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Humanities, Social Sciences and Arts
Common Core
Majors
⭐ Humanities, Social Sciences and Arts
A distinctive feature of the Harvey Mudd College experience is the opportunity for students to major in STEM fields while pursuing wide-ranging interests in the humanities, social sciences, and the arts (HSA), both on campus and throughout the Claremont Colleges.
⭐ Common Core
The Core Curriculum at Harvey Mudd College seeks to nurture students’ intellectual curiosity and joy of learning, provide them with foundational knowledge and skills needed for further study in STEM disciplines, and begin a critical engagement with the humanities, social sciences, and the arts. In keeping with HMC’s liberal-arts approach to STEM education, the Core engages students in thinking critically about consequential problems and complex issues, making connections across disciplinary boundaries, communicating and collaborating effectively, and understanding how their personal and professional actions impact the world around them.
The Core includes:
- One course each in computer science and engineering
- One course in biology and a laboratory
- Three semesters of mathematics
- Two and a half semesters of physics and an associated laboratory
- One and a half semesters of chemistry and an associated laboratory
- A half-semester of college writing
- A course in critical inquiry offered by the Department of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts
The Core is demanding, but Harvey Mudd fosters collaboration, not competition—students work in teams and learn together. The hands-on, project-based courses in the Core foster a love for collaboration, communication skills and leadership ability.
Harvey Mudd’s curriculum—the Common Core, requirements in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts, and the major—gives students a solid grounding in the sciences, expertise in a chosen field and an understanding of the relationship between technology and the people it serves.
The Core includes:
- One course each in computer science and engineering
- One course in biology and a laboratory
- Three semesters of mathematics
- Two and a half semesters of physics and an associated laboratory
- One and a half semesters of chemistry and an associated laboratory
- A half-semester of college writing
- A course in critical inquiry offered by the Department of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts
The Core is demanding, but Harvey Mudd fosters collaboration, not competition—students work in teams and learn together. The hands-on, project-based courses in the Core foster a love for collaboration, communication skills and leadership ability.
Harvey Mudd’s curriculum—the Common Core, requirements in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts, and the major—gives students a solid grounding in the sciences, expertise in a chosen field and an understanding of the relationship between technology and the people it serves.
⭐ Majors
Harvey Mudd college offers the following ten majors : Biology, Chemistry, Biology and Chemistry, Computer Science and Mathematics, Mathematics and Physics, Mathematics and Computational Biology, Engineering, Mathematics and Physics.
