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General Education Requirements: Common Core Courses

Fulfill ALL of the following requirements:
Earn at least 6 credits from the following:

  • Required Core English Composition 1

  • ENGL 12000 Expository Writing

  • Required Core English Composition 2


    AFPRL 23800

    Intro Lit African Diaspora

    ASIAN 22100

    Intro: Writ About Asian Am Lit

    ENGL 12000

    Expository Writing

    ENGL 22000

    Intro:Writing about Literature

    ENGL 220HS

    Intro to Literature

    MEDIA 21100

    News Literacy in a Digital Age


  • Students who receive an “exemption” for ENGL 12000 or for a course in English Comp 2 are deemed to have fulfilled English Composition 1 or 2, respectively.

Earn at least 3 credits from the following:

Some courses in this categories carry more than 3 credits (the “STEM variant” courses). Students who elect to take these courses may apply only three credits towards fulfilling the Common Core.

Earn at least 3 credits from the following:

Earn at least 3 credits from the following:

Note: Several courses within this major may fulfill parts of the Hunter Core Requirement (CUNY Common Core Requirement [CCCR], Concurrent Requirements). When selecting courses, it may be to a student’s advantage to choose courses that count toward the Hunter Core Requirement and also advance the student on the path to the major.

Earn at least 3 credits from the following:

Earn at least 3 credits from the following:

Earn at least 3 credits from the following:

Earn at least 3 credits from the following:

  • Flexible Core Individual and Society Social Science

    AFPRL 10000

    Introduction to Black Politics

    AFPRL 10300

    Conquest & Resistance: PR Exp

    AFPRL 10400

    Intro to PR & Latino Studies

    AFPRL 18100

    Language and Ethnic Identity

    AFPRL 20500

    African-Amer Pol Soc Change

    AFPRL 26000

    Latinos and Citizenship

    ANTHC 10100

    Intro to Cultural Anthropology

    ASIAN 23002

    Asian Amer Comm & Mntl Hlth

    ECO 10000

    Introduction to Economics

    GEOG 10100

    People and their Environment

    MHC 15000

    Peopling: NY

    PHILO 10600

    Philosophy, Politics & Society

    PHILO 25500

    Environmental Philosophy

    POLSC 20000

    Introduction to Political Idea

    SOC 10100

    Introduction to Sociology

    URBS 10100

    Urban Life

    URBS 10200

    Structure of Urban Region

    WGS 10000

    Intro Gender/Sex Studies

    WGS 12100

    Public Spkng in Gender Studies

    WGSS 29300

    Bathroom Politics


  • Note: Several courses within this major may fulfill parts of the Hunter Core Requirement (CUNY Common Core Requirement [CCCR], Concurrent Requirements). When selecting courses, it may be to a student’s advantage to choose courses that count toward the Hunter Core Requirement and also advance the student on the path to the major.

Earn at least 3 credits from the following:

  • Flexible Core Individual and Society Humanities


    ARTH 11100

    Introduction to History of Art

    ASIAN 21000

    Asians in the United States

    CHIN 25100

    Modern Chinese Fiction in Tran

    CLA 25000

    Greek and Roman Tragedy

    CLA 25100

    Ancient Comedy Translation

    CLA 25300

    Homer and Virgil

    HEBR 21100

    Mstpc Medv Hbr Lit

    HEBR 29200

    The Hebrew Prophets

    ITAL 28000

    Italian Renaiss

    JPN 25100

    Japanese Culture Before 1600

    MEDIA 18000

    Introduction to Media Studies

    PHILO 10100

    Introduction to Philosophy

    PHILO 10400

    Intro to Ethics & Moral Judgmt

    REL 11000

    Nature of Religion

    REL 11100

    Approaches to Religion

    REL 20400

    Religious Experience

    REL 20500

    Faith and Disbelief

    REL 20600

    Ideas of God

    REL 20700

    Religious Sources for Morality

    REL 20800

    Religion and Social Justice

    REL 20900

    Religion and Human Rights

    REL 25500

    Religions of Two Gods

    REL 27000

    Religion and Psychology

    RUSS 15600

    Culture of Imperial Russia

    RUSS 15800

    Contemporary Russian Culture

    RUSS 25000

    19C Russ Lit:Trans

    RUSS 25100

    Tolstoy & Dostoevsky

    RUSS 25200

    Mod Russ Lit:Trans

    RUSS 25400

    Russ Lit:1880-1920

    RUSS 26000

    Russ Wmn Wtrs in Eng Translat

    RUSS 27000

    Russian Cinema and Society

    RUSS 29700

    Russ Urban Novel


  • Additional Comments:

Students may take no more than two courses from one department or program to fulfill categories Common Core.

Transfer Students

  • Transfer students who have earned an AA/AS degree from an accredited institution, including CUNY, and who matriculated in fall 2013 and after will have fulfilled the Common Core.

  • For all other CUNY transfer students, any unmet Common Core requirements must be completed while matriculated at Hunter.

  • Non-CUNY transfer students without an AA/AS degree should confer with their adviser to determine whether they have met CCC requirements.

2nd Degree Students

  • Students who have earned a baccalaureate degree from an accredited institution are exempt from the General Education requirements