Students must fulfill disciplinary area requirements by taking no fewer than two course credits in the humanities and arts, two in the sciences, and two in the social sciences. Students must also fulfill skills requirements by taking at least two course credits in quantitative reasoning, two course credits in writing, and courses to further their language proficiency. Depending on their level of accomplishment in foreign languages at matriculation, students may fulfill this last requirement with one, two, or three courses or by certain combinations of coursework and approved study abroad. For more information about the required distributional designations see YCPS, Distributional Designations.

If you think your course might appropriately carry a distributional designation, you should request it at the time you submit the course proposal in CIM. Scroll to the Distributional Designation area of the CIM form and check the desired option. This opens the justification field, which provides you the opportunity to elaborate on and justify the request. The distributional designation request is then part of the workflow review process and will be reviewed by the Course of Study Committee (HU or SO), the Science Committee (SC), the Quantitative Reasoning Committee (QR), the Poorvu Center Writing Center (WR) or the Language Committee (L5) for approval.