General Education

Overview

Graduates of the USU CAHS School of Undergraduate Studies will have the following general education competencies:

Communication – Skills necessary for success in the academic, military, and practical allied health science environments for address of globally complex challenges include:

Written Communication - Communicate their ideas effectively in writing using text, data, and images as appropriate and in different genres and styles.
Oral Communication - Communicate their ideas effectively orally using multiple modes of communication, as appropriate.

Quantitative Science – Skills necessary for success in the academic, military, and practical allied health science environments in order to address dynamically complex human health challenges include:

Mathematics - Demonstrate competency and comfort in working with numerical data, creating complex and refined arguments supported by quantitative evidence and clearly communicate those arguments in a variety of formats (using words, tables, graphs, mathematical equations, etc.), as appropriate.
Natural/Physical Science - Apply specialized knowledge from the Natural Sciences and Physical Sciences.
Health Science - Relates to technical specialties of allied health science including practical reasoning, treatment, and communication.

Human Science – Skills necessary for responsible, ethical, and effective global citizenship within a complex and dynamic environment include:

Humanity - Assess their own ethical values and the context of a given situation, recognize ethical issues in a variety of settings, apply ethical principles to ethical and biomedical ethical dilemmas, and consider the ramification of alternative actions. Understand the human experience through knowledge of humanities disciplines such as Arts, History, Literature, and Philosophy.
Society – Recognize that they are members of diverse communities, both local and global, and demonstrate intercultural knowledge, skills and attitudes that support effective and appropriate interaction in a variety of cultural contexts and social categories, such as, but not limited to race, ethnicity, gender, religion and age. Demonstrate effective, responsible, and meaningful skills while engaged in the geopolitical life of service and community, and global citizenship and effective engagement in a dynamic environment.

Resident Credit used as General Education – Specific courses listed within the CAHS degree plan that must be completed to earn the degree, are instructed by CAHS Faculty, and are identified to satisfy the requirements for CAHS residency.