General Education Guidelines

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Table of Contents:

Mission and Purpose

Introduction and The Curriculum

Approved Courses

Six Assumptions

Recommended Sequencing of Requirements

Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Courses

Information Literacy

First Year Seminar

Created and Called for Community

Writing Across the Curriculum

Structural Parameters for the Major Writing Requirement

Structural Parameters for the Writing-Enriched Course Requirement

Principles for Approving Faculty Members for Interdisciplinary Courses

Structural Parameters for Interdisciplinary Courses

Transfer Equivalencies

Satisfying Requirements through Means other than Formal Coursework

Alternate College Credit Options