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General Education Competency Areas

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Communications (6 credits required)

Students will:

Humanities (3 credits required)

Students will demonstrate knowledge of the conventions and methods of at least one of the humanities (Art, Literature, Modern Language, Philosophy) in addition to those by other knowledge areas required by the General Education program.

Arts (3 credits required)

Students will demonstrate understanding of at least one pricipal form of artistic expression and the creative process inherent therein.

American History (3 credits required)

Students will demonstrate:

Other World Civilizations (3 credits required)

Students will demonstrate:

Western Civilizations (3 credits required)

Student will demonstrate knowledge of the development of the distinctive features of the history, institutions, economy, society, culture, etc. of Western civilization, and relate the development of Western civilization to that of other regions of the world.

Mathematics (3 credits required)

Students will show competence in the following quantitative reasoning skills: Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry, Data analysis, and Quantitative reasoning.

Modern (Foreign) Languages (3 credits required)

Students will demonstrate:

This requirement may be partially fulfilled by earning a grade of 85 or higher on a regents examination in a foreign language. To complete the requirement, these students should take a course taught in English that is offered by the Modern Language department.

Students who speak languages not offered at Farmingdale State University of New York may fulfill this requirement by passing proficiency tests.

Social and Behavioral Sciences (6 credits required)

Students will demonstrate understanding of the methods social scientists use to explore social phenomena, including observation, hypothesis development, measurement and data collection, experimentation, evaluation of evidence, and employment of mathematical interpretive analysis; and knowledge of major concepts, models, and issues of at least one discipline in the social sciences.

Natural Sciences (8 credits required included 2 Laboratories)

Students will demonstrate:

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