The six program goals

Did you know what the six program goals of the American University general Education program were? Well, in case you didn't know, here they are:

• written and oral communication
• critical thinking / information literacy
• ethics
• aesthetics
• perspectives of race, class, culture, and gender
• a global point of view

These are the six things that all General Education courses strive to promote. Obviously, particular courses do more with some goals than with others, but taken as a whole, the General Education program strives to meet these six goals across all course offerings. In fact, striving to meet these goals is what makes a General Education course at American general rather than specific to a particular discipline or major.