While there are many General Education courses to select from, certain majors and programs are prescriptive of specific General Education courses within the competency areas, including Humanities, Mathematics, Oral, Science, and Social Science. All students are expected to work with their advisor to select their General Education courses.
Humanistic and Artistic Ways of Knowing
Competencies
Upon completion of a course in this category, students are able to demonstrate at least five (5) of the following competencies.
- Recognize and describe humanistic, historical, or artistic works within problems and patterns of the human experience.
- Distinguish and apply terminologies, methodologies, processes, epistemologies, and traditions specific to the discipline(s).
- Perceive and understand formal, conceptual, and technical elements specific to the discipline.
- Analyze, evaluate, and interpret texts, objects, events, or ideas in their cultural, intellectual or historical contexts.
- Interpret artistic and/or humanistic works through the creation of art or performance.
- Develop critical perspectives or arguments about the subject matter, grounded in evidence-based analysis.
- Demonstrate self-reflection, intellectual elasticity, widened perspective, and respect for diverse viewpoints.
AA & AS (2 different disciplines) (6 hours)
Mathematical Ways of Knowing
Competencies
Upon completion of a course in this category, a student is able to demonstrate the following competencies
- Read, interpret, and communicate mathematical concepts.
- Represent and interpret information/data.
- Select, execute and explain appropriate strategies/procedures when solving mathematical problems.
- Apply quantitative reasoning to draw and support appropriate conclusions.
AA & AS (3 hours)
AAS (3 hours)
Oral Communication
Competencies
Upon completion of a course in this category, students are able to demonstrate the following competencies:
- Research, discover, and develop information resources and structure spoken messages to increase knowledge and understanding.
- Research, discover, and develop evidence-based reasoning and persuasive appeals for ethically influencing attitudes, values, beliefs, or behaviors.
- Adapt spoken messages to the diverse personal, ideological, and emotional needs of individuals, groups, or contexts.
- Employ effective spoken and nonverbal behaviors that support communication goals and illustrate self-efficacy.
- Listen in order to effectively and critically evaluate the reasoning, evidence, and communication strategies of self and others.
- Understand key theories, perspectives, principles, and concepts in the Communication discipline, as applied to oral communication.
AA, AS, AAS (3 hours)
| COMM 101 | Fundamentals of Oral Communications | 3 |
| COMM 209 | Critical Thinking and Argumentation | 3 |
Scientific Ways of Knowing
Competencies
Upon completion of a course in this category, a student is able to demonstrate at least four (4) of the following competencies.
- Apply foundational knowledge and models of a natural or physical science to analyze and/or predict phenomena.
- Understand the scientific method and apply scientific reasoning to critically evaluate arguments.
- Interpret and communicate scientific information via written, spoken and/or visual representations.
- Describe the relevance of specific scientific principles to the human experience.
- Form and test a hypothesis in the laboratory or field using discipline-specific tools and techniques for data collection and/or analysis.
AA & AS (2 different disciplines/1 lab) (7-8 hours)
| AGRI 180 | Food System Science | 45 |
| ALLH 220 | Fundamentals of Nutrition | 3 |
| BIOL 100 | Concepts of Biology | 4.00 Credits |
| BIOL 120 | Environmental Science | 4 |
| BIOL 201 | Biology 1 | 4 |
| BIOL 221 | Introductory Microbiology | 4 |
| BIOL 227 | Human Anatomy & Physiology 1* | 4.00 Credits |
| BIOL 228 | Human Anatomy & Physiology 2* | 4.00 Credits |
| CHEM 100 | Chemistry in Everyday Life | 4.00 Credits |
| CHEM 101 | Introduction to Chemistry* | 4.00 Credits |
| CHEM 102 | Essentials of Organic & Biochemistry* | 5.00 Credits |
| CHEM 111 | Principles of Chemistry 1* | 5.00 Credits |
| GEOG 100 | Physical Geography | 4.00 Credits |
| GEOL 101 | Physical Geology* | 4.00 Credits |
| GEOL 102 | Historical Geology | 4.00 Credits |
| GEOL 104 | Natural Disasters and Env Geology | 4.00 Credits |
| PHYS 100 | Survey of Physics | 4.00 Credits |
| PHYS 101 | Survey of Astronomy | 4.00 Credits |
| PHYS 111 | General Physics 1* | 4.00 Credits |
| PHYS 112 | General Physics 2* | 4.00 Credits |
| PHYS 211 | Physics Scientists & Engineers 1* | 5.00 Credits |
Social and Behavioral Ways of Knowing
Competencies
Upon completion of a course in this category, students are able to demonstrate at least four (4) of the following competencies.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the theoretical and conceptual frameworks of a particular Social Science discipline.
- Develop an understanding of self and the world by examining the dynamic interaction of individuals, groups, and societies as they shape and are shaped by history, culture, institutions, and ideas.
- Utilize Social Science approaches, such as research methods, inquiry, or problem solving, to examine the variety of perspectives about human experiences.
- Evaluate how reasoning, history, or culture informs and guides individual, civic, or global decisions.
- Understand and appreciate similarities and differences among and between individuals, cultures, or societies across space and time.
AA & AS (2 DIFFERENT DISCIPLINES) (6 hours)
AAS (3 hours)
Written Communication
AA & AS (6 hours)
AAS (3 hours)
| ENGL 101 | English Composition 1* | 3.00 Credits |
| ENGL 102 | English Composition 2* | 3.00 Credits |
Competencies
Upon completion of a course in this category, students are able to demonstrate the following competencies:
- Use flexible writing process strategies to generate, develop, revise, edit, and proofread texts.
- Adopt strategies and genre appropriate to the rhetorical situation.
- Use inquiry-based strategies to conduct research that explores multiple and diverse ideas and perspectives, appropriate to the rhetorical context.
- Use rhetorically appropriate strategies to evaluate, represent, and respond to the as and research of others.
- Address readers’ biases and assumptions with well-developed evidence-based reasoning.
- Use appropriate conventions for integrating, citing, and documenting source material as well as for surface-level language and style.
Institutionally Designated
AA & AS (5 hours)
Introduction to General Education
Competencies
Upon completion of a course in this category, students are able to demonstrate the following competencies:
- Articulate the value of general education
- Explain how a Way of Knowing can broaden and deepen comprehension of a topic of an idea
- Demonstrate a knowledge of academic integrity policies and expectations at the College
- Use the skills, strategies and campus resources necessary for engage learning
AA & AS (3 hours)
| GNED 101 | Introduction to General Education | 3.00 Credits |
Wellness
Competencies
Upon completion of a course in this category, students are able to demonstrate the following competencies:
- Identify: Define the purpose of lifelong wellness.
- Plan: Create individual goal(s) addressing at least one dimension of wellness.
- Practice: Apply wellness knowledge to act on individual goals addressing at least one dimension of wellness.
- Reflect: Demonstrate the ability to engage in careful thought about beliefs and behaviors impacting lifelong wellness.
AA & AS (2 hours)