The primary goal of the general education curriculum is to cultivate the capacity for lifelong learning. This can be demonstrated in the student’s ability to:

• Evaluate and draw defensible conclusions from information and other artifacts;
• Synthesize material from different bodies of knowledge; and
• Communicate ideas and arguments in forms appropriate to the discipline.

Pre-requisites for CE courses are the successful completion of at least one exposure to each of the general education competencies (FY, CP, CT, HW, IC, IL, OC, QR, SI, and WI). Any three or four hundred level course, including a disciplinary capstone, can qualify for the CE designation. No instruction specific to life-long learning is required, but there must be one assignment or project that will illustrate the capabilities described above.