General education at Park University is education that develops an awareness of human potentials. It also develops proper attitudes for realizing such potentials through critical and informed judgments that foster concern for individual and social well-being. It develops a love for learning by encouraging activities that promote knowledge of the basic concepts, methodologies, and rewards of learning. It builds skills and competencies that help students acquire the distinctive outcomes defined in the university mission statement. These outcomes include open-mindedness, professionalism, and aesthetic, civic, critical, science, and values literacy. This program has two components: General Education (GE) and Liberal Learnings (LL).

Liberal Learning Courses

The Liberal Learnings Program is intended to confront the student with a learning experience above the sophomore level in areas outside the major. The program should aid students to become more aware of this world and themselves. It intends to develop within students a concern for contemporary issues and assist them to understand these issues and make informed judgements about them.

A Liberal Learnings course, therefore, focuses on a contemporary problem(s) or theme, gives consideration to a multi-disciplinary perception of the issue or theme, and aims to stimulate the intellectual life of the student. Each course requires completion of at least one major paper (research, journalistic, or creative writing), or an artwork, or an artistic performance. All LL courses should include multicultural or global dimensions.

The requirement is met by satisfactory completion of at least three (3) designated upper-level courses in three different disciplines. No Liberal Learning course taken in the discipline of the major or majors may be counted as satisfying the Liberal Learnings requirement. Students may not take Liberal Learning courses until they have completed sixty (60) hours of course work. Courses which are cross-listed between disciplines may not be used to satisfy Liberal Learning requirements for either discipline.

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