Contemporary Challenges [CCD], [CCO] (6 credits)
Students must take two degree credit-bearing courses and meet both CCD and CCO. For students who entered spring 2019 or earlier [CCD]/[CCO] courses will fulfill Contemporary Challenges [CC].
Diversities and Social Inequalities [CCD] (3 credits)
Students take one degree credit-bearing course (at least 3 credits) and meet at least one goal.
- Analyze the degree to which forms of human differences and stratifications among social groups shape individual and group experiences of, and perspectives on, contemporary issues. Such differences and stratifications may include race, language, religion, ethnicity, country of origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, economic status, abilities, or other social distinctions and their intersections.
- Analyze contemporary social justice issues and unbalanced social power systems.
Our Common Future [CCO] (3 credits)
Students must take one degree credit-bearing course that meets one or both of these goals
- Analyze a contemporary global issue from a multi-disciplinary perspective.
- Analyze the relationship that science and technology have to a contemporary social issue.
The Contemporary Challenges Learning Goals must be fulfilled by taking classes at Rutgers-New Brunswick; transfer and AP courses are not certified to meet these learning goals.
SAS Core courses taught each semester are available to view in the Schedule of Classes. After selecting a semester, New Brunswick, and Undergraduate and hitting "Continue", choose the tab on the left labeled "Core Code". The dropdown list will show each of the SAS Core codes. After selecting one of the options, courses will appear from all departments that fulfill that SAS Core goal.
Courses certified for Contemporary Challenges [CCD], [CCO] (6 credits)
Areas of Inquiry: Natural Sciences [NS] (6 credits)
Students must take two degree credit-bearing courses that meet one or both of these goals.
- Understand and apply basic principles and concepts in the physical or biological sciences.
- Explain and be able to assess the relationship among assumptions, method, evidence, arguments, and theory in scientific analysis.
Courses certified for Areas of Inquiry: Natural Sciences [NS] (6 credits)
Areas of Inquiry: Social and Historical Analysis [SCL], [HST] (6 credits)
Students must take two degree credit-bearing courses and meet both HST and SCL, as follows:
Historical Analysis [HST] (3 credits)
Students take one degree credit-bearing course (at least 3 credits) and meet at least one goal.
- Explain the development of some aspect of a society or culture over time.
- Employ historical reasoning to study human endeavors, using appropriate assumptions, methods, evidence, and arguments.
Social Analysis [SCL] (3 credits)
Students must take one degree credit-bearing course that meets one or both of these goals
- Understand different theories about human culture, social identity, economic entities, political systems, and other forms of social organization.
- Employ tools of social scientific reasoning to study particular questions or situations, using appropriate assumptions, methods, evidence, and arguments.
Courses certified for Areas of Inquiry: Social and Historical Analysis [SCL], [HST] (6 credits)
Areas of Inquiry: Arts and Humanities [AH] (6 credits)
Students must take two degree credit-bearing courses and meet at least two of these goals.
- Examine critically philosophical and other theoretical issues concerning the nature of reality, human experience, knowledge, value, and/or cultural production. [AHo]
- Analyze arts and/or literatures in themselves and in relation to specific histories, values, languages, cultures, and technologies. [AHp]
- Understand the nature of human languages and their speakers. [AHq]
- Engage critically in the process of creative expression. [AHr]
Courses certified for Areas of Inquiry: Arts and Humanities [AH] (6 credits)
Cognitive Skills and Processes: Writing and Communication [WC], [WCr], [WCd] (9 credits)
Students must take three degree credit-bearing courses, and meet both WCR and WCD as follows:
- All students must take College Writing 01:355:101 or its equivalent.
Students receiving a score of 4 or above on the AP English composition or literature tests are exempted from College Writing 01:355:101, and for such students the writing and communication goals become a two-course requirement: WCr and WCd. The Revision-Based Writing and Communication Learning Goal [WCr] must be fulfilled by taking a class at Rutgers-New Brunswick; transfer and AP courses are not certified to meet this learning goal.
Students must take one additional credit-bearing course focused on revision that meets this goal:
- Communicate complex ideas effectively, in standard written English, to a general audience, and respond effectively to editorial feedback from peers, instructors, &/or supervisors through successive drafts & revision. [WCr]
Students must also take one additional credit-bearing course focused on writing in a specific discipline that meets this goal:
- Communicate effectively in modes appropriate to a discipline or area of inquiry; evaluate and critically assess sources and use the conventions of attribution and citation correctly; and analyze and synthesize information and ideas from multiple sources to generate new insights. [WCd]
Cognitive Skills and Processes: Quantitative and Formal Reasoning [QQ], [QR] (6 credits)
Students must take two degree credit-bearing courses and meet both of these goals.
- Formulate, evaluate, and communicate conclusions and inferences from quantitative information. (includes various quantitative methods courses as well as 640 courses). [QQ]
- Apply effective and efficient mathematical or other formal processes to reason and to solve problems. (includes 640 courses and formal reasoning courses). [QR]
Transfer credits from courses taken in high school will not generally meet these requirements.
