GENERAL EDUCATION COURSES AND INSTITUTIONAL REQUIREMENTS

All students aspiring to become candidates for the Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science degree must complete a maximum of 44 semester hours of general education courses and 15 hours of institutional requirements. The underlying objectives of these courses are to:

• Provide students with a background of essential information and experiences from which they can acquire knowledge needed to succeed in meeting demands of society;
• Provide an opportunity for students to acquire knowledge in various subject matter fields that address students’ interests and inclinations;
• Afford channels through which students must perform required critical and creative thinking to assimilate the knowledge gained;
• Offer learning experiences which will evaluate the level of students’ abilities to engage in independent inquiry;
• Assist students in developing a value process that will enable them to become socially conscious; and
• Create within students the desire to emulate those who have achieved scholarly eminence

General Education Courses