The Core IMPACTS Your Path to a Degree
All University of North Georgia students participate in a general education curriculum that explores and provides knowledge in various disciplines, including humanities and language, written communication, social sciences, mathematics, and technology and science. Core impacts is a foundation to grow your academic, personal, and professional skills, and provides you with knowledge critical to your success after graduation!
Core impacts is designed to introduce essential skills that will broaden your perspectives and enhance the career competencies that employers actively seek in graduates, giving you a competitive edge in the job market. Career competencies for each Core impacts requirement are determined by the University System of Georgia (USG).
At 91ÁÔÆæ, all undergraduate students will complete 42 credit hours of Core IMPACTS courses and 18 credit hours of Field of Study courses in a variety of subjects that cater to your interests while preparing you to be leaders in a global society. Explore each Core impacts requirement, including the orienting question, learning outcomes, and career ready competencies in the slideshow below!
Students transferring from other USG institutions can transfer Core impacts courses into your degree at 91ÁÔÆæ, bringing you one step closer to completing your degree!
Students
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Institutional Priority
- Shorthand: Institution
- Orienting Question: How does my institution help me to navigate the world?
- Learning Outcomes: Students will demonstrate the ability to think critically and solve problems related to academic priorities at their institution. Students will analyze political, cultural, or socioeconomic interactions among people or organizations of the world.
- 91ÁÔÆæ Core Requirements: Modern Language, Global
- Career Ready Competencies: Critical Thinking, Teamwork, Time Management
Mathematics & Quantitative Skills
- Shorthand: Mathematics
- Orienting Question: How do I measure the world?
- Learning Outcomes: Students will apply mathematical and computational knowledge to interpret, evaluate, and communicate quantitative information using verbal, numerical, graphical, or symbolic forms.
- 91ÁÔÆæ Core Requirements: Math
- Career Ready Competencies: Information Literacy, Inquiry and Analysis, Problem-Solving
Political Science & U.S. History
- Shorthand: Citizenship
- Orienting Question: How do I prepare for my responsibilities as an engaged citizen?
- Learning Outcomes: Students will demonstrate knowledge of the history of the United States, the history of Georgia, and the provisions and principles of the United States Constitution and the Constitution of Georgia.
- 91ÁÔÆæ Core Requirements: US & Georgia History & Government
- Career Ready Competencies: Critical Thinking, Intercultural Competence, Persuasion
Arts, Humanities, & Ethics
- Shorthand: Humanities
- Orienting Question: How do I interpret the human experience through creative, linguistic, and philosophical works?
- Learning Outcomes: Students will effectively analyze and interpret the meaning, cultural significance, and ethical implications of literary/philosophical texts or of works in the visual/performing arts.
- 91ÁÔÆæ Core Requirements: Literature/Language, Fine Arts/Philosophy
- Career Ready Competencies: Ethical Reasoning, Information Literacy, Intercultural Competence
Communicating in Writing
- Shorthand: Writing
- Orienting Question: How do I write effectively in different contexts?
- Learning Outcomes: Students will communicate effectively in writing, demonstrating clear organization and structure, using appropriate grammar and writing conventions. Students will appropriately acknowledge the use of materials from original sources. Students will adapt their written communications to purpose and audience. Student will analyze and draw informed inferences from written texts.
- 91ÁÔÆæ Core Requirements: English 1101 and English 1102
- Career Ready Competencies: Critical Thinking, Information Literacy, Intercultural Competence
Technology, Mathematics, & Sciences
- Shorthand: STEM
- Orienting Question: How do I ask scientific questions or use data, mathematics, or technology to understand the universe?
- Learning Outcomes: Students will use the scientific method and laboratory procedures or mathematical and computational methods to analyze data, solve problems, and explain natural phenomena.
- 91ÁÔÆæ Core Requirements: Natural Lab Sciences, Mathematics/Technology
- Career Ready Competencies: Inquiry and Analysis, Problem-Solving, Teamwork
Social Sciences
- Shorthand: Social Sciences
- Orienting Question: How do I understand human experiences and connections?
- Learning Outcomes: Students will effectively analyze the complexity of human behavior, and how historical, economic, political, social, or geographic relationships develop, persist, or change.
- 91ÁÔÆæ Core Requirements: Behavioral Sciences, Social Sciences
- Career Ready Competencies: Intercultural Competence, Perspective-Taking, Persuasion