CULVER-STOCKTON COLLEGE
GENERAL EDUCATION The Culver-Stockton College General Education program provides the foundation upon which all of our academic programs are built. It fosters and develops the essential knowledge, skills, and values students need to meet the work, life, and global citizenship challenges of the 21st century. It also reflects Culver-Stockton’s commitment to experiential learning as the hallmark of the curriculum through experiential courses that are embedded within the program. General Education lays the foundation of lifelong learning. Through its coursework, students gain a wide range of high-level intellectual, and practical skills that employers demand, including critical and creative thinking, written and oral communication, problem solving, ethical and social reasoning, and global awareness. These skills prepare students to engage in a complex and ever-changing world, making knowledgeable decisions as global citizens that go beyond the narrow scope of their major field of study.
PROGRAM GOALS
Written Communication • Students will address the requirements of various audiences and appropriate disciplines. • Students will use appropriate content to organize thoughts in a logical fashion. • Students will locate credible evidence and use it to effectively support an argument. • Students will identify and correct sentence-level errors. Oral Communication • Students will create clear and consistently organized presentations. • Students will use appropriate language, proper grammar, and minimal vocalized pauses. • Students will utilize proper body language, eye contact, delivery, volume and tone. • Students will use quality supporting material and properly cited sources to examine both sides of a topic. Critical Thinking and Problem Solving • Students will identify and define a problem or issue. • Students will elect and use appropriate information to examine this problem or issue. • Students will consider available information and perspectives in order to propose, evaluate and implement a response or solution. • Students will review results to make logical conclusions and consider future applications based on available information. Creative Thinking • Students will create materials appropriate to the field of study and evaluate their process and creative product using appropriate disciplinary criteria. • Students will develop and follow through on new directions or approaches to a final creative product and articulate their reason for choosing these approaches. • Students will transform ideas into new forms by making connections and synthesizing information to create a new product or knowledge. Intercultural Learning • Students will analyze their own cultural expectations and biases. • Students will articulate the complex elements of other cultures. • Students will interpret intercultural experiences from the perspectives of more than one worldview. Foundations: All of the following are required: FYE 100: First-Year Experience ENG 101: Composition I ENG 202: Composition II EXP 101: Introduction to Experiential Learning EXP 301: Problem Based Learning COM 115: Fundamentals of Speech PED 100: Introduction to Fitness Academic and Cultural Events (ACE) (24 events or prorated for transfer students)
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2021-2022 Academic Catalog
