通识教育要求

通识教育计划, 文理学院所有学生的必修课, 旨在帮助学生磨练他们的基本学术技能和扩大他们的智力广度. 此外，它为不同专业的学生创造了共同的参考点.

The program ensures that students have the tools they will need for advanced study and exposes them to different ways of thinking about their world. 这门课程可以培养学生应对未来挑战所需的智力灵活性.

The program has two main features: (1) it emphasizes the importance of each student demonstrating basic competencies early in the college program, either through course work that teaches these competencies or through performance on standardized tests; this is an important part of the Curriculum since it provides tools essential for successful work in advanced courses, 以及提升毕业后有价值的技能. (2) It requires each student to have exposure to at least six areas of knowledge; this is intended to provide a broad foundation both for more advanced study and for a lasting intellectual engagement with scholarly and cultural issues.

通识教育课程分为两个部分:基本能力和知识领域. 学生应在前两年的学习中完成基本能力. 鼓励学生, 虽然不是必需的, 在头两年完成知识领域的学习, as this provides an opportunity for intellectual exploration as students consider which academic area they would like to focus on for their major. These requirements are normally satisfied through course work; some may be met through proficiency examinations (which carry no academic credit).


CLAS的基本能力要求是在书面交流领域, 定量推理, 及外语. 良好的写作能力, 用另一种语言交流, 运用定量推理来解决问题是当今世界非常重视的重要技能. 大多数学生继续磨练他们的写作技巧, 定量推理, and languages beyond the basic General Education requirements through intermediate and advanced level courses offered in the College. “Attribute” codes in the online course system (Banner) help students search for and identify appropriate courses that fill these specific area requirements.

I. 书面交流

横幅列表-学位要求(属性)CLAS: 01

Each student must demonstrate writing competency through the successful completion of ENGL 102 or an equivalent (as approved by the English Division faculty). 取决于高考成绩, 学生被安排在适当水平的写作课程. 通常情况下，学生在学院的第一年就会学习英语101和102.

取得以下成绩的学生必须同时参加ENGL 101和ENGL 102:
SAT写作:499分或更低
SAT口语或读写:539分或更低
ACT英语:25分或以下

有以下成绩的学生需要参加英语102:
SAT写作:500-699分
SAT口语或读写:540-739
ACT英语:26-29

取得以下成绩的学生可免修英语101和102, 具备大学水平的写作能力;
SAT写作:700分或更高
SAT口语或读写成绩:740分或以上
ACT英语:30分或以上

The Division of English does not accept courses taken online for transfer credit to fulfill the General Education Writing Competency, 文学领域的知识要求, 或艺术领域的知识要求. 这项政策适用于皇冠体育app入学后的学生, and is based upon the centrality of classroom discussion and debate to the learning outcomes of Writing II and 200-level literature and creative writing courses. 在某些情况下, 英语部将接受在线写作I课程的学分转换, 写作能力的前半部分. 在特殊情况下, 英语部可以选择根据具体情况审查这一政策.

II. 外语

横幅列表-学位要求(属性)CLAS: 02

Each student in the 文理学院 and 科学 must successfully demonstrate competence in a language other than English equivalent to the second semester of the first year of a foreign language at the college level. Students are expected to begin undertaking language study no later than their sophomore year and continue each subsequent semester with the language until the requirement is fulfilled. 学生也可以通过语言分班考试或挑战考试来证明这种能力, 由现代语言部安排, 虽然成功完成语言安置考试不授予学分.

语言分班考试, 每学期提供, 帮助学生确定合适的语言课程和水平. The Placement Exam is a tool to be used by students together with their advisor and the appropriate professor(s) in the Division of Modern Languages to identify the best course corresponding to an individual student’s skills. 即使你打算等到大二再上语言课, it is highly recommended that you take the Placement Exam during the first week of your first semester to avoid loss of language knowledge from high school.

如果一个学生在高中学习了两年以上的语言, 或者他的母语是西班牙语, 法国, 或德语, 他或她必须参加语言安置考试. 如果学生计划学习他们以前没有学习过的语言，则不需要参加语言安置考试. Students who want to demonstrate proficiency in a language not offered at Alfred should consult with the Chair of the Division of Modern Languages.

