PrincetonUniversityNew General Education Requirements
for the Class of 2000 and Beyond
A Few Simple Rules1. You cannot use advanced placement credit to fulfill a general education requirement, except under the following circumstances:
a) Generally, if you have earned an AP score of 4 or better or an SAT II Achievement score of 740 or better, you will have fulfilled the foreign language requirement at entrance.
b) If you have two terms of advanced placement credit in the natural sciences, you may elect to fulfill the two-term laboratory science requirement by taking one course with a laboratory, and a second science and technology course without a laboratory. A list of nonlaboratory science and technology courses that may be used for this purpose is printed in each semester's Course Offerings.
c) For more detailed information about advanced placement and advanced standing, consult your AP brochure.
2. A course satisfies only the designated distribution requirement. A course without a two-letter designation does not satisfy any distribution requirement. Courses that have a "w" after their number, as well as a two-letter abbreviation, satisfy both the writing requirement and a distribution requirement (for example, PHI 203w (EC) satisfies both the writing and the epistemology and cognition requirements).
3. You are expected to fulfill all distribution requirements at Princeton. You may, for sound educational reasons, and with the prior approval of your director of studies, complete one course in two of the following distribution areas at another college or university: literature and the arts, social analysis, or science and technology. Students participating in the Study Abroad Program may fulfill, with prior approval, two distribution requirements from any two distribution areas on the basis of courses taken abroad.