“Attributes” can be assigned to courses so that they can be used to filter class searches within iGPS for specific offerings within General Education. The following are currently in active use:
Campuswide Extended Literacies
Common Core
- Common Core-Art, Aesthetics, and Creativity
- Common Core-Human Behavior and Social Institutions
- Common Core-Literary and Intellectual Traditions
- Common Core-Natural Word
Contemporary Social Values
- Contemporary Social Values-Diversity in the U.S.
- Contemporary Social Values-Global Cultures
- Contemporary Social Values-Health and Wellness*
- Contemporary Social Values-Non-Western Cultures*
Fundamental Literacies
- Fulfills Information Literacy Gen Ed Requirement* (Tagged courses)
- Fundamental Literacies-Computer*
- Fundamental Literacies-Critical Thinking
- Fundamental Literacies-Information* (Only for COAS-Q 110)
- Fundamental Literacies-Oral Communication
- Fundamental Literacies-Quantitative Reasoning
- Fundamental Literacies-Visual
* These Attributes are listed this way for those who matriculated before Fall 2021, and a few categories of General Education were renamed or moved into Extended Literacies
* There are two attributes for Information Literacy because the requirement can be met either by COAS-Q 110, as was the practice for everyone before Fall 2021, and successful completion of the course fully meets the requirement, or by taking a tagged course. Note that with a tagged course the instructor will indicate successful completion of both the course and the tagged information-literacy aspect of the course — course completion alone is NOT sufficient.
Here’s an example of using Attributes to filter for just Literary & Intellectual Traditions courses from within the Common Core:
