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Current General Education Program Requirements & Courses for Students who
enrolled during or after Fall 2007
Students who enrolled at any college or university prior to Fall 2007:
Before Fall 2007
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General Education Related Opportunities
A recipient of the 2007 Association for General and Liberal
Studies Awards for Improving General Education...
Commitment to common student learning objectives.
"Our campuses educate our citizens. Becoming an educated citizen means
learning a lot of facts and mastering techniques of reasoning.
But it means something more. It means learning how to be a human
being capable of love and imagination. We may continue to produce narrow
citizens who have difficulty understanding people different from themselves,
whose imaginations rarely venture beyond their local setting. . But we
have the opportunity to do better, and now we are beginning to seize that
opportunity."
[Martha C. Nussbaum, Cultivating Humanity]
Eastern Michigan University
General Education Program
Education for Participation in the Global Community
General Education is the heart of an EMU education
and a source of institutional
General Education is the core of an undergraduate education.
It is general in that it provides students with a comprehensive
educational experience and prepares them for study within their major.
General Education teaches students to think critically and communicate
effectively; it provides an introduction to the methodologies and practices
of the academic disciplines; it promotes intellectual curiosity and a love
of learning.
