General Education Skills
Throughout your time in courses in General Education, you will develop competencies that will help you in your upper division coursework, your future career, and beyond.
Communication
- Composition I: Compose and revise a researched academic paper that adheres to discipline-specific conventions.
- Composition II: Produce (through revision) effective written communications that support author intent and address a specific audience.
- Communication: Produce (through scaffolded feedback) effective oral communications that support author intent and address a specific audience.
*Non-composition College-Level Communication courses must select one of the communication SLOs for their contribution to the assessment of writing.
Critical Thinking
- Mathematics: Apply mathematical principles to determine a strategy for solving a problem.
- Mathematics: Execute appropriate mathematical techniques for solving a problem and interpret results of a solution.
- Humanities: Interpret and analyze tools and techniques of communication within cultural forms or cultural contexts.
- Social Sciences: Solve problems using social science methods.
- Natural Sciences: Evaluate scientific information using appropriate tools and strategies of the discipline.
Values/Integrity
- Humanities: Identify the intrinsic value of culture and cultural artifacts.
- Social Sciences: Reason ethically in an appropriate disciplinary context.
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College-Level Communication and Computation
To fulfill the writing and mathematics requirement for earning the first baccalaureate degree, students are required to satisfy the College-Level Communication and Computation (formerly Gordon Rule) requirement. Students must have a grade of "C" or better in the courses to successfully complete this requirement.
Civic Literacy
The study of the rights and responsibilities of citizenship supports a rich academic experience, contributes to career readiness, and equips students to participate fully in the democratic process.
Civic LiteracyGeneral Education Digital Badging
Digital badges, also known as micro-credentials, allow recipients to showcase their skills to prospective employers through the completion of various courses and learning experiences.
General Education Digital Badging