General Education courses listed by department

This list is in alphabetical order by department. Click the course title to link to the online university Schedule of Classes to see the course description, scheduling details, pre- and corequisite specifics, and other information.

• This list should only be used for fall and spring semester--not summer--planning.
• Availability values are H for High, meaning many seats are available; M for medium, and L for few seats.

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Dept	Course #	Title	GenEd Category	Avail- ability	Prereq	Coreq	Notes
Architecture	48-095	Architecture for Non-Majors I	Creating		N	N
Architecture	48-130	Architectural Drawing I: A Tactile Foundation	Creating		N	N
Architecture	48-132	Architectural Drawing I: A Tactile Foundation (for non-architecture majors)	Creating		N	N
Architecture	48-135	Architectural Drawing 2: Appearance	Creating		N	N
Architecture	48-230	Architectural Drawing III: Perspective	Creating		Y	N
Architecture	48-240	Historical Survey of World Architecture & Urbanism	Creating		N	N
Architecture	48-343	American Built Environment	Creating		N	N
Architecture	48-348	History of Central American Architecture	Creating		Y	N
Architecture	48-477	Making Things Interactive	Creating		N	N

Dept	Course #	Title	GenEd Category	Avail- ability	Prereq	Coreq	Notes
Art	60-101	Concept Studio I	Creating		N	N
Art	60-102	Concept Studio II	Creating		N	N
Art	60-104	Contemporary Issues Forum	Creating		N	N
Art	60-110	Electronic Media Studio I	Creating		N	N
Art	60-141	Black and White Photography I (CL 62-141)	Creating		N	N
Art	60-150	2D Media Studio I: Drawing	Creating		N	N
Art	60-151	Two-Dimensional Media Studio II: Drawing	Creating		N	N
Art	60-201	Concept Studio III - Systems and Processes	Creating		N	N
Art	60-202	Concept Studio: EcoArt	Creating		N	N
Art	60-205	Modern Visual Culture: 1789-1945	Creating		N	N
Art	60-206	Contemporary Visual Culture: 1945 to the Present	Creating		N	N
Art	60-210	Electronic Media Studio II	Creating		N	N
Art	60-230	3-D Media Studio II	Creating		N	N
Art	60-250	2D Media Studio III: Painting	Creating		N	N
Art	60-251	Two-Dimensional Media Studio IV	Creating		N	N
Art	60-301	Contextual Practice	Creating		N	N
Art	60-302	Art-in-Context	Creating		N	N
Art	60-353	High and Popular Culture in the Arts	Creating		N	N
Art	60-354	Art, Aesthetics and Literature	Creating		N	N
Art	60-356	Art from 1965 to the Present	Creating		N	N
Art	60-364	New Technologies and Artists’ Tools	Creating		N	N
Art	60-372	Critical Theory	Creating		N	N
Art	60-398	Special Topics in Art History/Theory	Creating		N	N
Art	60-414	Advanced ETB: Animation Art and Technology	Creating		N	N
Art	60-415	Advanced ETB: Animation	Creating		Y	N
Art	60-416	Advanced ETB: Interactive Multimedia	Creating		Y	N
Art	60-417	Advanced ETB: Video	Creating		Y	N
Art	60-418	Advanced ETB: The Interactive Image	Creating		N	N
Art	60-420	Advanced ETB: Interactive/Reactive Environments: Circuit Bending	Creating		Y	N
Art	60-421	Advanced ETB: Gizmology	Creating		Y	N
Art	60-422	Advanced ETB: Robotic Art Studio	Creating		N	N
Art	60-424	Advanced ETB: Special Topics: The Poetics of Gameplay	Creating		Y	N
Art	60-424	Advanced ETB: Art Practice on the Digital Disapora	Creating
Art	60-424	Advanced CP/ETB: Special topic	Creating
Art	60-424	Advanced ETB: Special Topic: Video and Performance	Creating		Y	N
Art	60-426	Advanced ETB: Interactive Electronics for Artists and Inventors	Creating		N	N
Art	60-429	Advanced ETB: Special Topic	Creating
Art	60-429	Advanced ETB: Physical Computing: Art of Noises and High Tech Gizmos	Creating		N	N
Art	60-430	Advanced SIS: Sculpture	Creating		Y	N
Art	60-431	Advanced SIS: Installation	Creating		Y	N
Art	60-432	Advanced SIS: Site-Work	Creating		Y	N
Art	60-433	Advanced SIS: Clay	Creating		Y	N
Art	60-434	Advanced SIS: Foundry	Creating		Y	N
Art	60-435	Advanced SIS: Metals	Creating		Y	N
Art	60-437	Advanced SIS: Environmental Sculpture	Creating		N	N
Art	60-438	Advanced SIS: Intimate Objects	Creating		N	N
Art	60-450	Advanced PDP: Drawing	Creating		Y	N
Art	60-451	Advanced PDP: Anatomy/Drawing	Creating		N	N
Art	60-453	Advanced PDP: Painting	Creating		Y	N
Art	60-455	Advanced PDP: Intaglio	Creating		Y	N
Art	60-456	Advanced PDP: Lithography	Creating		N	N
Art	60-457	Advanced PDP: Idea Generation	Creating		N	N
Art	60-458	Advanced PDP: Serigraphy	Creating		N	N
Art	60-462	Advanced PDP: Two Dimensional Mixed Media	Creating		Y	N
Art	60-465	Advanced PDP: bioGRAPHICAL	Creating		Y	N
Art	60-467	Advanced PDP: Printstallation: Hybrid Works and Collaborative Projects	Creating		Y	N
Art	60-471	Advanced PDP Drawing: The Figure, Anatomy and Expression	Creating		N	N
Art	60-501	Building Virtual Worlds	Creating		N	N

