Manchester Community College provides students with comprehensive skills and the knowledge to prepare them to deal with complexity, diversity, and change. Broad, foundational knowledge complements in depth achievement in program concentrations.
Twelve credits are devoted to knowledge of the physical and natural world; of the human experience and behavior; and of human thought and expression. Students understand and apply introductory methods of inquiry and analysis and demonstrate knowledge of the fundamental concepts, theories, works, or ideas within the specific knowledge area.
In these courses students will critically assess their own core values and assumptions in relation to those held by other individuals, cultures, and societies and apply fundamental research methods to understand and solve problems related to human behavior and societies. Students will demonstrate the ability to discover larger patterns or relationships discriminating among multiple views, and make connections to other times and peoples, their works, beliefs, and cultures.