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GENERAL EDUCATION

GENERAL EDUCATION
GENERAL EDUCATION (AAS DEGREES)
GENERAL EDUCATION (TRANSFER DEGREES)
ELECTIVE or BETTER COURSES for TRANSFER DEGREES

GENERAL EDUCATION


General Education (GE) at Eastern Arizona College provides students with a diverse curriculum that broadens their perspectives, teaches essential skills, and introduces various fields of knowledge. This foundational coursework prepares students to be responsible, productive citizens, and potential leaders while also allowing them to explore different career paths.


ESSENTIAL LEARNING OUTCOMES


Students fulfill general education requirements at Eastern Arizona College by demonstrating competency of these Essential Learning Outcomes (ELO): Communication, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Diverse and Global Perspectives, and Technology and Information Literacy. The ELOs listed below describe the expected knowledge, skills, attitudes, competencies, and habits of mind that students will have acquired at EAC upon completion of a degree.

  • Communication: Students, using reading, writing and/or speaking skills, discover, organize, and communicate information, ideas, and arguments in an ethical, clear, and effective manner appropriate to the audience and purpose.

  • Creativity: Students demonstrate the ability to: analyze, evaluate, and reflect on subjective experiences: propose innovative solutions to technical, scientific, social, or individual problems; and/or produce artifacts of self-expression.

  • Critical Thinking: Students use intellectual skills and habits to become independent and dynamic thinkers who are capable of innovation, adaptation, and ethical problem-solving.

  • Diverse and Global Perspectives: Students demonstrate an understanding and application of the interdependent roles of historical, cultural, socio-economic, geographic, and ecological influences on the diversity of human experience.

  • Technology and Information Literacy: Students recognize that information is needed, and they use both traditional and modern technologies to ethically and effectively locate, evaluate, manage, and apply the needed information.

ARIZONA GENERAL EDUCATION CURRICULUM (AGEC)

Eastern Arizona College has established Associate degree programs that satisfy the AGEC. It is in a student’s best interest to complete the AGEC at EAC before transferring to an Arizona university. When a student has completed the AGEC, EAC will certify this on the student’s academic transcript. Completing an AGEC at EAC fulfills the lower division, General Education requirements of the corresponding baccalaureate degree at each of the three state universities. Should a student elect not to complete the AGEC certificate at EAC, their courses will not be packaged together as the AGEC certificate but will be evaluated on a course-by-course basis by the university to which the student transfers. Courses completed and transferred in from another college or university may be sued to satisfy the AGEC.

Some majors, particularly in the professional fields, have significant prerequisites and/or program requirements that will not transfer within the General Education program described above. If a student has selected a major that is not listed in the EAC catalog, or one that is listed as a Transfer Guide-Extra Requirements (TG-XR) degree, they should carefully consult the catalog and/or curriculum transfer guide (located at www.aztransfer.com) of the university to which they plan to transfer and the Course Equivalency Guide (https://aztransmac2.asu.edu/cgi-bin/WebObjects/ATASS.woa/wa/SUNMatrix) before registering for GE courses. Obtaining assistance in this process from an advisor at the university to which the student plans to transfer is strongly recommended. EAC faculty advisors and academic advisors can also assist.

Students must meet the General Education requirements by selecting appropriate courses from the required six AGEC category areas. In some cases, a degree program may require a student select specific courses rather than choose from the list of approved GE courses. Required courses for each EAC curricula are listed in the curriculum section of the catalog under the heading General Education Requirements.

Students are required to take a total of 32 to 35 credits from the six AGEC categories. The categories and required credit ranges are as follows:

  1. Written and Oral Communication (6-10 credits - the first 6 must be ENG 101 and 102; additional credits can be in communication studies or languages)

  2. Arts and Humanities (6-9 credits

  3. Institutions of the Americas (3 credits)

  4. Natural Sciences (4-8 credits)

  5. Quantitative Reasoning (3-4 credits)

  6. Social and Behavioral Sciences (6-9 credits)