Resources Financial aid, records, policies, computing, bookstore, housing, student health, career services. Courses taken to complete GER may also be used to complete the requirements of majors, minors, or concentrations. These courses must be taken for a letter grade. Students are expected to study broadly beyond their areas of specialization. State University, the principal role of general education is to foster the broad repertoire of intellectual, social, and cultural skills needed to function in the world.
General education equips students to understand and influence their own milieu.
General education develops the ability to gather, analyze, and synthesize information and to use it in solving problems. It develops an ability to think and live creatively, critically, intuitively, and rationally, using the full range of abilities inherent in the mind and body. It offers the potential to create in every student a sense of personal, historical, and cultural identity, leading to a breadth of understanding that offers possibilities in all phases of life. These classes are identified in the term schedule of classes with an asterisk. These credits must be distributed throughout the curriculum in a prescribed manner.