Unit Requirements

Must complete minimum of 180 units

General Education Requirements (GERs)

Description

Thinking Matters

Students fulfill the Thinking Matters requirement by completing a one quarter Thinking Matters course during their freshman year.

Writing and Rhetoric Requirement

WR1 is taken during freshman year
WR2 is taken during sophomore year
WIM (Writing in the Major) is taken once student has declared major

Language Requirement

Students are required to complete one year of college-level study in a foreign language.

Completing three quarters of a first-year 4-5 unit language course at Stanford

Major Requirement

Students must declare a major by the end of their sophomore year

Introduction to the Humanities (replaced by Thinking Matters)

One quarter introductory courses followed by two quarter thematic sequences.

IHUM-1 (formerly GER:1a): first-quarter course
IHUM-2 (formerly GER:1b): second-quarter course
IHUM-3 (formerly GER:1c): third-quarter course

Disciplinary Breadth

Completing five courses of which one course must be taken in each subject area.

DB-EngrAppSci (formerly GER:2b): Engineering and Applied Sciences
DB-Hum (formerly GER:3a): Humanities
DB-Math (formerly GER:2c): Mathematics
DB-NatSci (formerly GER:2a): Natural Sciences
DB-SocSci (formerly GER:3b):

Social Sciences Education for Citizenship

Two courses in different subject areas; or completing two Disciplinary Breadth courses which also satisfy different Education for Citizenship subject areas

EC-AmerCul (formerly GER:4b): American Cultures
EC-GlobalCom (formerly GER:4a): Global Community
EC-Gender (formerly GER:4c):Gender Studies
EC-EthicReas (GER:4d): Ethical Reasoning