Approved Quantitative Reasoning Courses for General Education Curriculum

Note: not all courses are offered every term.  Please refer to the Master Schedule for specific term offerings.

Approved Applied Quantitative Reasoning (AQR) Courses

All AQR courses have a prerequisite of placement at the AQR level or completion of an FQR course. Individual courses may have additional prerequisites and may fulfill another requirement. Please discuss with your advisor and plan accordingly.

• BI 235 Biostatistics (BI 107 and BI 108 prerequisite)
• CH 125 Principles of Chemistry (CH 115 or Chemistry Placement prerequisite; also, fulfills Scientific Inquiry requirement)
• CH 126 Principles of Chemistry (CH 115 prerequisite or special permission of Chemistry Chair; also, fulfills Scientific Inquiry requirement)
• CS 316 Foundations of Machine Learning (MA 200; MA 111 or (MA 108 and MA 109); and at least one of CS 209 or (MA 215 and CS 106) or MA 316 or PY 331 prerequisite; or permission of instructor)
• EC 104 Introduction to Microeconomics
• EC 237 Statistical Methods (EC 103 or EC 104 prerequisite or permission of instructor)
• ES 205 Ecosystem Science and Analysis of Forested Landscapes (ES 105 or BI 108, and ES 100 prerequisites; CH 125 or CH 126 corequisite)
• ES 206 Environmental Engineering and the Science of Sustainability (ES 100 and BI 108 prerequisites)
• ES 222 Energy Systems and Sustainable Solutions(ES 100  prerequisite)
• GE 235 Data Analysis, Modeling, and Scientific Programming (MA 109 or MA 111 prerequisite or permission of instructor)
• ID 210 Introduction to GIS
• ID 306 Music Synthesis Techniques (MA 113 prerequisite)
• MA 103 Assume a Spherical Cow: A First Course in Math Modeling
• MS 104 Introduction to Statistics (note - students who have completed SO 228 [required for Sociology major] or EC 237 [required for Economics major] may not take MA 104 for credit; does not count for the HHPS major - if interested in HHPS take MS 204 instead; if intending to be a STEM major, MS 204 is the recommended statistics course to take)
• MS 204 Statistical Methods (course is not open to those who have taken MS 104; required for the HHPS major and highly recommneded for the Statistics Minor; statistics course recommended for STEM majors and those with strong quantitative interests over MS 104)
• PL 202 Introduction to Political Research (PL 101 or PL 103 or ES 100 prerequisite)
• PL 302 Experiments in Political Science (PL 101 or PL 103 or ES 100 prerequisite)
• PL 335 Election Research (PL 101 prerequisite or permission of instructor)
• PS 202 Psychology Statistics and Research Methods I (PS 101 or NS 101 prerequisite)
• PY 105 Breakthroughs in Physics
• PY 106 Breakthroughs in Physics with Lab(also, fulfills Scientific Inquiry requirement)
• PY 108 Sound of Music
• PY 109 Sound of Music with Lab (also, fulfills Scientific Inquiry requirement)
• PY 110 Astronomy
• PY 111 Astronomy with Lab (also, fulfills Scientific Inquiry requirement)
• PY 115 How Stuff Works: The Physics of Everyday Technology (also, fulfills Scientific Inquiry requirement)
• PY 130 Introductory Physics I with Laboratory: Forces and Energy (Formerly PY 207) (MA 111 corequisite; also, fulfills Scientific Inquiry requirement)
• PY 140 Introductory Physics II with Laboratory: Electrodynamics (Formerly PY 208) (MA 113 corequisite; PY 130 (or 207) or Physics Placement prerequisite; also fulfills Scientific Inquiry requirement)
• SO 228 Statistics for the Social Sciences (two courses in the social sciences prerequisite or permission of instructor)
• SW 244 Statistics for Social Justice (SW 241 prerequisite or permission of instructor)

Approved Fundamental Quantitative Reasoning (FQR) Courses

All FQR courses have a prerequisite of placement at the FQR or AQR level, or completion of MA 100. Individual courses may have additional prerequisites.

• CH 115 Fundamentals of Chemistry (Chemistry Placement prerequisite)
• EC 103 Introduction to Macroeconomics
• ES 105 Field Studies in Environmental Science (also, fulfills Scientific Inquiry requirement)
• GE 101 Earth Systems Science(also, fulfills Scientific Inquiry requirement)
• GE 105 Earthquakes and Volcanoes: The Hazards of Plate Tectonics (also, fulfills Scientific Inquiry requirement)
• GE 112 Oceanography (also, fulfills Scientific Inquiry requirement)
• MA 109 Calculus with Algebra II (MA 108 prerequisite)
• MA 110 Mathematics Toolkit
• MA 116 Math in the Museum
• MB 235 Foundations of Managerial Accounting (MB 234 prerequisite)

For Faculty: To get a course approved as a Fundamental Quantitative Reasoning (FQR) course or an Applied Quantitative Reasoning (AQR) course, please follow the procedures outlined on the Curriculum Committee site.