Binding the individual courses within  the three major components of the General Education Core Curriculum ─The Interdisciplinary Matrix, Intellectual and Personal Development, and Modes of Inquiry─ are eight common learning experiences.  These eight objectives are then complemented by the objectives for the categories within the components.

The Curriculum as a whole and the individual courses will enable students to:

1. communicate effectively in speech and writing;

 

2. demonstrate their ability to think, read, write, and discuss ideas analytically and critically;

 

3. demonstrate their concept of human events, ideas, and issues within an historical framework;

 

4. identify and describe interconnections of knowledge and apply concepts and skills from one area to another;

 

5. demonstrate that they can take responsibility for their own learning by performing active, independent searches of knowledge about the world beyond the classroom;

 

6. demonstrate their understanding of human differences and describe positive characteristics of different peoples;

 

7. identify values that enable people to find meaning in the world and in their own lives;

 

8. demonstrate their use of the college library and other resources and tools for obtaining information.