University of Nebraska Kearney

General Studies Program Assessment Plan: The Structure of the General Studies Program (Replaced F07)

University of Nebraska at Kearney
GENERAL STUDIES PROGRAM ASSESSMENT PLAN 06/06/05

THE STRUCTURE OF THE GENERAL STUDIES PROGRAM

The UNK GS Program is a 45-hour requirement of all undergraduate students who plan on graduating with a baccalaureate degree. The GS Program is a distributed program with courses selected from a number of different categories and perspectives within each category. The outline of the GS Program categories and their respective perspectives is:

1. ENGLISH LANGUAGE (9 hours)
   1. English Composition
   2. Speech
    
2. FOREIGN LANGUAGE (0 – 3 hours)
3. FINE ARTS AND HUMANITIES (9 – 15 hours)
   1. Literary Perspectives
   2. Aesthetic Perspectives
   3. Historical Perspectives
   4. Philosophic Perspectives
    
4. MATHEMATICS, STATISTICS, and COMPUTER SCIENCE) (3 - 6 hours)
   1. Mathematics/Statistics
   2. Computer Science
    
5. NATURAL SCIENCES (7 – 15 hours)
   1. Biology
   2. Chemistry
   3. Geography and Earth Science
   4. Physics
    
6. SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES (9 – 15 hours)
   1. Economic Perspectives
   2. Social Perspectives
   3. Political Perspectives
   4. Geographical Perspectives
   5. Behavioral Perspectives
    
7. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT (2 – 3 hours)

Objectives have been approved for each of the categories and perspectives within each category. A detailed listing of the student outcomes have been provided in Appendix 2.