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Arts and Sciences Program Requirements
for Students Who Entered UH Manoa Fall 2007

BA Degree

Students must complete the Colleges of Arts and Sciences Graduation Requirements as well as the following Arts and Sciences Program Requirements:

Arts and Sciences Foundations Requirements—

Written Communication (FW): One course (as designated by your writing placement exam results)

English (ENG) 100, 100A, 101-101L, or English Language Institute (ELI) 100

Symbolic Reasoning (FS): One course required as part of the College Program Requirements for BA, BFA, and BMus

• No approval or prerequisites needed for: Business (BUS) 250; Math (MATH) 100, 100A, 112; Natural Resources and Environmental Management (NREM) 203; Philosophy (PHIL) 110, 110A, 111, 111A.
• Approval or prerequisites needed for: Economics (ECON) 301; Information and Computer Sciences (ICS) 141, 241; Math (MATH) 140*, 203*, 215*, 215A*, 241*, 241A*, 251A*.
• As part of the College Program requirements, all BA, BFA, and BMus degree candidates must fulfill one of the following courses:
  BUS 250, ECON 301, ICS 141, 241, MATH 100, 100A, 112, 140*, 203*, 215*, 215A*, 241*, 241A*, 251A*, NREM 203, PHIL 110, 110A, 111, or 111A

*Math Department’s Precalculus Assessment required

Global & Multicultural Perspectives (FG): To satisfy this requirement, students must take a total of two courses; each course must come from a different group.

• Example: History 151 is from Group A and Anthropology 152 is from Group B
• Note: Foundations Global and Multicultural Perspective (FG) courses must be from different departments than the courses used to satisfy the Diversification requirement.
  Group A: Anthropology (ANTH) 151; Art (ART) 175; History (HIST) 151, 161A; Women’s Studies (WS) 175
  Group B: American Studies (AMST) 150; Anthropology (ANTH) 152; Art (ART) 176; Geography (GEOG) 102; History (HIST) 152, 155, 162A
  Group C: Geography (GEOG) 151, 151A; Languages, Linguistics & Literature (LLL) 150; Music (MUS) 107; Religion (REL) 150

Arts and Sciences Diversification Requirements—

Diversification courses must come from different departments than the courses used to satisfy the Foundations Global & Multicultural Perspectives (FG) requirement.

(For example, if HIST 151 is used for GMP (FG), then courses from the History Department cannot be used to satisfy a Diversification requirement.)

Arts and Humanities

Two semester courses, each selected from a different group: Arts (DA), Humanities (DH), Literature (DL).

Natural Sciences

Two semester courses, one in the Biological Sciences (DB), one in the Physical Sciences (DP), and one Natural Science Lab (DY)

Social Sciences

Two semester courses (DS), each from a different department.

Arts and Sciences Breadth or Depth Requirement—

All BA degree candidates are required to complete one of the following two options:
(1) Breadth or (2) Depth

Option 1: Breadth

Students who choose this option must complete 12 additional credits, 3 credits from subject areas in each of the following Colleges: Arts and Humanities (AH); Languages, Linguistics, and Literature (LLL); Natural Sciences (NS); Social Sciences (SS) (see table below). Any course at any level for which the student has prerequisites or permission can be used to fulfill the BA program requirements in the Breadth Option. Breadth requirements must be fulfilled with a grade of D (not D-) or higher.

You may not use any of the 12 credits to fulfill your Arts and Sciences Foundations, Diversification, or Hawaiian/Second Language requirements. However, you may use any of the 12 credits to fulfill Focus requirements. You may count up to 3 of the 12 credits toward your major requirements. MATH 103, 104, and 135 do not satisfy the College of Natural Sciences Breadth requirement, although they will count towards the minimum 124 credits required for graduation.

