Generation Next Elements:
The purpose of the First Year Seminar (FYS) is to prepare new students for the creative, interdisciplinary, and rigorous modes of inquiry that characterize a York College education as is expected in major and non-major (general education) courses. The FYS is intended to create a sense of intellectual community for students and faculty, to emphasize attainment of key learning outcomes, to introduce students to college-level rigor and expectations, to encourage the academic growth of students, and to purposefully expose students to a variety of co-curricular experiences and resources available at York College. Courses include:
FYS 100 First-Year Seminar
FYS 101 First-Year Seminar (Graham Innovation Scholars)
FYS 110 (EDU200) Education in Today’s Society (This course is designed for all education majors.)
Foundations courses are meant to serve as the initial building block for student learning. This is where you start building the skills that will be the basis of what you learn throughout college and beyond. Students will take Foundations courses in the following areas:
- First-Year Communication: This course will focus on providing students with the initial basis for acquiring written, oral, and visual communication skills, and will facilitate acquisition of active reading, information literacy, inquiry-based learning, and critical/analytical thinking skills. Students who do not meet minimum placement standards may be required to complete additional coursework and/or supplementary instruction that ensure that they meet Communication outcomes.
FCO 105 Rhetorical Communication
- Advanced Communication: In order to provide reinforcement of the Communication outcome and its associated skills in a manner that is contextualized for specific disciplines at a more advanced level, major programs are required to include an Advanced Communication requirement. This requirement for students may take the form of 1) a majors-based course that emphasizes the continued development of oral, written, and visual communication skills, 2) a general Communication course (not focused on major) which emphasizes the continued development of oral, written, and visual communication skills, or 3) completion of a series of courses offered as part of the major program that provide intensive attention to Communication skills development. Courses include:
CM 212 Public Speaking
FCO 210 (WRT210) Communication in Professional Cultures
FCO 215 Technical and Scientific Communication
FCO 225 (WRT225) Interdisciplinary Communication
- Quantitative Fluency: These courses will help students to analyze, interpret, and employ quantitative, graphic, or visually-represented data for the purpose of understanding issues, addressing problems, and or answering questions in a variety of academic and everyday settings. Courses include:
MAT 111 Critical Thinking and Problem Solving in Mathematics
PHL 222 Critical Thinking
PHL 231 Logic
- American and Global Citizenship: Theses courses will provide students with an understanding of citizenship responsibilities at the community, national, international and global level; comprehension of connections and interactions between local and global contexts; an ability to connect disciplinary and professional concerns or issues to wider personal, community, national or global issues; and an ability to function positively as an individual and professional in an informed manner in diverse contexts, from the local to the global. Students must choose one course from each area listed below. Courses include:
American Citizenship:
ECO 201 Principles of Economics (Micro)
HIS 111 American Civilization I
HIS 112 American Civilization II
LIT 281 American Literature and Identity I
LIT 282 American Literature and Identity II
PS 101 (PS141) American Government and Citizenship
- Global Citizenship: Students have the option to complete the Global Citizenship requirement by successfully completing six credits of the same foreign language in specific majors. Students must refer to the Programs of Study section of the College catalog to verify which majors permit this option. Not all majors have this option available.
ECO 200 Principles of Economics (Macro)
G 100 (G243) World Regional Geography
HIS 102 The West in the World
PS 102 Contemporary Global Issues
Disciplinary Perspectives courses: These courses demonstrate the ways that knowledge is constructed in various academic disciplines. The courses taken within Disciplinary Perspectives introduce students to concepts and methodologies of that particular broad disciplinary realm. These courses use the content to expose the methodologies that disciplines use to arrive at that knowledge. These courses provide students with the genuine basis for integrative learning in the Constellations and in the majors. Provided with such an understanding, students are better prepared to take on more in-depth work in a variety of disciplines, and apply other disciplinary approaches to their own major-specific work. Students will take courses in the following areas:
- Humanities: In these courses, students will discuss how past and contemporary social, political, economic, and cultural contexts have shaped the human experience. They will articulate a variety of examples of the ways in which the social, political, economic and cultural manifestations of the human experience allows an understanding of how humanity has confronted or responded to these challenges, issues and questions. Courses include:
FLM 216 Introduction to Film
HIS 101 The Foundation of the West
LIT 200 Perspectives in Literature
PHL 221 Introduction to Philosophy
PHL 238 /WGS 238 Race, Gender, and Sexuality
REL 265 World Religions
- Arts: These courses explain how artistic works and other cultural products are related to the context in which they are produced. Students will appreciate and or engage in the creative process and produce an informed response to aesthetic works. Courses include:
ART 101 Art and Visual Culture
CRW 272 Introduction to Creative Writing
MUS 186 (MUS200) Listening to Music
THE 254 Introduction to Theatre
- Social and Behavioral Sciences: These courses explain how individuals, groups or institutions are examined and or understood using the methods and theories of the disciplines belonging to the social and behavioral sciences. Students will apply social and behavioral concepts, terminology, principles or theories to contribute to an understanding of significant past and present issues. Courses include:
ECO 205 (ECO300) Economic Perspectives
ENT 150 Introduction to Entrepreneurship
MKT 100 Principles of Marketing
PS 110 Introduction to Political Science
PSY 100 General Psychology
REC 101 Recreation and Leisure in Modern Society
SOC 100 Introduction to Sociology
- Natural and Physical Sciences: Students will understand the nature of scientific inquiry and use the scientific method and technologies to analyze aspects of the natural and physical world using experiment and observation data. Students will articulate the relationship and applicability of the natural and physical sciences to contemporary challenges, including appropriate use and misuse of scientific information. Courses include:
BIO 204 (BIO110) Exploring Biology
CHM 240 Perspectives on the Molecular World
ESS 254 Local Perspectives on the Geological World
G 151 Introduction to Physical Geography
PSC 152 Concepts in Physics in Everyday Life
Constellations are groupings of courses around broad themes that can be addressed using multi- and interdisciplinary perspectives. The groupings would consist of courses from multiple disciplines. Constellations build upon the skills acquired in the Foundations courses and the base of knowledge and methodologies acquired in the Disciplinary Perspectives courses. Constellations will allow students to apply higher-level thinking and communication skills while increasing the breadth and depth of their education. The Constellations will be structured to help students integrate ideas from different disciplines, as well as the co-curricular, in an intentional way. They will allow students see the connections between what they have learned in different general education courses, as well as help them make connections between the general education curriculum and their major. All constellations will have an interdisciplinary integrative experience. Students will take courses in a Constellation from a minimum of three disciplines. The Constellations will be phased in over a three year period as follows:
- Initial choices for Fall 2015:
Diversity
Health and Wellness
Media and Popular Culture
Environmental Sustainability
- Additional choices for Fall 2016
Creativity & the Arts
Big Ideas
Children and the Family
Globalization
- Additional choices for Fall 2017
Community
Peace, Conflict, Ethics, and Justice
Professionalism, Leadership, and Entrepreneurship
Science and Technology
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