GENERAL EDUCATION COURSE CLASSIFICATION FORM
Course Prefix & No.
Course Title
Division/Department
Prerequisites
Credit Hours
THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE AND COMPETENCIES: Check each item for which the course is to be considered.
Competencies
Mathematical Competency
Written Literacy
Arts and Letters
Arts
Language
Literature
Behavioral, Economic, and
Political Sciences
Behavioral Sciences
Economics
Political Sciences
History, Cultures, and
Philosophical Inquiry
History
Culture
Philosophy
Physical, Life, and
Computational Sciences
Physical Sciences
Life Sciences
Computational Sciences
Capstone
Capstone
Physical Education
Physical Education
Human Experience
Global Competency
The General Education course objectives are as follows. The Educational Policies Committee (EPC) will use the working
definition of a General Education course and these objectives in evaluating the applicability of courses for Pitt-Bradford’s
General Education Program. Explain how the relevant areas will be addressed in the course. Please only provide information
regarding the relevant objectives listed; courses need not meet every objective or sub-objective. Section D. refers only to those
proposals in which Global Competency status is sought. Sections A, B, & C refer to courses only seeking Gen Ed status. A Global
Competency status course does not need to be a Gen Ed course; a Gen Ed course does not need Global Competency status. Please
include a copy of the syllabus for the course under consideration.
A. INQUIRY-INVESTIGATIVE SKILLS
1. To locate, gather, and evaluate information
2. To think critically
3. To communicate effectively
B. DISCIPLINARY METHODOLOGICAL SKILLS
4. To make informed, sensitive, intelligent value decisions
5. To make informed, sensitive, aesthetic responses
6. To understand scientific methodology
C. RELEVANCY TO THE CULTURAL, POLITICAL, SOCIAL, OR SCIENTIFIC ASPECT OF BEING
7. To integrate the breadth and diversity of knowledge and experience
8. To understand the relationship of the past, the present, and the future
9. To understand how course material relates to the contemporary world
10. To develop awareness of the dimensions of race, gender, age and ethnicity
D. GLOBAL COMPETENCY
11. To develop global awareness:
a. Appreciate and respect differences in non-pervasive cultures and institutional conditions,
b. Make reason‐ and fact‐based comparisons across non-pervasive cultures and regions,
c. Understand the global forces bearing on societies and how these forces emerged,
d. Communicate effectively across linguistic and cultural boundaries.
e. Understand the international dimensions of the discipline or major,
f. Learn to adapt the practice of a discipline to the norms of differing cultures,
Submitted by:________________________________________________
Date:_____________________________________
Division/Dept. Chair:__________________________________________
Date:_____________________________________
Revised 2/14