曼彻斯特核心:文科课程

十大网赌正规网址的通识教育课程 曼彻斯特核心:文科课程 - was approved by the 教师 in May of 2008, and was implemented in the Fall of 2009.

十大网赌正规网址力求通过学科基础和特定专业的深入学习，培养每个学生对学习的欣赏. 这种结合为学生进入研究生院做准备, 的职业, 以及社会各领域的领导职位. 一个广泛的, 灵活的通识教育课程在文科提供最适当的正式准备:

• 迎接当代挑战，
• 完成职业目标;
• 过一种有目的、健康、有意义的生活
• 作为一个负责任的公民为社会服务.

C-1 基本的技能

A strong education presumes that students can express their thoughts clearly in written and 口服 form; that they know how to organize, 开发, and refine thoughts for maximum effectiveness; and that they can think quantitatively at a high level in order to understand the complexities of a technologically sophisticated world. 所有学生都应该在第一年展示或掌握这些基本技能的基本水平.

写, 口服, 定量推理技能贯穿核心课程，让学生有多种机会加强这些技能. Most courses proposed for the categories “Integration Into Our World,”“认识的方法,” and “Synthesis and Critical Thinking” will reinforce one of these skills.

教学大纲将表明，技能指导是课程的一个组成部分，技能导向的作业将得到足够的重视，以反映这种基本能力.

一年级批判性思维研讨会(C-1FYS)

1. 写作标准英语, clearly and appropriately; analyze critically, through organized and persuasive writing; used appropriate citation for both primary and secondary sources.
2. improve critical thinking skills by reading analytically from various texts, 综合这些来源的信息, 并评估内容的强度.
3. 深入学习一门学科或跨学科的学科，并根据适合该内容的学习目标进行评估.
4. 参加小组活动，并与整个一年级的班级体验，以促进过渡到大学生活.

书面交流

核心w课程的标准

作业应该强调以下一些技能:

1. 阐述和辩护一篇论文
2. 用例子/证据支持论点
3. 说明结果
4. 整合第一手和第二手资源
5. 使用标准书面英语
6. instructors will provide feedback on students' effective use of these skills

w专业标准

1. incorporate careful attention to the writing process (planning, 组织, 起草, 修改, 和重写)
2. 结合重要的写作机会, 包括至少一篇主要论文或同等论文.

口语交流(c - 10)

•COMM 110或熟练掌握

口语交流基础标准

1. ability to create appropriate and effective messages in public, 人际关系, 以及小组设置
2. ability to listen and respond to mediated messages in an appropriate and effective manner.

核心课程的标准

1. 说话以说服、告知或辩论
2. 口服ly convey material in a clear, cogent, and concise manner
3. create appropriate messages in 人际关系, small group, or public settings
4. 接受口头沟通技巧的反馈.

定量推理(C-1Q)

• one foundational quantitative course — MATH 113 Quantitative Reasoning, 数学115基本概率与统计, 数学210统计分析, 数学121微积分I, 心理学241统计与研究设计I -或熟练掌握

Note: These courses have as a pre- or co-requisite MATH 105 Basic Algebra or proficiency.

定量推理基础标准

数学113, 115, 210, 或PYSC 241:理解和使用基本的统计概念，包括制作和解释数据的图形表示, constructing and interpreting scatterplots and regression lines, 理解随机性, 样本中的误差和变化, 调查与实验设计, 统计推断的基本概念(一).e., estimation and/or hypothesis testing), and limitations of statistical approaches.

数学121:理解和使用导数和积分, 并将这些概念应用于变化率, 优化, 指数增长或衰减, 曲线下的面积.

核心q课程的标准

1. accurately interpret quantitative information from a variety of historical or contemporary sources [or]
2. organize, analyze, and persuasively convey data through graphs [or]
3. analyze data using tools such as statistical software or spreadsheets [or]
4. 通过适当的定量方法解决问题.

C-2体育活动和健康

一个强大的通识教育假定学生可以通过保持健康的生活方式来迎接职业和负责任的公民的挑战. 学生参与体育活动和学习终身活动是至关重要的，这将有助于有目的的, 健康的, 对生活有回报.

学生将从体育活动和健康课程列表中选择课程，其中两门来自体育101(终身活动)，两门来自体育105(健身和健康活动)。. 参加校际比赛的学生运动员不允许参加他们参加的同一运动项目的活动课程.

• 四道菜(.(各5学时).

标准

1. acquire the skills useful for lifetime participation and enjoyment
2. learn and apply the knowledge of etiquette and rules of activities
3. learn and apply scientific principles of fitness and nutrition for personal programs
4. demonstrate an awareness of wellness principles related to each activity.

C-3融入世界

全球公民需要了解世界的复杂性和相互关联性，并致力于解决其多种需求. 纪念其在兄弟教会的根基, 十大网赌正规网址通过致力于负责任的资源管理来应对这些挑战, 和平转化冲突, 公民参与和为他人服务, 欣赏其他文化, 并尊重每个人的无限价值. 通过运用大学历史中最核心的价值观和态度来应对全球公民的挑战，学生可以最好地准备成为有能力和信念的人.

• Three courses, at least one in each of the following two categories.

