SUNY General Education Requirement (SUNY-GER)

For students entering SUNY prior to Fall 2023

The Board of Trustees of the State University of New York adopted a General Education Requirement which required all associate of arts (A.A.), associate of science (A.S.), and baccalaureate degree candidates to complete a comprehensive general education curriculum as a condition of graduation.

CCC students enrolled in an A.A. or A.S. degree who entered SUNY between Fall 2010 and Spring 2023 must earn thirty (30) credits in at least seven of the following ten SUNY-GER Knowledge and Skills areas (Basic Communication and Mathematics required) and demonstrate two Competencies.

The ten Knowledge and Skills areas, corresponding learning outcomes, and approved courses are as follows:

Students successfully completing a course in this category will demonstrate:

  1. Knowledge of a basic narrative of American history: political, economic, social, and cultural, including knowledge of unity and diversity in American society;
  2. Knowledge of common institutions in American society and how they have affected different groups; and
  3. Understanding of America's evolving relationship with the rest of the world.

Courses approved in this category:
HIS 101 History of Early America
HIS 102 History of Modern America
HIS 203 History of the Champlain Valley

WRITTEN EXPRESSION COMPONENT

Students successfully completing a course in this category will:

  1. Produce coherent texts within common college-level written forms;
  2. Demonstrate the ability to revise and improve such texts; and
  3. Research a topic, develop an argument, and organize supporting details;

Courses approved in this category:
ENG 101 English Composition

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ORAL EXPRESSION COMPONENT

Students successfully completing a course in this category will:

  1. Develop proficiency in oral discourse; and
  2. Evaluate an oral presentation according to established criteria.

Courses approved in this category:
BUS 218 Business Ethics
COM 101 Public Speaking
ENV 220 Seminar in Environmental Issues

Students successfully completing a course in this category will demonstrate:

  1. Basic proficiency in the understanding and use of a foreign language; and
  2. Knowledge of the distinctive features of culture(s) associated with the language they are studying.

Courses approved in this category:
ASL 101 American Sign Language I
ASL 102 American Sign Language II
CHI 101 Elementary Mandarin Chinese I
CHI 102 Elementary Mandarin Chinese II
FRE 101 Elementary French I
FRE 101P Elementary French for the Professions
FRE 102 Elementary French II
FRE 201 Intermediate French I
FRE 202 Intermediate French II
SPA 101 Elementary Spanish I
SPA 101P Elementary Spanish for the Professions
SPA 110 Spanish for Health Care
SPA 102 Elementary Spanish II
SPA 201 Intermediate Spanish I
SPA 202 Intermediate Spanish II

Students successfully completing a course in this category will demonstrate:

  1. Knowledge of the conventions and methods of at least one of the humanities (Art, English, Languages, Music, or Philosophy)

Courses approved in this category:
ART 115 Art of the Western World: Ancient to Medieval
ART 116 Art of the Western World: Renaissance to Modern
ENG 102 Literature and Composition
FRE 250 Quebec Culture and Society
GWS101 Introduction to Gender and Women's Studies
HUM 180 Signing Chorus
MSM 118 Mass Media
MUS 184 Jazz Appreciation
PHI 101 Introduction to Philosophy
PHI 102 The World's Religions

Students successfully completing a course in this category will demonstrate the ability to:

  1. Interpret and draw inferences from mathematical models such as formulas, graphs, tables and schematics;
  2. Represent mathematical information symbolically, visually, numerically and verbally;
  3. Employ quantitative methods such as, arithmetic, algebra, geometry, or statistics to solve problems;
  4. Estimate and check mathematical results for reasonableness; and
  5. Recognize the limits of mathematical and statistical methods.

Courses approved in this category:
MAT 101Q Quantitative Literacy II 
MAT 103 Finite Mathematics
MAT 104 College Algebra with Trigonometry I
MAT 105 Technical Mathematics I
MAT 161 Elementary Statistics
MAT 204 College Algebra with Trigonometry II
MAT 205 Technical Mathematics II
MAT 215 Calculus for Business Students
MAT 224 Calculus I
MAT 225 Calculus II

Students successfully completing a course in this category will demonstrate:

  1. Understanding of the methods scientists use to explore natural phenomena, including observation, hypothesis development, measurement and data collection, experimentation, evaluation of evidence, and employment of mathematical analysis; and
  2. Application of scientific data, concepts, and models in one of the natural sciences.

