University classes are designed to be specialized to help you prepare for the professional world. Gen-eds require that students divide their attention across many topics, a good number of which don’t ...

How can a course called Chinese Religions or Haitian Culture and Society incorporate readings from the “Western canon”? Florida university faculty have until July to figure it out. A new Florida law ...

Administrators and faculty are examining general-education courses to assess their difficulty, pertinence and applicability to minors and majors. The Faculty Senate’s Committee of 11 will explore and ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. expand For Jada Pina ’26, the Gen Ed classes she’s had ...

Columnists Rhiannon Bauer and Jackson Morrison go head to head to debate whether Gen ed classes are actually valuable to a university education. A full college course load is never a walk through the ...

Discover the purpose and impact of general education courses and how they can reshape your learning outlook and teach essential skills. The general education curriculum focuses on the ...

No matter your major, you have probably found yourself taking classes that don’t seem to apply much to your area of study. Maybe you are a communications major learning about the biology of the human ...

The General Education curriculum complements and supports a student’s program curriculum. In New York, the New York State Educational Department (NYSED) determines the proportion of overall credits ...

When I look at the curricula at various colleges and universities, and compare it to the requirements-free education that I encountered at Oberlin in the early 1970s, I am struck by how detailed and ...

S tudents often sign up for general-education courses because they have to. And so they tend to be skeptical that such courses are relevant to their lives. Doug Duncan, an emeritus faculty member in ...