Undergraduate Education, Council on -Reports - 2007-2008
- General Education Program (GEP) Implementation Updates
Category: Additional Breadth
CUE Approved Version for GEP 5-2-08
Additional Breadth Rationale
One purpose of the General Education Program is to introduce students to a variety of disciplines. To this end, students are required to successfully complete a course from a general education category list that represents an approach to scholarship that is clearly distinct from the primary approach of their major. Determining an appropriate group of lists from which their students choose is an exercise in judgment best left to faculty in the major; accordingly, each program will select the group of lists from which their majors will choose a course to fulfill this requirement (either the group “Humanities/Social Sciences/Visual and Performing Arts” or the group “Mathematics/Natural Sciences/Engineering”). The faculty’s selection will be reviewed through appropriate college-level mechanisms and then be subject to review by CUE.