General Education Requirements

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General Education Requirements

All AUB students must take a minimum of 33-36 credits from the list of approved GE courses distributed as follows:

Area	Credits	Requirements Details
Arabic Communication Skills	3	One Arabic course unless exempted from Arabic. If exempt, check the Faculty-Specific Requirements page
English Communication Skills	3-6	See English Communication Skills webpage
Humanities
Humanities I	6	Two Humanities courses from Humanities List I.
Humanities II	6	Two Humanities courses from either Humanities list I or II.
		No more than two courses from the student’s major may fulfill the Humanities requirement. FAS students are required to select two CVSP courses, one from Sequence I* followed by one from Sequence II**.
Social Sciences
Social Sciences I	3	One Social Sciences course from Social Sciences List I.
Social Sciences II	3	One Social Sciences course from either Social Sciences lists I or II.
		No more than one course from the student’s major may fulfill the Social Science requirement.
Natural Sciences	6	Two Natural Sciences courses.
		No more than one class from the student’s major may meet the Natural Sciences requirement.
		Kindly note that FAS students cannot count academic credit for the following courses: NFSC 220, AVSC 279, and AVSC 280, and will, therefore, need to take another Natural Science course to meet the GE requirements.
Quantitative Thought	3	One Quantitative Thought course.
Writing in the Discipline	3	One Writing in the Discipline course offered in the major.

* Sequence I courses: CVSP 201, CVSP 202, CVSP 205, CVSP 207.

** Sequence II courses: CVSP 203, CVSP 204, CVSP 206, CVSP 208.

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