General Education Courses
The University of New Mexico requires all undergraduate students to complete General Education requirements as part of earning any baccalaureate degree. Complementing the major, General Education provides a set of strategies: communication, critical thinking, information analysis, quantitative skills, responsibility towards local and global communities. Students develop these strategies from different angles by taking one or more courses in each of the seven areas of the General Education curriculum: (1) writing and communication, (2) mathematics and statistics, (3) physical and natural sciences, (4) social and behavioral sciences, (5) humanities, (6) second language, and (7) arts and design. The General Education curriculum consists of 31 credit hours of courses in the seven areas of study.
UNM offers an inventory of general education courses for Accelerated Online Program students in an 8-week format and offered on a cyclical basis. Look for the courses in the current schedule of classes with a course comment that reads "Limited to managed online program students only." Below is a listing of the individual courses that fulfill a General Education requirement:
| Course Number* | Course Name | UNM General Education Area | Credit Hours |
ENGL 1110 | Composition I | 1 | 3 |
ENGL 1120 | Composition II | 1 | 3 |
ENGL 2210 | Professional & Technical Communication | 1 | 3 |
| MATH 1220 | College Algebra | 2 | 3 |
MATH 1350 | Introduction to Statistics | 2 | 3 |
MATH 1430 | Elements of Calculus | 2 | 3 |
ASTR 1115 | Introduction to Astronomy | 3 | 3 |
ASTR 1115L | Introduction to Astronomy Lab | 3 | 1 |
BIOL 1110 | General Biology | 3 | 3 |
BIOL 1110L | General Biology Lab | 3 | 1 |
CCST 1110** | Introduction to Comparative Global and Ethnic Societies | 4 | 3 |
ECON 2110 | Macroeconomics Principles | 4 | 3 |
ECON 2120 | Microeconomics Principles | 4 | 3 |
PSYC 1110 | Introduction to Psychology | 4 | 3 |
CCST 2110** | Introduction to Chicana and Chicano Studies | 5 | 3 |
HIST 1150 | Western Civilization I | 5 | 3 |
NATV 1150** | Introduction to Native American Studies | 5 | 3 |
REGL 2110**
| Eastern Religions | 5 | 3 |
SPAN 1110
| Spanish I | 6 | 3 |
SPAN 2120 | Spanish IV | 6 | 3 |
MUSC 1130
| Music Appreciation: Western Music | 7 | 3 |
MUSC 1120 | Music Appreciation: Rock Music | 7 | 3 |
* Beginning with Fall 2019, UNM has implemented the State of New Mexico's Common Course Numbering (CCN). A full listing of UNM's general education courses can be found on the UNM General Education Website.
**Course also meets University's "U.S. and Global Diversity and Inclusion” 3-credit undergraduate degree requirement.
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