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General Studies focuses on developing knowledge and skills across traditional disciplinary boundaries resulting in an interdisciplinary cornerstone for academic and career pursuits. A General Studies major allows you to develop a path for transfer into a variety of majors or that will enhance your career competitiveness and further your academic and personal goals. General Studies has flexible program requirements within core areas that encourage you to synthesize knowledge and approaches on inquiry from various disciplines allowing you to bring creative, multi-disciplinary problem-solving, and critical thinking approaches to a range of modern problems.
The General Studies degree is a flexible curriculum that fosters intentional exploration of academic and career goals through academic coursework and supportive advising. Using interdisciplinary application of practical and intellectual skills through General Education courses and your selected core area of focus, the General Studies program creates a flexible, integrated framework for you to engage in complex problems related your chosen focus of study while promoting specific disciplinary content and skills. The General Studies program promotes personal responsibility and civic engagement by providing an academic framework in which you will explore contemporary and enduring questions, integrate learning across disciplines, and develop knowledge, skills, and motivation to frame issues and questions presented in the academic experience in the context of a broader community.
In the Social Sciences, Administration and Health area, you will select courses and build a degree with a foundation in the social and behavioral sciences that will allow you to transfer in a range of disciplines such as Psychology, Sociology, Economics, Political Science, Social Work, or Anthropology or to build an interdisciplinary academic foundation in traditional behavioral and social sciences. Additionally, this area allows you to develop broad and deep communication, interdisciplinary creative problem-solving and critical thinking skills as you cultivate teamwork and leadership expertise-all highly valued proficiencies in academic fields and the workforce.
In this core, students will develop an intentional academic plan that reflects personal, academic, and career goals emphasizing the following discipline areas or individual courses:
- Anthropology (ANTH)
- Criminal Justice (CCJS) ‡‡‡
- Economics (ECON)
- Applied Geography (GEOG)
- Health (HLTH)
- History (HIST)
- Homeland Security (HMLS)
- Hospitality Management (HMGT)
- Physical Education (PHED) (students are limited to two PHED courses #100-199)
- Political Science (POLI)
- Psychology (PSYC)
- Sociology (SOCY)
- Women’s and Gender Studies (WMST and GNDS)
Students may elect to take any of the following individual courses as part of their SSAH core requirements to enhance their selected academic focus; however, transferability of these courses should be carefully reviewed:
NOTE: Students intending to transfer to pursue a 4-year degree in hospitality management or criminal justice should consult an advisor to determine how to use this core.
General Degree Requirements
In order to complete this degree, students must
- complete of a minimum of 60 credit hours including:
- 31 credit hours of General Education program requirements ***
- 15 credit hours in SSAH core courses with a minumm of 3 credit hours at the 200 level
- up to 11 elective credit hours as needed to complete 60 credit hours
- complete a minimum of 15 credit hours at the 200 level with at least 3 credit hours at the 200-level from the SSAH core
- have a 2.0 GPA or higher.
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