Program Overview

General Education Mobile (GEM) Program

The General Education Mobile (GEM) program is a partnership between Bowling Green State University and the Community College of the Air Force (CCAF). This partnership streamlines the process for CCAF students to complete their General Education requirements through BGSU, allowing for faster degree completion.

Online Academic Services and Support

• Convenient 7-week sessions.
  • Personalized and individualized advising from Nontraditional & Military Student Services and eCampus.
• All courses in the GEM program are 100% web-based and utilize the Canvas platform.
• Online access to tutoring, writing, and math/stats support through the Learning Commons.
• Technical support to ensure access to courses and services.

Cost of Tuition and Fees

• Tuition: $250 per hour
• Registration Fee: $8 per term

GEM Approved Courses

The following courses are approved for the GEM program:

Oral Communications

• COMM 1020 - Introduction to Public Speaking (3 Credit Hours)
  • Basic principles of public speaking, focusing on informative and persuasive speaking in both extemporaneous and impromptu styles.

Written Communications

• WRIT 1110 Seminars in Academic Writing (3 Credit Hours)
  • Provides a theoretical and practical foundation for college writers, exploring diverse intellectual practices associated with effective writing.
• WRIT 1120 Seminar in Research Writing (3 Credit Hours)
  • Builds on foundational understandings of academic reading and writing with a focus on inquiry-based writing.

Mathematics

• MATH 1150 Introduction to Statistics (3 Credit Hours)
  • Description of data, binomial and normal distributions, estimation, and testing hypotheses for means and proportions.
  • Prerequisites: Two years of high school algebra, one year of geometry, and a satisfactory placement exam score.

Social Sciences

• ECON 2020 Principles of Microeconomics (3 Credit Hours)
  • Price and allocation of resources, demand, supply, price theory, income distribution, market failure, and current problems and public policy.
• ECON 2030 - Principles of Macroeconomics (3 Credit Hours)
  • National income and employment, inflation, banking system, monetary and fiscal policy, economic growth, and development.
  • Prerequisite: ECON 2020 or with consent of the department.
• ETHN 1010 Introduction to Ethnic Studies (3 Credit Hours)
  • Interdisciplinary analyses of race and ethnicity in the U.S., exploring the social construction and ideologies of race.
• GERO 1010 Aging, The Individual and Society (3 Credit Hours)
  • Study of aging from a multidisciplinary perspective, focusing on how people are thought about, evaluated, and treated based on their age.
• HIST 1250 Early America (3 Credit Hours)
  • Selected constitutional, intellectual, political, and social developments that defined and shaped America.
• HIST 1260 - Modern America (3 Credit Hours)
  • Economic, intellectual, political, and social developments that transformed post-Civil War America.
• HIST 1510 - World Civilizations (3 Credit Hours)
  • Comparative study of economic, social, political, and intellectual factors that shaped selected Western and non-Western civilizations.
• HIST 1520 The Modern World (3 Credit Hours)
  • Comparative study of economic, social, political, and intellectual revolutions that transformed contemporary European and non-Western cultures.
• PSYC 1010 General Psychology (4 Credit Hours)
  • Scientific approaches to the study of behavior of organisms, applying to personal and social behavior.

Humanities

• ACS 2500 Cultural Pluralism in the United States (3 Credit Hours)
  • Interdisciplinary exploration of race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexual orientation in the U.S.
• MUCT 1010 - Exploring Music (3 Credit Hours)
  • Explores different categories of music and various genres in their social contexts.
• MUCT 1250 Exploring Music of World Cultures (3 Credit Hours)
  • Musical systems of major non-Western art musics, including theoretical, analytical, and cultural concepts related to music.
• PHIL 1010 Introduction to Philosophy (3 Credit Hours)
  • Critical discussion and debate of fundamental questions that have puzzled us for thousands of years.
• PHIL 1020 Introduction to Ethics (3 Credit Hours)
  • Theoretical questions in ethics, including the origin of morality, the nature of right and wrong, and what makes an action good or bad.
• POPC 1650 Popular Culture and Media (3 Credit Hours)
  • Effects of mass media on modern American culture, including relationships and interactions between media and society.
• POPC 1700 Black Popular Culture (3 Credit Hours)
  • Theories and approaches to 20th and 21st-century African-American popular culture, tracing its impact on national and global contexts.
• WS 2000 Introduction to Women's Studies: Perspectives on Gender, Class, and Ethnicity (3 Credit Hours)
  • Interdisciplinary survey of new scholarship on women, emphasizing the interconnectedness of gender, class, and ethnicity.