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The General Education Core is designed to provide students with the opportunity to develop, practice, and demonstrate essential competencies, or learning outcomes, in the areas of (1) oral and written communication, (2) the humanities, (3) the social and behavioral sciences, (4) history, (5) the natural sciences, and (6) Mathematics
COMMUNICATION (9 Hours Required)
The goal of the communication requirement is to enhance the effective use of the English language, essential to students’ success in school and in the world by way of learning to read and listen critically and to write and speak thoughtfully, clearly, coherently, and persuasively.
Students completing the General Education curriculum in Written Communication should be able to:
- Distill a primary purpose into a single, compelling statement.
- order major points in a reasonable and convincing manner based on the primary purpose of their composition.
- develop their ideas using appropriate rhetorical patterns in response to their rhetorical situation;
- employ standard diction, syntax, usage, grammar, and mechanics. and
- manage and coordinate basic information gathered from multiple sources.
Students completing the General Education curriculum in Oral Communication should be able to:
- demonstrate an awareness of the importance of freedom of speech and the ethics of public speech-making;
- speak extemporaneously in public with confidence;
- demonstrate competency in developing and organizing a speech with a compelling thesis statement and solid supporting materials gathered from multiple sources;
- convey messages via appropriate verbal, nonverbal, and multimedia forms; and
- Understand the importance of the audience in a public speaking situation and align messages with the interests of the audience.
Courses:
HUMANITIES AND/OR FINE ARTS (9 Hours Required)
The goal of the arts and humanities requirement is to enhance students’ understanding of their human cultural heritage and its development in a historical and global context. As citizens and educated members of their communities, students need to know and appreciate their cultural heritage and its development. Also, through studying the arts and humanities, students will develop an understanding of the present as informed by the past.
Students completing the General Education curriculum in the Arts and Humanities should be able to:
- apply the critical and analytical methodologies of the arts and humanities to a text and/or work of art;
- explain how humanistic and/or artistic expression expresses the culture and values of its time and place;
- demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of global and cultural diversity; and
- recognize and explore the importance of both continuity and change in human culture and history.
Courses:
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ENGL 2013 Black Arts and Literature I *
ENGL 2022 Literary Genres II *
ENGL 2023 Black Arts and Literature II *
ENGL 2110 American Literature I *
ENGL 2120 American Literature II *
ENGL 2210 Survey of English Literature I *
ENGL 2220 Survey of English Literature II *
ENGL 2310 World Literature I *
ENGL 2320 World Literature II *
ENGL 2400 Introduction to Film Studies
HIST 1000 Global Culture in History
MUSC 1010 Music Appreciation
PHIL 1030 Introduction to Philosophy: Moral Issues
RELS 2010 Introduction to Religious Studies
THTR 1020 Appreciation of Drama
* Designates sophomore literature courses. 3 of the 9 hours required in the humanities and/or fine arts must comprise one of the sophomore literature courses.
SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES (6 Hours Required)
The goal of the social/behavioral sciences requirement is: (a) to develop in the student an understanding of self and the world by examining the content and processes used by social and behavioral sciences to discover, describe, explain, and predict human behavior and social systems; (b) to enhance knowledge of social and cultural institutions and the values of this society and other societies and cultures in the world; and (c) to understand the interdependent nature of the individual, family, and society in shaping human behavior and determining quality of life.
Students completing the General Education curriculum in the Social and Behavioral Sciences should be able to
Courses:
AFAS 2010 Introduction to Africana Studies
ANTH 2300 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
ECON 2010 Principles of Economics I
ECON 2020 Principles of Economics II
GEOG 1010 World Regional Geography I
GEOG 1020 World Regional Geography II
HPSS 1510 Health and Wellness
NUFS 2300 Introduction to Food and Culture
POLI 1010 Introduction to Political Sciences
POLI 2010 American National Government
PSYC 2010 General Psychology
SOCI 2010 Introduction to Sociology
URBS 2010 Introduction to Urban Studies
WMST 2000 Introduction to Women’s Studies
HISTORY (6 Hours Required)
The goal of the History requirement is to develop in students an understanding of the present that is informed by an awareness of past heritages, including the complex and interdependent relationships between cultures and societies.
Students completing the General Education curriculum in History should be able to
- recognize and correctly identify persons, institutions, and events of historical importance;
- analyze historical continuities and processes of historical change, including the role of geography, economics, culture, and politics;
- analyze changing historical constructions of class, gender, race, sexuality, and other social categories, and discuss the progress of challenges to discrimination;
- apply historical perspective to contemporary issues;
- recognize and critically evaluate historical interpretations; and
- analyze a primary source in its historical context.
