General Education Requirements (AS 15 credit hours) and Student Learning Outcomes

General Education Requirements - In addition to the regular core curriculum (major), a 15-credit general education core is required of associate students enrolled in IWU-National and Global education programs. This 15-credit general education core includes:

• Three semester credits in Biblical Studies.
• Six semester credits in English Written Communication.
• Three semester credits in Mathematics.
• Three semester credits in Arts and Humanities.

General Education Learning Outcomes

• Integration of Faith: Apply tenets of the Christian faith to the thinking, dispositions, and actions that form their character.
• Written Communication: Write clearly and effectively for a specified audience and purpose.
• Speaking and Listening: Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, both verbally and non-verbally, and listen with empathy for shared understanding. 
• Quantitative Reasoning: Solve mathematical problems enabling determination and communication of reasonable solutions. 
• Scientific: Apply qualitative and quantitative methods to gather data and generate evidence‐based conclusions. 
• Social and Behavioral: Compare and contrast contending interpretations for social, behavioral, or historical phenomena. 
• Humanistic and Artistic: Interpret the aesthetic properties of creative artistic forms as living abundantly. 
• Critical Thinking: Students can comprehensively analyze issues, ideas, artifacts and events before accepting or formulating an opinion or conclusion. 
• Teamwork: Students can collaboratively direct value-adding behaviors toward team objectives and tasks. 
• Digital Information Literacy: Students can apply credible information from digital resources to answer questions, solve problems, and make decisions.