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. 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. A FYS102 Common Hour for enrichment activities and learning will accompany the course. All incoming freshmen and transfer students with less than 30 credits must complete a First Year Seminar. AP and Dual Enrollment (College in High School) credit may not be used towards a waiver of the FYS requirement. A minimum grade of 2.0 is required for fulfillment of the FYS requirement. Courses include:
FYS 100 First-Year Seminar
FYS 101 First-Year Seminar (Graham Innovation Scholars)
FYS 110 (EDU200) Education in Today’s Society (For Secondary Education (all content areas), K-12 Spanish Majors and K-12 Music Majors only)
Foundations courses are meant to serve as the initial building block for student learning in the essential areas of Communication, Quantitative thinking, and Citizenship. A minimum grade of 2.0 must be earned for fulfillment of all Foundations requirements. Students will take Foundations courses in the following areas:
- Foundation Communication: This course will focus on providing students with the basis for acquiring written, oral, and visual communication skills, and will facilitate acquisition of active reading, information literacy, and critical/analytical thinking skills. Students who do not meet minimum placement standards may be required to complete additional coursework and/or supplementary instruction to 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. Advanced Communication 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 220 Principles of Scientific Reasoning
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. Students may satisfy by Major American or Global Citizenship requirements, but not both. 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
PHL 245 American Philosophical Thought
PS 101 (PS141) American Government and Citizenship
REL 269 American Religious Thought and Culture
- Global Citizenship: Students have the option to complete the Global Citizenship requirement by successfully completing six credits of the same foreign language. 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: The courses taken within Disciplinary Perspectives introduce students to concepts and methodologies of that particular broad disciplinary realm. 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 and perspectives to their own major-specific work. Only one of the four areas may be satisfied by Major program requirements. A minimum grade of 1.0 must be earned for fulfillment of all Disciplinary Perspectives requirements (unless the Major program requires a higher grade). Students will take courses in the following areas:
Constellations are groupings of advanced-level courses around broad themes that are addressed using multi- and interdisciplinary perspectives. 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. Students will take courses in a Constellation from a minimum of three disciplines (prefixes). Programs may have one Constellation course serve as a Constellation and a Major requirement, if the course is a certified Constellation course. A minimum grade of 1.0 in all courses must be earned for fulfillment of the Constellation requirement (unless the Major program requires a higher grade).
Big Ideas
Children and the Family
Community
Creativity & the Arts
Diversity
Environmental Sustainability
Globalization
Health and Wellness
Leadership and Professional Development
Media and Popular Culture
Peace and Conflict
Science and Technology
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