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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 -于2008年5月由学院批准,并于2009年秋季实施.

十大网赌正规网址 seeks to 开发 in each student an appreciation for learning through an academic foundation grounded in the disciplines and in-depth study in specific majors. 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, flexible General Education curriculum in the liberal arts provides the most appropriate formal preparation to:

  • 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. All students are expected to demonstrate or acquire basic levels of these foundational skills during their first year.

写, 口服, and quantitative reasoning skills are infused across the Core curriculum so that students have multiple opportunities to reinforce them. 大多数课程都是“融入我们的世界”,”“认识的方法,和“综合与批判性思维”将强化其中一项技能.

The syllabus will indicate that the skills instruction is an integral part of the course and that skills-oriented assignments will receive sufficient weight to reflect this foundational ability.

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. 通过对不同文本的分析性阅读,提高批判性思维能力, 综合这些来源的信息, 并评估内容的强度.
  3. study a disciplinary or interdisciplinary subject in depth and be assessed according to the learning goals appropriate to that content.
  4. participate in small-group activities and experiences with the entire first-year class to facilitate transition to college life.

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. 教师将对学生有效使用这些技能提供反馈

w专业标准

  1. 仔细注意写作过程(计划), 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. 有能力在公众场合传达适当而有效的信息, 人际关系, 以及小组设置
  2. 能够以适当和有效的方式倾听和回应中介信息.

核心课程的标准

  1. 说话以说服、告知或辩论
  2. 以清晰、有说服力和简洁的方式口头传达材料
  3. 在人际、小组或公共场合创建适当的信息
  4. 接受口头沟通技巧的反馈.

定量推理(C-1Q)

  • 一门基础定量课程-数学113定量推理, 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

注:这些课程有作为先决条件或共同要求的数学105基本代数或熟练程度.

定量推理基础标准

数学113, 115, 210, or PYSC 241: understand and use basic statistical concepts including making and interpreting graphic representations of data, 构建和解释散点图和回归线, 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.(估计和/或假设检验),以及统计方法的局限性.

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. 准确地解释来自各种历史或当代来源的定量信息[或]
  2. 组织,分析,并有说服力地传达数据通过图表[或]
  3. 使用统计软件或电子表格等工具分析数据
  4. 通过适当的定量方法解决问题.

C-2体育活动和健康

A strong liberal education presumes that students can meet the challenges of a career and responsible citizenship by maintaining a 健康的 lifestyle. It is essential that students engage in physical activity and learn life-long activities that will contribute to a purposeful, 健康的, 对生活有回报.

Students will choose classes from a list of physical activity and wellness courses — two from PE 101 (Lifetime Activity) and two from PE 105 (Fitness and Wellness Activity). Student-athletes who compete at the intercollegiate level are not allowed to take an activity course in the same sport in which they compete.

  • 四道菜(.(各5学时).

标准

  1. 获得终身参与和享受的有用技能
  2. 学习并运用礼仪知识和活动规则
  3. 学习和应用健身和营养的科学原理为个人计划
  4. 表现出与每项活动相关的健康原则的意识.

C-3融入世界

Global citizenship requires an understanding of the complexity and interconnectedness of the world and a commitment to addressing its multiple needs. 纪念其在兄弟教会的根基, 十大网赌正规网址 approaches such challenges through a commitment to responsible stewardship of resources, 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. Students can best be prepared to become persons of ability and conviction by approaching the challenges of global citizenship by applying the values and attitudes most central to the University’s history.

  • 三门课程,至少一门在以下两类.

负责任的公民

标准

  1. 学会理解那些持有不同职位的人的假设和动机, 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. 开发 responses — from theoretical to service-oriented — to the legitimate needs of various parties while respecting higher principles of fairness and justice
  4. 检查过去和现在的争议,涉及可能是人际关系的话题, 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.

必须透过下列其中一种途径,达到上述三项标准:

  • 掌握非母语语言的基本用法[或]
  • 了解一个或多个非美国文化或地区如何定义自己[或]
  • acquire intercultural experience by completing one or more courses off campus that focuses on a non-US culture (i.e.、短期或住宿计划)

C-4种认识方式

A strong liberal education presumes a breadth of knowledge and basic understanding of how different disciplines define themselves, 理解现实, 并为其他领域做出贡献. 学生将从以下领域的课程列表中选择共九门课程:

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. 这个类别致力于研究人类对信仰、价值观和愿望的表达.

四门课程,在以下领域各一门,满足以下标准:

  • 宗教
    1. 1. 理解基督教的核心思想,无论是单独的还是与其他宗教的比较
    2. 2. 开发 conceptual tools and analytical skills for understanding how religion responds to fundamental human dilemmas
    3. 3. acquire a basic understanding of how religious beliefs and practices function within a world view and shape intellectual traditions and societies.
  • 哲学
    1. 1. 讨论哲学家对人类基本问题采取的方法
    2. 2. 掌握从事哲学探究所必需的词汇和技能, 特别是通过发展他们理解和评估论点的能力.
  • 视觉及表演艺术
    1. 1. understand the non-verbal elements and structures of one or more of the visual and performing arts in different historical periods
    2. 2. 批判性地审视艺术
    3. 3. 区分风格和体裁.
  • 文学
    1. 1. 学习某一特定文化、历史时期或流派的典型文学
    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. learn ways in which literature articulates the preoccupations and dilemmas of people from various backgrounds.

人类行为与制度

人类是如何以及为什么这样做的. 这个类别致力于研究人类个体和集体的行为方式.

三门不同学科的课程,每门课程必须满足以下标准:

  • 标准
    1. acquire the 词汇表 necessary to describe and analyze human behavior from societal and institutional perspectives
    2. 检查当代或历史社会的中心伦理困境. 这些困境可能是个人的、政治的、经济的或教育的
    3. articulate and apply the formal theoretical perspectives and empirical research used in the social sciences.

自然世界

世界是如何以及为什么这样运转的. 这个类别致力于对世界自然过程的科学研究.

两门不同学科的课程,每门课程必须满足以下条件:

  • 标准
    1. 通过学习内容,展示对自然世界某些方面的系统理解, 词汇表, 以及科学理论之间的相互关系
    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

Liberal education requires both the acquisition of knowledge from many disciplines and also the ability to connect and synthesize material from multiple perspectives. Through public programs representing diverse topics and perspectives as well as an upper-level interdisciplinary course, 学生将学会理解和应对复杂性.

关键的连接

•一门课程,在大三或大四期间完成.

  • 标准
    1. explore a substantive topic or problem from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and modes of inquiry appropriate to the liberal arts
    2. 分析重要问题
    3. 提高面对复杂性和模糊性的能力
    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, 学生将接触到一系列的知识和艺术思想和价值观.

  • 40个课程(共1学时).

学士和学士学位

文学学士

攻读学士学位的学生需要具备语言能力, 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. 学生将演示基本的结构控制,以表达不同的时间框架(现在), 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

Students who seek the BS degree will demonstrate mastery of quantitative thinking skills at the level of introductory (conceptual) statistics or applied (non-theoretical) calculus or higher.

他们将能够构建和解释用于表示数据和数学关系的图形, 识别数据的误用和数值推理中的常见谬误. 在统计学课程中,学生将学习概率在得出统计结论中的作用, 理解什么时候因果关系是一个有效的结论,而不是简单的相关性, 运用基本的统计技术. 在微积分课程中,学生将理解和应用常见的增长模型(例如.g.(线性,二次,指数),并分析和解释在应用设置的变化率.


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 综合与批判性思维:1门课程,1个学时