PLEASE NOTE:
ONCE YOU HAVE BEEN ADMITTED TO FIU, CLASSES TO FULFILL UCC REQUIREMENTS MUST BE TAKEN AT FIU UNLESS PRIOR APPROVAL HAS BEEN OBTAINED THROUGH UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES.
Freshman students entering FIU Summer B 2003 or after, or transfer students without an AA degree from a Florida college or university entering FIU Fall 2003 or after, must complete the University Core Curriculum (UCC). The UCC includes 7 areas of course work listed on the UCC Check Off form . (Click here to open a printer friendly version - UCC )
Students entering FIU prior to Summer B 2003 should speak to an advisor about their specific curriculum.
Certain majors may require specific courses in one of more of the UCC areas. Check the Plan of Study on this website for your major to see what your major requires. If your major does not require specific courses you can pick your courses from any of those listed in the Check off form for each category.
CURRICULUM DETAILS
Undergraduate education seeks to develop productive, creative, and responsible citizens who both shape society and lay the foundation for tomorrow. In addition to exploring areas of specialization, the university experience must provide a venue for investigating the origins and natures of cultures, ideas, and the physical universe and endow graduates with the ability to analyze critically, think sustainably, learn creatively, and express themselves clearly and cogently. Diversity and breadth of experience are essential characteristics of both education and success in our global community.
The University Core Curriculum (UCC) provides the broad, well-defined curriculum that enables graduates to
- think critically, analytically, and creatively, with a passion to learn and with the skills and ability to assemble, assess, incorporate, and synthesize new knowledge and information;
- organize and clearly express their knowledge and ideas; and
- determine the importance and relevance of new ideas through a synthesis of both broad and narrow contexts and the integration of seemingly disparate pieces into a meaningful whole.
The UCC rests upon the belief that a foundational curriculum, shared by students, fosters intellectual development and enhances personal, social, intellectual, and academic relations. Together with concentration in major fields of study, the UCC builds the base that makes future academic and professional excellence possible.
First Year Experience (one one-credit course required):
The transition to a university environment is a unique one for first-time university students, and FIU's orientation course is designed to facilitate this transition. The First-Year Experience course provides a forum for integrating the FIU experience and for discussing issues promoting intellectual, personal, academic, and social growth and success as a member of the University community. The course introduces students to University policies, procedures, and services; addresses academic and career choices; and enhances study and time-management skills. All students entering the University with fewer than 30 semester hours are required to take this one-credit course.
English Composition (two three-credit courses from either sequence required):
A foundation in the critical analysis of issues and texts, both discursive and creative, and in argumentation and persuasion is essential in all university courses. English Composition provides this foundation by encouraging the mastery of written and oral communication models, including the essay and research paper.
For students entering FIU with 30 or fewer credits and for all first-term-in-college students, ENC 1101, Freshman Composition and ENC 1102, Literary Analysis are required. For students entering FIU with more than 30 credits (who are not first-term-in-college students), ENC 2301, Expository Writing, and one of the following: ENC 3317, Writing Across the Curriculum; or ENC 3311, Advanced Writing and Research; or ENC 3211, Report and Technical Writing are acceptable.
Humanities With Writing (two three-credit courses required, one of which must be a historically-oriented course):
In these courses students strengthen the critical reading and writing skills needed to succeed within the University and beyond. Students interact analytically with, and respond critically to, primary and secondary texts in the humanities and learn to integrate the ideas and words of others into their own writing. By writing informed essays, students develop the ability to present ideas logically and sequentially and to provide balanced exposition and critical examination of complex events, positions, arguments, or texts.
In these courses students learn to use writing as a form of inquiry in reflecting critically upon central topics in the humanities, such as individual, moral, and social values; historical perspectives and events; culture and the arts; philosophy; and religious beliefs and practices. Students address themes centered on the traditions; shared values and myths; literary, artistic, historical, and philosophical traditions; and cultural standards and common values which underlie contemporary societies and their historical antecedents.