Dept	Course #	Title	GenEd Category	Avail- ability	Prereq	Coreq	Notes
Biological Sciences	03-121	Modern Biology	Modeling: Natural Sciences	H	N	N
Biological Sciences	03-122	Organismic Botany	Modeling: Natural Sciences	M	Y	N
Biological Sciences	03-125	Evolution and the History of Life	Modeling: Natural Sciences	M	Y	N
Biological Sciences	03-130	Introduction to Mammalian Physiology	Modeling: Natural Sciences		Y	N
Biological Sciences	03-130	Biology of Organisms	Modeling: Natural Sciences	H	Y	N
Biological Sciences	03-203	Bench to Bedside: Process of Regenerative Therapeutics	Modeling: Natural Sciences	M	N	N
Biological Sciences	03-204	Information, Entropy, and Noise in the Brain	Modeling: Natural Sciences	H	Y	N
Biological Sciences	03-231	Biochemistry I	Modeling: Natural Sciences	M	Y	N
Biological Sciences	03-232	Biochemistry I	Modeling: Natural Sciences	M	Y	N
Biological Sciences	03-310	Introduction to Computational Biology	Modeling: Natural Sciences	M	Y	N
Biological Sciences	03-360	The Biology of the Brain (Introduction to Neuroscience)	Modeling: Natural Sciences	H	Y	N

Dept	Course #	Title	GenEd Category	Avail- ability	Prereq	Coreq	Notes
Biomedical Engineering	42-101	Introduction to Biomedical Engineering	Modeling: Other		N	N

Dept	Course #	Title	GenEd Category	Avail- ability	Prereq	Coreq	Notes
Business Administration	70-350	Business Acting	Creating		N	N

Dept	Course #	Title	GenEd Category	Avail- ability	Prereq	Coreq	Notes
Carnegie Mellon University-Wide Studies	99-101	Computing @ Carnegie Mellon	University Requirement	H	N	N
Carnegie Mellon University-Wide Studies	99-102	Computing @ Carnegie Mellon	University Requirement	H	N	N
Carnegie Mellon University-Wide Studies	99-103	Computing @ Carnegie Mellon	University Requirement	H	N	N
Carnegie Mellon University-Wide Studies	99-230	Environmental Geology	Modeling: Natural Sciences		N	N
Carnegie Mellon University-Wide Studies	99-231	Environmental and Early Warnings	Deciding		N	N
Carnegie Mellon University-Wide Studies	99-234	Introduction to Global Agriculture	Reflecting		N	N
Carnegie Mellon University-Wide Studies	99-238	Materials, Energy and Environment	Modeling: Other		N	N
Carnegie Mellon University-Wide Studies	99-241	Revolutions of Circularity	Creating		N	N

