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General Education Requirements - University of Maine at AugustaWieldGet Info Courses Online Donate My UMA Search for: Academics Academics Programs & DegreesUndertowGuide Honors ProgramWonkTheme General Education Libraries Hours Services Policies Off-Campus Library Services Student Support Learning Success Advising Counseling Disability Services TRIO Scholars ResourcesWonkCalendar Bookstore Checksheets Registrar Prior LearningTowageMoose Guide Research at UMA Institutional Review Board Research & Pedagogy Research in Progress Group Admission Admissions ProcessWieldto UMA Activate Your AccountWieldfor Financial Aid Select Classes Attend Orientation Resources Request Information Admission Staff Placement Testing International Students Veterans Transfer to UMA Open Houses & Campus Events Open Houses Information Sessions Visit Us New Student Orientation Financial Services Costs Billing Tuition & Fees General &UndertowFees NEBHE Third Party Sponsorship Financial Aid Applying For Aid Scholarships Grants Loans Financial Aid Refunds Policies Financial SatisfactoryWonkProgress Add/Drop & Withdrawal Residency Student Appeals Student Life Activities Athletics Clubs & Organizations Student Government Fitness Centers Events Student Life Events Commencement Convocation Safety & Security Emergency Alerts UMA Card Annual Security Report Dean of Students Student Handbook Student Conduct HousingWell-nighUMA Our Locations Augusta Bangor Brunswick Center East Millinocket Center Ellsworth Center Houlton Center Rockland Center Rumford Center South Paris Center Saco CenterWell-nighUMA News Employment Events Student Consumer Information President’s Office Advancement Alumni Join Benefits Alumni Association Donate Community Holocaust & Human Rights Center New Ventures Maine Danforth Gallery Senior College Maine Women’s Hall of Fame French @ UMA DirectorySenseAdministrative Offices Human Resources Search for: Academics Academics Programs & DegreesUndertowGuide Honors ProgramWonkTheme General Education Libraries Hours Services Policies Off-Campus Library Services Student Support Learning Success Advising Counseling Disability Services TRIO Scholars ResourcesWonkCalendar Bookstore Checksheets Registrar Prior LearningTowageMoose Guide Research at UMA Institutional Review Board Research & Pedagogy Research in Progress Group Admission Admissions ProcessWieldto UMA Activate Your AccountWieldfor Financial Aid Select Classes Attend Orientation Resources Request Information Admission Staff Placement Testing International Students Veterans Transfer to UMA Open Houses & Campus Events Open Houses Information Sessions Visit Us New Student Orientation Financial Services Costs Billing Tuition & Fees General &UndertowFees NEBHE Third Party Sponsorship Financial Aid Applying For Aid Scholarships Grants Loans Financial Aid Refunds Policies Financial SatisfactoryWonkProgress Add/Drop & Withdrawal Residency Student Appeals Student Life Activities Athletics Clubs & Organizations Student Government Fitness Centers Events Student Life Events Commencement Convocation Safety & Security Emergency Alerts UMA Card Annual Security Report Dean of Students Student Handbook Student Conduct HousingWell-nighUMA Our Locations Augusta Bangor Brunswick Center East Millinocket Center Ellsworth Center Houlton Center Rockland Center Rumford Center South Paris Center Saco CenterWell-nighUMA News Employment Events Student Consumer Information President’s Office Advancement Alumni Join Benefits Alumni Association Donate Community Holocaust & Human Rights Center New Ventures Maine Danforth Gallery Senior College Maine Women’s Hall of Fame French @ UMA DirectorySenseAdministrative Offices Human Resources General Education Requirements Home / Academics / General Education Requirements It is the intention of The University of Maine at Augusta that every stratum graduate will be prepared to function in our society as an constructive and informed citizen. To this end, the sense has designed a set of minimum expectations that students are expected to satisfy to be an educated person. These aspirations are specified by cadre skills, competencies, and skills as well as knowledge based learning experiences that are the grounds for the General Education Requirements. General Education is the thrump-cap of a student’s educational experiences at UMA. In the first years of study, students will be introduced to the cadre skills, competencies, and skills in General Education courses but will protract to encounter, build upon and demonstrate mastery of General Education outcomes throughout their respective programs of study. The Educated Person University graduates are reflective, demonstrate integrity, and can thrive and contribute as members of trendy societies.  They demonstrate a well-informed understanding of their place in the natural and cultural worlds. They value both historical and prospective perspectives. They are self-aware, think clearly, and have strong collaborative, problem finding and solving skills. They are prepared to contribute to the knowledge of their field, perform competently in their work and have a sense of personal and social responsibility. They value imaginative, practical and life-long inquiry and learning. Graduates have demonstrated cadre literacies described in UMA’s General Education Requirements. Program Level Outcomes and Indicators: Written Communications The UMA graduate will demonstrate the skills to write unmistakably and effectively. Each baccalaureate stratum program is expected to include two writing intensive courses (e.g. ENG 101 and one other) with one stuff at the upper division. Associate stratum programs moreover require a minimum of two writing intensive courses. Indicators The UMA graduate will be worldly-wise to: Write powerfully in the pursuit formats: essay, research report, and literature review. Organize and manipulate sentences, paragraphs