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.