{"id":350,"date":"2025-12-05T17:43:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T17:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/general-education-overview\/?page_id=350"},"modified":"2025-12-08T17:09:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T17:09:46","slug":"general-studies-program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/general-education-overview\/general-studies-program\/","title":{"rendered":"General Studies Program at NAU"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<section         class=\"nau-block full-width-image-with-text-box secondary grid grid-md-12 -grid-fullwidth no-padding span-md-12  mobile-image-yes tablet-image- desktop-imageheight-  textbox-registration-bottomright  textbox-xl-width-2-3 textbox-background-true-blue  bg-true-blue-95 content-type-wysiwyg_linkbank  \">\n\n    <div class=\"full-width-image-with-text-box-picturediv\">\n\n            <picture class=\"left-nav-top-bound main\">\n            <source media=\"(min-width: 1650px)\" 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variety of disciplines and utilize a range of crucial transferable skills.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a guided yet flexible set of courses covering these areas: Foundational Math and English, Arts and Humanities, Science, Social and Political Worlds, and peoples within and beyond the United States.<\/li>\n<li>Students create their own General Studies portfolio by selecting courses from each area that will provide context for their chosen major, support personal growth, and prepare them for future careers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n    <\/div>\n\n\n    <\/section>\n\n<div class=\"nau-block nau-block-left-nav-top-bound\">\n    \t<button id=\"left-nav-toggle-btn\" onclick=\"toggleNav();\">\n\t\tON THIS PAGE \n\t\t<i id=\"chevron-icon\" class=\"fas fa-solid fa-chevron-down\"><\/i>\n\t<\/button>\n\t<div id=\"left-nav-menu-track\">\n\t\t<div id=\"left-nav-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"rfi-above-anchor-tags\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ri-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a 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href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/general-education-overview\/general-studies-program\/course-requirements\/\" title=\"Course requirements\">Course requirements<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/general-education-overview\/general-studies-program\/transfer-students\/\" title=\"Transfer credits to General Studies\">Transfer credits to General Studies<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"back-to-top\"><a href=\"#\">Back to top<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ri-container\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nau.edu\/admissions\/request-information\/\" id=\"request-info\" class=\"btn bg-true-blue left-nav-menu-bottom-button display-mobile\">Request info&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/a><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<!-- <section class=\"nau-block left-nav-section grid-md-12\">\n    <header class=\"entry-header\">\n        <h1 class=\"entry-title text-left \" tabindex=\"0\" id=\"h1-first\">Dummy H1<\/h1>\n        <hr class=\"h1-hr  text-left \" role=\"none\">\n    <\/header>\n<\/section> -->\n\n<section class=\"nau-block left-nav-section grid-md-12\">\n    <div class=\"page-content\">\n        \n<section id=\"program-includes\"        class=\"nau-article-block-simple-color-text-photo bg-gold \">\n    \n\n    \n        <hr role=\"none\" class=\"hr-clearspace-20 d-none-md\">\n\n        <h3>The General Studies Program includes courses outside your major<\/h3>                <p>The General Studies Program is an interdisciplinary program that all undergraduate students complete in addition to courses for their major. Through this program, students complete 34-35 credits of coursework in English and Math Foundations and in the knowledge areas of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>American Institutions<\/li>\n<li>Arts and Humanities<\/li>\n<li>Scientific Literacy and Scientific Methods<\/li>\n<li>Social and Political Worlds<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Embedded in designated knowledge area courses are Global, US Ethnic, and Indigenous Peoples Inclusive Perspectives. Through interdisciplinary coursework, students hone their skills in writing, speaking, information literacy, quantitative reasoning, collaboration and teamwork, ethics, and critical thinking, and they integrate the habits of curiosity, intellectual integrity, persistence, and self-awareness in their personal and professional lives.<\/p>\n<p>This program contextualizes a student\u2019s major and provides them with transferable knowledge, skills, and attitudes that foster civic engagement, the ability to respond and adapt to real-world experiences, participation in an inclusive workforce, and the capacity to solve problems in innovative ways. The General Studies Program is valuable in college and beyond because it provides students with a web of knowledge and skills that increase their capacity to understand the world and shape and reshape themselves and their societies.<\/p>\n\n    \n\n<\/section>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"get-started\">How to get started<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<section  \n    class=\"nau-block nau-block-panels   \" \n    data-layout_mobile=\"groupLayout-Stack gutter_Default panelLayoutPhotoTextHorizontal  photoAspect-16-9\"\n        data-layout_tablet=\"groupLayout-Grid gutter_Default panelLayoutPhotoTextVertical  photoAspect-16-9\"\n        data-layout_desktop=\"groupLayout-Grid gutter_Default panelLayoutPhotoTextVertical  photoAspect-16-9\"\n        data-layout_xl=\"groupLayout-Grid gutter_Default panelLayoutPhotoTextVertical  photoAspect-16-9\">\n\n    <div class=\"background-wrapper\">\n        <div class=\"block-main-content\">\n            \n            \n            \n            \n            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     \n                                                                                                    <h3 class=\" h4\">Course requirements<\/h3>\n                                                \n                                                \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"text alt-link-caret\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Learn about required coursework and how to best select your courses based on your interests and declared major.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                                            <\/div>\n                                            \n                                                                                                                                            \n                                                <span role=\"none\" class=\"panel-link panelLinkTypeArrow\"><\/span>\n                                                                                    <\/div>\n                  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