6 credits 

Students will write effectively and responsibly and understand and interpret the written expression of others.
Courses meeting this goal will collectively require students to:

1. write logically and persuasively;
2. use a variety of rhetorical strategies (e.g. expository, argumentative, descriptive);
3. read critically the writing of others;
4. view writing as a process requiring planning, drafting, and revising;
5. write for a variety of audiences, including academic audiences;
6. incorporate formal research and documentation into their writing;
7. use standard English;
8. use computer technology for basic communication-related tasks such as word processing and research.

Students will communicate effectively and responsibly through speaking and listening.
Courses satisfying this goal will require students to:

1.  plan and create speeches for a variety of audiences and settings;

2. develop speaking competencies including choice and use of topic, supporting materials, organizational pattern, language, presentational aids, and delivery as appropriate to topic, audience, occasion, purpose, and communicator;

3. develop listening competencies including listening with literal and critical comprehension to ideas, perspectives, and emotion in messages.

6 credits (in two disciplines) 

Students will understand the structures and possibilities of the human community through study of the social sciences.

Courses in Anthropology, Economics, Geography, History, Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology meeting this goal will collectively require students to:

1. learn and apply the basic concepts, terminology and theories of social sciences;

2. examine the origin and evolution of human institutions;

3. examine human behavior in different spatial, temporal, cultural, and/orinstitutional contexts;

4. examine the allocation of human or natural resources within societies;

5. apply social science concepts and theories to contemporary issues in a responsible manner.

Students will understand and appreciate the human experience through arts and humanities.

Courses in History, Literature, Philosophy, Religion, non-English languages, Art, Music, and Theater meeting this goal will require students to:

1. develop knowledge of the range of values, beliefs, and ideas embodied in the human experience;

2. understand and interpret basic concepts and theories of the humanities and arts;

3. develop creative sensitivity and aesthetic understanding;
   OR

4. understand and interpret formal and stylistic elements of the literary or fine arts;
   OR

5. demonstrate foundational competency in reading, writing, and speaking a non-English language.

FREN 102

Students will understand and apply fundamental mathematical processes and reasoning.

Courses meeting this goal will require students to:

1. use mathematical symbolism and mathematical structure to model and solve problems;

2. communicate in mathematical terms;

3. order and analyze quantitative information to make judgments of real world situations.

Students will understand the fundamental principles of the natural sciences and apply scientific methods of inquiry to investigate the natural world.  

Courses in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Earth Science, and Physical Geography meeting this goal will require students to:

1. participate in scientific inquiry in a laboratory experience.

2. gather and critically evaluate data.

3. demonstrate an understanding of fundamental principles of natural sciences.

4. explore the development of ideas through time.

5. understand the implications science has for the modern world.

Students will understand and be sensitive to cultural diversity so that they are prepared to live and work in an international and multicultural environment.
Courses meeting this goal require students to:

1. explore global issues and/or diverse philosophical, ethical, and religious views.

2. explore social and aesthetic values of different cultures;

3. examine the contributions of different cultures from a historical perspective.

Students are required to complete two courses (6 credit hours) that provide a global and/or cultural diversity perspective.  This requirement can be completed using courses that satisfy the social science and humanities/arts requirements listed above (SGE Goals 3 and 4) if the courses substantially address cultural diversity and/or global issues.  Courses in the social sciences and humanities/arts that will meet this cultural diversity requirement are indicated by an asterisk. When choosing courses to meet this goal, it’s also important to consider the courses that will be chosen to meet SGE Goals 3 and 4 and IGR Goal 1.