General Education Distribution Courses

Humanities:

Required: 6 hours, with a course of at least two hours from each category: the arts and literature

Student Learning Outcome for Fine Arts: Students should be able to demonstrate an understanding of the process by which art is created.

Performance Indicators – Students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate an understanding of the process by which art is created.
  2. Experience art through theory or practice.
  3. Demonstrate skill and control of the elements appropriate to the medium chosen.

G-AR101     Drawing I
G-AR102     Painting I
G-AR131     Ceramics I
G-AR220    Graphic Design for Non-Art Majors
*G-AR310   Art History I
*G-AR311   Art History II
G-AR350    Sculpture
G-MU 125 Music and Film
G-MU 132     College Choir
G-MU 134     College Band
G-MU 161     Music Appreciation
G-MU 210  Introduction to World Music
G-TH 100 Introduction to Theatre
G-TH 110  The Business of Professional Entertertainment (requires travel)
G-TH 160     Acting I
G-TH 170    Technical Theatre I

Student Learning Outcome for Literature: Students should be able to demonstrate an understanding of the functions and purposes of literature.

Performance Indicators – Students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate knowledge of literary terms and genre.
  2. Demonstrate an ability to think analytically about texts.
  3. Articulate ways in which literature is shaped by culture.

*G-EE210   Children’s Literature (3 credits)
G-EN210  Masterpieces of World Literature (3 credits)
*G-EN210L  Masterpieces of World Literature (4 credits)
G-EN220  Contemporary World Literature (3 credits)
*G-EN220L  Contemporary World Literature (4 credits)
G-EN 235     Selected Topics in Literature (3 credits)
G-EN 255   American Literature II (3 credits)
*G-EN 255L   American Literature II (4 credits)
G-EN270   Fiction (3 credits)
*G-EN270L  Fiction (4 credits)
G-EN370   Poetry (3 credits)
*G-EN370L   Poetry (4 credits)
G-TH265     Topics in Dramatic Literature (3 credits)
G-TH385   Theatre History and Dramatic Literature I (3 credits; 4 credits if taken as language intensive)

Natural Sciences:

Student Learning Outcome: Students should be able to demonstrate an understanding of how the natural sciences construct knowledge of the world.

Performance Indicators – Students should be able to:

  1. Summarize the current consensus of the scientific community with regards to the structure and function of some aspect of the physical or biological world.
  2. Illustrate their knowledge of the changing nature of the consensus of the scientific community with regards to the structure and function of some aspect of the physical or biological world, by outlining the historical changes in that consensus.
  3. Report on their experiences with those methods and processes of the natural sciences which they conducted in the laboratory.

Required: 7 hours, one lab, one course from life and one course from physical sciences

Life Sciences
G-BI101     Principles of Biology
G-BI111      College Biology I
G-BI201     Biodiversity
G-BI210     Principles of Nutrition
G-NS100  Science & Society
G-NS141     Environmental Science

Physical Sciences
G-CH101    Principles of Chemistry
G-CH111     College Chemistry I
G-NS100  Science & Society
G-NS141     Environmental Science
G-NS245    Climatology
G-PC251     Geology
G-PC275     Astronomy
G-PH215    General Physics I

Social Sciences:

Required: 9 hours, one each from behavioral sciences, social institutions, and history

Student Learning Outcome for Behavioral Sciences: Students should be able to illustrate the relationship between the self and the social world.

Performance Indicators – Students should be able to:

  1. Describe the ways in which social world shapes the self.
  2. Describe the ways in which the self alters the social world.

G-CM120   Introduction to Human Communication
G-PY101     Introduction to Psychology
G-SO101     Introduction to Sociology
G-SO246    Marriage and Family

Student Learning Outcome for Social Institutions: Students should be able to understand the basic concepts of social institutions.

Performance Indicators – Students should be able to:

  1. Identify a social institution at work in human affairs.
  2. Explain how social institutions influence peoples’ lives.

G-BA130      Principles of Business Management
G-BA230     Personal Finance
G-CI150       Introduction to Education
G-ET201      Social  Entrepreneurship
G-PS/HI101 Historical Introduction to Politics
G-PS102       U.S. Government
G-PS125        International Relations
G-SO246      Marriage and Family

Student Learning Outcome for History: Students should be able to demonstrate knowledge of the historical method.

Performance Indicators – Students should be able to:

  1. Compose a historical question.
  2. Apply that question to historical evidence to interpret the past.

G-HI/PS101  Historical Introduction to Politics
G-HI110         World Civilization to 1500
G-HI120        World Civilization since 1500
G-HI130        Introductory Methods for Historical Analysis
G-HI140        American History to 1877
G-HI150        American History since 1877
G-HI 205     Social History of the Automobile
G-HI210        International Travel Study in History
G-HI220        Modern Europe
G-HI235        Topics in World History
G-HI236        Topics in Social History
G-HI237        Topics in Political History
G-HI261        Kansas History