2.4.7 Field of Study Courses

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Field of Study Courses

Field of Study Courses comprise 18 hours usually within the first 60 hours of each student’s Associate, Nexus, or Bachelor’s degree progression and are in addition to the 42 hours required in the General Education IMPACTS Core Domains.

Field of Study Courses should be those that prepare students for entry into their major level courses and should abide by the Field of Study Guidelines posted by each discipline area RAC. Approval by the Council on General Education is not required for courses that an institution chooses to list in their Field of Study. Instead the RACs will periodically review institutional Field of Study course lists for compliance.

Field of Study Learning Outcomes

The Regents’ Academic Advisory Committees will specify learning outcomes for their respective Field of Study Courses. These learning outcomes must be collegiate level and provide an appropriate base for later learning outcomes in the relevant degree programs. They must be consistent with the mission of the University System of Georgia.

Field of Study Course Details

Every institution must offer a path to completing all Field of Study requirements composed exclusively of 1000- and 2000-level courses. Courses at the 3000- or 4000-level may also be offered in the Field of Study, but no student may be required to take them.

Field of Study courses may be prerequisites for other Field of Study courses and/or for major courses at higher levels.

In many cases, courses (e.g. Foreign Language courses) that are required for the Field of Study domain are also offered in a Core Domain, such as the Humanities domain. In these cases the required courses must also be offered in the Field of Study course list. Unless required of all students in the Institutional Priority or Humanities domains, any foreign language courses approved for inclusion in other Core IMPACTS domains must also be included in the Field of Study course list for majors requiring foreign languages, so that foreign language courses included in the Core IMPACTS domains do not become required prerequisites for Field of Study courses.

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