Courses:
HIST 2010 American History I
HIST 2020 American History II
HIST 2030 History of Tennessee
HIST 2060 World History I
HIST 2070 World History II
Note:
Students lacking the required one high school unit of United States history must fulfill the General Education History requirement by completing six hours comprising HIST 2010, HIST 2020, and/or HIST 2030.
NATURAL SCIENCES (8 Hours Required)
Issues in today’s world require scientific information and a scientific approach to informed decision-making. Therefore, the goal of the Natural Science requirement is to guide students toward becoming scientifically literate. This scientific understanding gained in these courses enhances students’ ability to define and solve problems, reason with an open mind, think critically and creatively, suspend judgment, and make decisions that may have local or global significance.
Students completing the General Education curriculum in the Natural Sciences should be able to:
- conduct an experiment, collect and analyze data, and interpret results in a laboratory setting;
- analyze, evaluate, and test a scientific hypothesis;
- use basic scientific language and processes, and be able to distinguish between scientific and non-scientific explanations;
- identify unifying principles and repeatable patterns in nature, the values of natural diversity, and apply them to problems or issues of a scientific nature; and
- analyze and discuss the impact of scientific discovery on human thought and behavior.
Courses:
AGSC 2400 Fundamentals of Environmental Science I
AGSC 2401 Fundamentals of Environmental Science II
ASTR 1010 Astronomy I *
ASTR 1020 Astronomy II *
BIOL 1010, 1011 Introductory Biology I and Laboratory
BIOL 1020, 1021 Introductory Biology II and Laboratory
BIOL 1110, 1111 General Biology I and Laboratory **
BIOL 1120, 1121 General Biology II and Laboratory **
BIOL 2210, 2211 Human Anatomy and Physiology I and Laboratory ***
BIOL 2220, 2221 Human Anatomy and Physiology II and Laboratory ***
CHEM 1030 General Chemistry for Non-Science Majors I CHEM 1031 General Chemistry for Non-Science Majors I Laboratory
CHEM 1040 General Chemistry for Non-Science Majors II CHEM 1041 General Chemistry for Non-Science Majors II Laboratory
CHEM 1110 General Chemistry I CHEM 1111 General Chemistry I Laboratory *
CHEM 1120 General Chemistry II CHEM 1121 General Chemistry II Laboratory *
PHYS 1030 Conceptual Physics PHYS 1032 Conceptual Physics Laboratory
PHYS 2010 Non-Calculus Based Physics I PHYS 2011 Non-Calculus Based Physics I Laboratory
PHYS 2020 Non-Calculus Based Physics II PHYS 2021 Non-Calculus Based Physics II Laboratory
PHYS 2110 Calculus Based Physics I PHYS 2111 Calculus Based Physics I Laboratory
PHYS 2120 Calculus Based Physics II PHYS 2121 Calculus Based Physics II Laboratory
NOTE:
*These courses are no longer offered at TSU but may still be applied to the General Education requirements.
**For science majors.
***BIOL 2210/2211 and BIOL 2220/2221 are approved only for Nursing and Health Sciences majors.
MATHEMATICS (3 Hours Required)
The goal of the Mathematics requirement is to expand students’ understanding of mathematics beyond the entry-level requirements for college and to extend their knowledge of mathematics through relevant mathematical modeling with applications, problem solving, critical thinking skills, and the use of appropriate technologies.
Students completing the General Education curriculum in Mathematics should be able to
- assess mathematical results for reasonableness and completeness;
- apply mathematical and/or basic statistical reasoning to analyze data and graphs;
- make meaningful connections between mathematics and other disciplines;
- use mathematics to model real-world behaviors and apply mathematical concepts to the solution of real-world problems; and
- recognize and model patterns occurring in different mathematical situations.
Courses:
MATH 1013 Contemporary Mathematics *
MATH 1110 College Algebra I *
MATH 1120 College Algebra II *
MATH 1410 Structure of the Number System I
MATH 1530 Introductory Probability and Statistics
MATH 1710 Pre-Calculus Algebra
MATH 1720 Precalculus Trigonometry
MATH 1730 Precalculus Algebra and Trigonometry
MATH 1830 Basic Calculus I
MATH 1910 Calculus I
MATH 1915 Calculus and Analytical Geometry I *
NOTE:
*These courses are no longer offered at TSU but may still be applied to the General Education requirements.
Honors sections of the above-referenced courses may also be used to meet General Education requirements. No course substitutions will be allowed in the approved general education core.
For transfer students, equivalencies will be reviewed and applied to meet general education requirements as approved by the department.
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