The communications course is designed to enhance critical reading, thinking, and writing skills. Students use a variety of technologies to formulate and carry out a research project. The speech communications course is designed to enhance critical reading, thinking, and speaking skills. Emphasis is on techniques, principles, and practice of oral communication in a variety of formats, including public speaking. The mathematics course demonstrates how mathematics can be used to solve a wide variety of problems in the real world.
Emphasis is on both quantitative literacy and the aesthetic quality of mathematics.
This course is intended to introduce students to a language other than their primary language. The focus is on language acquisition, but students will also gain some awareness and understanding of the culture of those who speak the language as a primary one. The first course examines the physical perspective of the natural world. The second course views the natural world through biological perspectives. These chronologically sequenced courses examine the historical and geographic contexts in which human cultures and civilizations have developed.