Harvey Mudd College Minors

Minors

A minor is available only to students electing an off-campus major (OCM) in lieu of a regular Harvey Mudd major. The minors described below are available only to Harvey Mudd students electing an off-campus major in lieu of a regular Harvey Mudd major. They are not open to participation from students at the other Claremont Colleges.

Aerospace Studies/AFROTC (AS)

The following courses courses are offered on the Harvey Mudd College campus by instructors from the Air Force ROTC under an agreement with the University of Southern California. A total of six credit credits from Aerospace Studies 400-401 can be used toward the credit hour requirements for Harvey Mudd graduation, but the credits received by those credits are not computed as part of the Harvey Mudd grade point average. All courses are recorded with a letter grade, except Leadership Laboratory courses which are on a pass/fail basis. See the Air Force ROTC site for more information on the program and available scholarships or contact the Detachment 060 Unit Admissions Officer at 213.740.2670.

• AS100 HM – The Air Force Today 
• AS101 HM – The Air Force Today 
• AS200 HM – USAF Air and Space Power 
• AS201 HM – USAF Air and Space Power 
• AS300 HM – Air Force Leadership and Management 
• AS301 HM – Air Force Leadership and Management 
• AS400 HM – National Security Forces in Contemporary American Society 
• AS401 HM – National Security Forces in Contemporary American Society 

While no credit is given, students in Air Force ROTC must also pass the following courses:

• AS110 HM – Leadership Laboratory I 
• AS111 HM – Leadership Laboratory I 
• AS210 HM – Leadership Laboratory II 
• AS211 HM – Leadership Laboratory II 
• AS310 HM – Leadership Laboratory III 
• AS311 HM – Leadership Laboratory III 
• AS410 HM – Leadership Laboratory IV 
• AS411 HM – Leadership Laboratory IV 

Graduate Courses for Undergraduates

Most graduate courses are open to qualified undergraduates with the permission of the instructor. The following course is open to all undergraduates at The Claremont Colleges:

• EDUC170G CG – Introduction to Public School Teaching 

Students interested in pre-college teaching should contact the Teacher Education Program at CGU to arrange for courses that will meet the requirements for a teaching credential in California.

Emphasis in Environmental Analysis

Environmental analysis (EA) fits exceptionally well within the Harvey Mudd College mission to train students who combine technical rigor and engagement with pressing social issues. The Emphasis in Environmental Analysis provides a curricular program to help students move through their environmental studies in a coherent and cumulative fashion.

The Emphasis in Environmental Analysis is not a major or a minor. Rather, it is a coordinated program of study that allows students majoring in the sciences, engineering, and mathematics the opportunity to address environmental issues from a range of perspectives so that they may better understand the impact of their work.

Emphasis Structure: An Emphasis in Environmental Analysis consists of six courses beyond the Core with significant environmental analysis content taken on- or off-campus, including at least three courses in recognized humanities, social sciences, and the arts disciplines and two courses in science, engineering, and mathematics. At least three of the courses must be at the upper-division level. Upon approval by the Harvey Mudd Center for Environmental Studies, one summer research, yearlong research, or yearlong Clinic experience with a substantial environmental analysis component may be counted towards the six-course total.

Requirement: Students must declare their intention to pursue an Emphasis in Environmental Analysis in or before their fifth semester.

Certificate: Students who successfully meet the requirements for the Emphasis in Environmental Analysis will receive a certificate from the Harvey Mudd College Center for Environmental Studies.

Global Clinic

The Harvey Mudd Clinic is an internationally recognized program initiated at Harvey Mudd in 1963. It brings student teams together with industry, government, and nonprofit organizations to solve real-world industry problems in an academic setting. Built upon this foundation, the Global Clinic Program supports long-term sponsored engineering and science projects in which teams of Harvey Mudd students collaborate with teams of students from partnering schools all over the world. Students work on international team projects with members from different countries, cultures, and institutional backgrounds, with different disciplinary interests and languages, but with a common unifying purpose and overarching project goals. Global Clinic students make a series of presentations and written progress reports during the year, honing their technical writing and public speaking skills. Further details can be found online at www.hmc.edu/global-clinic.

