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General Education Requirements (Core Curriculum)

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Core Area A1

Communication Skills  
Learning Outcomes 6 hours

Demonstrate the ability to:

  • Recognize and identify appropriate topics for presentation in writing
  • Synthesize and logically arrange written presentations
  • Adapt written communication to specific purposes and audiences.

Both Required:

Core Area A2

Quantitative Skills  
Learning Outcomes 3 hours
  • Students demonstrate a strong foundation in college-level mathematical concepts and principles.
  • Students demonstrate the ability to apply symbolic representations to model and solve real-world problems.

Choose one of the following based on major:*

Note

* Science, computer science, mathematics, mathematics education, and science education majors must take MATH 1113  or higher. Nursing majors may take MATH 1001  or MATH 1111 . Engineering majors must take MATH 1634 . Business majors are urged to take either MATH 1111  or MATH 1113 .

** Since only three hours are required here in Area A, the extra hour earned by taking this course may be used in Area F according to most degree programs, but, for certainty, the student should always check the specifics listed in the description of the degree program.

Core Area B

Institutional Options  
Learning Outcomes 4-5 hours

Demonstrate the ability to:

  • Adapt written and oral communication to specific rhetorical purposes and audiences.
  • Identify, evaluate, and use information, language, or technology appropriate to a specific purpose.

Students must take one course from category 1, and any combination of courses to meet the total number of hours of 4 for science majors and 5 for non-science majors.

1 - Written and Oral Communication:

Courses in this area must meet both learning outcomes stated above.

One of the following is required of all majors. Choose from the following:

2 - Other Institutional Options:

Courses in this area must meet at least one of the learning outcomes stated above.

Institutional Elective, choose one of the following:

Core Area C

Humanities, Fine Arts, and Ethics  
Learning Outcomes 6 hours
  • Students will demonstrate knowledge of the foundational concepts of artistic, intellectual, or literary achievement, adapting written communication to specific purposes and audiences.
  • Students will recognize and make informed judgements about the fine, literary, or performing arts from various cultures.

Choose one from each category.

* XIDS 2100  is listed in both categories, but it may be counted only once.

Category 1: Fine Arts

Category 2: Humanities

Core Area D

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, and Technology  
Learning Outcomes 10-11 hours

Demonstrate the ability to:

  • Apply scientific reasoning and methods, mathematical principles, or appropriate information technologies to explain natural phenomena or situations that arise in the real world.
  • Use appropriate scientific tools and instruments to acquire data, process information, and communicate results, adapting written communication to specific purposes and audiences.

The student should consult the specific requirements listed in the description of the degree program later in this catalog and work closely with an advisor to fulfill this area of the Core.

Option I-Non-Science Majors

1. Science Courses:

Take two from the list below, at least one of which must be a lab class:

*A course listed 3+1 below may be taken without the lab component to be used as a non-lab option here.

2. Mathematics, Science, and Quantitative Technology Courses:

Take any one from the list below or the list above as long as no more than two of the three courses in Area D are from the same discipline.

Option II-Science Majors

1. Laboratory Science Courses:

Take any two lab courses from the list below:

2. Mathematics, Science and Quantitative Technology Courses:

Students may take one from either the list below or from the list above as long as no more than two courses are from the same discipline.

*A course listed 3+1 above may be taken without the lab component to be used as a non-lab option here.

Mathematics, computer science, and most science majors must take MATH 1634 . Engineering majors must take MATH 2644 .

Option III - Nursing

1. Laboratory Science Courses:

Take one of the two-semester sequences listed below:

2. Mathematics Science and Quantitative Technology Courses:

Core Area E

Social Sciences  
Learning Outcomes 12 hours
  • Students will demonstrate the ability to understand the political, social, economic, or cultural dimensions of world and American history.
  • Students will demonstrate that they have developed an understanding of the political and legal processes of the U.S. and Georgia, and an understanding of the terminology of political science and U.S. politics adapting written communication to specific purposes and audiences.
  • Students will demonstrate knowledge of the fundamental concepts of a discipline examining the social world.

1. World History

One required from the following two:

2. American/Georgia History

One required from the following two:

3. American/Georgia Government

The following is required:

4. Social Science Elective Courses

One required from the following:

Core Area F

Courses applicable to the degree and major  
(See Area F of specific major program) 18 hours

Note

Students whose native language is Spanish (both those from foreign countries as well as United States Ethnic Native Speakers of Spanish) who wish to use Spanish to meet degree requirements will be required to take SPAN 3102 if they do not exempt the requirement by taking the Departmental Placement test. In similar cases involving French or German, course substitution may be approved on an individual basis.

Any student who is capable of and authorized to begin studies at a sequentially higher course level than that required for the Core is exempted from the Core requirement by successful completion of the sequentially higher course. The student may or may not be awarded credit hours for the exempted course.

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