SUNY General Education is a framework applicable to all SUNY undergraduate degree programs. For the Associate in Arts and the Associate in Science degree programs students must meet 7 of the 10 SUNY Knowledge and Skills areas, the Critical Thinking and Information Literacy competencies, and have 30 SUNY General Education credits.
Of the 7 Knowledge and Skills areas, the following 4 are required: Communication-Written and Oral; Mathematics and Quantitative Reasoning; Natural Sciences and Scientific Reasoning; and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice. The other Knowledge and Skill areas are The Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, US History and Civic Engagement, World and Global Awareness, and World Languages.
To meet the NY State Education Department requirements, students in an Associate of Arts program must have a total of 45 credits of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Students in an Associate of Science program must have a total of 30 credits of Liberal Arts and Sciences. All courses listed as meeting the General Education requirements are also Liberal Arts and Sciences courses.
The following list of courses meet the SUNY General Education requirements for the specified categories. Note that some courses fulfill more than one Knowledge and Skills Area and/or Core Competency:
| Knowledge and Skills Area | Core Competencies | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Communication (Written and Oral) Required | Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Social Justice (DEISJ) Required | Mathematics and Quantitative Reasoning Required | Natural Sciences and Scientific Reasoning Required | The Arts | Humanities | Social Sciences | US History and Civic Engagement | World History and Global Awareness | World Languages | Critical Thinking Required | Information Literacy Required |
| ENGL 1110 | ENGL 2420 | MATH 1130 | ASTR 1010 | ARTS 1000 | ARTS 1310 | ANTH 2000 | HIST 1110 | HIST 1030 | ARAB 1010 | BIOL 1500 | ENGL 1010 |
| ENGL1010 + SPCH 1060 or 1080 |
PHIL 1300 | MATH 1140 | ASTR 1020 | ARTS 1030 | ARTS 1320 | ANTH 2120 | HIST 1120 | HIST 1040 | ARAB 1020 | BIOL 1520 | ENGL 1110 |
| ENGL 1510 + SPCH 1060 or 1080 |
SOCI 1050 | MATH 1150 | BIOL 1010 | ARTS 1210 | ARTS 1505 | ECON 2001 | HIST 1050 | CHIN 1010 | BIOL 1550 | ENGL 1510 | |
| SOCI 2210 | MATH 1230 | BIOL 1020 | ARTS 1310 | ENGL 1020 | ECON 2002 | CHIN 1020 | BIOL 1560 | MCOM 2020 | |||
| MATH 1240 | BIOL 1030 | ARTS 1320 | ENGL 1520 | PSYC 1101 | CHIN 2010 | BIOL 2080 | PSYC 1101 | ||||
| MATH 1310 | BIOL 1050 | ARTS 1400 | ENGL 2420 | PSYC 1620 | FREN 1010 | CHEM 2010 | PSYC 1620 | ||||
| MATH 1411 | BIOL 1060 | ARTS 1410 | ENGL 2030 | SOCI 1010 | FREN 1020 | CHEM 2033 | THEA 1010 | ||||
| MATH 1412 | BIOL 1500 | ARTS 1420 | HUMA 1010 | SOCI 1050 | FREN 2010 | MCOM 2020 | |||||
| MATH 1413 | BIOL 1510 | ARTS 1450 | MCOM 1010 | SOCI 2210 | FREN 2020 | PHIL 1010 | |||||
| MATH 1610 | BIOL 1520 | ARTS 1505 | MUSC 1230 | GERM 1010 | PHIL 1300 | ||||||
| MATH 1620 | BIOL 1550 | MUSC 1010 | MUSC 1240 | GERM 1020 | PHIL 2200 | ||||||
| MATH 2410 | BIOL 1560 | MUSC 1110 | PHIL 1010 | GERM 2010 | PHIL 2420 | ||||||
| MATH 2560 | BIOL 1210 | MUSC 1230 | PHIL 1300 | GERM 2020 | PSYC 1101 | ||||||
| MATH 2610 | BIOL 1220 | MUSC 1240 | PHIL 2200 | GREK 1010 | PSYC 1620 | ||||||
| MATH 2620 | CHEM 1010 | MUSC 1311 | PHIL 2420 | ITAL 1010 | SOCI 1010 | ||||||
| MATH 2350 | CHEM 1020 | MUSC 1321 | THEA 1010 | ITAL 1020 | |||||||
| CHEM 1030 | MUSC 1411 | THEA 1020 | ITAL 2010 | ||||||||
| CHEM 1510 | MUSC 1421 | LATN 1010 | |||||||||
| CHEM 1520 | THEA 1010 | LATN 1020 | |||||||||
| GEOL 1510 | THEA 1020 | RUSS 1010 | |||||||||
| GEOL 1520 | RUSS 1020 | ||||||||||
| GEOL 1530 | RUSS 2010 | ||||||||||
| PHYS 1010 | SIGN 1010 | ||||||||||
| PHYS 1730 | SPAN 1010 | ||||||||||
| PHYS 1740 | SPAN 1020 | ||||||||||
| PHYS 1820 | SPAN 2010 | ||||||||||
| PHYS 2830 | |||||||||||
| SCIN 1110 | |||||||||||
| SCIN 1120 | |||||||||||