Flight Foundations

Number of Hours: 6 to 9

All courses in this category must meet 4 of the 6 student learning outcomes listed below.

Students will:

• Interpret forms of cultural expression within multiple historical, intellectual, and cultural contexts.
• Learn how cultural expression contributes to the development of self and society.
• Explore global/cultural/and-or linguistic variety and the diverse perspectives it represents.
• Apply critical and analytical methodologies of the Humanities and/or Fine Arts to interpret texts, media, and cultural artifacts.
• Frame a comparative context through which they can critically assess the ideas, forces, and values that have created the modern world.
• Communicate in more than one language.

Only 3 credit hours of introductory foreign language may be applied as part of the category requirement.

Number of Hours: 6

All courses in this category must meet 4 of the 5 student learning outcomes listed below.

Students will:

• Analyze historical facts and interpretations.
• Analyze and compare political, geographic, economic, social, cultural, religious, and intellectual institutions, structures, and processes across a range of historical periods and cultures.
• Recognize and articulate the diversity of human experience across a range of historical periods and the complexities of a global culture and society.
• Draw on historical perspective to evaluate contemporary problems/issues.
• Analyze the contributions of past cultures/societies to the contemporary world.

Number of Hours: 6

All courses in this category must meet 4 of the 8 student learning outcomes listed below.

Students will:

• Recognize, describe, and explain social institutions, structures, and processes and the complexities of a global culture and diverse society.
• Think critically about how individuals are influenced by political, geographic, economic, cultural, and family institutions in their own and other diverse cultures and explain how one’s own belief system may differ from others.
• Explore the relationship between the individual and society as it affects the personal behavior, social development, and quality of life of the individual, the family and the community.
• Examine the impact of behavioral and social scientific research on major contemporary issues and their disciplines’ effects on individuals and society.
• Using the most appropriate principles, methods, and technologies, perceptively and objectively gather, analyze, and present social and behavioral science research data, draw logical conclusions, and apply those conclusions to one’s life and society.
• Take ethical stands based on appropriate research in the social and behavioral sciences.
• Analyze and communicate the values and processes that are used to formulate theories regarding the social context of individual human behavior in the social and behavioral sciences.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of civil discourse and participating as well-informed citizens in a diverse and global society.

Number of Hours: 9

• 6 hours composition
• 3 hours oral communication

All courses in this category must meet all 4 student learning outcomes listed below.

Students will:

• Construct focused, well-reasoned arguments that reflect an awareness of situations, perspectives, purposes, and audiences.
• Use traditional and digital strategies to demonstrate effective communication skills (written, oral, visual) in relation to specific rhetorical tasks.
• Demonstrate the understanding that writing and/or speaking processes include planning, organizing, composing, revising, editing, and sharing through traditional and digital communication (written, oral, visual).
• Synthesize theoretical and practical knowledge to think critically, solve problems, make distinctions, make decisions, and communicate effectively with audiences.

Number of Hours: 4 to 8

All courses in this category must meet all 5 of the student learning outcomes listed below.

Students will:

• Formulate an evidence-based and testable scientific hypothesis about a natural phenomenon or system, conduct a controlled experimental investigation to address a scientific hypothesis, collect and analyze data, and interpret the results in context.
• Use established scientific ideas and language to construct a well-reasoned explanation for why a phenomenon occurred as it did, or to predict the outcome of a future investigation.
• Communicate scientific ideas in a variety of formats; depending on context these could be oral, written, diagrammatic, physical model, or algebraic.
• Analyze and discuss the impact of scientific discovery on human thought and behavior and understand that the scientific process is a human endeavor that has inherent uncertainty that can be quantified.
• Apply unifying principles of science and the scientific method to problems or issues of a scientific nature and contrast them to non-scientific explanations.

Number of Hours: 3 to 4

Financial Literacy Subcategory

All courses in this category must meet both student learning outcomes listed below.

Students will:

• Understand essential elements of personal finance.
• Assess personal financial wellness and implement strategies for improvement.

Digital Literacy Subcategory

All courses in the Digital subcategory must meet all 3 of the student learning outcomes listed below.

Students will:

• Locate, critically evaluate, and demonstrate proficiency with various digital resources (including online information, apps, online learning, and other web-based tools).
• Demonstrate responsible use of software, databases, and online tools, including generative AI.
• Identify and evaluate ethical considerations related to data privacy, intellectual property, and the role of algorithms in mediating access to digital information.