Stony Brook University Faculty of Sciences and Humanities

FIT General Education Courses

• G1 Basic Communication

  Students produce coherent texts within common college-level written forms; demonstrate the ability to revise and improve such texts; research a topic, develop an argument, and organize supporting details; develop proficiency in oral discourse; and evaluate an oral presentation according to established criteria.

  • EN 121 English Composition
• G2 Mathematics

  Students will demonstrate the ability to interpret and draw inferences from mathematical models such as formulas, graphs, tables, and schematics; represent mathematical information symbolically, visually, numerically, and verbally; employ quantitative methods such as arithmetic, algebra, geometry, or statistics to solve problems; estimate and check mathematical results for reasonableness; and recognize the limits of mathematical and statistical methods.

  • MA 080 Fundamentals of Mathematics (MPE 520 ↓)
  • MA 142 Geometry and the Art of Design (formerly MA 242)
  • MA 222 Statistical Analysis
• G3 Natural Sciences

  Students demonstrate an understanding of the methods scientists use to explore natural phenomena, including observation, hypothesis development, measurement and data collection, experimentation, evaluation of evidence, and employment of mathematical analysis; and application of scientific data, concepts, and models in one of the natural sciences.

  • SC 121 Introduction to Biological Science
• G4 Social Sciences

  Students demonstrate an understanding of the methods social scientists use to explore social phenomena, including observation, hypothesis development, measurement and data collection, experimentation, evaluation of evidence, and employment of mathematical and interpretive analysis. They also demonstrate knowledge of major concepts, models, and issues of at least one discipline in the social sciences.

  • SS 141 Macroeconomics
• G5 Western Civilization

  Students demonstrate knowledge of the development of the distinctive features of the history, institutions, economy, society, culture, etc., of Western civilization and relate the development of Western civilization to that of other regions of the world. In addition to broad survey courses, courses more specialized in chronology or theme may count for the requirement if they focus on a foundationally important aspect of Western Civilization and place it in a broader cultural perspective.

  • HA 112 History of Western Art and Civilization: Renaissance to the Modern Era
• G6 The Arts

  Students demonstrate an understanding of at least one principal form of artistic expression and the creative process inherent therein.

  • MU 203 Survey of American Music
• G7 Humanities

  Students demonstrate knowledge of the conventions and methods of at least one of the humanities in addition to those encompassed by other knowledge categories within the General Education requirements.

  • EN 231 Short Fiction
  • FI 111 Introduction to Film
  • FI 342 Contemporary Korean Cinema
  • HA 112 History of Western Art and Civilization: Renaissance to the Modern Era
  • HA 211 Asian American Art and Design
• G8 Foreign Language

  Students demonstrate a basic proficiency in the understanding and use of a foreign language and knowledge of the distinctive features of the culture(s) associated with the language they are studying.

  • CH 111 Chinese I
• G9 Other World Civilizations (Non-Western Civilizations)

  Students demonstrate knowledge of either a broad outline of world history or the distinctive features of the history, institutions, economy, society, and culture of one non-Western civilization. Courses in this category have to be non-Eurocentric and non-U.S. in focus. In addition to courses on the civilizations of Asia or Africa, this would, for example, allow courses on the civilizations of indigenous peoples of the Americas.

  • FI 342 Contemporary Korean Cinema
• G10 American History

  Students demonstrate knowledge of a basic narrative of American history: political, economic, social, and cultural, including knowledge of unity and diversity in American society; knowledge of common institutions in American society and how they have affected different groups; and understanding of America’s evolving relationship with the rest of the world.

  • HA 211 Asian American Art and Design
  • HI 202 U.S. History: Civil War-Present

See list of General Education approved courses under FIT's General Education Requirements and Courses. An FIT General Education course cannot be used to meet more than one General Education category. For more information, see General Education Requirements and Course.