The knowledge integration area focuses on issues of ethics, the application of knowledge to specific problems, and the relevance of the undergraduate experience to life.
Knowledge Applications
Explore the ways in which knowledge can be applied in areas outside your
own field of study. You'll compare and contrast methods used in your major with those in another field. The course must be outside of the
degree requirements for your major.
What will I learn?
- evaluate and apply knowledge in a field outside of your major to solve real-world problems across a range of applications
- personal, professional, ethical and societal implications of these applications
Capstone
The capstone experience will create an explicit link between general
education and your major (or between general education components if you
take a general education capstone instead of one in your major). The
capstone can be interdisciplinary- or discipline-specific.
If taken in the major,
it must explicitly address the relevance to the major of a combination
of at least three of the general education knowledge areas and
capacities to the major.
Although students who change majors may be required to take a second
capstone as part of their major, you are only required to meet the
general education capstone requirement once.
What will I learn?
- appropriate uses of a variety of methods of inquiry and a recognition of ethical considerations that arise
- the ability to integrate the knowledge learned in general education and its relevance to your life and career
Writing Intensive
Through two
writing intensive courses, students gain a depth in both general and discipline-specific writing abilities.
Writing Intensive in General Education and
Writing Intensive in the Major may be found in courses that also satisfy the Explorations and Integration areas. See also
writing foundations.
What will I learn?
- elements, writing processes, and organizing strategies for creating analytical and expository prose
- effective rhetorical strategies appropriate to the topic, audience, context and purpose
Diversity
Make sure
one of your general education courses and/or courses
for your major also fulfills the diversity requirement. A course can
qualify to meet the diversity requirement if one-half of its content
deals with issues relating to at least two of the following: race,
gender or ethnicity.
What will I learn?
- knowledge of how diverse value systems and societal structures are influenced by race, gender and ethnicity
- major challenges and issues these raise in society