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Main Office: Grohmann Museum, GM218
Phone: (414) 277-7351
Fax: (414) 277-7462

The General Studies Department is responsible for administering and providing core courses for the Bachelor of Arts/Science in Technical Communication degree. In addition, the department is primarily responsible for offering courses in the humanities, social sciences, English, communication and engineering graphics. These offerings include both fundamental and advanced courses to develop and enrich students so they might become more sensitive to and fully aware of themselves and others.

Faculty:

Chairperson:

Dr. R. David Kent

Professors:

Dr. R. David Kent, Dr. Katherine Wikoff

Associate Professors:

Gary C. Boelkins, Dr. Jon K. Borowicz, James W. Friauf, Dr. David Howell, Dr. Patrick Jung, Dr. Carma Stahnke

Assistant Professors:

Dr. Michael Carriere, Dr. Alicia Domack, Dr. Jennifer Farrell, Dr. Jan Fertig, Dr. Nadya Shalamova

Adjunct Professors:

Marvin L. Bollman, Patrick J. Coffey, Dr. Cheryl A. Maurana, Joseph P. Meloy, Leonard A. Vanden Boom, Dr. William Wiener

Adjunct Associate Professors:

Dianne L. Bender, Sara L. Cissna, Virginia K. Reinmuller, Lisa Rivero, Dr. Harry Rollings III

Adjunct Assistant Professors:

Elizabeth A. Albrecht, Dr. Elizabeth Clark, Margaret Dwyer, Timothy Gaynor, Mary Spencer, Mark Zimmermann

Lecturers:

Annemarie Fleishman, Nicole Hines, Cynthia Kotlarek, Amy Murre, Kristina Puotkalyte-Gurgel, Rick Reinders, Cyndie Weis, Mary Jo Wellenstein

Professors Emeriti:

Dr. Roger J. Frankowski, Veronica S. Haggerty, Susannah P. Locke, Mary Ann Perdue, Dr. Constantin Popescu, Judith L. Steininger

Adjunct Professor Emeritus:

Kenneth McAteer

Staff:

Department Administrative Assistant:

Rose Didier

General Studies Electives

Humanities and Social Sciences Electives (HU/SS) - All are three-credit classes

Foreign Language Courses at MSOE

Enrollment in Foreign Language Courses

1. A student may not enroll in a foreign language course if that foreign language is spoken in the student’s home.
2. A student who has had one year of a specific language in high school may enroll in the introductory language course. Students having two years of a specific language in high school must begin at the second language course. For each additional year of language in high school, a student must begin at a correspondingly higher level.

Fulfillment of HU Elective Credit

1. Students enrolling in a beginning language course (designated by the Roman numeral “I”) must enroll in and successfully complete two quarters of language courses in order to receive HU credit for the beginning course. If a student were to take German I, for example, but not German II, the three credits would be tabulated in the student’s grade point average, but the credit would not apply toward the fulfillment of HU electives.
2. A student who is placed in “Foreign Language II” or “Foreign Language III” will receive three credits of HU elective credit for that course without completing another sequential course.
3. A student placed in “Foreign Language II” or “Foreign Language III” will not receive credit for more fundamental language courses.

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