2.4.1 Core IMPACTS Domains - Credit Hours

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Every institution in the University System of Georgia will have Core IMPACTS of precisely 42 semester hours plus a Field of Study domain of precisely 18 hours. All students must meet the Core IMPACTS and Field of Study requirements of the institutions from which they receive their degrees. However, see the rules regarding transfer credit in Section 2.4.10 Transfer Rules.

System wide Learning Outcomes for each Core IMPACTS domain have been established and approved by the Council on General Education.

Each institution’s Core IMPACTS requirements must add up to 42 semester credit hours, with minimum credit hours in each domain as follows:

Core IMPACTS	Domain Shorthand	Credit Hours
Institutional Priority	Institution	At least 3 credit hours
Mathematics & Quantitative Skills	Mathematics	At least 3 credit hours
Political Science and U.S. History	Citizenship	At least 3 credit hours
Arts, Humanities & Ethics	Humanities	At least 6 credit hours
Communicating in Writing	Writing	At least 6 credit hours
Technology, Mathematics & Sciences*	STEM	At least 7 credit hours*
Social Sciences	Social Sciences	At least 3 credit hours

*At least 4 of the STEM credit hours must be in a lab science course. Given the science and math requirements of the STEM disciplines, any institution that wishes to drop STEM below 10 hours must make a compelling intellectual case that its core proposal will not lead to students knowing less about STEM. [An example of such a compelling case might be if the institution proposed to put 3 or more hours of math in the Institution domain and 7 hours of natural science in the STEM domain.]

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