University Graduation Requirements for Applied Math Majors

Credit Requirements

1. Total Credits:
An Applied Math major must earn a total of 120 credits, including academic credits earned at other institutions and entered on the student’s Stony Brook transcript>

2. Upper Division Credits:
All B.S. students must earn at least 39 credits in courses numbered 300 and above (this includes graduate courses).

3. Residence Requirement
After the 57th credit is earned, at least 36 credits must be earned at Stony Brook (as opposed to transferred from other institutions.) Note: Credits earned in year-abroad programs sponsored by Stony Brook count as credits towards Stony Brook residence.


D.E.C. Requirements

Students are encouraged to visit the College of Engineering and Applied Science Undergraduate Student Office for a formal review of their D.E.C. requirements at least two semesters prior to their expected date of graduation. Students can use these pages to record courses used toward these requirements.

University Skills: Tier I
This tier consists of D.E.C. categories A through D and should typically be completed in the first year of study. This group of requirements focuses on ways of learning essential to the entire academic experience and subject matter intrinsic to liberal learning.

Category A English Composition: 2 courses
The ability to communicate effectively in written English is essential to success both in the University and in society. Students satisfy this requirement by passing WRT 101—Introductory Writing Workshop and WRT 102— Intermediate Writing Workshop A or WRT 103—Intermediate Writing Workshop B.
Notes:
1. A score of 4 or 5 on the University’s writing placement examination or a score of 3, 4, or 5 on the AP English/Comp or English/Lit examination satisfies the first course of the two-course requirement.
2. Students must begin completion of category A during their first year at Stony Brook and must take writing courses in sequence until the requirement is satisfied.
3. All transfer and rematriculated students who have passed, with a grade of C or higher, a composition course judged equivalent to WRT 102 or WRT 103 will have satisfied this requirement.
4. Once matriculated, the student must complete Category A at Stony Brook.

Category B Interpreting Texts in the Humanities 1 course
Category B courses help students develop skills of interpretation and analysis that will enable them to examine subject matter critically, not only in the humanities, but in all other college courses.

Category C Mathematical and Statistical Reasoning 1 course
Category C courses help students understand and use quantitative skills and ideas critical to higher education.

Category D Understanding the Fine And Performing Arts 1 course
NOTE: Required only for Computer Science students who matriculate Spring 2006 or later, and Information Systems students who matriculate Fall 2006 or later. Category D courses acquaint students with the works of creative artists and performers and their artistic medium, such as art, music, or theatre. The basic terminology, analytical tools used to interpret one of the arts, and representative works in a particular field are examined. Such exposure is essential to intellectual growth and the development of a humanist foundation from which to approach other disciplines.

Disciplinary Diversity: TIER II
This tier consists of D.E.C. categories E through F and should typically be completed before the 57th credit or by the end of sophomore year. This group of requirements exposes students to the modes of thinking, methods of study, and subject matter of major branches of knowledge— natural and physical sciences, social and behavioral sciences, and arts and humanities.

Category E Natural Sciences 2 courses
Category E courses expand students’ knowledge about objects and processes observable in nature, whether animate as in the biological sciences, or inanimate as in the physical sciences of chemistry or physics.

Category F Social and Behavioral Sciences 1 course
Category F courses focus on individual and group behavior within society. These disciplines use methods such as historical analysis of documents, or survey and interview data, to observe and analyze human activity and society.

Category G Humanities 1 course
Category G courses examine disciplines and methods that express the way people view the human condition.

Expanding Perspectives And Cultural Awareness: Tier III
This tier consists of D.E.C. H through K. Since courses in these categories are built on study from Tier I and II, these courses should typically be completed after the 57th credit or after sophomore year, but can be completed at anytime during the undergraduate career, where prerequisites are met. This group of requirements challenges students to confront their own perceptions of the world and the people in it. Courses in these categories build on study in the earlier categories.

Category H Implications of Science and Technology 1 course
Category H courses are designed to help students understand the social and global implications of science and technology and to examine examples of the impact of science, culture, and society on one another.

Category I European Traditions 1 course
Category I courses consider the Western cultural tradition through specialized study of a European nation or area from one or more viewpoints (e.g., historical, artistic, social, political).

Category J The World Beyond European Traditions 1 course
Category J courses increase students’ understanding of a nation, region, or culture that is significantly different from the United States and Europe in at least one respect.
Notes:
1. In choosing courses to satisfy D.E.C. I and J, students must choose one with a humanities designator and one with a humanities designator and one with a social and behavioral sciences designator.

Category K American Pluralism 1 course
Not required for students seeking the Bachelor of Engineering degree, but is required for students seeking a Bachelor of Science or a second Baccalaureate degree in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Category K courses enable students to build upon their knowledge of diverse traditions in order to examine in detail the role of these traditions in forming American society. Some D.E.C. K courses explore our nation’s diversity of ethnic, religious, gender, and intellectual traditions through a multicultural perspective. Others explore the relationship of a specific ethnic, religious, or gender group to American society as a whole.

Important Notes:
1, All courses offered to satisfy D.E.C. requirements must be taken for a letter grade. Courses taken under the Pass/No Credit option will not satisfy D.E.C. requirements. Categories A and C must be passed with a grade of C or higher.
2. A course is assigned to one D.E.C. category only and will satisfy only that category.
3. If no letter tag appears after a course number, that course may not be used to satisfy any D.E.C. requirement.
3. Coursework completed while registered for independent study courses (including directed readings and research courses) may not be used to satisfy any D.E.C. requirements.
4. College courses taken while the student was in high school will be evaluated for applicability to D.E.C. categories. College writing courses completed at the high school will satisfy Skill 2 and D.E.C. A part 1 if the student receives a grade of C or higher. Students must take D.E.C. A, part 2 at Stony Brook.
5. AP, CLEP subject examinations, RCE, or Challenge credit, or other approved credit by examinations with appropriate scores, may be used to satisfy one course in each of the categories E, F, and G. Course credit by examination may not be used in any other category except students may use AP credit for the first course of category A and for category C.
6.Transferred courses must carry at least three semester hours of credit to be applicable to any category.
7. Courses transferred from SUNY institutions meeting SUNY general education requirements do not necessarily satisfy D.E.C. categories. See the section “Application of Transfer Credits to General Education Requirements” in the Academic Policies and Regulations chapter for details.