Undergraduate General Education Requirements
General Education Philosophy
The purpose of General Education at AIU is to provide students with a broad range of courses designed to integrate general knowledge with their major field of study. To this end, students are provided with a curricular environment aimed at broadening and deepening intellectual awareness and perspective, historical understanding, technological and communicative proficiency, information acquisition and analysis, and multi-cultural and global awareness. Students are enabled to grow personally and professionally so that they are equipped with the skills necessary to meet the challenges they will face as global citizens in an ever-changing workplace.
General Education Outcomes
1. COMMUNICATION
Create documents and/or deliver presentations in standard academic English that reflect mature, well-considered ideas, arguments, and information using, where appropriate, media, methods, subjects, and technology.
2. CRITICAL THINKING
Synthesize different ideas, beliefs, perspectives, and approaches in the process of arriving at conclusions or solutions (includes ethical reasoning and awareness of cultural diversity).
3. QUANTITATIVE REASONING
Present solutions, in a variety of formats, to quantitative problems from a wide array of authentic contexts and everyday life situations.
4. KNOWLEDGE OF CULTURE, SOCIETY, AND THE NATURAL WORLD
Integrate concepts, principles, and methods from a variety of disciplines to apply to personal and professional endeavors.
5. INFORMATION LITERACY
Identify, evaluate, and use valid information sources and content effectively and ethically.
6. INQUIRY AND ANALYSIS
Apply a methodical research approach to gather evidence to assess problems, situations, and events.