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Undergraduate Catalog ARCHIVED 2017-2018 
    
Undergraduate Catalog ARCHIVED 2017-2018 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

General Education: Baccalaureate Degrees


System-wide General Education Requirements (SGE) (30 Credits)


The system-wide general education curriculum of the university is intended to provide opportunities for the student to develop the breadth and depth of understanding and appreciation which characterizes the educated and responsible adult. Courses which deal with language and symbolic thought, literature and aesthetic values, natural sciences, and the social sciences are an integral dimension of one’s personal, community, and professional life. All degree programs of the university include system-wide general education requirements. Students should check major-field requirements before selecting courses to meet the system-wide general education requirements. A course that counts toward a general education requirement at one campus will count towards the same general education requirement at another campus regardless of whether the campus offers the course.

Goals of System-wide General Education Requirements

Students will:

  1. Write effectively and responsibly and understand and interpret the written expression of others.
  2. Communicate effectively and responsibly through listening and speaking.
  3. Understand the organization, potential, and diversity of the human community through study of the social sciences.
  4. Understand the diversity and complexity of the human experience through the study of the arts & humanities.
  5. Understand and apply fundamental mathematical processes and reasoning.
  6. Understand the fundamental principles of the natural sciences and apply scientific methods of inquiry to investigate the natural world.

GOAL 1: Written Communication (6 Credits)


Note


Student enrollment in the initial English course is determined by the Board of Regents placement policy (2:7:6).

GOAL 2: Oral Communication (3 Credits)


GOAL 4: Arts and Humanities (6 Credits)


(In two disciplines or a sequence of foreign language courses.  ART and ARTH are considered one discipline.)

Note:


Student enrollment in the initial Math course is determined by the Board of Regents placement policy (2:7.6)

GOAL 6: Natural Sciences (6 Credits)


Combinations not permitted because of excessive duplication are BIOL 101 and BIOL 151; CHEM 106 and CHEM 112; CHEM 108 and CHEM 114; PHYS 111 and PHYS 211; PHYS 113 and PHYS 213.