Dept	Course #	Title	GenEd Category	Avail- ability	Prereq	Coreq	Notes
Center for Arts and Society	64-100	Critical Histories of the Arts	Creating		N	N
Center for Arts and Society	64-300	CAS Fall Fellow	Creating		N	N
Center for Arts and Society	64-400	Critical Discourses in Practices in Design and Art	Creating		N	N
Center for Arts and Society	64-400	CAS Spring Fellow: The Art of Gentrification	Reflecting		N	N
Center for Arts and Society	64-401	Contemporary Poetry, Politics, and Publics	Creating		N	N
Center for Arts and Society	64-402	Practices & Issues in Contemporary Asian Art	Reflecting		N	N

Dept	Course #	Title	GenEd Category	Avail- ability	Prereq	Coreq	Notes
CFA Interdisciplinary	62-141	Black and White Photography I (CL 60-141 and 51-265))	Creating		N	N

Dept	Course #	Title	GenEd Category	Avail- ability	Prereq	Coreq	Notes
Chemical Engineering	06-100	Introduction to Chemical Engineering	Modeling: Other		Y	N

Dept	Course #	Title	GenEd Category	Avail- ability	Prereq	Coreq	Notes
Chemistry	09-101	Introduction to Experimental Chemistry (3 units)	Modeling: Natural Sciences	M	N	N
Chemistry	09-103	Atoms, Molecules and Chemical Change (non-maj)	Modeling: Natural Sciences	H	N	N
Chemistry	09-104	Fundamental Aspects of Organic Chemistry & Biochemistry (non-maj)	Modeling: Natural Sciences	M	N	N
Chemistry	09-105	Introduction of Modern Chemistry I	Modeling: Natural Sciences	H	N	N
Chemistry	09-106	Modern Chemistry II	Modeling: Natural Sciences	M	Y	N
Chemistry	09-217	Organic Chemistry I	Modeling: Natural Sciences	M	Y	N
Chemistry	09-218	Organic Chemistry II	Modeling: Natural Sciences	M	Y	N
Chemistry	09-221	Laboratory I: Introduction to Chemical Analysis	Modeling: Natural Sciences		Y	N
Chemistry	09-222	Laboratory II: Organic Synthesis and Analysis	Modeling: Natural Sciences	L	Y	N

Dept	Course #	Title	GenEd Category	Avail- ability	Prereq	Coreq	Notes
CIT Interdisciplinary	39-100	Special Topics: What is Engineering?	Creating		N	N

Dept	Course #	Title	GenEd Category	Avail- ability	Prereq	Coreq	Notes
Civil and Environmental Engineering	12-090	Technology and the Environment	Modeling: Other		N	N
Civil and Environmental Engineering	12-100	Intro to Civil and Environmental Engineering	Modeling: Other		Y	N

Dept	Course #	Title	GenEd Category	Avail- ability	Prereq	Coreq	Notes
Computer Science	15-100	Introductory/Intermediate Programming	Modeling: Other		N	N
Computer Science	15-105	Principles of Computation	Modeling: Other		N	N
Computer Science	15-111	Intermediate/Advanced Programming	Modeling: Other		N	N
Computer Science	15-123	Effective Programming in C and UNIX	Modeling: Other		N	N

Dept	Course #	Title	GenEd Category	Avail- ability	Prereq	Coreq	Notes
Design	51-171	Human Experience in Design	Creating		N	N
Design	51-231	Calligraphy I	Creating	L
Design	51-232	Calligraphy II	Creating	L
Design	51-261	Communication Design Fundamentals	Creating		N	N
Design	51-262	Communication Design Fundamentals	Creating		N	N
Design	51-263	Industrial Design Fundamentals	Creating		N	N
Design	51-264	Industrial Design Fundamentals	Creating		N	N
Design	51-265	Black and White Photography I	Creating		N	N
Design	51-271	Design History I	Creating		N	N
Design	51-274	Design and Social Change	Reflecting		N	N
Design	51-348	Building Virtual Worlds	Creating		N	N
Design	51-353	Writ & Photo: Magazine Writing & Journalism	Creating		N	N
Design	51-379	Emotion & Reason in Design	Creating		N	N
Design	51-425	Letterpress & Bookbinding	Creating		N	N
Design	51-426	Letterpress & Bookbinding	Creating		N	N

