How Introduction to Science and Technology A Counts in the Curriculum

Future Science curricula: four-credit group requirements

For the 2025 Information Media programme in the Faculty of Future Science, Introduction to Science and Technology A is a required two-credit lecture course assigned to the first year. The curriculum also states that students must earn four credits from the designated course group.

For the 2025 Architecture programme in the same faculty, the course is likewise listed as a required two-credit, first-year lecture course. It is included among Introduction to Science and Technology A–D, from which four credits must be earned.

Engineering curricula: two-credit one-of requirements

For the 2025 Mechanical Engineering programme, Introduction to Science and Technology A is listed as a required two-credit, first-year lecture course. It is included in a one-of required group covering Introduction to Physics and Exercises A–C together with Introduction to Science and Technology A–D.

For the listed 2025 Advanced Mechanical Engineering, Applied Chemistry, and Information and Communications Engineering programmes, and the 2026 Design Engineering programme, Introduction to Science and Technology A is listed as a required two-credit, first-year lecture course. The supplied curriculum entries identify Introduction to Science and Technology A–D as a one-of required group from which two credits are earned. For the 2026 Design Engineering entry, the supplied information also describes Introduction to Science and Technology A–E as open courses.

Other listed programme-specific entries

In the 2025 Design Engineering programme, the 2025 Electronics Systems Engineering programme, the 2025 Information Media programme, and the 2026 Advanced Mechanical Engineering programme, Introduction to Science and Technology A is shown as a required, two-credit, first-year lecture course. The 2025 Information Media entry also states that four credits must be earned from the specified course group. The supplied entries for the 2025 Design Engineering and 2025 Electronics Systems Engineering programmes identify the course as part of a one-of required group.

In the 2025 Information Systems Engineering programme, Introduction to Science and Technology A is a required, first-year, two-credit lecture course and is listed as an option in a one-of required group.

2026 Information and Communications Engineering

For the 2026 Information and Communications Engineering programme, students earn one course from Introduction to Science and Technology A–E under a one-of required arrangement. The curriculum notes that these are open courses.

2026 Electronics Systems Engineering allocation

The supplied 2026 curriculum entry for the Electronics Systems Engineering programme records the course allocation for Introduction to Science and Technology A. No further allocation details are provided in the supplied information.