要成为Phi Beta Kappa的会员，学生必须具备, 其他资格, demonstrated intermediate proficiency in a foreign language through 200-level coursework or scoring 80% on the Language Placement Exam.

The Division of Modern Languages does not accept courses taken online for transfer credit after matriculation in fulfillment of the General Education 外语 Competency. The position of the Division of Modern Languages regarding courses taken online is based on the National Standards for Language Learning as delineated by the American Council on the Teaching of 外语s (ACTFL). 在特殊情况下，司法司可选择逐案审查这项政策.

The language requirement may be waived for students in the 文理学院 whose native language is not English and who are proficient both in that language and in English. 豁免申请必须经现代语言系主任及教务长批准.

外语要求豁免请求政策

3. 定量推理

横幅列表-学位要求(属性)CLAS: 03

学生必须表现出定量推理的基本能力. 定量推理的要求是由以下之一来满足:

  • SAT数学成绩达到或超过630分
  • ACT数学成绩达到28分或更高
  • 在微积分AB或微积分BC的大学先修课程考试中获得4分或更高的分数
  • 成功完成非盟指定的定量推理(QR)课程. The following courses are currently designated as QR courses; the list is updated annually and posted on the Alfred website.
    • 生物统计学
    • 商业统计
    • 环境数据分析
    • 数学101与数字交流
    • 数学102教师数学:K-6年级
    • 数学104商业定量方法
    • 数学131离散数学
    • 数学151微积分I
    • PHIL 282逻辑导论
    • POLS/SOCI 230数据分析与统计入门
    • 221心理学研究方法与统计学1
    • SCIE 127做科学

General Education requirements for different 知识领域 (A-F) provide students with an introduction to different ways of thinking, 知道, ,看到, 为一生的探索和学习奠定基础. 而在这些不同的学科中开设了许多课程, 一般教育课程中只有部分课程被指定为符合通识教育要求.

学位要求学术领域(属性)代码
  1. 文学(必修4学分)
  2. 哲学或宗教研究(必修4学分)
  3. 艺术(要求4学分)
  4. 历史研究(必修4学分)
  5. Social 科学 (8 credits; 4 credits each from two of the following categories):
    • 心理学(E1)
    • 政治学或经济学(E2)
    • 社会学或人类学(E3)
  6. Natural 科学 (8 credits; at least 2 credits from F-I)
    • 科学探究(F-I)
    • 科学知识(F-II)
    • 科学与社会(F-3)

第一年实习计划(FYE)

The College’s First-Year Experience program is designed to foster intellectual engagement so that students are able to succeed academically and find a meaningful role for themselves both in the Liberal 艺术 & 科学界和世界公民. 每门FYE课程都由一位教师教授
致力于一年级学生成功的教员.

以及与课程相关的同行领导, 每位FYE教师都帮助新生融入阿尔弗雷德社区，并过渡到大学水平的学习.

财政年度计划的目标是:

  • 帮助学生完成高质量的大学水平的工作，培养积极的职业道德.
  • Encourage students to form “learning communities” in which students share responsibilities and support one another in their academic endeavors.
  • 为一年级学生提供参加小型, seminar-style class in which concentrated attention can be paid to each student and close working relationships between students and instructors can develop.
  • Encourage students to become fully integrated into the University community by introducing students to and encouraging participation in a wide variety of extracurricular activities.

FYE项目也为通识教育课程提供了基础. 为此目的, 所有FYE课程, 成功地完成了, 满足通识教育或大学要求之一.

转学生计划

CLAS转学生计划旨在帮助新转学生顺利过渡到皇冠体育app. 学生将在皇冠体育app的第一学期参加转学研讨会(CLAS 101). 作为转学生项目的基石, 研讨会为学生提供了一个了解他们所加入的知识界的机会, 同时向他们介绍有助于他们在阿尔弗雷德取得成功的校园资源. 在整个研讨会中，学生将
进一步发展核心技能，从而获得学术和专业成就. 转学生计划还促进了转学生与他们的教师和同龄人之间的指导关系.