Dept	Course #	Title	GenEd Category	Avail- ability	Prereq	Coreq	Notes
Drama	54-109	Dramaturgy I	Creating	L
Drama	54-110	Dramaturgy II	Creating	L
Drama	54-113	Non-Major Dance	Creating		N	N
Drama	54-114	Non-Major Dance	Creating		N	N
Drama	54-163	Introduction to Production	Creating		N	N
Drama	54-177	Foundations of Drama I	Creating		N	N
Drama	54-178	Foundations of Drama II	Creating		N	N
Drama	54-187	Introduction to Playwriting (CL 76-187)	Creating		N	N
Drama	54-191	Acting for Non-Majors	Creating		N	N
Drama	54-192	Acting for Non-Majors	Creating		N	N
Drama	54-239	History of Architecture and Décor	Creating		N	N
Drama	54-240	History of Architecture and Décor	Creating		N	N
Drama	54-245	History of Clothing	Creating		N	N
Drama	54-246	History of Clothing	Creating		N	N
Drama	54-251	Introduction to Lighting Design	Creating		Y	N
Drama	54-252	Introduction to Lighting Design	Creating		Y	N
Drama	54-259	Production Preparation II	Creating		Y	N
Drama	54-260	Production Preparation II	Creating		Y	N
Drama	54-262	Production Symposium II	Creating		Y	N
Drama	54-281	Foundations of Drama III	Creating		N	N
Drama	54-282	Foundations of Drama IV	Creating		N	N
Drama	54-309	Theatre Lab	Creating		N	N
Drama	54-310	Theatre Lab	Creating		N	N
Drama	54-351	Lighting Design I	Creating		Y	N
Drama	54-352	Lighting Design I	Creating		Y	N
Drama	54-433	Producing for Television and Film	Creating		N	N
Drama	54-475	Theatre Management	Creating		N	N

Dept	Course #	Title	GenEd Category	Avail- ability	Prereq	Coreq	Notes
Economics	73-100	Principles of Economics	Deciding	H	N	N
Economics	73-101	Great Economists and their Legacies	Freshman Seminar		N	N	Open only to H&SS Freshmen.
Economics	73-101	An Economist's Perspective on Public Policy	Freshman Seminar		N	N	Open only to H&SS Freshmen.
Economics	73-101	Freshman Seminar: Capitalism, Poverty and Labor	Freshman Seminar		N	N	Open only to H&SS Freshmen.
Economics	73-150	Microeconomics	Deciding	H	Y	Y
Economics	73-270	Writing for Economics	Communicating		Y	N

Dept	Course #	Title	GenEd Category	Avail- ability	Prereq	Coreq	Notes
Electrical & Computer Engineering	18-100	Introduction to Electrical & Computer Engineering	Modeling: Other		Y	N

Dept	Course #	Title	GenEd Category	Avail- ability	Prereq	Coreq	Notes
Engineering and Public Policy	19-101	Introduction Engineering & Public Policy	Modeling: Other		Y	N

