General Education Requirements

To ensure that Engineering graduates are prepared to meet the full range of challenges they will encounter after school, all Engineering majors are required to meet the same comprehensive set of general education requirements that USD requires all students to complete. These requirements are outlined below with specific courses required by Engineering noted where applicable. Some of these requirements may be satisfied through advance placement exams, or by demonstrating proficiency at the collegiate level. The required courses may be different for NROTC students. Please contact the Department for further information.

Indispensable Competencies consist of those courses that will ensure that students have the threshold competencies necessary to pursue their further studies and career goals in any field of endeavor.
Written Literacy	Composition and Literature:	ENGL 121 (an examination) ENGR 401W (Engineering Communication)
Math Competency	Satisfied by:	Math 150
Logic	Choose only one:	PHIL 101: Intro to Logic PHIL 102: Symbolic Logic Math 160

Roots of Human Values are addressed in the courses that examine the various systems of thought and belief with the emphasis on Judeo-Christian traditions and on problems of defining and acting upon ethical concepts.
Religious Studies	Lower Division: Upper Division:	Two courses One Course
Philosophy	Ethics: Other:	PHIL 342 (Engineering Ethics) One additional Philosophy course excluding logic and ethics

The Diversity of Human Experience Courses which foster a critical appreciation of the ways in which people gain understanding of the universe, of society, and of themselves.
Humanities	Literature: History: Fine Arts:	One Course in any language One Course One Course in Art, Music, or Theatre
Natural Science	Physical Science: Life Science:	One laboratory course satisfied by physics and chemistry One course in biology, or Environmental Studies 102
Social Science	Anthropology, Sociology or Psychology:	One Course
	Communications: Economics:	COMM 103 (Public Speaking) or NAVS 201 Microeconomics (ECON 101) or *Engineering Economics (ISyE 220)
Foreign Language	Third semester compentency required:	Either successfully complete the third semester of a foreign language course or pass an examination at that level*.
All engineering students must complete either COMM 103 or NAVS 201. All Engineering. For students whose native language is not English, please refer to the Undergraduate Bulletin for other possible ways to satify this requirement. Students must complete either ECON 101, ECON 102 or ISyE 220. In addition USD requires all undergraduates to complete 1 course in either, COMM or ECON. The USD requirement is almost always fulfilled with the two required courses fo engineering, but students electing to take NAVS 201 and ISyE 220 still need a COMM or ECON course.