Learning Outcomes
Learning Outcomes of the General Education Core Curriculum
- English Composition: Students will demonstrate effective written communication.
- World Literature: Students will interpret and compare world literatures.
- Constitutions: Students will interpret the U.S. and Nevada Constitutions in broad contexts.
- Mathematics: Students will demonstrate quantitative reasoning skill.
- Multicultural: Students will analyze contemporary cultures within the United States.
- International: Students will demonstrate proficiency in a foreign language or explain how international cultures, societies, or political economics relate to complex, modern world systems.
- Distribution Requirements:
- Humanities and Fine Arts: Students will critically analyze the relationships of aesthetics, ideas, cultural practices and values to historical and contemporary cultures. Students will critically analyze the aesthetics, ideas, cultural practices, and values that shape individuals and their lives.
- Life and Physical Sciences and Analytical Thinking: Students will use the methods and models of the natural sciences to define, solve, and evaluate problems. Students will apply logic to solve problems.
- Social Sciences: Students will use the methods and models of the social sciences to analyze individual and group behaviors. Students will evaluate how policies affect individual and group behaviors.
To the end of fostering your liberal education, then, the UNLV Core Curriculum stipulates that you will undertake a number of specifically required courses in composition, in literature, in math, and in the study of our U. S. and Nevada Constitutions. In addition, you will choose from a broader array of courses to fulfill UNLV’s distribution requirement. As you will see in more detail in the section that follows this one, students must take three courses, typically totaling nine to 10 credit hours, in each of two content areas that are OUTSIDE the major area of study. The content areas are Humanities and the Fine Arts, Natural Sciences and Analytical Thinking, and the Social Sciences. These two content area distribution requirements of our core allow your major department or college to determine what course work will be required in its own specialized area of study while still ensuring that you will be exposed to a broadly liberal education. The major department or college will also decide what training in computer literacy you need or incorporate such training in your other course work for the major. Please see the listing “Majors and their Distribution Area Assignments” later in this section to see the Major Distribution content areas that are within the major area of study.
Courses that satisfy the Nevada System of Higher Education Core requirements may simultaneously satisfy UNLV’s General Education Core requirements. The UNLV General Education Core requirements must be completed by all baccalaureate degree candidates.