Apr 06, 2025  
Undergraduate Catalog 2024-2025 
    
Undergraduate Catalog 2024-2025

Core IMPACTS Curriculum


Core IMPACTS

Institutional Priority
Mathematics & Quantitative Skills
Political Science & U.S. History
Arts, Humanities & Ethics
Comminicating in Writing
Technology, Mathematics & Sciences
Social Sciences

Institutional Priority (5 hrs)


Learning Outcome: Students will demontrate the ability to think critically and solve problems related to academic priorities at their institution. 

Career-Ready Competencies: Critical Thinking, Teamwork, Time Management

Mathematics & Quantitative Skills (3 hrs)


*A grade of “C” or better is required

Learning Outcome: Students will apply mathematical and computational knowledge to interpret, evaluate, and communicate quantitative information using verbal, numerical, graphical, or symbolic forms.

Career-Ready Competencies: Information Literacy, Inquiry and Analysis, Problem-Solving

Political Science and U.S. History (6 hrs)


Learning Outcome: Students will demontrate knowledge of the history of the United States, the history of Georgia, and the provisions and principles of the United States Consitution and the Consitution of Georgia. 

Career-Ready Competencies: Critical Thinking, Intercultural Competence, Persuasion

Arts, Humanities & Ethics (6 Hrs)


Learning Outcome: Students will efffectively analyze and interpret the menaing, cultural significance, and ethical implications of literary/philosophical texts or of works in the visual/performing arts.  

Career-Ready Competencies: Ethical Reasoning, Information Literacy, Intercultural Competence

Communicating in Writing (6 hrs)


*A grade of “C” or better is required

Learning Outcome: 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. 

Career-Ready Competencies: Critical Thinking, Information Literacy, Persuasion

Technology, Mathematics & Sciences (10-11 hrs)


Learning Outcome: Students will use the scientific method and laboratory procedures or mathematical and computational methods to analyze data, solve problems, and explain natural phenomena.  

Career-Ready Competencies: Inquiry and Analysis, Problem-Solving, Teamwork

Select from the Following Non-Lab Science Courses:


Non-Science majors:
Select 2 from the following (6hrs);

Science majors:
Select 1 from the following (3hrs)

A grade of “C” or better is required.
​​​​​​​Please refer to your program map for specific course requirements. 

Social Science (6 hrs)


Learning Outcome: Students will effectively analyze the complexity of human behavior, and how historical, economic, political, social, or geographic relationships develop, persist, or change. 

Career-Ready Competencies: Intercultural Competence, Perspective-Taking, Persuasion

Total: 42-43 Hours