Undergraduate Student Handbook
Free Electives
Any course offered by the University to undergraduates may be taken as a free elective unless it is in the No Credit list.
SEAS undergraduates may not use courses on this list toward their degree:
- Astro 1
- CIS (CSE) 100/101
- EAS 503 (SEAS UG students may register for EAS 403 for TBS credit)
- EAS 505 (SEAS UG students may register for EAS 301 for TBS credit)
- Education (inter-session courses)
- Math 115, 170, 312 (Between Spring, 1999 and Spring, 2006)
- MCIT courses
- Military Science
- Naval Science (except 102, 201, 202, 401)
- Organizational Dynamics (DYMN) courses
- Physics below 140 except PHYS 050, 051
- Statistics (below 430 except STAT 111)
- Wharton evening courses and Wharton 4XX courses
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