负责任的公民

标准

1. learn to understand the assumptions and motivations of those who hold diverse positions, 并有效地与这些人合作
2. 学会参与有争议话题的民间讨论
3. 在尊重更高的公平正义原则的同时，从理论到服务，对各方的合法需求作出回应
4. examine 过去的 and present controversies touching on topics that may be 人际关系, 群际, 国家, 或国际.

全球联系

标准

1. 发展全球视野
2. 培养对文化多样性的敏感性
3. 制定跨文化互动的策略.

The above three criteria must be met through one of the following means:

• acquire basic command of a language other than their own [or]
• learn how one or more non-US cultures or regions define themselves [or]
• 通过完成一门或多门以非美国文化为重点的校外课程，获得跨文化经验.e.、短期或住宿计划)

C-4种认识方式

良好的通识教育要求学生具备广泛的知识，并对不同学科的定义有基本的了解, 理解现实, 并为其他领域做出贡献. Students will choose a total of nine courses from lists of courses in the following areas:

哲学、宗教和创造性探究

人类如何表达他们的价值观和信仰. This category is devoted to the study of human expressions of beliefs, values, and aspirations.

Four courses, one in each of the following areas, satisfying the following criteria:

• 宗教
  1. 1. understand ideas central to Christianity, either alone or in comparison with another religion
  2. 2. 开发概念工具和分析技能，了解宗教如何回应基本的人类困境
  3. 3. 对宗教信仰和实践如何在世界观中发挥作用以及如何塑造知识传统和社会有基本的了解.
• 哲学
  1. 1. discuss the approaches that philosophers take to fundamental human questions
  2. 2. acquire the 词汇表 and skills necessary to engage in philosophical inquiry, especially through 开发ing their ability to understand and evaluate arguments.
• 视觉及表演艺术
  1. 1. 了解不同历史时期的一种或多种视觉和表演艺术的非语言元素和结构
  2. 2. 批判性地审视艺术
  3. 3. 区分风格和体裁.
• 文学
  1. 1. study literature typical of a particular culture, historical period, or genre
  2. 2. 学习文学分析的术语和技巧
  3. 3. 学习与文学相关的美学原则
  4. 4. 学习文学如何表达来自不同背景的人们的关注和困境.

人类行为与制度

人类是如何以及为什么这样做的. This category is devoted to the study of how humans behave both individually and collectively.

Three courses, from different disciplines, each of which must satisfy the following criteria:

• 标准
  1. 掌握从社会和制度角度描述和分析人类行为所需的词汇
  2. examine the central ethical dilemmas of contemporary or historical societies. These dilemmas can be personal, political, economic, or educational
  3. 表达和应用社会科学中使用的正式理论观点和实证研究.

自然世界

世界是如何以及为什么这样运转的. This category is devoted to the scientific study of natural processes in the world.

Two courses, from different disciplines, each of which must satisfy the following criteria:

• 标准
  1. demonstrate a systematic understanding of some aspect of the natural world through learning the content, 词汇表, and interrelationships among well-supported scientific theories
  2. 阐明科学方法论的独特之处, 比如基于经验观察的假设检验, 和概率结论.

C-5综合和批判性思维

通识教育既需要从多个学科获取知识，也需要从多个角度连接和综合材料的能力. 通过代表不同主题和观点的公共项目以及高水平的跨学科课程, 学生将学会理解和应对复杂性.

关键的连接

•One course, to be completed during the junior or senior year.

• 标准
  1. 从各种学科角度和适合文科的探究模式探索实质性主题或问题
  2. 分析重要问题
  3. 开发 increased capacity to confront complexity and ambiguity
  4. 综合信息
  5. 应对智力挑战.

价值观、思想和艺术

通过VIA项目, students will gain exposure to a range of intellectual and artistic ideas and values.

• 40个课程(共1学时).

学士和学士学位

文学学士

Students who seek the BA degree will demonstrate language proficiency, 除了他们的母语, 在中级水平.

They will be able to interact with native speakers well enough to accomplish uncomplicated communicative tasks in the target culture; acquire information from various media, 包括广播和印刷, and make basic suppositions; and write to convey information and opinions. Students will demonstrate basic control of structures to express different time frames (present, 过去的, 未来)和态度(条件句), 虚拟语气), 了解常见的手势和礼貌的形式.

理学学士

寻求学士学位的学生将在入门(概念)统计或应用(非理论)微积分或更高的水平上展示对定量思维技能的掌握.

They will be able to construct and interpret graphs used to present data and mathematical relationships, and identify misuses of data and common fallacies in numerical reasoning. In a course on statistics students will learn the role of probability in drawing statistical conclusions, understand when causation is a valid conclusion rather than simple correlation, 运用基本的统计技术. In a calculus course students will understand and apply common growth models (e.g., linear, quadratic, exponential), and analyze and interpret rates of change in applied settings.

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课程分配:(共52学时)

C-1 基础技能:3门课程

C-2 体育活动与健康:4门课程

C-3 融入世界:3门课程

C-4 知晓之道:9门课程

C-5 Synthesis and Critical Thinking: 1 course, 1 semester hour for VIA attendance