In all programs in the Faculty students must
complete courses in Complementary Studies amounting to at least 18.75 credits. All of
the programs in the Faculty have courses in Complementary Studies built into
the CORE of the curriculum, and/or have portions of technical courses assigned
to topics in Complementary Studies. The exact requirements vary from
program to program, the details are provided in the curriculum for each
program.
Complementary Studies complement the technical
content of a student's curriculum, and are sub-divided into six areas of study:
·
Engineering
Economics (EEC);
·
Communications
(CMC);
·
Humanities
and Social Sciences (H&SS - List A);
·
Linkage and
Professional Issues (LNK - List B);
·
Performance
Arts and Languages (PAL - List C); and
·
Management
(MGT - List D).
Students MUST complete a minimum number of credits in
some of the above six areas of study. Some of these credits are obtained in faculty-wide
core courses while others may be drawn from a list of elective courses. The
table below shows the credits in the core courses and lists of elective courses
from which additional required credits must be drawn. The lists are updated each
year, and a course qualifies as a Complementary Studies course only if it
appears on the list for the Academic Session in which the course is taken.
Area of Study
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Core Courses
|
Credits in core courses
|
List of additional courses
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Total required credits
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Engineering Economics
|
APSC 221, 321 OR CHEE 3101
|
3
|
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3
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Communications
|
APSC 100, 293
|
2
|
See note 2 below
|
3
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Humanities and Social Science (H&SS)
|
|
0
|
List A
|
6
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Linkage and Professional Issues (LNK)
|
APSC 100, 151, 2003
|
3
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List B
|
3.5
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Any combination of H&SS, LNK, PAL, or MGT
|
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List A, B, C, or D
|
3
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TOTAL
|
18.5
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1Note: At the
end of each Degree Program listing in the Calendar there is an explanation of which
courses may be taken to meet the requirement for engineering economics.
2Note: At the
end of each Degree Program listing in the Calendar there is an explanation of which
additional courses must be taken to meet the total credit requirement for
Communications.
3Note: for
the graduating class of 2014 and later, an additional 1 credit of Linkage and
Professional issues will be delivered in third and fourth year courses in the
Engineering Design and Practice Sequence, satisfying the requirement for 3.5 credit total. In special cases APSC 191 can be used to satisfy the required 3.5 credit of
linkage by permission. For the graduating classes of 2013 and earlier, the
required 3.5 credit was met by APSC 190 (no longer offered) or APSC 191.
Note
that the credits in the table above add up to 18.5 credits, so an additional .25 credit of
complementary studies are needed to reach the requirement of 18.75 credits. In many
programs this additional .25 credit is provided by other upper year engineering
courses, but it is the student’s responsibility to check.
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