General Education Courses
Curriculum for Bachelor's Degrees (36-38 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 Carolina University 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. 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 courses:
Foundational Skills (Required)
course - English Composition I (3 Credit Hours)
course - English Composition II (3 Credit Hours)
course - Learning & Technology (3 Credit Hours)
Christian Religion (Required)
course - Introduction to Christianity (3 Credit Hours)
Mathematics (Choose 1)
course - College Algebra (3 Credit Hours)
course - Precalculus Algebra (3 Credit Hours)
Natural Science (Choose 2)
course - Biology I (3 Credit Hours)
course - Biology II (3 Credit Hours)
course - General Chemistry I w/Lab (4 Credit Hours)
course - General Chemistry II w/Lab (4 Credit Hours)
course - Human Nutrition and Wellness (3 Credit Hours)
course - Survey of Physical Science (3 Credit Hours)
course - Food Chemistry (3 Credit Hours)
course - Introduction to Nutrition (3 Credit Hours)
course - General Physics I w/Lab (4 Credit Hours)
course - General Physics II w/Lab (4 Credit Hours)
Arts/Humanities (Choose 2)
course - Introduction to the Bible (3 Credit Hours)
course - New Testament Survey (3 Credit Hours)
course - Life of Christ (3 Credit Hours)
course - Old Testament Survey (3 Credit Hours)
course - Christian Ethics (3 Credit Hours)
course - Public Speaking (3 Credit Hours)
course - Foundations of Education (3 Credit Hours)
And/or any course with the following prefixes (3 Credit Hours each):
EN (Literature)
GE (Writing)
GF (Art)
GL (Language)
GM (Music)
GH (History)
GS (Speech)
Social/Behavioral Sciences (Choose 2)
course - Introduction to Criminal Justice (3 Credit Hours)
course - Crime in America (3 Credit Hours)
course - Current Career Opportunities in Criminal Justice (3 Credit Hours)
course - Criminology: Crime, Theory & Criminal Behavior (3 Credit Hours)
course - Introduction to Sociology (3 Credit Hours)
course - Influencers (3 Credit Hours)
course - Introduction to Psychology (3 Credit Hours)
course - Developmental Psychology (3 Credit Hours)
course - Behavior Modification (3 Credit Hours)
course - Cross-Cultural Psychology (3 Credit Hours)
course - Psychology of Women (3 Credit Hours)
course - Social Psychology (3 Credit Hours)
course - Sports Psychology (3 Credit Hours)
course - Race and Ethnicity (3 Credit Hours)
Elective (1 course, 3-4 Credit Hours)
One course from anything listed above except for the prescriptive core (BT100, GE101, GE102, GT103).