The freshman curriculum is common to all programs except computer engineering and computer science. Credit by examination in mathematics and English offered on campus during Orientation Week. Submission of transcripts from other universities for equivalent courses taken prior to entering Tulane. ROTC courses, if elected, are taken in addition to the listed freshman courses. Each freshman is assigned a faculty adviser prior to their first semester and each is expected to consult with him or her regularly.
Faculty members keep posted office hours for that purpose and are readily available for conferences.
In order to truly complete an undergraduate experience in engineering, students must be able to place their technical education in the context of societal and cultural needs. Accordingly, course work in the humanities and social sciences is considered integral to all engineering curricula. Each curriculum requires a minimum of six courses of acceptable humanities and social science electives in addition to English 101 or one of the 119 writing seminars. The humanities and social science electives are to be chosen to provide both a broad and in depth exposure to societal and cultural issues. They are not meant to be a collection of introductory courses, nor are they intended to focus on the development of technical skills.