Fayetteville State University
Department: University College
Program: Core Curriculum
Program Goals:
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Communication Skills: Students will comprehend, analyze, and evaluate the effectiveness of
various forms of written and spoken communication, and they will assemble original written and
spoken communications that display appropriate organization, clarity, and documentation for a
given purpose and audience.
Reasoning Skills - Critical Thinking: Students will accurately evaluate the reasonableness of
arguments’ evidence and support, and they will construct reasonable arguments using various
forms of evidence drawn from multiple sources.
Reasoning Skills - Quantitative: They will apply math to situations common in everyday living,
and they will calculate, interpret, and assess statistical data and concepts, percentages, proportions,
rates of change, geometric measures, linear equations, probability and risk.
Inquiry Skills: Students will formulate effective questions based on a need; organize, sort,
evaluate, and retrieve academic information to address the need; cite sources appropriately for
their context.
Scientific Literacy: Students will create and assess hypotheses using research methods, interpret
and express the results of observation and experimentation, understand the fundamental concepts
of natural and social sciences, and apply scientific knowledge to situations common to daily life to
promote physical and psychological well-being.
Global Literacy: Students will appreciate the global diversity of cultures, values, and belief
systems and the common humanity underlying them; interact effectively with culturally different
peoples; understand cultural interdependence, and create solutions to intercultural problems.
Ethics and Civic Engagement: Students will develop a personal system of ethics and morality and
demonstrate it in daily self-discipline and interpersonal relationships, in volunteer work, and
through participation in organizations; they will synthesize source material from a variety of
disciplines to understand and apply theories of morality and ethics.
Curriculum Matrix
Courses
Program Goals
Communication
Skills
UNIV 101/102 or UNIV
110 or PHIL 110
ENGL 110 and 120
SPEE 200
MATH 121 Or MATH 123
Or MATH 124 Or MATH
129 Or MATH 130 Or
MATH 131 Or MATH 140
Or MATH 142 Or MATH
150
Select 2 Natural Sciences:
CHEM 101 & CHEM 102
Or NSCI 110 & NSCI 120
Or ASTR 111 & ASTR 112
Or BIOL 110 & BIOL 130
Or BIOL 150 & ZOOL 110
Or CHEM 140 & CHEM
160 Or PHYS 111 & PHYS
112 Or PHYS 121 & PHYS
122
Reasoning
Skills
Inquiry
Skills
Scientific
Literacy
Global
Literacy
Ethics and
Civic
Engagement
Curriculum Matrix
Courses
Program Goals
Communication
Skills
Select 1 from History &
Social Sciences: ANTH 210
Or CRJC 200 Or ECON 200
Or ECON 211 Or ECON
212 Or GEOG 210 Or
GEOG 220 Or HIST 110 Or
HIST 120 Or HIST 210 Or
HIST 211 Or HIST 212 Or
POLI 200 Or POLI 210 Or
POLI 220 Or PSYC 210 Or
SOCI 210 Or SWRK 220
Select 1 from Humanities or
Fine Arts: ART 210 Or
ART 211 Or ENGL 211 Or
ENGL 212 Or ENGL 220
Or ENGL 223 Or ENGL
240 Or HUMN 211 Or
HUMN 212 Or MUSI 210
Or MUSI 260 Or PHIL 210
Or PHIL 212 Or PHIL 220
Or THEA 203
Phys Ed/Health Ed
HEED 112 or 2 from:
PEDU 101 to PEDU 141
Reasoning
Skills
Inquiry
Skills
Scientific
Literacy
Global
Literacy
Ethics and
Civic
Engagement
Curriculum Matrix
Courses
Program Goals
Communication
Skills
Reasoning
Skills
Inquiry
Skills
Scientific
Literacy
Global
Literacy
Ethics and
Civic
Engagement
Restricted Electives
Select from: History and
Social Sciences options
above.
Humanities and Fine Arts
options above.
6 credits of foreign language
sequence.
3 credits of any 100- or 200level class.
Notes
UNIV 101-102 required for all first time students; UNIV 110 required for transfer students with fewer than
30 transfer credits.
PHIL 110 not required for students with 60+ transfer credits.
ENGL 108 and additional credits in ENGL 110-120 may be required based on profile scores.
Additional mathematics courses and additional credits in MATH 121-123 may be required based on profile
scores.
Students are not permitted to complete BIOL 110 and NSCI 120 to fulfill Natural Science requirements.