BOARD POLICY 4025

PHILOSOPHY FOR ASSOCIATE DEGREES and GENERAL EDUCATION

El Camino College recognizes the importance of the individual to the local, state, national, and international communities. The College, through the awarding of an associate degree, strives to create an environment which stimulates greater individual creativity and achievement, personal and social responsibility, as well as ethical and technological awareness. The degree requirements lead students through patterns of learning experiences designed to develop certain capabilities and insights through general education and sufficient depth in a specific field of knowledge.

El Camino College recognizes the need to provide a multi-dimensional, multicultural, and integrative general education curriculum as the core of the associate degree. With this objective in mind, El Camino College pledges to develop and maintain a general education curriculum that promotes critical thinking and analytical skills, clear and precise expression, cultural and artistic sensitivity, personal growth, health and self-understanding. General education curriculum will enhance appreciation and understanding of the scientific method and the relationships between science and other human activities. It will also develop an understanding of methods of inquiry regarding human behavior, foster an appreciation of how societies and social groups operate, and develop awareness of the ways people throughout the ages have responded to themselves and the world around them in artistic and cultural creations.

Approved by the College Curriculum Committee: March 27, 2001

Approved by the Academic Senate: May 15, 2001

Reference:

Title 5, Section 55805

El Camino College

Policy

Replaces Board Policy 6121

Adopted: April 15, 2002