Clear statements of the performance expected of students and the means of evaluating student learning or performance are to be indicated. The following criteria must be met. First, University General Education courses and experiences are to be designed with the general education of non-major students in mind. In an active learning environment, learners are engaged in doing things and thinking about what they are doing . Students do more than listen.
More emphasis is placed on developing students' skills than on transmitting information.
Greater emphasis is placed on students' exploration of their own motivations, attitudes, and values. An experiential context for the matter to be studied. The idea of experiential context is to base content on experiences that students have already had or on direct experiences induced in the course, and then move beyond that level to exploring and perceiving general frameworks of understanding. Life, not the discipline, sets the agenda for learning in courses and experiences designed for University General Education. An opportunity for the student to connect ideas.