CORExplore is an exciting way to utilize courses that share a common theme and allow students to learn more about their chosen topic. CORExplore Pathways are common-themed groupings (CTGs) of 3-5 core curriculum courses that share a common broad theme.
There are manifold benefits: integrative learning, common intellectual experiences (part of the pantheon of high-impact educational practices), student and faculty engagement, improved student retention, and a distinctive core curriculum experience that better serves our students and better reinforces and reflects our liberal arts values.
Digital Culture Pathway
The term "digital culture" is used to depict the cultural, social, historical, and ethical issues surrounding the use of technology in our lives. This interdisciplinary pathway focuses on the technological and cultural developments that continue to shape the modern world. However, it is designed to teach students concepts and methods to enhance their academic success in any major. The digital culture pathway will provide students with opportunities to consider all the ways in which technology intervenes in our daily lives, enabling students to think, speak, and write critically about technology in a historical and global context. In addition, the pathway will allow students to critically consider how to become responsible producers and consumers of technology while analyzing digital cultures' role in democracy and creating an informed citizenry.
Linkages to Majors/Minors/Certificates
Georgia College offers the following related Majors/Minors:
Mass Communication B.A.
Computer Science B.S.
Computer Science Minor
Data Sciences B.S.
Management Information Systems BBA
Data Science Certificate
Information Studies Minor
Management Information Systems Minor
Recommended Courses:
Possible core sections for a CTG focused on digital culture include the following courses, depending on faculty interest in this type of collaboration.
- Core Impact: Institutional Priority
- GC1Y Recommended Sections
- Big Data Revolution
- Computer and Information Technology
- Community Outreach
- Global Challenges I (formerly Seven Revolutions I)
- Religion and Technology
- Research in the Age of Google, the Cloud, and Open Space
- Tech Support: The Promise and Peril of Technology
- GC2Y Recommended Sections
- Big Data and Technology Transforming Life and Work
- Ethics in the Anthropocene
- Global Challenges II
- Globalization, Cultures, and Education
- History of Global Health
- Human Revolutions
- Religion & Media
- GC1Y Recommended Sections
- Core Impact: Arts, Humanities, & Ethics
- IDST 2315 America’s Diverse Cultural Heritage
- WMST 2315 Gender and Culture
- Core Impact: Technology, Mathematics, & Sciences
- MATH 1401
- CSCI 1000
- CSCI 1301
- CSCI 1302
- Core Impact: Political Science & US History
- POLS 1150 Politics & Society
- Core Impact: Social Sciences
- ANTH 1102 Introduction to Anthropology
- ECON 2100 Economics and Society
- PSYC 1101 Intro to General Psychology
- SOCI 1121 Sociological Perspectives
Engaged Citizens: Liberty and Justice For All!
This pathway includes courses designed to develop an understanding of historical and contemporary issues related to justice. Courses in this pathway help students develop a critical understanding of and develop skills for addressing these issues in their personal and professional lives. This pathway also includes opportunities for reflection, dialogue, and community building. It aims to develop informed and engaged citizens in an increasingly global society.
Linkages to Majors/Minors/Certificates
Georgia College offers the following related Majors/Minors:
Anthropology Minor
Criminal Justice BA
Education - BS in Early Childhood, BS in Middle Grades, BS in Special Education
Liberal Studies B.A.
Mass Communication B.A.
Sociology B.A.
Sociology Minor
Women and Gender Studies Minor
Pre-Law
Recommended Courses:
Possible core sections for a CTG focused on gender and sexuality include the following courses, depending on faculty interest in this type of collaboration.
- Core Impact: Institutional Priority
- GC1Y Recommended Sections
- Ability and Disability
- Culture and Youth in the Middle East
- The Pride Movement: LGBTQIA2S Perspectives
- Philosophy and the Search for Social Justice
- World War II
- GC2Y Recommended Sections
- The AIDS Pandemic
- Bodies, Borders, and Boundaries
- Global LGBTQ+ Pride Across Six Continents
- HIV, Gender and Sexuality in South Asia
- GC1Y Recommended Sections
- Core Impact: Arts, Humanities, & Ethics
- PHIL 2010 Survey of Philosophy
- IDST 2315 Amer Diverse Cultural Heritage
- WMST 2315 Gender and Culture
- Core Impact: Social Sciences
- ANTH 1102 Introduction to Anthropology
- PSYC 1101 Introduction to General Psychology
- SOCI 1121 Sociological Perspectives
Sustainability Pathway
The importance of sustainability is being increasingly recognized at global, national, and local levels. The United Nations has defined sustainability as “meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”. In the US, the Environmental Protection Agency has identified the primary goal of sustainability as to “create and maintain conditions, under which humans and nature can exist in productive harmony, that permit fulfilling the social, economic, and other requirements of present and future generations”. The EPA’s definition of sustainability suggests three pillars of sustainability: environmental, social, and economic; or more colloquially: planet, people, and profits. The Sustainability pathway will provide students with opportunities to explore one or more of these pillars in interdisciplinary ways that will allow students to implement systems-approaches to addressing sustainability locally, nationally, and globally.
Linkages to Majors/Minors/Certificates
Georgia College offers the following related Majors/Minors:
Biology BS
Biology Minor
Economics BS
Economics Minor
Environmental Science BS
Environmental Science Minor
Geography BA
Geography Minor
Outdoor Education Minor
Philosophy BA
Philosophy Minor
Urban Studies Minor
Recommended Courses:
Possible core sections for a CTG focused on sustainability include the following courses, depending on faculty interest in this type of collaboration.
Georgia College offers a Sustainability Certificate appropriate for students in a wide range of academic majors that address environmental, social, or economic modes of inquiry. Classes marked below with (+) may be used to meet a requirement in the Sustainability Certificate.
- Core Impact: Institutional Priority
- GC1Y Recommended Sections
- Fantastic Beasts
- Freakonomics
- Global Challenges I
- Into the Wilderness
- GC2Y Recommended Sections
- Climate Change Politics
- Climate Emergency
- Culture, Nature, and Empire
- Ethics and What We Eat
- Ethics in the Anthropocene
- Global Challenges II
- Global Connections
- Water and Society
- Shrimp: Culture, Economics, and Environment
- GC1Y Recommended Sections
- Core Impact: Arts, Humanities, & Ethics
- +PHIL 2010 Survey of Philosophy
- Core Impact: Technology, Mathematics, & Sciences
- +BIOL 1120 Biodiversity (for all majors) OR
- +ENSC 1000 Introduction to Environmental Science (for non-Nursing majors) OR
- +ESNC 1050 Sustainability and World Populations (for non-science majors)
- Core Impact: Social Sciences
- +ECON 2100 Economics and Society OR
- +ECON 2105 Principles of Macroeconomics OR
- +ECON 2106 Principles of Microeconomics
- +IDST 2050 Sustainability
Information for Faculty Members can be found on the GEC webpage