Liberal Arts and Sciences Curriculum

Curriculum A offers students of the School of Arts and Sciences, the School of Engineering and the School of Architecture and Design a selection of courses in a variety of subjects that aim to complement their major of study and to broaden their intellectual exposure. It is divided into a core of required courses, and a wide selection of electives in the arts, humanities, social and natural sciences.

The Liberal Arts and Sciences Curriculum (LASC) consists of:

Required Core Courses (6 credits)
Elective Courses (remainder credits according to program- see specific program requirements below)

Specific Program Requirements

For a BA degree, a total of 60 post-Freshman credits of LAC is required, including the 6 core credits. The 54 remaining credits are to be taken from the list of courses in section B, according to the specific program guidelines.
For a BS in Nursing, a total of 37 post-Freshman credits of LAC is required, including the 6 core credits. The remaining 31 credits are to be taken from the list of courses in section B, according to the specific program guidelines.
For a 3-year BS degree, a total of 30 post-Freshman credits of LAC is required, including the 6 core credits. The remaining 24 credits are to be taken from the list of courses in section B, according to the specific program guidelines.
For a 4-year BS degree, the total number of required post-Freshman credits of LAC is 45, including the 6 core credits. The remaining 39 credits are to be taken from the list of courses in section B, according to the specific program guidelines.
For a BFA/ BE/ BArch degree, a total of 18 post-Freshman credits of LAC is required, including the 6 core course credits. The remaining 12 credits can be taken from the list of courses in section B, according to the specific program guidelines.

Required Courses (6 credits)

Course Number	Course Name	Cr.
ENG202	Advanced Academic English	3
COM203	Fundamentals of Oral Communication	3

Elective Courses

The Liberal Arts electives are organized under three general categories. Selection of electives from these categories is subject to the criteria specific to each program.

Arts and Humanities

English

Course Number	Course Name	Cr.
ENG211	Literature I	3
ENG212	Literature II	3
ENG216	Introduction to Literature	3
ENG216H	Introduction to Literature	3
ENG323	Renaissance Drama	3
ENG324	Medieval Literature	3
ENG325	Renaissance Poetry	3
ENG326	Restoration and Neoclassical Literature	3
ENG328	Early Novel	3
ENG336	Romantic and Victorian Poetry	3
ENG339	19th-Century British Novel	3
ENG342	Modernism and Beyond	3
ENG342H	Modernism and Beyond	3
ENG345	The 20th-Century British Novel	3
ENG346	Contemporary Culture	3
ENG346H	Contemporary Culture	3
ENG348	Postcolonial Anglophone Literatures	3
ENG351	Early American Literature	3
ENG352	20th-Century American Novel	3
ENG354	Theories of Literature and Culture	3
ENG372	Comparative and World Literatures	3
ENG372H	Comparative and World Literatures	3
ENG479	Topics in Literature and Culture	3

Fine Arts

Course Number	Course Name	Cr.
ARC371/DES371	History of Architecture I	3
ARC375/ DES375/ IAA375	Introduction to Islamic Art (650-1650)	3
ARC376/ DES376/ IAA376	Introduction to Islamic Architecture (650-1650)	3
ART331	History of Art I	3
ART332	History of Art II	3
ART335	Islamic Art of the Middle East	3
ART431	Modern Art	3
IAA375H	Introduction to Islamic Art (650-1650)	3

Communication Arts

Course Number	Course Name	Cr.
JSC312	Media and Society	3
TVF221	Art of Film	3

Arabic Language and Literature

Course Number	Course Name	Cr.
ARA303	Arabic Grammar and Syntax	3
ARA310	Classical Arabic Rhetoric & Literary Criticism	3
ARA313	Creative Writing	3
ARA320	Pre-Islamic and Umayyad Poetry	3
ARA323	Abbasid Poetry	3
ARA323H	Abbasid Poetry	3
ARA324	Andalusian Literature	3
ARA325	Classical Prose	3
ARA330	Lebanese Literary Heritage	3
ARA341	Modern Arabic Novel and Short Story	3
ARA342	Arabic Drama	3
ARA343	Modern Arabic Poetry	3
ARA344	Trends in Modern Literature	3
ARA344H	Trend in Modern Literature	3

Music Appreciation

Course Number	Course Name	Cr.
PFA211	Survey of Western Music	3
PFA212	Survey of Middle Eastern Music	3

Philosophy

Course Number	Course Name	Cr.
PHL301	Ethics	3
PHL302	Theory of Knowledge	3
PHL303	Metaphysics	3
PHL304	19th Century Philosophy (effective spring 2018)	3
PHL306	Phenomenology (effective spring 2018)	3
PHL311	Philosophy of Religion	3
PHL311H	Philosophy of Religion	3
PHL322	Philosophy in Literature & Film (effective spring 2018)	3
PHL324	Philosophy of Science	3

Religion

Course Number	Course Name	Cr.
REL312	Interpretation of Religious Literature	3
REL411	Myth and Ritual	3
REL412	History of Religious Thought in the Middle East	3
REL413	Representatives of Christian Thought in the Modern Period	3
REL414	Representatives of Islamic Thought in the Modern Period	3

Theater

Course Number	Course Name	Cr.
PFA242	Art of Theater	3
PFA249	Theater in Lebanon and the Arab World	3
PFA252	Lebanese Musical Theater	3

Cultural Studies

Course Number	Course Name	Cr.
CST201	Cultural Studies I	3
CST202	Cultural Studies II	3
CST203	Cultural Studies III	3

History

Course Number	Course Name	Cr.
HST221	The Ancient World, Greece and Rome	3
HST231	History of Lebanon, from the Imarah to the 1975-1990 War	3
HST240	History of the Arab Peoples	3
HST242	Europe and the Middle East	3
HST242H	Europe and the Middle East	3
HST302	Medieval Europe	3
HST303	Early Modern Europe	3
HST303H	Early Modern Europe	3

Natural Sciences and Mathematics

Natural Sciences

Course Number	Course Name	Cr.
AST200	Introduction to Astronomy	3
BIO201	General Biology I	3
BIO202	General Biology II	3
CHM201	Chemical Principles	3
CHM202	Analytical Chemistry	3
ENV200	Introduction to Environmental Science	3
NUT201	Fundamentals of Human Nutrition	3
NUT201H	Fundamentals of Human Nutrition	3

Computer Science

Course Number	Course Name	Cr.
CSC241	Introduction to Computing	3

Social Sciences

Course Number	Course Name	Cr.
ECO201	Microeconomics	3
ECO202	Macroeconomics	3
PJE201	Cross-cultural Communication and Conflict	3
PJE201H	Cross-cultural Communication and Conflict	3
POL201	Introduction to Political Science	3
POL231	Introduction to Human Rights	3
POL231H	Introduction to Human Rights	3
PSY201	Introduction to Psychology	3
PSY202	Child Psychology	3
PSY335	Organizational Psychology	3
SOC201	Introduction to Sociology	3
SOC215	Introduction to Gender Studies	3
SOC321	Sociology of the Arab World	3
SWO311	Social Problems	3
WOS311	Issues and Debates in Feminist Theory	3
WOS313	Women in the Arab World: Sociological Perspectives	3
WOS412	Representations of Women in the Arts and the Media	3