• Academic Writing (one course)
• Professional Writing (one course)
• Mathematics (one course)

• Literature (HL) (one course)
• The History or Theory of the Arts (HA) (one course)
• One other HL, HA, or Humanities (HO) course

• Physical Science(PL, PS) (at most two courses)*
• Life Sciences(LL, LS) (at most two courses)*
• Mathematics and Formal Reasoning (MS) (at most one course)

*At least two science courses are required; one must be accompanied by or include a laboratory.

• Social or Political History (SH) (one course)
• Social and Behavioral Sciences (SB) (two courses)

This is an optional category, effective beginning Fall 2005.

Students may complete CORE Requirements without an IE course.

Students make take one IE course in place of one of the following:

• The third course in the Humanities and the Arts category (one HL and one HA must be taken), OR
• The third course in the Sciences and Mathematics category (two science courses chosen from PL, PS, LL, or LS lists including at least one course from the LL or PL lists must be taken), OR
• One SB course in the Social Sciences category (one SH and one SB must be taken)

See the CORE website for details on how to use the IE option and for the list of courses (added as approved). The online Schedule of Classes for fall 2005 at http://www.testudo.umd.edu/ScheduleOfClasses.html will also include approved IE courses.

IMPORTANT NOTES ON THE IE OPTION:

• IE is an optional CORE distributive studies category; Students may fulfill CORE requirements without taking an IE course.
• All students under the CORE requirements (continuing and incoming) have this new option.
• Only one IE course may be counted toward fulfilling CORE Distributive Studies requirements.
• Whether a student takes an IE course or not, total CORE Distributive Studies course and credit requirements remain the same: at least 9 courses and 28 credits.

• One course, outside the major, at the 300-400 level
• Another course, outside the major, at the 300-400 level, or an approved CORE Capstone (CS) course, or an honors or senior thesis.

(Some additional options and restrictions apply. See the Advanced Studies section.)

• One course from the CORE Human Cultural Diversity (D) list.

(Some Diversity courses also satisfy a Distributive or Advanced Studies requirement.)