ACADEMIC REQUIREMENTS AND POLICIES
Re-‐enrolled Students Students who exit Eureka College prior to degree completion and then re-‐enroll after an absence of more than one academic year shall be subject to the requirements of the Catalog of the academic year in which they return.
General Education Mission Statement The General Education Program at Eureka College exists to engage students in the exploration and acquisition of the knowledge, skills, and values that provide a foundation for lifelong excellence in learning, service, and leadership.
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Our graduates will understand the issues, apply the essential concepts, and engage in the ways of knowing that characterize the natural sciences, the humanities, mathematics, the social sciences, and the fine and performing arts. The College expects that its graduates will make connections among these fields of inquiry and demonstrate how those connections serve as the framework of our common cultural heritage. Our graduates will demonstrate foundational expertise in the skills of disciplined reading, effective communication, mathematical analysis, critical and creative thinking, collaborative problem solving, and aesthetic evaluation. The College expects that its graduates will make the connections between and among the skills of critical thinking, creative thinking, and collaborative problem solving and be able to apply these skills in creative and appropriate ways to the demands that they will face in a diverse and changing world. Our graduates will demonstrate a commitment which emphasizes a moral responsibility to self, the local and national community, the global family, and to the environment. The College expects that its graduates will appreciate the relationships inherent in all of life and will accordingly live lives reflective of their moral commitments and characterized by leadership in service of others.
The General Education Curriculum The General Education curriculum is designed to help students Eureka College’s General Education Goals. Where applicable, a student may use a single course to meet two General Education requirements. This may be done a maximum of two times. 49