2023-2024 Catalog [Aug. 2023-Aug. 2024]
General Education Requirements
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General Education Paradigm/Philosophy
General Education course selections prepare students to become thoughtful, generative learners. Through exploring broad areas of knowledge - the human condition; the global and historical; the cultural and aesthetic; and the communicative, mathematical, scientific, and technological - students will develop the knowledge bases, and intellectual competencies, and be exposed to the values requisite for participating responsibly in, and adapting to, a complex and diverse world.
Knowledge Bases
A generally educated person possesses knowledge in the following areas:
Human Awareness and Understanding
- Comprehends the dynamics of human behavior, development, and relationships
- Comprehends the dynamic relationship between culture and human awareness
- Comprehends the factors that promote physical, mental, and social well-being
Global and Historical Knowledge and Understanding
- Comprehends a general knowledge of the nature, origins, and contributions of civilizations
- Comprehends the workings and interrelations of personal, business, and government economies
- Comprehends political, social, and economic systems and their effects upon society
Cultural and Aesthetic Knowledge and Understanding
- Comprehends the contributions of the arts, humanities, and sciences of the human experience upon the individual and their world
- Comprehends the development of the arts and sciences and their impact upon the individual and their world
- Comprehends cultural systems and their effects
Communication
- Comprehends the importance of human communication and understands a variety of effective communication methods
- Comprehends the importance of effective communication
- Comprehends methods for gathering, synthesizing, and integrating information in written and oral communication
- Comprehends the connection between critical thinking and effective communication
Mathematics, Science and Technology
- Comprehends the basic concepts and investigative processes of the natural sciences
- Understands various mathematical skills and techniques, and is able to apply them appropriately to solve real world problems
- Comprehends the way science and technology shape our world
Intellectual Competencies
A generally educated person:
- Reads, writes, speaks, and listens effectively
- Acquires, evaluates, analyzes, presents, and communicates information
- Employs quantitative and qualitative analyses to solve problems
- Uses information technology in communication, research, and problem solving
- Organizes concepts into orderly systems
- Works collaboratively within complex systems and diverse groups
- Applies ethical judgment to everyday life
- Applies the scientific method of inquiry
Values
A generally educated person values:
- Intellectual honesty
- Curiosity and openness to new ideas
- Recognition of one’s own creative and intellectual potential
- Acceptance of differences among people, and cultural diversity
- Civic engagement
- Lifelong learning
- Social justice and equality
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