACGH, VL, WC, WE |
LDA 3 | Sustainable Development: Theory and Practice | 4 | SS | ACGH, VL, WE |
MGT 11A | Elementary Accounting | 4 | SS | |
MGT 11B | Elementary Accounting | 4 | SS | |
MGT 140 | Marketing for Tech Enterprise | 4 | SS | |
MGT 150 | Technology Management | 4 | SS | |
PHI 24 | Introduction to Ethics | 4 | AH | WE |
SAS 2 | Feeding the Planet: Influences on the Global Food Supply | 3 | SS | |
SAS 4 | Water in Popular Culture | 3 | SS | |
SAS 8 | Water Quality at Risk | 3 | SS | WE |
SAS 9 | Crisis in the Environment | 3 | SS | WE |
SAS 10 | Water, Power, Society | 3 | SS | |
SAS 12 | Plants and Society | 4 | SS | WE |
SAS 25 | Global Climate Change | 3 | SS | OL, VL, WC, WE |
General Education 2 requirements (for students in the program prior to Fall 2011):
24 Units which include 3 courses from Arts & Humanities and 3 courses from Social Sciences. Two of the above courses must be upper division.
Visit the Registrar’s web catalog site for more information.