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GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS

CCBC Definition of General Education:

The General Education program at The Community College of Baltimore County is a coherent program of study that provides the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and perspectives that enable students to achieve their academic, career, and life goals. As a learning-centered institution, CCBC offers a General Education program designed to provide students with the basic skills, core content, and distribution content essential to pursue study in academic disciplines. In addition, CCBC’s General Education program will assist students to grow and respond to new worklife situations, to manage their own learning and to encourage learning in others, and to expand their understanding of and ability to function within the diversity of the contemporary world.

CCBC General Education Program Goals:

1. Introduce students to the fundamental principles, concepts, vocabulary, and methods essential for the acquisition of knowledge and skills basic to the field of study.
2. Prepare students to communicate effectively using written and oral or signed communication skills.
3. Provide a variety of learning experiences that encourage students, independently and in collaboration with others, to use those fundamental principles and methods to acquire, analyze, and use information for purposes of inquiry, critical thinking, problem solving, and creative expression in a diverse environment.
4. Prepare students to adapt to change, including the increasing integration of information technology, in all fields of knowledge and expression.
5. Provide students with the knowledge and skills to understand themselves and others from various cultural, social, aesthetic, political, and environmental perspectives.
6. Provide the experience that will allow students to become independent learners, the skills to analyze their strengths and weaknesses as learners, and the knowledge to accomplish the tasks involved in learning.
7. Use appropriate assessment tool(s) to demonstrate the degree to which students have achieved the objectives of the course.