Studies leading to each of these degrees include work under the three general headings of Major Education, General Education, and Religious Education. Appropriate progress in these three interrelated requirement areas qualifies one for the baccalaureate degree. Approximately half of a student's time and effort is devoted to major education and electives and half to general and religious education. In the major, students probe a subject to increasing depths of understanding and learn to think, understand, reason, write, perform, and discourse with growing precision and accuracy. In general education courses, students develop academic skills that are important to their progress in university education and to their ability to continue learning throughout their lives.
Students also encounter the fundamental disciplines of the arts and sciences.
These courses help develop breadth, flexibility, and understanding of our cultural and intellectual heritage. General education gives students an opportunity to learn about mankind's most valuable knowledge and to improve their abilities to think and communicate clearly, respond to beauty with sensitivity and discrimination, make moral judgments, and act wisely. Religious Education Courses in religion help students develop a mastery of the scriptures and their essential teachings and an appreciation for the truths of the gospel of Jesus Christ. This ongoing study promotes integration of religious understanding with all other learning at the University. The University Honors Program is designed to enrich talented, motivated students through its small and highly interactive classes.