General Education Requirements (AS 24 credit hours) and Student Learning Outcomes

General Education Requirements - In addition to the regular core curriculum (major), a 24-credit general education core is required of associate students enrolled in IWU-National and Global education programs. This 24-credit general education core includes:

Three semester credits in Biblical Studies.
Six semester credits in English Written Communication.
Three semester credits in English Oral Communication.
Three semester credits in Social or Behavioral Sciences.
Three semester credits in Mathematics.
Three semester credits in Natural Sciences.
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.

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