Office of the Provost > Core Curriculum
Office of the Provost > Core Curriculum
In Fall 2019, Nevada State began its formal efforts to revise our Core Curriculum. This curriculum is the foundation of learning at Nevada State – it represents the skills, knowledge, and abilities that all students will gain, no matter what major they choose. As such, the effort has involved multiple stakeholders and lengthy debates as we determine how to best serve our student body. Important dates include:
Amy Lowe, Katie Durante, Pete La Chapelle, Sarah VanderMeer
Civic Knowledge and Engagement involves learning about and understanding your community and the democratic processes and taking actions that lead to improvement at the local, state, and/or national scale.
Bo Liang, Chris Harris, Josie Cruz, Kayla Bieser
The ability to actively work with others to develop creative solutions and move us toward a better world.
Adam Davis, Heather Lang Casera, Jo Meuris, Roxanne Farrar
The development of skills for creating works in a particular medium, and strategies for improving technique and producing original and expressive art (Creative Works), or the study of art through the history and context of various movements, styles, or periods; examination of the form and qualities of a particular type of art; and/or strategies for analyzing and critiquing art (Aesthetics).
Becky Cash, Young Choi, Chris Harris, Griselda Wille
Critical Literacy is the ability to identify, interpret, reimagine, and remake how socially constructed concepts like power and bias operate through historical and contemporary texts, images, and practices.
Molly Appel, Amber Morczek, Jessica Price, Vanessa Mari
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is defined as an understanding of power and privilege within cultural and social identities, systems, and institutions, including but not limited to race, ethnicity, gender, social class, sexuality, ability, religion, education, and national origin.
David Bradnick, Michael Gordon, Sherri Coffman
Ethical Reasoning is thinking critically about the nuances of right and wrong human conduct.
Alena Principato, Clark Pearson, Kelly Svoboda, Lauren Johnson, Nathan Silva
Information literacy is the ability to identify, locate, skeptically evaluate, and effectively and ethically use information to inform a decision or solve a problem.
Aaron Wong, David Bradnick, Bo Liang, Nathan Silva
Inquiry and analysis is a systematic process of refining our understanding of issues, objects, and works through a cycle of questions and evaluation.
Joe Dertien, Laura Rosales, Sarah VanderMeer
Lifelong Learning is understanding the process of learning (learning how to learn) and recognizing your own level of knowledge and motivation to learn.
Michael Gordon, Michelle Region Sebest, Nicholas Carroll, Seseer Mou Danha
Oral Communication is the ability to communicate purposely in a variety of social contexts and situations.
Aaron Wong, El Hachemi Bouali, Jennifer Edmonds, Katie Durante
Quantitative reasoning is more than arithmetic and algebraic computations. It is the ability to create meaning from numeric data by making appropriate logical inferences, and also communicating those ideas to others.
Kelly Svoboda, Laura Decker, Rachel Herzl-Betz, Sherri Coffman
Written Communication is the ability to develop and express ideas through writing, including communicating to a diverse set of audiences through a variety of genres and mediums using text, graphics, and data.
