Liberal Education Course List

The information below is for current students enrolled in Academic Catalog years prior to 2022-2023. Students enrolled in Academic Catalog years 2022-2023 and beyond do not need to complete Liberal Education courses as part of their degree requirements.

The following courses can be used to satisfy The Grainger College of Engineering General Education requirement. Students who complete their campus General Education requirements for Humanities & the Arts, and Social & Behavioral Sciences with fewer than eighteen hours of course work may select the balance of their eighteen hours from this list.  Courses taken from this list that fulfill no other degree requirements may be taken on a Credit/No-Credit basis. Please note that there are courses on the list (especially if included within the phrase "All Courses") that are approved for campus General Education requirements for Humanities & the Arts or Social & Behavioral Sciences.  Actually, all courses with such approval can be used to fulfill the College of Engineering Liberal Education requirement in addition to those in the list.

"All courses" means all courses numbered 100 through 489, excluding any courses with numbers ending in 90-99. Courses that have the words "Special Topics," "Individual Study," "Independent Study," "Internship," "Thesis," or "Seminar" in their title are also excluded from the "all courses" designation.  Students may petition for these courses to be allowed, on a case-by-case basis.  Students may also; petition to count courses numbered 500 and greater.  Foreign language courses in non-language rubrics (e.g., AFST 231) require special approval.

Please note that some of the courses in this list may be closed for registration to The Grainger College of Engineering students, or have limited openings for engineering students. This is especially true within "all courses" designations. Students who take these courses, for instance while registered in another college, may count the courses toward their engineering degrees. Check the course listings in the current Class Schedule for registration restrictions.

Students may also petition to use courses that are not on this list.

For more information about the courses listed below, refer to the University of Illinois Course Catalog.