UMS-MCCS General Education Transfer Block

What is it?

The General Education Transfer Block is based on an agreement between UMS and Maine Community College System (MCCS), allowing students who have completed at least 34 credits, with grades of C- or better in all courses, to meet the General Education requirements at an MCCS campus to ‘block transfer’ those credits toward the General Education requirements at UMaine.

Who qualifies, what transfers, and what else must be completed at UMaine?

MCCS students who have completed the General Education Transfer Block, as noted on their MCCS institution’s official transcript, will be regarded as having completed the General Education requirements at UMaine, except for the following credits, as listed in the UMaine Catalog:

  • A minimum of three additional course credits in the UMaine Human Values and Social Context category, typically within the Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives subcategory
  • A Writing Intensive course in the Major Degree
  • A Capstone Experience course
  • Any specific General Education courses required by the major

Credit for courses used to meet the Transfer Block will be applied as a block to the General Education portion of each eligible student’s Degree Progress Report. 

UMS-UMS General Education Transfer-Out Block

Students who are transferring from the University of Maine to another University of Maine System campus and have completed the General Education requirements listed below, with a total of at least 35 credits and a C- or better in all courses, may ask to have that completion certified for a General Education Block Transfer at the other institution.

The University of Maine General Education Transfer-Out Block Certification Form must be completed and signed by the student’s academic dean’s office to certify the student’s fulfillment of the required general education courses.

The completed and signed form should be sent by the dean’s office to the Office of Student Records. The Registrar will review and forward the document to the other UMS campus.

Requirements:

  1. Artistic and Creative Expression – one course, minimum 3 credits
  2. Science – two courses, minimum 7 credits
    • Two courses with labs in the basic or applied sciences
      OR
    • One course in the applications of scientific knowledge, plus one course with a lab in the basic or applied sciences
  3. Writing Competency – two courses, minimum 6 credits
    • One College Composition course
    • One Writing-Intensive course
  4. Quantitative Literacy – two courses, minimum 6 credits
  5. Western Cultural Tradition/Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives – two courses, minimum 6 credits
  6. Population and the Environment – one course, minimum 3 credits
  7. Social Contexts – one course, minimum 3 credits
  8. Ethics – one course, minimum 3 credits