Discontinued Use of the University of Maryland Core Sheet from the MC Transfer Website

Dear Colleagues,

 

After discussion Anne Schleicher and I have decided it is best to stop using the University of Maryland Core sheet that has been developed for use with students who started college prior to fall 2012.  We are now advising students who started college in fall 2012 to complete our general education program and use the chart on the MC Transfer website http://cms.montgomerycollege.edu/EDU/Plain.aspx?id=44793.   The chart is titled

“Catalog Year 2013 - 2014 - For students starting MC Fall 2013 and after (.pdf) Word”

 

For students who started college before fall 2012 it is easiest to also have them follow this same chart but to be sure to advise them they must complete either a history or literature course for a humanities distribution for transfer.

 

It is less confusing for the students to use the MC general education chart especially since some of the courses on the Core sheet are not included on our distribution course lists and therefore a student may take a course that transfers but does not count for graduation here at MC.  We want to lessen confusion regarding graduation requirements and promote completions.

 

Please remove all the UM Core sheets from the Counseling/Advising and Career Transfer Centers and make sure you have printed copies of the general education chart.  I have also attached a copy of the chart for your convenience.   Thanks for all of your assistance in assuring that students get the correct transfer information.

ARTSYS and UM General Education Courses

UMCP and ARTSYS What to Follow for General Education

Many of you have noticed that the 2012 ARTSYS Recommended Transfer Program pages (RTP’s) which refer to UMCP’s New General Education Program (the blue clickable “AREA” lines) are blank. This is NOT a point of concern if Montgomery College students complete the MC General Education Program prior to transfer.

We have requested that a statement about taking MC Gen Ed courses be placed in the RTP Advising Notes, but it hasn’t happened yet.

Most four-year college/university Gen Ed Programs are around 40 credits total (including UMCP’s). Students who have completed Montgomery College’s 34-credit General Education Requirements will have met 34 credits of the 40 credits of Gen Ed at UMCP without a course-by-course match.

The bottom line: Students who finish 34-credit Gen Ed Program at Montgomery College do not have to fulfill the blue AREA requirements on ARTSYS RTP’s 2012 and after.

HOWEVER students who started @ MC prior to Fall 2012 still need to follow CORE requirements.

The CORE list can be found on the MC Transfer Website under the Local Schools link and then under the University of Maryland.

http://cms.montgomerycollege.edu/uploadedFiles/EDU/Counseling_and_Advising/Transfer/Transfer_Resources/corecp(1).pdf

Here’s another interpretation of “Who Follows CORE” and “Who Follows New Gen Ed” at UMCP:

• NEW GEN ED - Any new student who started @ MC this year, Fall 2012 and after, should follow a 2012 ARTSYS RTP and take Montgomery College General Education Program courses in place of the blue AREA lines.

• Students who transfer to MC who did not attend at Maryland system school prior to fall 2012 will also follow the NEW GEN ED at UM unless they complete an AA at MC.

• Old CORE - Students who started at MC before this Fall 2012 and who graduated from high school PRIOR to May/June 2012 must follow the older RTP pages showing CORE General Education. Students following CORE should choose at least one History and/or English Literature from among Humanities choices on the MC Gen Ed list. Note that both a History AND a Literature are not required – just one HS or EN Lit.

EXCEPTION: ALL transfer students who come from a non-Maryland public school to Montgomery College in hopes of then transferring to UMCP will have to follow New Gen Ed, unless they complete an AA degree while @ MC before transferring. If they do not complete the AA they will need to follow specific New Gen Ed requirements, using courses from their previous school if applicable. See specific courses that fulfill New Gen Ed requirements for any school in the Transfer Credit Center site, www.tce.umd.edu – and refer these students to UMCP’s Pre-Transfer Advising for more information! http://www.transferadvising.umd.edu/

Who Follows CORE

Students enrolled @ MC or ANY Univ. System of Maryland (USM) school prior to Fall 2012 will follow Older RTP’s and CORE Requirements

1) EN 102 or 109

2) Mathematics

3) Health – a 3 credit health is preferred

4) Speech – SP 108 or 112

5) One Arts – ANY

6) One Arts or Humanities - ANY

7) One Humanities – Choose one History OR one Literature

8) Two Behavioral & Social Sciences -

9) Two Sciences

Who Follows New General Education?

All students new to MC Fall 2012 (key distinction – graduated from HS in Summer 2012) AND any transfer students who did not attend a Maryland system school prior to Fall 2012 will follow New Gen Ed (example, a transfer from Penn State to MC hoping to go to UM must follow New Gen Ed).

1) EN 102 or 109

2) Mathematics

3) Health – a 3 credit health is preferred

4) Speech – SP 108 or 112

5) One Arts – ANY

6) One Arts or Humanities – ANY

7) One Humanities – ANY

8) Two Behavioral & Social Sciences

9) Two Sciences

MC Gen Ed Page with Transfer Advising Notes: http://cms.montgomerycollege.edu/uploadedFiles/EDU/Counseling_and_Advising/Transfer/Transfer_Resources/GenEdAdvising9-20-12.doc

New General Education Program at UMCP

Don't let the New General Education Program at UMCP scare you!  It's actually simpler than CORE.  Just tell students to "Follow MC's General Education Program."  Encourage students to finish the entire Gen Ed Program at MC for the smoothest transfer.

Here are the slight changes of which you should be aware:

1. English Foundation - still EN 102/109 
2. Math - if a student is heading toward an arts/humanities/communication/social sciences major, then MA 116 Elements of Statistics is the best choice.  It will count in two categories, fulfilling both the Math Requirement AND the Analytic Reasoning Reasoning (two categories).  If you see MA 116 in the string of choices on an ARTSYS page, highlight MA 116.
3. Speech - SP 108 or 112, now required at UM 
4. Health - a 3-credit health is recommended - it will transfer to give the student a total of 34 rather than 32 gen ed credits.  With 34 credits done, the student needs an even 6 more credits/ 2 more classes to be taken after transfer to finish off Gen Ed.  If 32 credits are done (with a 1-cr. HE), then 8 more credits remain at UMCP = 3 classes.
5. Arts / Arts and Humanities / Humanities - Any courses on the MC Gen Ed list will work.  Previously with CORE, a Literature was required and a History recommended, and CG 120 was not accepted as an Arts.  Now with New Gen Ed - ANY courses on our list for Arts/Humanities will work.  
6. Behavioral Social Sciences - same as before, take 2 from 2 different disciplines.
7. Sciences - same as it ever was, 1 lab, a second without or with lab, depends on major.   
8. * Global and Cultural Perspectives (Multicultural) - still needed, one course from among all of our choices.

The handout on the MC Transfer Page is for new students:  www.montgomerycollege.edu/transfer 

General Education Course Lists

For Students New to Montgomery College in Fall 2012

For Students New to College (HS Grad Date May/June '12) (includes Gen Ed List 12-13) - 4 pages

CORE - All students who were enrolled in college prior to Fall 2012 

New Gen Ed - All students new to any college starting Fall 2012 and after (even Early Placement) - typically high school graduates in May/June 2012

-A.Schleicher