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Discovery Program: Sample Syllabi Language
Discovery
The Discovery Program, UNH’s core undergraduate course requirement, ensures that all students at UNH
explore a breadth of disciplinary content areas as part of their Bachelor’s degree. Please note that this course
meets the Discovery category requirement in _______, and ________, and Gen Ed ___ category.
This course fulfills the Discovery requirement in the category of Environment, Technology, and Society. The
UNH faculty believed that the Discovery Program provides a breadth of study that is crucial to being welleducated in the 21st century.
Inquiry
Inquiry courses are designed to encourage students to reflect on their learning processes, to develop their own
strategies to address questions, problems or subject matter in their coursework, and to effectively convey and
present the results of their inquiry
Category Examples
Fine and Performing Arts
Students will be introduced to critical and visual literacy skills as we explore buildings from across time and
from all over the world. ARTS 574 fulfills the university’s mission about writing across the curriculum, its
Discovery program Fine and Performing Arts category, and asks a foundational question: "...where does the
knowledge come from to build structures of enduring significance?”
Social Science
Introductory Sociology is a Social Science in the UNH Discovery Program, which is designed to help students
become functionally literate in important areas of learning. Sociology overlaps with and is informed by other
social sciences, including anthropology, economics, political science, and psychology, and sociologists
frequently utilize an historical perspective to examine trends over time.
Biological Science
The Discovery Program, UNH’s core undergraduate course requirement, ensures that all students at UNH
explore a breadth of disciplinary content areas as part of their Bachelor’s degree. Please note that this course
meets the Discovery category requirement in Biology, and Discovery lab, and Gen Ed 3b category. As
such, there will be human biology content, including anatomy and physiology, as it relates to human stress, as
well as lab reports that require application of scientific methods in addressing questions.
Environment, Technology, and Society
The Discovery Program is designed to allow students to explore concepts beyond their freshman year. The
course has been targeted to sophomores, who should be better prepared to deal with more detailed and complex
course content. The course content is based on recommendations by the American Society for Human
Geneticists, for concepts that non-science majors need to facilitate decision mapping for issues they will
confront over their lives.
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