Courses approved in this category:
BIO 100 Human Biology
BIO 101 General Biology I
BIO 102 General Biology II
BIO 204 Microbiology
BIO 206 Ecology
BIO 250 Biotechnology
CHE 100 Introduction to Forensic Science
CHE 101 Applied Chemistry
CHE 111 General Chemistry I
CHE 112 General Chemistry II
ENV 101 Environmental Science
ENV 210 Environmental Technology
GEL 101 Physical Geology
MET 101 Meteorology
PHY 100 Physics for the Liberal Arts
PHY 111 General Physics I
PHY 112 General Physics II
SCI 101 Science Inquiry for Biology & Chemistry
SCI 102 Science Inquiry for Earth & Physical Science

Students successfully completing a course in this category will demonstrate:

  1. Knowledge of either a broad outline of world history, or the distinctive features of the history, institutions, economy, society, culture, etc., of one non-Western civilization.

Courses approved in this category:
ENG 220 Multicultural American Literature
ENG 225 Nineteenth and Twentieth Century World Literature
HIS 132 History of the Modern World
HIS 250 Twentieth Century World History 

Students successfully completing a course in this category will demonstrate:

  1. Understanding of the methods social scientists use to explore social phenomena, including observation, hypothesis development, measurement and data collection, experimentation, evaluation of evidence, and employment of mathematical and interpretive analysis; and
  2. Knowledge of major concepts, models and issues of at least one discipline in the social sciences.

Courses approved in this category:
ANT 101 Cultural Anthropology
ECO 101 Principles of Microeconomics
ECO 102 Principles of Macroeconomics
PSC 100 Government and Politics in America
PSC 240 State and Local Government
PSY 101 Introduction to Psychology
SOC 101 Introduction to Sociology 

Students successfully completing a course in this category will demonstrate:

  1. Understanding of at least one principal form of artistic expression and the creative process inherent therein.

Courses approved in this category:
ART 100 Art Appreciation
ART 101 Introduction to Design
ART 103 Introduction to Drawing
ART 104 Introduction to Painting
ART 108 Introduction to Three-Dimensional Design
ART 111 Traditional Photography
ART 113 Digital Photography
ART 114 Introduction to Illustration
ART 115 Art of the Western World: Ancient to Medieval
ART 116 Art of the Western World: Renaissance to Modern
HUM 110 Introduction to the Arts
HUM 180 Signing Chorus
MSM 239 Art of the Film
MUS 101 Music Appreciation
MUS 115 American Musical Theater
MUS 184 Jazz Appreciation
THE 110 Theater and Performance
THE 115 American Musical Theater 

Students successfully completing a course in this category will:

  1. Demonstrate knowledge of the development of the distinctive features of the history, institutions, economy, society, culture, etc., of Western civilization; and
  2. Relate the development of Western civilization to that of other regions of the world.

Courses approved in this category:
FRE 250 Quebec Culture and Society
HIS 121 Origins of Western Civilization
HIS 122 Western Civilization in the Modern Era

 

 

The two Competencies and corresponding learning outcomes are as follows:

Students will:

  1. Identify, analyze, and evaluate arguments as they occur in their own or others' work; and
  2. Develop well-reasoned arguments.

Courses approved in this category:
ENG 102 Literature and Composition
Infusion*

Students will:

  1. Perform the basic operations of personal computer use;
  2. Understand and use basic research techniques; and
  3. Locate, evaluate and synthesize information from a variety of sources.

Courses approved in this category:
CSC 102 Introduction to Microcomputer Applications
LIB 101 Library Research Skills
SCI 110 Foundational Skills in Science
Infusion*

* Infusion means that this requirement is meaningfully addressed throughout a variety of courses in the General Education program. Students satisfy a General Education Requirement by infusion only if they graduate with an A.A. or A.S. degree.

Printer-friendly version of CCC courses for each of the SUNY-GER categories (pdf).

 

 

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