Biomedical Engineering
General/Liberal Studies Electives List
Students obtaining an undergraduate degree
in biomedical engineering from the School of Biomedical Engineering, Science
and Health Systems are required to take a minimum of five general/liberal
studies courses. Of these five, two must form a sequence (such as ECON
201 and ECON 202 or SOC 335 and SOC 336).
The School offers two general studies courses, BMES 340 – Health Care
Administration and BMES 409 – Entrepreneurship for Biomedical Engineers,
which are highly recommended. However, students are free to choose any
of the courses listed below to fulfill this requirement.
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| ARCH | Any Architecture course | |||
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| AFAS | Any Africana course | |||
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| ANTH | Any Anthropology course | |||
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| ARTH | Any Art History course | |||
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| BLAW | Any Legal Studies course | |||
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| COM | Any Communications course (except COM 230) | |||
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| DSMR | Any Design and Merchandising course | |||
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| ECON | Any Economics course | |||
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| ENGL | Any English course (except ENGL 101, 102, 103 & 105) | |||
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| ENTR | Any Entrepreneurship course | |||
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| FASH | Any Fashion Design course | |||
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| VSCM | Graphic Design | |||
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| HIST | Any History course | |||
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| IAS | Any International Area Studies course | |||
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| INTB | Any International Business course | |||
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| AS-A | Any International Studies Abroad course | |||
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| LEAD | Any Leadership course | |||
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| MGMT | Any Management course | |||
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| MKTG | Any Marketing course | |||
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| ORGB | Any Organizational Behavior course | |||
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| PHIL | Any Philosophy course | |||
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| OPM | Any Operations Management course | |||
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| PSCI | Any Political Science course | |||
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| PSY | Any Psychology course (except PSY 212, 213, 332, 360, and 410) | |||
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| SCRP | Any Screenwriting and Playwriting course | |||
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| SMT | Any Sport Management course | |||
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| SOC | Any Sociology course | |||
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| THTR | Any Theatre course (except THTR 131, 132) | |||
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| WMST | Any Women's Studies course | |||
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| WRIT | Any Writing course | |||
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| Approved language courses | ||||
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| Any language course may be taken as long as the course is 100-level or above. | ||||
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| Additional courses | ||||
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| The following subjects have restrictions on what courses can be taken. The approved courses are listed below: | ||||
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| BMES 336 | Hospital and Patient Information/Informatics II | 3.0 | ||
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| BMES 409 | Entrepreneurship for Biomedical Engineers | 3.0 | ||
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| CULA 405 WI | Culture and Gastronomy I | 3.0 | ||
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| CULA 410 | Culture and Gastronomy II | 3.0 | ||
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| DANC 201 WI | Dance Appreciation | 3.0 | ||
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| DANC 220 | History of Dance | 3.0 | ||
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| DANC 325 WI | 20th-Century Dance | 3.0 | ||
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| EDUC 112 | Integrative Instruction: World Geography | 3.0 | ||
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| EDUC 301 | Introduction to Personalized System of Instruction | 3.0 | ||
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| EDUC 302 | Advanced Seminar in Personalized System of Instruction | 3.0 | ||
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| FMST 150 | American Classic Cinema | 3.0 | ||
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| FMST 160 | European Cinema | 3.0 | ||
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| FMST 245 | Non-Western Cinema | 3.0 | ||
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| FMST 250 | The Documentary Tradition | 3.0 | ||
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| FMST 260 | The Western | 3.0 | ||
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| FMST 262 | Film Comedy | 3.0 | ||
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| FMST 265 | Special Topics in Film Studies | 3.0 | ||
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| FMVD 280 | Copywriting | 3.0 | ||
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| FMST 355 | Contemporary Cinema | 3.0 | ||
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| SCRP 220 | Playwriting I | 3.0 | ||
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| SCRP 225 | Playwriting II | 3.0 | ||
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| SCRP 270 | Screenwriting I | 3.0 | ||
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| SCRP 275 WI | Screenwriting II | 3.0 | ||
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| SCRP 285 | Writing for Nonfiction Film and Video | 3.0 | ||
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| HNRS 201 | Introduction to the Honors Program* | 3.0 | ||
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| HNRS 202 | Colloquium I* | 3.0 | ||
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| HNRS 301 | Colloquium II | 3.0 | ||
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| HNRS 302 | Honors Colloquium | 3.0 | ||
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| HNRS 303 | Honors Colloquium | 3.0 | ||
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| HNRS 304 | Honors Colloquium | 3.0 | ||
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| HNRS 306 | Honors Colloquium | 3.0 | ||
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| HNRS 307 | Honors Colloquium | 3.0 | ||
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| LANG 180 | Special Topics in Language | 3.0 | ||
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| LING 101 | Introduction to Linguistics | 3.0 | ||
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| LING 102 | Language and Society | 3.0 | ||
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| MUSC 121 | Music Theory I | 3.0 | ||
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| MUSC 122 | Music Theory II | 3.0 | ||
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| MUSC 123 | Music Theory III | 3.0 | ||
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| MUSC 130 | Introduction to Music | 3.0 | ||
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| MUSC 232 WI | Music History II | 3.0 | ||
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| MUSC 236 | Rock Music Through the Mid 60's | 3.0 | ||
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| MUSC 238 | Rock Music Since the Mid 60's | 3.0 | ||
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| MUSC 331 | World Musics | 3.0 | ||
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| MUSC 333 | Afro-American Music USA | 3.0 | ||
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| MUSC 336 | History of Jazz | 3.0 | ||
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| MUSC 338 WI | American Popular Music | 3.0 | ||
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| PHTO 275 WI | History of Photography I | 3.0 | ||
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| PHTO 276 | History of Photography II | 3.0 | ||
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| PHTO 236 | Photojournalism | 4.0 | ||
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| PHTO 350 WI | Photography and Culture | 3.0 | ||
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| PHTO 452 | Contemporary Photography | 3.0 | ||
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| UNIV 241 WI | Great Works Symposium | 3.0 | ||
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| *On a case by case approval. | ||||
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