<p>I am trying to figure out what classes my daughter should be taking in her Freshman year. She will be a TV Production (Narrative) major, if she chooses Chapman. I can't make any sense of the Gen Ed requirements and how they translate to actual classes in the course catalog. Can anyone help me? How do you know which classes fall under the category of Social Inquiry for example. Are there only specific choices? </p>
<p>Good afternoon Mrs. Soffel,</p>
<p>At this link you can download a list of all classes for each of the Shared Inquiry categories:</p>
<p><a href=“General Education Program | Chapman University”>https://www.chapman.edu/academics/general-education/2007-ge-program/shared-inquiry.aspx</a></p>
<p>Just click on the red text to download the class list for a particular Shared Inquiry.</p>
<p>All the best, Sukahjoy</p>
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<p>Shared Inquiry</p>
<h2>The term “inquiry areas” refers to the different disciplinary ways of thinking in the arts, social sciences, natural sciences, quantitative studies, humanities, and writing. These inquiry courses engage students in both active learning and reflective thought, emphasizing critical inquiry in major liberal arts areas. Review the course offerings in the Inquiry Areas. You’ll see that in most cases you can take a course at the 100, 200, 300, or 400 level. This flexibility enables you to take a course in a given area of inquiry at the point and level that make best academic sense for you.</h2>
<p>Shared Inquiry Courses (18–19 credits)
Courses in the Shared Inquiry categories are distinguished primarily by inquiry approaches rather than individual disciplinary areas. They engage students in both active learning and reflective thought, emphasizing critical inquiry in major liberal arts areas. All students take courses that have a primary focus in the following areas of inquiry:
• Artistic Inquiry (3 credits): Students compose critical or creative works that embody or analyze conceptually an artistic form at a baccalaureate/pre-professional level.
• Natural Science Inquiry (3–4 credits): Students use scientific principles and reasoning as a way of knowing the natural world, distinguishing science from non-science.
• Quantitative Inquiry (3 credits): Students understand, apply, and analyze quantitative methods and techniques in university-level inquiry.
• Social Inquiry (3 credits): Students explore processes by which human beings develop social and/or historical perspectives.
• Values and Ethical Inquiry (3 credits): Students articulate how values and ethics inform human understanding, structures, and behavior.
• Written Inquiry (3 credits): Provides students an intensive course in academic writing at the first-year or intermediate level according to demonstrated competence, with attention to media-based composing and delivery. All GE WI courses are rhetorically based, focusing on the ways language is used to negotiate social, educational, and intellectual relationships in various contexts, to a range of audiences. </p>
<p>Thank you so much! I could not find the link to the class list. </p>
<p>It is somewhat hidden. It took me 5 giant steps to get to it:</p>
<p><a href=“https://www.chapman.edu/”>https://www.chapman.edu/</a></p>
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<p><a href=“Academics | Chapman University”>https://www.chapman.edu/academics/index.aspx</a></p>
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<p><a href=“General Education Program | Chapman University”>https://www.chapman.edu/academics/general-education/index.aspx</a></p>
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<p><a href=“General Education Program | Chapman University”>https://www.chapman.edu/academics/general-education/2007-ge-program/index.aspx</a></p>
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<p><a href=“General Education Program | Chapman University”>https://www.chapman.edu/academics/general-education/2007-ge-program/shared-inquiry.aspx</a></p>
<p>Thanks again!</p>
<p>Thanks for saving us hours too as my daughter begins her deeper look into Chapman!</p>