Teaching Diversity
The Diversity requirement emphasizes the promises and problems of plural societies and the challenges that must be addressed to achieve just, equitable, and productive societies.
Fundamental Studies
Fundamental Studies courses ensure students develop crucial skills for success in academic and in professional lives. As students progress through their degree programs faculty are encouraged to build upon these foundational skills and reveal to students how these are essential to all disciplines.
Distributive Studies
Distributive Studies ensures that all students acquire an exposure to a variety of disciplines even as they concentrate on a chosen field of study. Distributive Studies courses offer students insights into the methods of the different disciplines, the kinds of questions disciplines ask, and their standards for judging the answers. Courses lead students to new perspectives and also challenge students to apply their new understandings.
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About
General Education at the University of Maryland provides a shared experience for undergraduate students that reflects the mission, vision, and values of the university. While each student has an academic major, and each faculty member has a disciplinary specialty, all students and many faculty participate in General Education.
Tips for Gen Ed Course Proposals
The Faculty Board will provide feedback for courses that are not approved upon the initial review. Common reasons that courses are returned for revision:
Syllabus: 
• The proposal is missing a syllabus.
Using the Gen Ed Collaboration Rubric to Assess Student Learning
Scholarship in Practice - Collaboration
This rubric is designed for faculty teaching a Scholarship in Practice course or any course that addresses student gains in the following learning outcome:
At the completion of this course, students will be able to:
• Collaborate in order to bring about a successful outcome
For Students: Bachelor's Degree Transfer
Bachelor's degrees and general education
Students who matriculate to the University with a bachelor's degree from any regionally accredited college or university will be considered to have satisfied the University's general education requirements, regardless of when the degree was received.
In order to determine if a student has earned a degree, advisors should check the PI screen in SIS to see if Transfer Credit Services has documented the degree.