Revision of General Education Courses from Wed, 07/26/2023 - 15:29

Curriculum for Bachelor's Degrees (36 Credits)

Carolina University’s general education program is designed to prepare students for success in a variety of professional settings and to provide a base of learning to manage the complexities of living in an ever-changing world. At a minimum, the general education program at CU seeks to provide a breadth and depth of knowledge in areas outside a student’s major to prepare them for success in the major and for further studies. This philosophy is underpinned by an understanding that students need knowledge beyond their immediate discipline in order to make sense of the world around them and to become successful in employment contexts that require a diverse set of hard and soft skills. As the modern professional world continues to experience disruptions due to technology and other factors, students need to possess foundational disciplinary and connective knowledge to help them become expert professionals in their area of expertise and lifelong learners who are able to adapt as the world around them changes. Carolina University’s general education program emphasizes a closer connection to success in the employment market upon graduation and preparation for lifelong professional success in the future workplace environment.

In cataloging the courses that are necessary to provide a valuable general education program, the university relies on benchmarking against other higher education institutions, research about the future of work, employment projections, estimations about future skills gaps, surveys from employers, and other relevant data. Based on research, Carolina University has established a general education program that enables graduates to possess the following capabilities:
1.   oral and written communication;
2.   research and information retrieval;
3.   reasoning, logic, and knowledge synthesis;
4.   numeracy and quantitative analysis;
5.   ethics and diversity awareness.

To that end, Carolina University’s general education program for bachelor's degrees requires the completion of the following compulsory courses:

Foundational Skills (Required)

Christian Religion (Required)

BT 100 - Introduction to Christianity

Mathematics (Choose 1)

Natural Science (Choose 2)

Arts/Humanities (Choose 2)

Social/Behavioral Sciences (Choose 2)

The remaining 3 credits (1 course) may be selected from anything listed above except for the prescriptive core (BT100, GE101, GE102, GT103).