Dept	Course #	Title	GenEd Category	Avail- ability	Prereq	Coreq	Notes
English	76-100	Reading and Writing in an Academic Context	Communicating		N	N
English	76-101	Interpretation and Argument	Communicating		N	N
English	76-142	Burly Mugs & Buddaflies: Exp Voices African-American Poetry	Freshman Seminar		N	N	Open only to H&SS Freshmen.
English	76-143	Contemporary World Literature	Freshman Seminar		N	N	Open only to H&SS Freshmen.
English	76-143	Black Women Writers and Narratives on Freedom	Freshman Seminar		N	N	Open only to H&SS Freshmen.
English	76-143	The Imperial Gothic	Freshman Seminar		N	N	Open only to H&SS Freshmen.
English	76-143	Sex, Money, and Property	Freshman Seminar		N	N	Open only to H&SS Freshmen.
English	76-144	The War Against Cliché	Freshman Seminar		N	N	Open only to H&SS Freshmen.
English	76-144	English Freshman Seminar	Freshman Seminar		N	N	Open only to H&SS Freshmen.
English	76-144	Innovative African-American Poetry	Freshman Seminar		N	N	Open only to H&SS Freshmen.
English	76-145	One Story Four Ways	Freshman Seminar		N	N	Open only to H&SS Freshmen.
English	76-145	Freshman Seminar: Capitalism, Poverty and Labor	Freshman Seminar		N	N	Open only to H&SS Freshmen.
English	76-214	Passing and the African-American Novel	Reflecting		N	N
English	76-221	Studies in Classical Literature: Books You Should Have Read By Now	Reflecting		N	N
English	76-222	Intro to Performance Studies: Texts for Social Change	Creating		N	N
English	76-227	Comedy	Communicating		N	N
English	76-230	Early Modern Literature	Reflecting		N	N
English	76-230	19th Century American Literature and Culture	Reflecting		N	N
English	76-231	20th Century American Literature and Culture	Reflecting		N	N
English	76-232	African American Studies: Protest, Resistance, and Self-Id	Reflecting		N	N
English	76-233	Plays, Players and Playgoing, 1500-1737	Reflecting		N	N
English	76-233	Post-Colonial Literature	Reflecting		N	N
English	76-234	Books, Authors, Readers	Reflecting	M
English	76-235	British Literature and Culture Before 1800	Reflecting		N	N
English	76-236	19th Century British Literature and Culture	Reflecting		N	N
English	76-238	Intro to Media: Literacies in Media & Popular Culture	Communicating		N	N
English	76-239	Introduction to Film Studies	Reflecting		N	N
English	76-241	Introduction to Gender Studies	Reflecting		N	N
English	76-245	Shakespeare: Tragedies & Histories	Creating		N	N
English	76-246	British and American Literature and Culture	Reflecting		N	N
English	76-246	British & American Lit & Culture (prior to F05)	Reflecting		N	N
English	76-246	Media Revolutions (beginning Fall 2005)	Reflecting		N	N
English	76-247	Shakespeare: Comedies & Romances	Creating		N	N
English	76-260	Survey of Forms: Fiction	Creating		N	N
English	76-261	Survey of Forms: Non-Fiction	Creating		N	N
English	76-265	Survey of Forms: Poetry	Creating		N	N
English	76-266	Survey of Forms: Creative Non-Fiction	Creating		N	N
English	76-268	Survey of Forms: Drama	Creating		N	N
English	76-269	Survey of Forms: Screenwriting	Creating		N	N
English	76-270	Writing for the Professions	Communicating		N	N
English	76-272	Language in Design	Communicating		N	N
English	76-318	Communicating in the Global Marketplace	Communicating		N	N
English	76-319	Environmental Rhetoric	Reflecting		N	N
English	76-320	English Literary Culture, 1600-1750	Reflecting		N	N
English	76-320	The Cultural History of Print in Britain & America	Reflecting		N	N
English	76-325	Special Topics: Presidential Campaign Rhetoric	Communicating		Y	N
English	76-326	Post-Colonial Literature and Theory	Reflecting		N	N
English	76-329	Global Women's Writing	Reflecting		Y	N
English	76-330	Medieval Literary and Cultural Studies	Reflecting		N	N
English	76-331	Renaissance Literary and Cultural Studies	Reflecting		N	N
English	76-332	Topics in African American Literature	Reflecting		N	N
English	76-333	18th Century Literary and Cultural Studies: Sibling Rivalry: The Visual and Verbal 18th Century with Thora Brylowe	Reflecting		N	N
English	76-333	Postcolonial Studies	Reflecting		N	N
English	76-334	19th Century Literary and Cultural Studies	Reflecting		N	N
English	76-335	20th Century Literary and Cultural Studies	Reflecting		N	N
English	76-336	Romanticism	Reflecting		N	N
English	76-338	The American Cinema	Reflecting		N	N
English	76-339	Advanced Studies in Film and Media	Reflecting		Y	N
English	76-343	Pirates, Prostitution, and Pickpockets: Deviancy in the 18th Century	Reflecting		Y	N
English	76-346	Major Works of Modern Poetry	Communicating	M
English	76-347	American Literary & Cultural Studies: American Fiction	Reflecting		N	N
English	76-348	American Novel after 1945	Reflecting		N	N
English	76-349	The Lost Generation	Reflecting		N	N
English	76-350	Asian-American Literature	Reflecting	M
English	76-353	Advanced Gender Studies	Reflecting		N	N
English	76-354	South Asian Literature	Reflecting		N	N
English	76-355	Leadership, Dialogue and Change	Communicating		N	N
English	76-357	Language, Power and the Law	Communicating		N	N
English	76-363	Reading in Forms: Contemporary Poetry	Creating		N	N
English	76-364	Readings in Fiction	Creating		N	N
English	76-366	Critical History of Travel Writing	Reflecting		N	N
English	76-367	Major Works of Modern Fiction	Communicating		Y	N
English	76-375	Magazine Writing	Creating		Y	N
English	76-377	The Rhetoric of Fiction	Communicating		N	N
English	76-378	Literacy: Educational Theory & Community Practice	Communicating		N