• GLBL183 HM – Global Clinic  
• GLBL184 HM – Global Clinic  

Harvey Mudd Curriculum

The Core Curriculum at Harvey Mudd College seeks to nurture students’ intellectual curiosity and joy of learning, provide them with foundational knowledge and skills needed for further study in STEM disciplines, and begin a critical engagement with the humanities, social sciences, and the arts. In keeping with HMC’s liberal-arts approach to STEM education, the Core engages students in thinking critically about consequential problems and complex issues, making connections across disciplinary boundaries, communicating and collaborating effectively, and understanding how their personal and professional actions impact the world around them.

The Core includes:

• One course each in computer science and engineering
• One course in biology and a laboratory
• Two semesters of mathematics
• Two and a half semesters of physics and an associated laboratory
• One and a half semesters of chemistry and an associated laboratory
• A half-semester of college writing
• A course in critical inquiry offered by the Department of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts

The Core is demanding, but Harvey Mudd fosters collaboration, not competition—students work in teams and learn together. The hands-on, project-based courses in the Core foster a love for collaboration, communication skills and leadership ability.

Harvey Mudd’s curriculum—the Common Core, requirements in the humanities, social sciences, and the arts, and the major—gives students a solid grounding in the sciences, expertise in a chosen field and an understanding of the relationship between technology and the people it serves.

HMC Common Core
The Common Core presents a coordinated, common foundation essential to the education of all students. It includes three semesters of mathematics, two and one-half semesters of physics and an associated laboratory, one and one-half semesters of chemistry and an associated laboratory, a half-semester of college writing, a course in critical inquiry offered by the Department of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts, one semester of biology and an associated lab, one course in computer science, and one course in engineering.

The Core Curriculum at Harvey Mudd College seeks to nurture students’ intellectual curiosity and joy of learning, provide them with foundational knowledge and skills needed for further study in STEM disciplines, and begin a critical engagement with the humanities, social sciences, and the arts. In keeping with HMC’s liberal-arts approach to STEM education, the Core engages students in thinking critically about consequential problems and complex issues, making connections across disciplinary boundaries, communicating and collaborating effectively, and understanding how their personal and professional actions impact the world around them.

All Core courses must be attempted by the end of the fifth semester.

Students have the option of graduating under the curriculum spelled out in any catalog (that is, fulfilling the set of Core, major, HSA, and overall credit requirements represented by any catalog) that is in effect during their continuous enrollment at the College. Students who entered the College in the Fall of 2017, for example, would be able to graduate under the 2018–2019 catalog, if they formally notify the registrar of their wish to do so. However, the student selecting a later catalog is bound by that catalog’s entire curriculum and may not cherry-pick components of the curriculum.

Core courses are listed below. Course descriptions are also given in the course listings for the departments.

Biology (BIOL)
BIOL023 HM – Biology Laboratory (1 credits)

BIOL052 HM – Introduction to Biology (3 credits)

Chemistry (CHEM)
CHEM023A HM – Chemistry in the Modern World I (3 credits)

CHEM023B HM – Chemistry in the Modern World II (1.5 credits)

CHEM024 HM – Chemistry Laboratory (1 credits)

Computer Science (CSCI)
CSCI005 HM – Introduction to Computer Science (3 credits)

Engineering (ENGR)
ENGR079 HM – Introduction to Engineering Systems (3 credits)

Humanities, Social Sciences, And The Arts (HSA)
HSA010 HM – Critical Inquiry (3 credits)

Mathematics (MATH)
MATH030B HM – Calculus (1.5 credits) / MATH030G HM – Calculus (1.5 credits)

MATH035 HM – Probability and Statistics (1.5 credits)

MATH040 HM – Introduction to Linear Algebra (1.5 credits)

MATH045 HM – Introduction to Differential Equations (1.5 credits)

MATH060 HM – Multivariable Calculus (1.5 credits)

MATH065 HM – Differential Equations and Linear Algebra II (1.5 credits)