General Education Curriculum

This document represents the Faculty Senate approved learning outcomes/objectives from December 2007 together with updates and additions, including the new outcomes for English 101 and 102.

At its meeting of December 3, 2007, the Faculty Senate voted to approve changes to the General Education Curriculum including Objectives and Outcomes for most General Education areas.

General Goal

The goal of UMass Dartmouth's General Education program is to educate students to be not only proficient in their areas of specialty, but also

• to have a working understanding of the connections between disciplines;
• to appreciate and respect the differences among ourselves;
• to be ethical, culturally-aware, and socially-responsible citizens;
• to be quantitative and rational thinkers;
• and to be effective and creative communicators.