Student Information

The UI General Education Curriculum prepares undergraduate students to be life-long learners by aligning with the University Learning Outcomes that state all students at the UI will learn to:

• Learn and integrate
• Think and create
• Use multiple and interdisciplinary methods and strategies
• Communicate and collaborat
• Clarify purpose and perspective
• Practice good citizenship

Your academic advisor will help you select General Education courses that can be used to satisfy both state and institutional general education requirements. Together, these are the classes known as the General Education Curriculum.

Students at the University of Idaho must take courses in the following nine categories to complete the UI General Education Curriculum:

1. Written Communication (3-6 credits, depending on placement)
2. Oral Communicaiton (2-3 credits)
3. Scientific Ways of Knowing (8 credits from two different disciplines which include two accompanying labs, OR 7 credits which includes a Core Science course (CORS) and one course with an accompanying lab)
4. Mathematical Ways of Knowing (3 credits)
5. Humanistic and Artistic Ways of Knowing (6 credits from two different disciplines)
6. Social and Behavioral Ways of Knowing (6 credits from two different disciplines)
7. American Diversity (1 course)
8. International (1 course or an approved study abroad experience)
9. Capstone Experience (1 course)

The courses that fall into each of the above categories can be found in the Catalog in section J-3.

All undergraduate students at the University of Idaho must fulfill the UI General Education Curriculum requirements. See the Catalog for more information about General Education Curriculum requirements for Transfer Students. Below, you’ll find a summary of the information presented in the Catalog:

If you have completed one of the degrees or programs listed below prior to admission to the UI, you are considered to have already satisfied the UI General Education Curriculum requirements:

1. An A.A. or A.S. earned at a regionally accredited institution.
2. A completed Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum (IGETC) at a regionally accredited California community college.
3. The completion of the 36 credits of general education requirements, as defined in Idaho State Board Policy III.N, without an Associate of Arts or Associate of Science degree AND you transfer from a regionally accredited postsecondary institution in Idaho.

If you come to the UI without having completed an A.A. or A.S. or are not certified as having completed the equivalent of Idaho’s State Board of Education general education core, you have two options for fulfilling the UI General Education Curriculum:

1. Complete the UI General Education Curriculum using a combination of transfer credits and credits you take at the UI. In this case, transfer credits are evaluated on a course-by-course basis for equivalency to courses specified in J-3, and missing coursework is made up by completing the necessary credits outlined in J-3.
2. Complete the Idaho State Board of Education general education requirements as listed in the “Alternative General Education Requirements for Transfer Students” under the “General Education Requirements for Transfer Students” in the “Admission to the University” section of the Catalog.