In accordance with UNC System policy 400.1.5, students matriculating at any UNC system school, including UNC Greensboro, are required to complete a course covering foundations of American democracy. The course teaches students to evaluate key concepts and principles in founding documents of the American republic, like the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. Students also learn to evaluate key milestones in progress and challenges, like the Gettysburg Address, Emancipation Proclamation, and Martin Luther King’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail. At UNCG, this requirement is met in the general education program, Minerva’s Academic Curriculum, by completing the Civics and Community competency.

Per the policy, students who have completed this requirement at other UNC System schools or who have earned an Associate in Arts or Associate in Science degree at a North Carolina community college are considered to have met this requirement.