Transferring from Missouri State-West Plains
Missouri Department of Higher Education's Transfer Students: Your Rights & Responsibilities information sheet (PDF 21 KB) Text Version
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Transfer Plan
General Education (Core 42)
The Coordinating Board for the Higher Education in Missouri approved a new general education transfer policy in 2000. This policy requires all participating institutions (public and private) in the state to designate a general education block consisting of at least 42 semester hours of credit which addresses 8 state-defined general education goals. Students who complete the 42-hour general education block at Missouri State-West Plains may transfer to another participating institution and have their block treated as equivalent to the general education block of the receiving institution.
The CBHE outcomes include mastering the skills of communicating, higher-order thinking, managing information, and valuing through the completion of at least 42-semester hours. These are distributed across the broad knowledge areas of communications, humanities and fine arts, natural and mathematical sciences, and social and behavioral sciences. The ILOs include thinking critically, communicating effectively, behaving responsibly, valuing others, developing life skills, utilizing technology, and investigating world processes. The basic competencies are achieved through the completion of the CORE 42 in its entirety.