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NYU Tandon Humanities/Social Science (HUSS) Electives

As part of the general education requirements for students at Tandon, you need to take 16 credits worth of HUSS electives. You can find more information on the Tandon website. Currently, one of the elective courses must be an ethics course and one course must be an advanced seminar.

HUSS Electives outside Tandon

If you are interested in taking HUSS electives outside of Tandon, you can find a list of approved HUSS electives here. If you want to request a course to be taken as a HUSS credit but is not already on that spreadsheet, you can fill out this form here. To have a course taken at another university besides NYU count towards a HUSS credit, fill out this form here. The criteria for approved HUSS classes is learning material that doesn't teach a "skill" (the main example given is no practical music or acting class). In practice, the classes approved are somewhat arbitrary.