General Education Requirements Checklist for Food Science Majors

For Students Admitted as Freshman* to UMass Fall 2010 or later

Department-required or suggested courses meeting University GenEd Graduation Requirements are in BOLD

WRITING: 2 COURSES

• College Writing (CW, 0-3 credits); Completion of either EnglWrit 112 (CW) or a satisfactory score on the Writing placement test, combined SAT I Critical Reading and Writing Tests, or Advanced Placement Exam (Language and Composition, only)
• Junior Year Writing FD SCI 391C

BASIC MATH AND ANALYTICAL REASONING: 2 COURSES

Required by the University. Students must complete either one R1 level course or get a 20 or greater on the Basic Mathematics Skills Exemption Test during summer orientation.

•  Basic Mathematics (R1) MATH 104
• Analytical Reasoning (R2) MATH 127, RES EC 212 OR STATS 240

BIOLOGICAL AND PHYSICAL WORLD: 2 COURSES

• Biological Science (BS) BIO 110
• Physical Science (PS) CHEM 111, CHEM 112, PHYSICS 131, PHYSICS 132

SOCIAL WORLD: 4 COURSES.

These requirements can be combined with the Social and Diversity Requirements.

• Literature (AL) or Arts (AT)
• Historical Studies (HS)
• Social and Behavioral Sciences (SB) 
• Additional Social World (AL, ST, or SB) or Interdisciplinary (I, SI) RES EC 102 (SB, SUGGESTED)

Two courses within the SOCIAL WORLD are needed to fulfill the SOCIAL AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY requirement.

• United States Diversity (DU)
• Global Diversity (DG) RES EC 107 (SBDG, SUGGESTED)

INTEGRATED EXPERIENCE (IE)

• FD SCI 561 and FD SCI 563

*Students Transferring to UMass must take two additional GenEd courses (BS, PS, AL, AT, HS, SB, or I). Most often, these additional requirements can be fulfilled by the large number of Physical Science courses required by the major.

Updated April 2024