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2012-13 Catalog 
    
2012-13 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

General Education - Knowledge of Human Experience and Behavior


 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.

General Education Learning Outcomes


Upon completion of each General Education course, the student will be assesed in the Knowledge Area, Critical and Creative Thinking, Information Literacy and Written Communication according to the following outcomes:

Knowledge Areas
  • Demonstrate knowledge of the fundamental concepts, theories, works or ideas within the specific knowledge area.
  • Comprehend a substantive, exemplary written work in the specific knowledge area.
  • Understand and apply introductory methods of inquiry and analysis in the specific knowledge area.
Critical and Creative Thinking
  • Explore and comprehend issues, ideas, artifacts and events.
  • Combine or synthesize existing ideas, images or expertise in original ways.
  • Assess or formulate an opinion or conclusion based upon the two previous outcomes in an innovative or imaginative way.
Information Literacy
  • Evaluate information and its sources critically.
  • Use information effectively to accomplish a specific purpose.
  • Access and use information ethically and legally.
Written Communication
  • Adhere to genre and disciplinary conventions.
  • Provide clear organization and effective transitions between paragraphs and sentences.
  • Use correct syntax and mechanics.