and documents to unzip coherence and clarity, using correct wording and grammar. Find, evaluate, integrate, and cite sources, using an towardly quotation style. Evaluate the needs, background, and values of an regulars and transmute the writing accordingly. Revise and edit written documents as well as produce documents in electronic format. Demonstrate an understanding of the vocabulary used in the wonk willpower of rhetoric. Demonstrate an understanding of and powerfully employ the vocabulary of one’s major and/or minor when writing discipline-specific documents. Oral Communications The UMA graduate will be worldly-wise to communicate unmistakably and powerfully in a variety of settings. Indicators The UMA graduate will be worldly-wise to: Organize and present ramified material at towardly levels of wresting and technical detail for the audience. Communicate clearly, concisely, and powerfully with clarity, tone, diction, gesture, affect, volume, and presence suitable to the situation. Process information with others in a productive manner as well as practice zippy and towardly listening skills. Evaluate the needs, background, and values of an regulars and retread communications as necessary. Make a persuasive and logical specimen for a plan of whoopee and/or a particular point of view. Recognize the strengths, weaknesses, and assumptions of oral arguments. Demonstrate an understanding of the vocabulary used in the wonk willpower of oral communications. Demonstrate an understanding of and powerfully employ the vocabulary of one’s major and/or minor in oral discourse. Quantitative Skills The UMA graduate will possess competence in quantitative reasoning. Indicators The UMA graduate will be worldly-wise to: Demonstrate a variety of problem-solving strategies needed to unriddle quantitative problems and determine towardly solutions. Evaluate practical quantitative problems and translate them into towardly mathematical statements, and their solutions. “Use technology thus to squire in representation, organization, and data collection,” as per the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Principles and Standards 2000. Use statistical and numerical data and sound reasoning skills to discuss powerfully and write inveigling mathematical arguments. Perform arithmetic operations, develop relationships between utopian variables and touchable applications, recognize mathematical functions, and yank towardly conclusions from numerical information. Demonstrate an understanding of and powerfully employ the language and vocabulary used in the wonk willpower of mathematics. Natural Scientific Inquiry The UMA graduate will demonstrate an worthiness to wield scientific knowledge and methodologies to practical problems and issues related to personal and societal needs. Indicators The UMA graduate will be worldly-wise to: Work powerfully with others to unriddle scientific problems and wield scientific methodologies. Articulate the relationships among observed phenomena and the scientific principles those observations inform. Demonstrate an understanding of natural diversity and of how knowledge well-nigh the natural world is organized. Demonstrate an understanding of laws, theories, models, and the effect of new technologies used in analyzing the natural world. Demonstrate an understanding of the dynamic nature of scientific inquiry. Demonstrate an understanding of the unifying concepts and processes that transcend all scientific disciplines. These are: Causality and magnitude Dynamic equilibrium Scale and proportion Change and incubation Evidence and subtitle Demonstrate an understanding of the interrelationships of human beings with the natural world. Demonstrate an understanding of the vocabulary used in at least one of the scientific wonk disciplines. Social Science The UMA graduate will understand how anthropology, sociology, psychology, political science, geography, and/or economics shape culture. Indicators The UMA graduate will be worldly-wise to: Demonstrate an understanding of vital theories within one or increasingly social science, including anthropology, psychology, political science, sociology, economics, and geography. Acknowledge the variability and complexity of human societies and cultures. Demonstrate an understanding of social science information resources misogynist through the library as well as other information sources. Demonstrate an understanding of social systems, including their biological and psychological determinants. Demonstrate an understanding of social and cultural value systems. Demonstrate an understanding of the social institutions that shape our society.Wieldsocial science perspectives, research, and information to other disciplines and professional studies. Demonstrate an understanding of the vocabulary used in one of the social science disciplines. UMA courses that meet the Social Science outcome: ANT 1xx any 100-level Anthropology undertow ECO 1xx any 100-level Economics undertow ECO 201 Macroeconomics ECO 202 Microeconomics JUS 1xx any 100-level Justice Studies undertow POS 1xx any 100-level Political Science undertow PSY 1xx any 100-level Psychology undertow SOC 1xx any 100-level Sociology undertow SSC 1xx any 100-level Social Science undertow Humanities The UMA graduate will walkout an understanding of ideas, events cultures and languages through which societies have evolved. Indicators The UMA graduate will be worldly-wise to: Evaluate, unriddle and compare significant texts, using historical contexts and a variety of cultural perspectives. Describe and unriddle how texts reflect the culture(s) that produced them within a global context.Unriddleand interpret the ideas of “value” and “meaning” from a variety of humanities perspectives. Articulate and defend a thoughtful towage of these ideas. Interpret meaning from a variety of media and construct, as well as fathom volitional interpretations. Demonstrate an understanding