At
Cal Poly, we believe that General Education (GE) is central
and vital to each student's university experience. GE courses
provide essential skills and knowledge which help students
succeed in their chosen field, advance successfully in a profession,
adapt to the changing workplace of the twenty-first century,
be good citizens in their future communities, and become life-long
learners.
Program
Goals
Cal Poly's GE Program seeks to promote connections
between the various areas so students and faculty will perceive
GE courses as interrelated rather than as isolated fragments.
By placing basic knowledge in a larger context, each course
in the program should provide a vision of how its subject
matter is an important component of GE. Students should understand
the value of a discipline being studied as well as its relationship
to other disciplines.
Minimum
General Education Requirements
Students must complete:
- a
minimum of 72 units as indicated by distribution areas for
their specific major degree programs;
- GE
residency units (at least 12 units or three courses); and
- GE
upper division units (at least 12 units or three courses).
GE
Transfer Curriculum
Students transferring from California Community Colleges may
satisfy General Education requirements for the CSU bachelor's
degree through satisfactory completion of the Intersegmental
General Education-Breadth Transfer Curriculum (IGETC).
The
CSU General Education-Breadth (GEB) program allows California
community college transfer students to fulfill lower-division
general education requirements at any CSU campus prior to
transfer. This curriculum provides an alternative to the IGETC
requirements and campus-specific GE-Breadth requirements.
This gives students a good option if they want to transfer
to a CSU campus but do not know which campus they will attend.
More information on the General
Education Program
More information on the General Education
Administrative structure
Title
5, Section 40405; Executive
Order 595 (PDF); Academic
Senate Resolution AS-478-97/gebadhoc (PDF)
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