Core IMPACTS (2024-current)
Core IMPACTS (2024-Current)
Every student in the University System of Georgia engages in a General Education curriculum designed to provide a foundation of knowledge, skills, and competencies to promote academic success and lifelong learning. This curriculum, “Core IMPACTS”, introduces the different ways of knowing the world and connects students to the big questions that will drive their future and provide the essential skills needed to succeed. Core IMPACTS is structured across seven areas: Institutional Priority, Mathematics and Quantitative Skills, Political Science and U.S. History, Arts, Humanities, and Ethics, Communicating in Writing, Technology, Mathematics and Sciences, and Social Sciences. Each of these seven areas of the general education core curriculum is structured around an “orienting question,” includes learning outcomes, and career-ready competencies.
IMPACTS | Orienting Question | Learning Outcome(s) | Career-Ready Competencies |
|---|---|---|---|
Institutional Priority | How does my institution help me to navigate the world? | Students will demonstrate the ability to think critically and solve problems related to academic priorities at their institution. | Critical Thinking Teamwork Time Management |
Mathematics & Quantitative Skills | How do I measure the world? | Students will demonstrate the ability to think critically and solve problems related to academic priorities at their institution. | Critical Thinking Teamwork Time Management |
Political Science and U.S. History | How do I prepare for my responsibilities as an engaged citizen? | Students will demonstrate knowledge of the history of the United States, the history of Georgia, and the provisions and principles of the United States Constitution and the Constitution of Georgia. | Critical Thinking Intercultural Competence Persuasion |
Arts, Humanities & Ethics | How do I interpret the human experience through creative, linguistic, and philosophical works? | Students will effectively analyze and interpret the meaning, cultural significance, and ethical implications of literary/philosophical texts in English or other languages, or of works in the visual/performing arts. | Ethical Reasoning Information Literacy Intercultural Competence |
Communicating in Writing | How do I write effectively in different contexts? | Students will communicate effectively in writing, demonstrating clear organization and structure, using appropriate grammar, and writing conventions. Students will appropriately acknowledge the use of materials from original sources. Students will adapt their written communications to purpose and audience. Students will analyze and draw informed inferences from written texts. | Critical Thinking Information Literacy Persuasion |
Technology, Mathematics & Sciences | How do I ask scientific questions or use data, mathematics, or technology to understand the universe? | Students will use the scientific method and laboratory procedures or mathematical and computational methods to analyze data, solve problems, and explain natural phenomena. | Inquiry and Analysis Problem-Solving Teamwork |
Social Sciences | How do I understand human experiences and connections? | Students will effectively analyze the complexity of human behavior, and how historical, economic, political, social, or geographic relationships develop, persist, or change. | Intercultural Competence Perspective-Taking Persuasion |
Core IMPACTS requirements must add up to 42 semester credit hours, with minimum credit hours in each area.
Core IMPACTS | Area Shorthand | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
Institutional Priority | Institution | 3 to 6 hours |
Mathematics & Quantitative Skills | Mathematics | at least 3 credit hours |
Political Science & U.S. History | Citizenship | 6 hours |
Arts, Humanities & Ethics | Humanities | 6 hours |
Communication in Writing | Writing | 6 hours |
Technology, Mathematics & Sciences | STEM | 11-12 hours |
Social Sciences | Social Sciences | 3 to 6 hours |
Hours used in I determine the hours needed for T and S:
If I = 3, then T = 12 and S = 6
If I = 4, then T = 11 and S = 6
If I = 6, then T = 12 and S = 3
Advisors and students should refer to the catalog for specific classes that satisfy CORE IMPACTS, as each degree may require specific courses for degree completion.