At NJIT there is a series of courses that all undergraduate students must take as part of their degree requirements, regardless of major. These courses are known as the General University Requirements or GUR. Information about the GUR can be found in the University Undergraduate Catalog.  The Humanities GUR includes:

English/Cultural History (9 credits)
This can be fulfilled by completion of HUM 101 or its equivalent, HUM 102 and one of the 200-level cultural history courses described below; or by completion of HUM 101 or its equivalent and two 200-level courses in cultural history.

Cultural History
The Cultural History  courses are The Pre-Modern World (HUM 211), The Making of the Modern World (HUM 212), and The Twentieth-Century World (HIST 213). Students also may take approved introductory courses at Rutgers-Newark to fulfill the Cultural History requirement(.pdf 369KB.)

Lit/Hist/Phil/STS (3 credits)
Students must take one 300-level course from any of the following disciplines: literature; history; philosophy; or science, technology, and society (STS). Students also may satisfy this requirement by taking an approved 300-level course at Rutgers-Newark (.pdf 271KB.)

Open GUR (3 credits)
The requirement can be fulfilled by taking an upper division NJIT course in English, theater, literature, history, philosophy or STS, or an approved upper division course at Rutgers-Newark (.pdf 107KB.)

Finally, all NJIT students must take one 400-level capstone seminar offered by the Humanities or Federated History Departments. Information about the capstone courses offered at NJIT can be located on the Department of Humanities website. Students may also satisfy this requirement by taking an approved course at Rutgers-Newark (.pdf 12KB.)