General Education Competencies
Completion of the General Education curriculum at UGA encourages students to develop and strengthen skills aligned with our six Institutional Competencies: Critical Thinking, Analytical Thinking, Communication, Social Awareness and Responsibility, Creativity and Innovation, and Leadership and Collaboration.
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Critical Thinking The ability to pursue and comprehensively evaluate information before accepting or establishing a conclusion, decision, or action. |
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Analytical Thinking The ability to reason, interpret, analyze, and solve problems from a wide array of authentic contexts. |
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Communication The ability to effectively develop, express, and exchange ideas in written, oral, or visual form. |
Written Communication
Oral Communication
Interpersonal Communication
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Social Awareness & Responsibility The capacity to understand the interdependence of people, communities, and self in a global society. |
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Creativity & Innovation The capacity to combine or synthesize existing ideas, images, or expertise in original ways and the experience of thinking, reacting, and working in an imaginative way characterized by innovation, divergent thinking, and risk taking. |
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Leadership & Collaboration The capacity to engage in the relational process of optimizing personal and collective strengths toward a common goal. |
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