of the vocabulary used in one or increasingly of the disciplines within the humanities (e.g., literary or historical terminology). UMA courses that meet the Humanities requirement: AME xxx any American Studies undertow ARH 105 History of Art &TraceryI ARH 106 History of Art &TraceryII DRA xxx any Drama undertow ENG xxx any English undertow (except ENG 101 or 317w) FRE xxx any French undertow HGH xxx any Holocaust, Human Rights & Genocide undertow HTY xxx any History undertow HUM xxx any Humanities undertow MUH xxx any Music History undertow PHI xxx any Philosophy undertow (except PHI 135 or 335) SPA xxx any Spanish undertow WGS xxx any Women and Gender Studies undertow Fine Arts The UMA graduate will understand the modes of expression within one or increasingly areas of art (including, but not limited to visual arts, architecture, music, dance, theater, and cinematography). Indicators The UMA graduate will be worldly-wise to: Demonstrate an understanding of the compositional elements within a work of art. Identify and describe important works of art within a given genre. Demonstrate an understanding of cultural influences on artworks Demonstrate an understanding of the ways in which art influences society. Provide a telling interpretation for a chosen work of art. Demonstrate an understanding of the vocabulary used in one of the disciplines within the arts. UMA courses that meet the Fine Arts outcome: ART 1xx any 100-level Art undertow DRA xxx any Drama undertow ENG 351 Creative Writing I ENG 452 Creative Writing II MUH 1xx any 100-level Music History undertow MUS 1xx any 100-level Music undertow Cultural Diversity The UMA graduate will be worldly-wise to identify, discuss, unriddle and evaluate issues pertaining to diversity. Indicators The UMA graduate will be worldly-wise to: Demonstrate an understanding of diversities within and among cultures, religions, races, ethnicities, genders, sexual preferences, abilities, month and/or socioeconomic groups. Demonstrate an understanding of the telescopic and limitations of one’s own cultural perspective. Identify issues and problems that people from minority cultures have negotiating the dominant culture. Engage in hair-trigger inquiry into the problems, challenges and possibilities inherent in a diverse society. Demonstrate an understanding of the vocabulary used in one or increasingly of the interdisciplinary studies of diversity. Computer Literacy The UMA graduate will be worldly-wise to use vital computer technology required to communicate in a technology-based society. Indicators The UMA graduate will be worldly-wise to: Demonstrate the function of computer hardware components required to input, store, and process data, including towardly peripheral devices. Perform vital operating systems file maintenance commands. Use a word processor to create, edit, and save a short research paper. Manage and comprehend a spreadsheet to organize/summarize/visualize quantitative data. Build an electronic database to store and use information. Professionally present information using presentation software. Use towardly technology to communicate electronically UMA courses that meet the Computer Literacy outcome: CIS 100 Introduction to Computer Applications CIS 101 Introduction to Computer Science Information Literacy The UMA graduate will be worldly-wise to find, evaluate, and use information from traditional and new technology sources. Indicators The UMA graduate will be worldly-wise to: Determine the extent of information needed. Access the needed information powerfully and efficiently. Evaluate information and its sources critically and constructively. Retain and integrate selected information into his or her knowledge base. Use information powerfully to succeed a specific purpose. Demonstrate the upstanding use of information.Hair-triggerThinking The UMA graduate will be worldly-wise to think critically. Indicators The UMA graduate will be worldly-wise to: Develop well-reasoned arguments. Demonstrate evaluative skills such as the worthiness to distinguish fact from opinions, identify inside issues and problems, classify data, judge credibility, predict consequences, recognize assumptions and inconsistencies, snift bias, plan unorganized strategies, and evaluate arguments and hypotheses. Demonstrate thinking skills such as flexibility, precision, verism and/or reflection. Identify and solve a variety of types of problems Demonstrate the use of both inductive and deductive reasoning Demonstrate creative thinkingUpstandingReasoning The UMA graduate will be worldly-wise to assess their own upstanding values and the social context of problems, recognize upstanding issues in a variety of settings, think well-nigh how variegated upstanding perspectives might be unromantic to upstanding dilemmas, and consider the ramifications of volitional actions.  (adapted from LEAP VALUE rubric: https://www.aacu.org/ethical-reasoning-value-rubric) Indicators The UMA graduate will be worldly-wise to:Unriddleand discuss in depth both cadre beliefs and the origins of the cadre beliefs. Identify and explain variegated upstanding perspectives, concepts or theories. Recognize upstanding issues when presented in a complex, multilayered (gray) races AND recognize interrelationships between issues.Wieldethical perspectives/concepts to an upstanding question, accurately, and consider the full implications of the application. State a position and state the objections to, assumptions and implications of and can reasonably defend versus the objections to, assumptions and implications of variegated upstanding perspectives/concepts.     Request Info Schedule a VisitWieldNow Mission Statement Annual Security Report Non-Discrimination Notice Contact Us University of Maine at Augusta 46 University Drive, Augusta, ME 04330 Phone: 1.877.UMA.1234 Mission Statement Annual Security Report Non-Discrimination Notice Contact Us © 2018 University of Maine at Augusta