New U. of Georgia Curriculum Stresses Quant Skills & Foreign Language

The University of Georgia is considering revisions to its undergraduate core curriculum that would put more emphasis on quantitative skills and knowledge of foreign languages and cultures.

The revisions, which have been approved by the University Senate but are still under review by the Board of Regents, would involve the following changes:

• Students would be required to take at least one course in the physical sciences.
• The humanities requirement would be renamed "World Languages and Culture, Humanities and the Arts," and the number of required credits would double from 6 to 12 units.
• Students would be required to take two classes in quantitative reasoning instead of the one that is required now.

If the Board of Regents approves the changes, the University Council will begin determining which courses would fulfill which requirements. Students would probably not see actual changes to their graduation requirements until fall 2008.

Source: "More Science, Less Social Science," by Paul D. Thacker, Inside Higher Education, November 14, 2006