Core IMPACTS
Every four-year degree offered at GGC includes general education or core curriculum that impacts your academic, personal and professional growth.
Your academic journey through core classes benefits you in multiple ways by helping you …
- Persist in earning a four-year degree
- Graduate faster
- Enter careers prepared to prosper
- Transfer course credits seamlessly throughout University System of Georgia institutions
Core IMPACTS
Core IMPACTS consists of seven core curriculum domains (previously identified as areas A-E). Each Core IMPACTS domain is designed around a specific orienting question (goal or topic), learning outcomes and career-ready competencies.
Core IMPACTS = Institutional priority; Mathematics and quantitative skills; Political science and U.S. history; Arts, humanities and ethics; Communicating in writing; Technology, mathematics and sciences; Social sciences
Navigate the world – Institutional priority domain
Orienting question: How does my institution help me to navigate the world?
Learning outcome: Students will demonstrate the ability to think critically and solve problems related to academic priorities at their institution.
Career-ready competencies: Critical thinking, teamwork and time management
Pre-2024 alphabetical designation: Area B
Course
ITEC 1001
Measure the world – Mathematics and quantitative skills domain
Orienting question: How do I measure the world?
Learning outcome: Students will apply mathematical and computational knowledge to interpret, evaluate and communicate quantitative information using verbal, numerical, graphical or symbolic forms.
Career-ready competencies: Information literacy, inquiry and analysis, and problem-solving
Pre-2024 alphabetical designation: Area A
Courses
MATH 1001
MATH 1101
MATH 1111
MATH 1401
MATH 1113
MATH 2200
Become an engaged citizen – Political science and U.S. history domain
Orienting question: How do I prepare for my responsibilities as an engaged citizen?
Learning outcome: 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.
Career-ready competencies: Critical thinking, intercultural competence and persuasion
Pre-2024 alphabetical designation: Area E
Courses
HIST 2111
HIST 2112
POLS 1101
Creatively interpret human experiences – Arts, humanities and ethics domain
Orienting question: How do I interpret the human experience through creative, linguistic, and philosophical works?
Learning outcome: Students will effectively analyze and interpret the meaning, cultural significance and ethical implications of literary/philosophical texts or of works in the visual/performing arts.
Career-ready competencies: Ethical reasoning, information literacy and intercultural competence
Pre-2024 alphabetical designation: Area C
Courses
ARTS 1100
CHIN 1002
CHIN 2001
CHIN 2002
ENGL 2111
ENGL 2112
ENGL 2121
ENGL 2122
ENGL 2131
ENGL 2132
FILM 1005
FREN 1002
FREN 2001
FREN 2002
GEOG 1101
MUSC 1100
PHIL 2010
RELN 1100
SPAN 1002
SPAN 2001
SPAN 2002
THEA 1100
Effectively write in different contexts – Communicating in writing domain
Orienting question: How do I write effectively in different contexts?
Learning outcome: 1) Students will communicate effectively in writing, demonstrating clear organization and structure, using appropriate grammar and writing conventions. 2) Students will appropriately acknowledge the use of materials from original sources. 3) Students will adapt their written communications to purpose and audience. 4) Students will analyze and draw informed inferences from written texts.
Career-ready competencies: Critical thinking, information literacy and persuasion
Pre-2024 alphabetical designation: Area A
Courses
ENGL 1101
ENGL 1102
Question and understand the universe – Technology, mathematics and sciences domain
Orienting question: How do I ask scientific questions or use data, mathematics, or technology to understand the universe?
Learning outcome: Students will use the scientific method and laboratory procedures or mathematical and computational methods to analyze data, solve problems and explain natural phenomena.
Career-ready competencies: Inquiry and analysis, problem-solving and teamwork
Pre-2024 alphabetical designation: Area D
Courses
BIOL 1101K
BIOL 1102
CHEM 1151K
CHEM 1152K
CHEM 1211K
CHEM 1212K
DATA 1501
ITEC 2110
ITEC 2120
PSCI 1101K
PSCI 1102
Understand human connections – Social science domain
Orienting question: How do I understand human experiences and connections?
Learning outcome: Students will effectively analyze the complexity of human behavior, and how historical, economic, political, social or geographic relationships develop, persist or change.
Career-ready competencies: Intercultural competence, perspective-taking and persuasion
Pre-2024 alphabetical designation: Area E
Courses
ANTH 1102
ECON 2100
HIST 1111
HIST 1112
HIST 1121
HIST 1122
HIST 2111*
HIST 2112*
PSYC 1102
SOCI 1101
*One of these courses, either HIST 2111 or HIST 2112, may be taken to satisfy the Georgia history requirement in the citizenship domain. In that case, the course that is used to satisfy the citizenship domain cannot be applied in the social sciences domain.