Communication Requirement
MIT’s Communication Requirement is designed to ensure that all undergraduates learn to write and speak effectively. All undergraduates receive substantial instruction and practice in general expository writing and speaking as well as in the forms of discourse common to their professional fields.
MIT undergraduates must complete two Communication Intensive subjects in the humanities, arts and social sciences (CI-H) and two Communication Intensive subjects in their major (CI-M).
By the end of freshman year, students should have completed one CI-H subject. The second must be taken prior to graduation. A current list of available CI-H subjects can be found on the MIT Undergraduate Communication Requirement website.
The following subjects fulfill the CI-M requirement for Course 4 majors:
4. 302 is normally completed by the end of the sophomore year. 4.114 is taken in the junior year. 4.THT is taken in the senior year by all students except for those following the Architecture Design discipline stream.• 4.114, Applied Architecture Design Studio II (fall term)
• 4.302, Foundations in the Visual Arts for Majors (spring term)
• 4.THT, Thesis Research Design Seminar (fall term)
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