General Education Selectives are non-technical courses that provide a broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental and societal context.

General Education Selective Policy

A total of 18 credit hours must be completed with the following requirements/restrictions:

  • These 18 credits are in addition to the 6-7 credits taken during First Year Engineering (FYE) to fulfill the UCC-Written Communication and UCC-Oral Communication requirements.
    • If a student used credits for ENGL 1UXWC, ENGL 11000, and/or ENGL 11100 to fulfill FYE requirements, they will need to add those credits to the 18 credits needed for BME. Those three courses cannot be used towards BME degree requirements.
  • Students must complete 12 credits from College of Liberal Arts, the Krannert School of Management, and/or the Honors College.
  • At least 6 credits of General Education selectives must be at the non-introductory level. This means that they are either 300-level or higher or have a required pre-requisite in the same department.
  • Students must complete 3 credits from the Ethics and Policy Healthcare (EPH) selective list.
    • BME 56400 can be used towards the EPH requirement but does not count towards General Education Selectives.

Please select each drop-down below to view each Selective's details.

General Education Selectives and University Core Curriculum (UCC)
Foundational Learning Outcomes (FLO)

The University Core Curriculum (UCC) Foundational Learning Outcomes (FLO) are courses that provide key skills in eight (8) different areas:

  • Written Communication (UCC-WC)
  • Information Literacy (UCC-IL)
  • Oral Communication (UCC-OC)
  • Science (UCC-SCI)
  • Science, Technology, and Society (UCC-STS)
  • Mathematics/Quantitative Reasoning (UCC-QR)
  • Human Cultures: Humanities (UCC-HUM)
  • Human Cultures: Behavioral & Social Sciences (UCC-BSS)

Every student, regardless of discipline or major, are expected to take a course to fulfill each of these areas. Most students when entering BME will need to fulfill three of those areas: UCC-STS, UCC-HUM, and UCC-BSS.

It is possible to fulfill both UCC requirements and General Education Selectives by being strategic in choosing coursework. Students can view which courses fulfill UCC requirements by looking at the Course Listing on the Purdue Provost website (hyperlink to Provost website).

BME students must complete at least 3 credits (earning a grade of C- or better) addressing ethical and policy issues in healthcare and medicine. It is important that our students have an awareness of societal, regulatory, policy, and ethical considerations that influence healthcare and medicine. Thus, we require our students to take at least one course that advances their knowledge in this area.

Courses:

  • ANTH 34000: Global Health
  • BME 56400: Ethical Engineering of Medical Technologies (cannot be used towards General Education Selectives)
  • PHIL 20700: Ethics for Technology, Engineering, and Design
  • PHIL 27000: Biomedical Ethics
  • PHIL 28000: Ethics and Animals
  • PSY 58100: Neuroethics
  • PUBH 60600: Design and Analysis of Public Health Interventions
  • SOC 57200: Comparative Healthcare Systems
  • SOC 57300: The Human Side of Medicine
  • SOC 57400: The Social Organization of Healthcare

Courses to fulfill this sub-requirement can be taken in any of the following departments:

AAS, AD, AMST, ANTH, ARAB, ASAM, ASL, CHNS, CLCS, CMPL, COM, DANC, ECON, ENGL, FR, GER, GREK, GSLA, HEBR, HIST, HONR, ITAL, JPNS, JWST, KOR, LALS, LATN, LC, LING, MARS, MGMT, MUS, OBHR, PHIL, POL, PTGS, REL, RUSS, SCLA, SOC, SPAN, THTR, WGSS

Please check the General Education No Count List (see below) for exceptions.

Students may also take courses in the following departments:

AGEC, CSR, EDCI, EDPS, EDST, ENTR, HDFS, PSY, SLHS

Please check the General Education No Count List (see below) for exceptions.

The following courses may not be used to satisfy any General Education Selectives:

  • AGEC 29800 - Sophomore Seminar
  • AGEC 35200 - Quantitative Techniques For Firm Decision Making
  • AGEC 45100 - Applied Econometrics
  • ANTH 30600 - Quantitative Methods For Anthropological Research
  • ANTH 42800 - Field Methods In Archaeology
  • ANTH 43800 - Field Methods In Biological Anthropology
  • ANTH 49700 - Senior Honors Seminar
  • ECON 37300 - Computational Economics
  • ECON 46300 - Advanced Data Analysis And Machine Learning
  • EDCI 22200 - Knowing The World Through Mathematics
  • EDCI 22550 - Mathematics Education Seminar
  • EDCI 36400 - Mathematics In The Elementary School
  • EDCI 36401 - Teaching Mathematics In K-2
  • EDCI 36402 - Teaching Mathematics In Grades 3-6
  • EDCI 36500 - Science In The Elementary School
  • EDCI 36501 - Teaching Science Through Design In Grades K-2
  • EDCI 36502 - Teaching Science Through Design In Grades 3-6
  • EDCI 42100 - The Teaching Of Biology In Secondary Schools
  • EDCI 42400 - The Teaching Of Earth And Physical Science In The Secondary Schools
  • EDCI 42500 - Teaching Of Secondary Mathematics - Methods I
  • EDCI 42600 - Teaching Of Secondary Mathematics - Methods II
  • EDCI 42800 - Teaching Science In The Middle And Junior High School
  • HDFS 40600 - Mathematics In Preschool And Primary Grades
  • HDFS 40900 - Science In Preschool And Primary Grades
  • MGMT 38800 - Python For Business
  • MGMT 47400 - Predictive Analytics
  • MGMT 47500 - Machine Learning For Business
  • PSY 20100 - Introduction To Statistics In Psychology
  • PSY 20200 - Introduction To Quantitative Topics In Psychology
  • PSY 20300 - Introduction To Research Methods In Psychology
  • PSY 30500 - Understanding And Analyzing Psychological Data
  • PSY 30600 - Understanding And Analyzing Experiments
  • PSY 39000 - Research Experience In Psychology
  • SLHS 30100 - Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience
  • SLHS 30200 - Acoustic Basis of Speech and Hearing
  • SLHS 30300 - Anatomy and Physiology of the Speech Mechanism
  • SLHS 41900 - (all titles)
  • SLHS 50100 - Neural Bases of Speech and Hearing
  • SLHS 56100 - Medical Audiology
  • SOC 38200 - Introduction To Statistics In Sociology
  • SOC 38300 - Introduction To Research Methods In Sociology