What are distribution requirements?
Distribution requirements are courses that every Dickinson student needs to complete in order to graduate. Distribution requirements are designed to introduce students to three major disciplines of learning (arts and humanities, social sciences, and laboratory sciences) and are classified as Division I, II, and III respectively. In addition to the Division I, II, and III requirements, each student must take a First-Year Seminar, a Writing Intensive course, a Quantitative Reasoning course, a US Diversity course, and a Comparative Civilizations course. Students must also complete a second language through the intermediate level. Four half-semester blocks of physical education are also required but do not count toward the number of credits for graduation. More information on the nuances of each requirement can be found online at http://www.dickinson.edu/bulletin/requirements.html or in the red College Bulletin.
