GEN 110 IDEAS AND EXPERIENCES: INTRODUCTION TO CRITICAL THOUGHT AND EXPRESSION
As the first component of Medaille's General Education Core, this liberal arts course is designed to provide students with an introduction to the expectations and opportunities of college life. Throughout the course, critical thinking, problem-solving, and communication skills are emphasized in the exploration and evaluation of significant ideas. In addition, the course specifically addresses the academic, study, and personal skills required for success at Medaille. Students also participate in and analyze social and group interactions.Three credit hours. This course is required of all first-year day students. Offered every semester (d & e).

GEN 220 COLONIAL N. AMERICA: CASE STUDY IN CULTURAL INTERACTION
This course examines the ways in which widely-divergent cultures interacted with each other and with specific environments in seventeenth and eighteenth century North America. The course uses historical, anthropological, social, economic, political, and other perspectives to assist students to develop more sophisticated understandings of the American past, and the complex nature of global cultural interactions of which the colonial American experience is an example. Three credit hours. Prerequisites: GEN 110 and WRT 175. Offered every semester (d & e).

GEN 230 CREATIVE EXPRESSION
(Topic to be specified each semester.)
This course explores forms of creative expression in visual, performing, and literary arts. Students will acquire abilities and perspectives about these arts and interrelationships among them. In addition, through exploring, developing, and demonstrating their creativity in one art form, students will enhance their understanding of artistic expression. A student may not take this course more than once for credit under different topics. Three credit hours. Prerequisites: GEN 110 and WRT 175. Offered every semester (d & e).

GEN 240 SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY
An inquiry into the process of scientific discovery, its methodology, development, relationship with technology, and role in modern society. By exploring aspects of scientific inquiry, students will develop a critical awareness of scientific and technological issues, methods, and processes.Three credit hours. Prerequisites: GEN 110 and WRT 175. Offered every semester (d & e). Note: Registration for both the lecture (GEN 240) and the lab (GEN 240L) is required.

GEN 410 BACCALAUREATE CAPSTONE I
The bacalaureate capstone is a course about ideas and the ways in which the educated person contends with them. The course deals in an integrative, interdisciplinary fashion with five broad General Education themes: Self and Others, Global Perspectives, Creative Expression, Science and Technology, and Communication. The course invites students to engage in a sophisticated way with ideas and works that raise questions about and shed light upon contemporary life. Through the process of reading, reflection, writing, and discussion, students will be required to demonstrate the critical thinking and commmunication skills generally held to be the hallmark of the educated individual pursuing and enjoying an informed life. Three credit hours. Prerequisites: Junior standing and completion of all lower-level General Education requirements. Offered every semester (d & e).

GEN 411 BACCALAUREATE CAPSTONE II
This seminar course gives students the opportunity to integrate their course work with individual research projects. Each student is responsible for the production, presentation, and defense of a research paper which addresses a specific academic topic related to the College's General Education core. Research projects must demonstrate significant knowledge within the selected topic area, an understanding of its place in an integrated intellectual framework, and a high level of skill development. Three credit hours. Prerequisite: GEN 410. Offered every semester (d & e).