One course must be from the following list: (historically-oriented)
____AMH 2041 Origins of American Civilization
____AMH 2042 Modern American Civilization
____ARC 2701 History of Architecture 1
____EUH 2011 Western Civilization.: Early European Civilization
____EUH 2021 Western Civilization.: Medieval to Modern Europe
____EUH 2030 Western Civilization.: Europe in the Modern Era
____HUM 3214 Ancient Classical Culture & Civilization
____HUM 3306 History of Ideas
____LAH 2020 Latin American Civilization
____PHH 2063 Classics in Phil.: Introduction to the History of Philosophy
____POT 3013 Ancient & Medieval Political Theory
____WOH 2001 World Civilization
A second course may be selected from the following list:
____ENG 2012 Approaches to Literature____PHI 2011 Philosophical Analysis
____PHI 2600 Introduction to Ethics
____REL 2011 Religion: Analysis and Interpretation
Quantitative Reasoning (two three-credit courses required, at least one of which must be in mathematics):
The requirement aims at preparing students to master concepts and ideas in logic, inductive and deductive reasoning, and abstract and quantitative thinking. Students will become proficient in the art of reasoning critically, solving problems, and analyzing data.
One course must be from the following mathematics list:
____ MAC 1114 Trigonometry If taken after College Algebra, will be equivalent to Pre-calculus/MAC 2147.
____MGF 1106 Finite Math____MGF 1107 Math of Soc. Choice and Decision Making
____MAC 2147 Pre-calculus
____MAC 2233 Calculus for Business
____MAC 2311 Calculus I
____MAC 2312 Calculus II
____MAC 2313 Multivariable Calculus
____MTG 1204 Geometry for Education
A second course may be selected from the following list:
____STA 2023 Statistics for Business and Economics
____STA 2122 Introduction to Statistics I
____STA 3111 Statistics I
____STA 3145 Statistics for the Health Professions
____COP 2210 Introduction to Programming
____COP 2250 Programming in Java
____PHI 2100 Introduction to Logic
____CGS 2518 Data Analysis
Social Inquiry (six credits, three credits in each of the two sub-categories below):
In these courses students investigate social, political, and economic configurations; cultural and psychological features of human life; gender, race/ethnicity, and social class; consciousness and identity; social interactions with the natural environment; and local, national, and global aspects of the human world.
Foundations of Social Inquiry (one three-credit course):
Students learn theories and methodologies that underlie these areas of study and enhance their research and analytic skills.
____AMH 3560 The History of Women in the U.S.
____ANT 2000 Introduction to Anthropology
____CPO 2002 Introduction to Comparative Politics
____DEP 2000 Human Growth & Development
____ECO 2013 Principles of Macroeconomics
____ECO 2023 Principles of Microeconomics
____GEO 2000 Introduction to Geography
____INP 2002 Intro. Industrial/Organizational Psychology
____INR 2001 Introduction to International Relations
____INR 2002 Dynamics of World Politics
____POS 2042 American Government
____POT 3302 Political Ideologies
____PSY 2020 Introduction to Psychology
____SOP 3004 Introductory Social Psychology
____SOP 3015 Social and Personality Development
____SPC 3210 Communication Theory
____SYG 2000 Introduction to Sociology
____SYG 2010 Social Problems
____SYG 3002 Basic Ideas of Sociology
____WST 3015 Introduction to Women’s Studies
Societies & Identities (one three-credit course):
Students compare societies and cultures in local, national, or international contexts and in contemporary or historical perspective.
____AFA 2000 African World- Intro
____ANT 3212 World Ethnographies
____ANT 3451 Anthropology of Race & Ethnicity
____ANT 3241 Myth, Ritual and Mysticism
____COM 3461 Intercultural/Interracial Communication
____CPO 3103 Politics of Western Europe
____CPO 3304 Politics of Latin America
____ECS 3003 Comparative Economic Systems
____ECS 3021 Women, Culture, and Economic Develop
____EDF 3521 Education in History
____EGN 1033 Technology, Human and Society
____EVR 1017 The Global Environment & Society
____GEA 2000 World Regional Geography
____INR 3081 Contemporary International Problems
____LBS 3001 Introduction to Labor Studies
____REL 3308 Studies in World Religions
____SYD 3810 Sociology of Gender
____SYP 3000 The Individual in Society
____WST 3641 Gay and Lesbian in America
Natural Science (two three-credit courses, one in the life sciences and one in the physical sciences, and two corresponding one-credit labs):
Our technologically dependent world requires an understanding of the processes that led us here. Learning the basic concepts and ideas of scientific fields provides contact with not just those fields but with how science is done. In these courses students study the scientific method through examination of the foundational theories of modern scientific thought. Students apply scientific principles and theories to problem solving, evaluate scientific statements, and incorporate new information within the context of what is already known.
