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Aug 29, 2025
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2025-2026 Catalog
General Education (All Associates Degrees)
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This list represents the minimum credits for each category. Based on student choices, additional credits over 28 will count as free electives. If a student has general education credits waived, the credits may need to be made up as free electives to reach the minimum 60 credits for an associates degree.
Some program requirements may fulfill general education requirements, as indicated in program descriptions.
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Intellectual & Practical Skills
The student will be able to demonstrate competency in the critical skills of accessing, interpreting, and communicating qualitative and quantitative data. Communication (9 credits)
A minimum grade of C is required for ENG 100 as a prerequisite for ENG 101. Quantitative Reasoning (3 credits)
Any MAT course level 100 or higher. Information Fluency (3 credits)
General Knowledge
The liberal arts and sciences have been a part of university education since the original European universities of 1,000 years ago. Students will explore the arts and humanities, natural science, and the behavioral-social sciences. Arts & Humanities (3 credits)
Students select one from Visual and Performing Arts, Literature, or History. Choose one course from one of these three areas: (3 credits)
Natural Sciences (4 credits)
The student will be exposed to scientific inquiry and the laws and principles that have been established in humanity’s effort to understand the natural universe through the study of the biological or physical sciences. Behavioral-Social Sciences (3 credits)
The student will be able to describe the social and behavioral phenomena of human relationship to others, their communities, their social institutions. World Language (Division of Nursing, Allied Health and Behavioral Health) (3 credits)
Students within the Division of Nursing, Allied Health and Behavioral Science Division choose a World Language. A student who attended secondary school in a language other than English satisfies the world language requirement by successful completion of ENG 101 . Students proficient in languages other than those referenced here may satisfy the World Language requirement through standardized testing. Contact UMFK’s Prior Learning Assessment Coordinator. General Education Elective (Arts & Sciences and Professional Studies Division) (3 credits)
Students within the Arts and Sciences and Professional Studies Division choose one additional General Education course from any of the above areas of General Education. |
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