{"id":31,"date":"2016-05-12T17:59:58","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T17:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/essentials\/?page_id=31"},"modified":"2023-11-29T11:17:43","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T16:17:43","slug":"general-education-requirements","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/essentials\/academics\/general-education-requirements\/","title":{"rendered":"General Education Requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"wp-block-umw-hero alignfull umw-custom-block umw-hero umw-hero--dark-text umw-hero--media-float-right umw-hero--white umw-hero--with-no-media\"><div class=\"umw-hero__inner\"><div class=\"umw-hero__media\"><\/div><div class=\"umw-hero__title\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"umw-hero__title__wrapper\"><div class=\"umw-hero__eyebrow\">eagle essentials<\/div><h1 class=\"umw-hero__title__header\">General Education Requirements<\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-umw-hero-ctas alignfull\"><div class=\"umw-hero__links\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"umw-hero__links__wrapper\">\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-general-education-requirements\">General Education Requirements<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>General education \u2013 taking classes in a variety of disciplines \u2013 is the foundation of a liberal arts and sciences education. The course work is designed to cultivate the skills, knowledge, and habits of mind that are essential in every field of study and that enable graduates to make effective decisions as citizens of a rapidly changing, richly diverse, and increasingly interconnected world. The requirements are designed to put the liberal arts in a contemporary context and to provide students with maximum flexibility in meeting them. For complete details, see the <a href=\"http:\/\/publications.umw.edu\/undergraduatecatalog\/courses-of-study\/general-education\/general-education-course-list\/\">Undergraduate Academic Catalog<\/a>, available online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.umw.edu\/undergraduate\/general-education\/requirements-bachelor-arts-bachelor-science-degrees\/\"><strong>General Education Requirements <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General Education Requirements General education \u2013 taking classes in a variety of disciplines \u2013 is the foundation of a liberal arts and sciences education. 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