UMUC Europe - Bachelor's Degrees
Additional Resources
Overall Bachelor's Degree Requirements
General Education Requirements
Second Bachelor’s Degree
Major, Minor, and Elective Requirements
Expectations
UMUC aims to produce graduates who are well prepared to be responsible citizens of a global society as well as effective participants in the complex, fast-changing world of work. A bachelor's degree from UMUC offers a multidimensional experience, combining a solid educational foundation with cross-curricular breadth and focused study in an academic discipline. Through that experience, UMUC graduates develop and demonstrate the hallmarks of the educated person: intellectual ability, curiosity, and flexibility; fundamental skills in reasoning, analysis, investigation, and expression; understanding of the principles of scientific and intellectual inquiry; awareness of global and historical context; and civic and ethical responsibility.
UMUC demands that students meet expectations in specific core learning areas across the bachelor’s degree as well as within the major disciplines. The UMUC degree begins with basic intellectual tools, ensuring through the General Education Requirements. that students are able to demonstrate
- Effective writing and communication skills
- Competence in the use of technology
- Competence in information literacy skills
- Competence in critical analysis, critical reasoning and problem solving
- Understanding of key concepts and principles of natural, social, and behavioral sciences
- Knowledge of diverse cultures and historical periods
- Understanding of and ability to apply frameworks for ethical decision making
UMUC conducts learning outcomes assessments to measure and improve student learning in these areas as well as in specific disciplinary knowledge and skills.
In pursuit of an academic major (and minor), the UMUC student acquires mastery of a considerable body of knowledge in a specific academic subject area or group of related subjects. Each major provides clearly articulated learning outcomes that a student is expected to achieve in completing the degree.
Requirements
In general, the UMUC degree requirements that apply to a student are those that were in effect when the student began continuous enrollment in any public institution of higher education in Maryland (including UMUC). If a student has not been continuously enrolled, the requirements that apply are those in effect at UMUC when the student resumes continuous enrollment. To be considered continuously enrolled, degree-seeking students must be or have been enrolled at UMUC or another Maryland public institution of higher education and have had no more than two sequential years of nonenrollment. When a continuously enrolled student chooses to change his or her degree program, the student may be subject to all degree requirements in effect at the time of the change.
The following requirements for the BA and the BS are applicable to students who enroll on or after 1 August 2010.
UMUC Europe Undergraduate Catalog
Last updated: 27 July 2010