Curriculum
- Old Curriculum
- New Curriculum
- Requirements in Humanities and Social Sciences
- Requirements in Cultural Studies
- Requirements in Foreign Language
- Successfully completing a third semester of college foreign language;
- Successful completion, in high school, of the third year of the same foreign language; or
- Demonstrating proficiency at the third semester level in a language proficiency examination approved by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the appropriate department.
- Restrictions on Free Electives
- Kinesiology: a maximum of 3 hours of basic (skill) courses can be used.
- Religious Foundation: a maximum of 4 hours can be used.
- Military Science: a maximum of 6 hours of advanced courses (200-level or above) can be used.
- Remedial: credit cannot be used for any course below MATH 220 (e.g., MATH 002, 012, 016, 117, etc.) or below CHEM 102 (e.g., CHEM 101).
- Duplicate Credit: credit is not allowed that duplicates previous college course work.
- Overage Credit: overage hours in CHEM 102/103 and in Rhetoric and graphics transfer credit can be used.
- Credit/No-Credit Option
- The only courses an AE undergraduate is allowed to take Credit/No-Credit are the unspecified Technical Electives, Free Electives, and some Humanities/Social Science Electives (see below).
Note: A course taken to satisfy the Campus General Education Requirements must be taken for a letter grade. - Courses taken as an Engineering Minor or a Campus Minor cannot be taken Credit/No Credit.
- 6 hours of Social Science Electives and 6 hours of Humanities Electives must be taken for a letter grade. The remaining 6 hours may be taken Credit/No-Credit (but not courses satisfying General Education Requirements).
- The Credit/No-Credit form is available in 206 Engineering Hall and must be signed by the advisor.
- To be eligible for Dean's List, a student must be registered for at least 14 hours credit, of which at least 12 must be taken for letter grade.
- Only an undergraduate student on clear status (not on probation) may elect the Credit/No-Credit grading option.
- A grade of C-minus or better must be earned to receive credit, which appears as a CR grade on the transcript. No credit appears as an NC grade.
- The last day to elect the Credit/No-Credit option or to return a course to a letter grade option is the same as the last day to drop a course, which occurs at mid-semester.
- A full-time student may take a maximum of two courses per semester Credit/No-Credit. A part-time student may take only one course per semester Credit/No-Credit. During the summer session a student may take only one course Credit/No-Credit.
- Free Electives may be taken Credit/No-Credit.
- Foreign language courses taken to meet the language requirement must be taken for a letter grade.
Applies to new freshmen matriculating from Fall 2006 to Fall 2010, unless they elect the new AE curriculum.
Applies to new freshmen matriculating in Fall 2010, and to earlier students who elect this curriculum.
The College of Engineering requires all students to complete 18 hours of approved courses. A minimum of 12 of these hours are needed to satisfy the Campus General Education requirements. Courses beyond those used to satisfy the campus requirements must come from either that same list of approved Campus General Education courses or from the Supplemental List of College of Engineering Approved Humanities and Social Science Courses. Suggested list of courses by the Aerospace Undergraduate Advisory Board.
The Campus General Education Requirements also require one course from the approved list of Western Cultural Studies and one course from the approved list of Non-Western Cultural Studies. Note that courses can be chosen to satisfy two requirements. For example, if a student completes HIST 172 US Hist Since 1877 the following two requirements are satisfied: (i) campus-wide General Education Humanities and Arts, (ii) Campus Western Cultural Studies Requirements in Foreign Language.
Effective for all entering freshmen in Fall 2000 and later, the foreign language requirement must be completed for graduation. This requirement may be satisfied by:
A student who enters UIUC without three years of the same foreign language in high school must take a foreign language placement test to determine the courses in which they should enroll.
