General Education Curriculum (GEC)

West Virginia University requires all of its students to complete a certain number of course from 9 different GEC Objectives. Some of your courses required for Engineering will fulfill Objectives 1&2. Listed below are typical GEC courses taken by Engineering students to fulfill Objective 3-9. It is recommended that you take an odd number GEC.

Suggested GEC Courses ** (GEC Objectives are listed in []'s)

ART 101 [3,5] COMM 100/102 [4,6] COMM 100/104 [4,6] ENGL 131 [5] ENGL 132 [5] GEOL 101 [4]* GEOG 102 [9] GEOG 108 [3,8] HIST 101 [3,8] HIST 102 [3,8] HIST 104 [3,9] HIST 105 [3,9] HIST 152 [3,7] HIST 153 [3,7] HUM 101 [5,9] HUM 102 [5,9] JAPN 101 [4,9] JRNL 101 [8,9] LARC 212 [3,5] LING 101 [4,6] MDS 101/102 [4,6]

MDS 122 [4,7] MUSC 170 [4,5] MUSC 175 [5,7] PHIL 100 [4,6] PHIL 130 [4,6] PHIL 170 [4,6] PHIL 260 [4,7] PHIL 140 [3,8] POLS 101 [3,4] POLS 102 [3,4] POLS 103 [8,9] PSYC 101 [4,6]* SOCA 101 [4,7] SOCA 105 [8,9] SOWK 147 [4,7] SPAN 101 [8,9] SPAN 102 [8,9] THET 101 [3,5] THET 102 [5] THET 170 [5,9] WMST 170 [4,7]

* Course is required by some majors * A complete explanation and listing of GEC courses can be found here