* Language courses taken to fulfill the Hawaiian/second language requirement may not be used to satisfy Option 1 requirement of 12 credits, 3 credits from each Arts & Sciences College.
** Courses offered in English

Option 2: Depth (Minor/Certificate)

Students who choose this option must complete a Minor or a Certificate at UH Manoa within the Colleges of Arts and Sciences in a subject other than their major. Certificates require a minimum of 15 credit hours of specified courses and a 2.5 GPA in those courses. Students also may use a second major within the Colleges of Arts and Sciences to satisfy the Depth requirement.

You may not count any of the Minor/Certificate credits towards your Arts and Sciences Foundations, Diversification, Hawaiian/Second Language, or major requirements. However, the Minor/Certificate credits may be counted toward your Arts and Sciences Focus requirements. Your Minor/Certificate forms must be received by the A&S Student Academic Services Office prior to the GRAD Session.

Minors

• American Studies
• Anthropology
• Art & Art History
• Biology
• Botany
• Chemistry
• Chinese
• Computer Sciences
• Dance
• Economics
• English
• Filipino Language & Culture
• Geography
• Hawaiian Language Immersion Education
• History
• Ilokano Language & Culture
• Japanese
• Korean
• Mathematics
• Microbiology
• Music
• Philosophy
• Physics
• Political Science
• Religion
• Sociology
• Speech
• Theatre
• Zoology

Undergraduate Certificates

• East Asian Languages
  • Chinese
  • Japanese
  • Korean
• Environmental Studies
• Ethnic Studies
• Languages and Literatures of Europe and the Americas
  • Classics
  • French
  • German
  • Latin America and Iberian Studies
  • Russian
  • Russian Area Studies
  • Spanish
• Hawaiian and Indo-Pacific Languages
  • Filipino
  • Hawai‘i & the Pacific
  • Hawaiian
  • Hindi
  • Ilokano
  • Indo-Pacific
  • Indonesian
  • Samoan
  • Sanskrit
  • Tahitian
  • Thai
  • Vietnamese
• Human Language and Computers
• Human Resources/Organizational Management
• Language Acquisition
• Language and Cognition
• Linguistics
• Marine Option Program
• Music
• Peace Studies
• Pidgin and Creole Studies: Second Language Studies
• Political Economy
• Professional Writing
• Social Science and Health
• Women’s Studies
  

BA Major requirements

All BA degree candidates should consult the appropriate departmental adviser for a list of major requirements.

BFA Degree

Students must complete the Arts and Sciences Graduation Requirements as well as the Arts and Sciences Foundations and Diversification Program Requirements. All BFA degree candidates should consult the appropriate departmental advisor before registering.

BMus Degree

Students must complete the Arts and Sciences Graduation Requirements as well as the Arts and Sciences Foundations and Diversification Program Requirements.

For students concentrating in voice, completion of first-level study of two languages may be substituted for completion of second-level study of a single language with prior approval of the department chair.

All BMus degree candidates should consult the appropriate departmental advisor before registering.

BS Degree

Students must complete the Arts and Sciences Graduation Requirements as well as the Arts and Sciences Foundations and Diversification Program Requirements.

n addition, all BS candidates are required to complete the following science courses as part of the A&S Foundations Symbolic Reasoning (FS) and Diversification Natural Sciences (DP) and (DY) Program Requirements—either as part of the program or major requirements.

Any Math department Calculus I and II courses; CHEM 161/161L and 162/162L or 171/171L or 181A/181L; and PHYS 170/170L and 272/272L, or PHYS 151/151L and 152/152L.

Introductory mathematics courses and CHEM 161 have assessment tests. Dates and times of assessment tests appear in each semester Schedule of Classes/UH Manoa Registration Homepage.

It is recommended that all entering students who have had high school courses in mathematics through pre-calculus take the following courses during their freshman year: CHEM 151/151L or CHEM 171/171L, any Math department Calculus I and II courses, and perhaps PHYS 151/151L or PHY 170/170L. It also is recommended that students who do not have a high school course equivalent to pre-calculus should take MATH 140 at UH Manoa during the summer session prior to their first semester.

All BS degree candidates should consult the appropriate departmental advisor before registering.