Requirements for the Degree A minimum of 128 semester credits must be earned. At least forty-eight credits must be upper-division (300-400) level. A maximum of sixty-four semester credits will be accepted from a junior college. The credits must include the following:
General Education Requirements
The general education requirements at Jamestown College represent the faculty’s best judgment regarding the knowledge and skills that any college-educated person should have. The fields of learning that comprise these requirements consist of the following, each of which has general learning goals: 1. Moral and Civic Education a. enhancement of the ability to make well-reasoned decisions in the domains of both professional and personal ethics b. understanding and appreciation of the American democratic political system and free-market economic system as well as their alternatives c. knowledge and appreciation of other cultures through foreign language studies and/or foreign culture, global, and international studies courses 2. Communication Skills a. the ability to communicate through writing and speech at a level expected of college-educated persons in the professions and the callings of life b. the ability to meet the communication expectations of graduate and professional schools and twenty-first century careers 3. Cultural and Social Heritage a. knowledge and appreciation of the broad range of received subject matter and lasting works of proven value as well as major currents of contemporary thought in the humanities 40
b. understanding and appreciation of the methodology and modes of thought and inquiry associated with the academic disciplines that comprise the social sciences c. understanding of the Christian tradition, openness to the questions that religion raises, and responsiveness to the answers that religion provides d. recognition and appreciation of the utility of humanities and the social science for exploring the deep questions of human nature, the human condition, and human potential e. commitment to freedom of inquiry in pursuit of truth wherever it may lead 4. Natural Science and Quantitative Reasoning a. understanding and appreciation of the methodology, modes of thought, and unfettered free inquiry associated with the academic disciplines that comprise the natural sciences b. acquisition and use of the skills associated with computer literacy as currently defined and evolving c. competency in the skills, techniques, and methods of mathematics as well as comprehension and application of its uses in other fields 5. Physical Education a. understanding and appreciation of physical activity and its value in developing and maintaining good physical and mental health b. development of basic skills that will encourage continued involvement and lifetime habits and practices of fitness and wellness