Emphasizing the essential connection between theory and experiment, the hands-on laboratory experience provides the context for testing scientific theories.
Life Sciences: (Lecture and Lab must be taken together)
____BOT 1010 & BOT 1010L Introductory Botany
____BSC 1010 & BSC 1010L General Biology I
____BSC 1011 & BSC 1011L General Biology II
____BSC 2023 & BSC 2023L Human Biology
____CHS 3501 & CHS 3501L Survey of Forensic Science
____EVR 3013 & EVR 3013L Ecology of South Florida
____GLY 1101 & GLY 1101L History of Life
____MCB 2000 & MCB 2000L Introduction to Microbiology
____HUN 2000 & HUN 2000L Foundations of Nutritional Science
____OCB 2003 & OCB 2003L Introductory Marine Biology
____PCB 2061 & PCB 2061L Introductory Genetics and Lab
____PCB 2099 & PCB 2099L Foundations of Human Physiology
Physical Sciences:
____AST 2003 & AST 2003L Solar System Astronomy
____AST 2004 & AST 2004L Stellar Astronomy
____CHM 1032 & CHM 1032L Chemistry and Society
____CHM 1033 & CHM 1033L Survey of Chemistry
____CHM 1045 & CHM 1045L General Chemistry I
____EVR 1001 & EVR 1001L Introduction to Environmental Sciences
____EVR 3011 & EVR 3011L Environmental Resources & Pollution
____GEO 3510 & GEO 3510L Earth Resources
____GLY 1010 & GLY 1010L Introduction to Earth Sciences
____GLY 3039 & GLY 3039L Environmental Geology
____MET 2010 & MET 2010L Meteorology & Atmospheric. Physics
____OCE 3014 & OCE 3014L Oceanography
____PHY 1020 & PHY 1020L Understanding the Physical World
____PHY 2048 & PHY 2048L Physics with Calculus I
____PHY 2049 & PHY 2049L Physics with Calculus II
____PHY 2053 & PHY 2048L Physics without Calculus I
____PHY 2054 & PHY 2049L Physics without Calculus II
____PHY 1037 & PHY1037L Quarks & Black Holes
Arts Requirement (three credit hours):
Art embodies human dreams, visions, and imagination and renders the human experience creatively in sound, movement, performance, design, language, color, shape, and space. Art responds critically to current events, changes in society, and the drama of human life.
In fulfilling this requirement, students will become acquainted with the fundamental aspects of the arts while developing a capacity to understand, appreciate, or experience particular forms. Students address universal themes central to the cultural traditions of the past and present as expressed through the perspectives of the arts.
____ARH 2050 Art History Survey I
____ARH 2051 Art History Survey II
____ART 2300C Drawing I
____ART 2500C Painting I
____ART 2752C Ceramics I
____CRW 2001 Introduction to Creative Writing
____DAA 1100 Modern Dance Techniques I
____DAA 1200 Ballet Techniques I
____DAN 2100 Introduction to Dance
____DAN 2140 Dance in Modern Amer. Culture: 1895-Pres.
____ENL 3504 English Literature to 1660
____ENL 3506 English Literature Since 1660
____MUH 1011 Music Appreciation
____MUH 2116 Evolution of Jazz
____MUN 1100 Golden Panther Band
____MUN 1210 Orchestra
____MUN 1380 Master Chorale
____SPC 2600 Public Speaking
____THE 2000 Theatre Appreciation
____TPP 2100 Introduction to Acting