Finding Your Place at University of Pikeville
The University of Pikeville General Education Curriculum prepares students for their roles in a fast-changing 21st Century World. The General Education Curriculum positions student learning in the context of Finding Your Place at UPIKE. A curriculum that centers on place allows students to see themselves in their learning and encourages deeper connection to class material. Involving students in practices that focus on place gives them the critical skills needed to apply knowledge to world issues, whether local or global. Understanding place begins with understanding self and one's role in school and community and expands to include place in the physical and natural world, place in history, and place in the cultural and global world.
Common Requirements
Oral Communication
The goal for a course in oral communication is to develop communication skills, verbal and nonverbal, in a variety of communication settings. These English-language skills include the ability to research, organize, and deliver a message to specific audiences: use listening skills to critique, evaluate, and/or assess oral communication; evaluate the effectiveness of messages and presentations; and demonstrate responsibility as an ethical oral communicator.
Aligns with the Learning Outcome Intellectual and Practical Skills
Written Communication
The goal for a course in written communication is to understand and produce knowledge through the process of reading and writing in English. Skills include critical thinking, rhetoric, voice and audience, research, and methods, and producing content for a variety of media.
Aligns with the Learning Outcome Intellectual and Practical Skills
Mathematics
The goal for a course in mathematics is to develop skills in basic mathematical calculations and in interpreting mathematical data.
Aligns with the Learning Outcome Intellectual and Practical Skills
Systematic Study of the Bible
The goal for a course in systematic study of the Bible is to explore a significant portion of the Bible (such as Old Testament, New Testament, Gospels, or Pentateuch) or a topic in the Bible (such as Women in the Bible). The course will develop skills in studying the Bible in its literary and historical context.
Aligns with the requirement in the UPIKE By-Laws that the curriculum include systematic study of the Bible.
Finding Your Place at UPIKE Requirements
Personal Place
The goal for a course in Personal Place is to explore and develop self, identity, and the individual's role in and impact on society.
Aligns with the Learning Outcome Personal and Social Responsibility
Physical and Natural Place
The goal for a course in Physical and Natural Place is to explore the physical and natural world through the systematic study of the Physical Sciences (Chemistry, Physics, or Earth Sciences), the Natural Sciences (Biological Sciences) and Biomedical Science. This includes basic knowledge about the physical and natural world, the scientific method, and the ways that scientific knowledge affects our understandings of self, others, and the world.
Aligns with the Learning Outcome Knowledge of the Physical and Natural World
Historical Place
The goal for a course in Historical Place is for students to learn how they arrived at their place in history and how this knowledge will help them navigate their future. This is accomplished through the exploration of historical periodization, the use of historical primary sources, and an understanding of historical themes and historiography.
Aligns with the Learning Outcome Knowledge of Human Cultures and Societies
Cultural and Global Place
The goal for a course in Cultural and Global Place is to explore and develop an understanding of the world's cultures and their impact on the individual and society.
Aligns with the Learning Outcome Knowledge of Human Cultures and Societies
Personal, Historical, Cultural and Global Place: These 15 credits must be from 5 different disciplines (disciplines are designated by prefixes such as ART, BUS, or HIS). These 15 credits must include 3 credits of humanities/fine arts and 3 credits of social science. Typically, Social Science courses are in COM, ECN, PLS, PSY, SOC. Typically, Humanities/Fine Arts courses are in ART, ENG (if literature), FMA (if film studies), HUM, MUS, THR, SPN (if literature).
Engaging Our World Requirement
In the Engaging our World course students will move from finding their place to engaging their world. The course could accomplish this goal in several ways: interdisciplinary collaboration, experiential learning, or a focus on world issues and problems. The focus of the course is integrative learning.
Engaging Our World
The goal for the course is integrative learning. In the Engaging our Word course students will move from finding their place to engaging their world. The course could accomplish this goal in several ways: interdisciplinary collaboration, experiential learning, or a focus on world issues and problems. The course should be 300-400 level.
Aligns with the goal that the four Learning Outcomes are interactively connected across the General Education Curriculum.
Note
Check course descriptions for those courses meeting the above requirements.