Wright Foundations: The Right Way to Begin
Florida Southern’s general education curriculum, called WRIGHT Foundations, ensures students challenge themselves academically, developing the essential skills for a bright and successful future.
WRIGHT Foundations is intentionally designed to help students embark on a transformative journey that equips them not only with professional expertise but also with a deep sense of empathy, global and cultural awareness, and prepares them to make positive and consequential impact in the world.
ÂÒÂ×ȺP’s WRIGHT Foundations is a 34 credit-hour curriculum grounded in the understanding that the challenges and opportunities encountered by our students are seldom defined to a single academic discipline.
Learning Outcomes
Through ÂÒÂ×ȺP’s WRIGHT Foundations Curriculum, graduates will have the ability to:
W: Make voices heard through courses that focus on learning the art of Writing and speaking.
R: Recognize Resilience in Mind, Body, and Spirit as an important approach to nurturing mental, physical, spiritual, and emotional well-being.
I: Understand human behaviors, societies, and interactions by focusing on Investigating Connections in Social and Behavioral Sciences.
G: Strengthen awareness of Global perspectives as the cornerstone of empathy, diplomacy, inclusion, and the collaborative spirit needed to understand and address the world’s most pressing challenges. •
H: Ignite imagination, challenge assumptions, and discover the threads that form connections through the study and appreciation of Humanities and Fine Arts.
T: Encourage a scientific mindset through the study of Technology, mathematics, and the natural sciences.
Course Requirements
Students will take the required number of credit hours from the following six groupings. See Academic Catalog for course descriptions.
Written and Oral Communication: Making Your Voices Heard (8 credit hours)
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