General Education Mission

As you choose college courses, you are probably focusing on your major and minor areas of study. While this coursework will provide skills and knowledge you will use in your career, you will need other abilities to help you succeed.

You will need strong writing skills to prepare reports. You will need oral communication skills for presentations and participation in meetings, and you'll need a variety of other skills to understand and function in society. You will acquire these skills and proficiencies through the General Education component.

Your General Education courses will provide you with a broad educational foundation. General Education Requirements include university Competency Requirements and the University Program. General Education courses teach you about forces, ideas and values that shape the world and about the structure of organized human knowledge.

Goals and Objectives
General Education is intended to assist the student in the following objectives:

• Developing undergraduate college-level competencies in reading comprehension, written communication, oral communication, and quantitative reasoning and interpretation.
  
• Learning to examine and solve problems through intellectual process skills, such as comprehension, translation, interpretation, extrapolation, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. Library and research skills are important accompaniments of these processes.
  
• Evaluating critically a broad range of personal and cultural values.
  
• Developing intellectual concerns to include:
  
  • the logic and substance of science;
    
  • an understanding of American society and culture;
    
  • a cross-cultural perspective through the study of diverse cultures;
    
  • an awareness of human nature from differing theoretical points of view;
    
  • the fine arts
    
• Understanding global cultures, where possible, through study abroad.
  
• Experiencing intellectual community.