Faculty and university Requirements

Double degree students do not need to fulfill Breadth requirements, since all the students take a large number of modules in two Faculties.

Two of the FoE Faculty required modules are replaced by modules from FASS. In place of EG1415 Engineering Professionalism and HR2002 Understanding Human Relations in the New Economy, students will take a Philosophy module and one of two possible Sociology modules. These are not equivalent modules. They do, however, introduce students to (i) basic principles of ethics, and (ii) basic Sociology. They also expose students to some of the methodologies and concerns of FASS. (See Table C for details.)

The FASS Faculty level requirement of 16 MC of exposure modules, with at least 4 MC from each of the Faculty's three divisions, is reduced to 4 MC for these students, in order to make the programme manageable in a reasonable time. One purpose of the exposure requirement is to help students make informed choices, something of less concern with direct-entry students, who have made their choice already. However, the requirement that students take FASS modules from the humanities and social sciences, in lieu of EG1415 and HR2002, does ensure that they have some exposure to these areas (see Table C for more details). The missing element is work in Asian Studies, and students must choose the retained 4 MC from that division of FASS.

There are no Unrestricted Elective requirements. This is a concession, which recognises the extensive work students have undertaken in a second field and which allows the programme to be completed in a reasonable time.

Students in the Double Degree programme would have been deemed to have satisfied the SARTOR accreditation requirements.