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2025-2026 Augusta University Catalog

General Education/Core IMPACTS

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From the origins of intellectual study to the present, general education has been a key to a fulfilling life of self-knowledge, self-reflection, critical awareness, and lifelong learning. General education has traditionally focused on oral and written communication, quantitative reasoning and mathematics, studies in culture and society, scientific reasoning, and aesthetic appreciation. Today, general education also assists students in their understanding of technology, information literacy, diversity, and global awareness. In meeting all these needs, general education provides college students with their best opportunity to experience the breadth of human knowledge and the ways that knowledge in various disciplines is interrelated. In the University System of Georgia, the general education program is known as the Core Curriculum.

The USG Core Curriculum, Core IMPACTS, is designed to ensure that students acquire essential knowledge in foundational academic areas and develop career-ready competencies. The attainment of Core IMPACTS learning outcomes prepares responsible, reflective citizens who adapt constructively to change. The Core IMPACTS requirements impart knowledge, values, skills, and behaviors related to critical thinking, logical problem-solving, teamwork, time management, informational literacy, inquiry and analysis, intercultural competence, persuasion, and ethical reasoning. Core IMPACTS includes opportunities for interdisciplinary learning and experiences that increase intellectual curiosity, providing the basis for advanced study in the variety of fields offered by today’s colleges and universities.

As an institution of the University System of Georgia, Augusta University’s faculty have carefully designed undergraduate programs which incorporate 60 hours of general education requirements approved by the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. The Core Curriculum provides some flexibility in which courses the student takes based on their individual interests; therefore, substitutions of courses from outside core curriculum or from other areas of the core curriculum are generally not permitted except under extraordinary circumstances.

Students should confer with their academic advisor to select the courses best suited for their intended major.

General Education Learning Outcomes

There are seven Core IMPACTS areas: Institutional Priority; Mathematics and Quantitative Skills; Political Science and US History; Arts, Humanities, and Ethics; Communicating in Writing; Technology, Mathematics, and Sciences; and Social Sciences.

Institutional Priority

  • Students will demonstrate the ability to think critically and solve problems related to academic priorities at their institution.

Mathematics and Quantitative Skills

  • Students will apply mathematical and computational knowledge to interpret, evaluate, and communicate quantitative information using verbal, numerical, graphical, or symbolic forms.

Political Science and U.S. History

  • Students will demonstrate knowledge of the history of the United States, the history of Georgia, and the provisions and principles of the United States Constitution and the Constitution of Georgia.

Arts, Humanities, and Ethics

  • Students will effectively analyze and interpret the meaning, cultural significance, and ethical implications of literary/philosophical texts in English or other languages, or of works in the visual/performing arts.

Communication in Writing

  • Students will communicate effectively in writing, demonstrating clear organization and structure, using appropriate grammar and writing conventions.
  • Students will appropriately acknowledge the use of materials from original sources.
  • Students will adapt their written communications to purpose and audience.
  • Students will analyze and draw informed inferences from written texts.

Technology, Mathematics, and Sciences

  • Students will use the scientific method and laboratory procedures or mathematical and computational methods to analyze data, solve problems, and explain natural phenomena.

Social Sciences

  • Students will effectively analyze the complexity of human behavior, and how historical, economic, political, social, or geographic relationships develop, persist, or change.

Core IMPACTS Requirements

Institutional Priority (Institution): 4 Hours

Academic Inquiry: 1 Hour

Communication: 3 Hours

Mathematics and Quantitative Skills (Mathematics): 3 Hours

Students must enroll in a Mathematical and Quantitative Skills course, depending on placement, in their first semester at Augusta University unless they have received equivalent credit for a course via transfer or credit for prior learning. Students must continue to register for Mathematical and Quantitative Skills courses each successive semester until they have completed an appropriate course with a successful grade depending on degree requirements. Mathematical and Quantitative Skills courses should be completed within the first 30 hours of a student’s undergraduate degree program.

Option I - Non-Science Majors:

Select one of the following:

Option II - Science Majors:

Applies to Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Mathematics, and Physics majors.

Select one of the following: 

Option III - Health Science Majors:

Select one of the following:

Political Science and U.S. History (Citizenship): 6 Hours

Political Science: 3 Hours

History: 3 Hours

Select one of the following:

Arts, Humanities, and Ethics (Humanities): 6 Hours

Select two of the following:

Communicating in Writing (Writing): 6 Hours

A grade of C or better is required in all Communicating in Writing area courses. 

Students must enroll in ENGL 1101 in their first semester at Augusta University, unless they have received equivalent credit for the course via transfer or credit for prior learning. Students must continue to register for ENGL 1101 each successive semester until they have completed the course with a grade of C or better.

Students who complete ENGL 1101 must then enroll in ENGL 1102 no later than the first semester in which they enroll following completion of ENGL 1101. Students must continue to register for ENGL 1102 each successive semester until they have completed the course with a grade of C or better.

Both ENGL 1101 and ENGL 1102 should be completed within the first 30 hours of a student’s undergraduate degree program.

Technology, Mathematics, and Sciences (STEM): 11 Hours

Option I - Non-Science Majors:

Laboratory Course Sequences: 8 Hours

Select two of the following:

Additional Technology, Mathematics, or Science Course: 3 Hours

Select one additional course from those listed above or from the following:

Option II - Science Majors:

Laboratory Course Sequence: 8 Hours

Select one of the following laboratory course sequences:

Principles of Biology
Principles of Chemistry
Introductory Physics
Principles of Physics
Mathematics Course: 3 Hours

Select one of the following:

Option III - Health Science Majors:

For all health science majors, with the exception of the Bachelor of Science in Health Information Administration , which follows Option I.

Laboratory Course Sequence: 8 Hours

Select one of the following laboratory course sequences:

Introduction to Biology
Principles of Biology
Survey of Chemistry
Principles of Chemistry
Introductory Physics
Principles of Physics
Additional Mathematics or Science Course: 3 Hours

Select one additional course from those listed above or from the following:

Social Sciences (Social Sciences): 6 Hours

First Social Science Course: 3 Hours

Select one of the following:

Second Social Science Course: 3 Hours

Select one of the following not already taken above:

Core IMPACTS Total: 42 Hours

Field of Study: 18 Hours

The “Field of Study” requirement refers to courses taken by students that are directly related to their chosen major and are part of their general education curriculum. These courses are usually taken during the first two years of their degree program, alongside the Core IMPACTS courses. See specific undergraduate degree programs  for details and requirements.

Core IMPACTS + Field of Study Total: 60 Hours

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