General Education Core Courses

General Education Comprehensive Goal

The general knowledge areas and their required credits for A.A. and A.S. degrees are established by the State Board of Education Governing Policies and Procedures.

A college education lays the foundation of a career, cultivates the imagination, develops the power to reason and analyze, and encourages the intellectual curiosity that makes education a lifelong undertaking.

A central component of this preparation is the requirement that a student working toward a degree or certificate must complete coursework in the general education core. The general education coursework is intended to transfer between A.A., A.S., and A.A.S. degrees.

General Education courses are not intended to meet specific course requirements of unique or professional programs.

General Education Specific Goals

Communication Goal: To enhance the student’s ability to communicate clearly, correctly, logically, and persuasively in spoken English.

English Goal: To gain experience in the process of writing essays, to evaluate, to communicate clearly, and to incorporate and cite sources.

Humanities Goal: To comprehend the human experience as it has been portrayed and amplified through the visual arts, performing arts, languages, literature, and philosophy.

Mathematics Goal: To gain an understanding of mathematics as a language in which to express, define, and answer questions about the world.

Science Goal: To gain an understanding of the world through natural sciences.

Social Science Goal: To understand, interpret, and apply knowledge for evaluationg and valuing human behavior in its anthropological, economic, geographical, historical, political, psychological, and sociological contexts.