Introduction

Earlham's General Education Program combines the Earlham faculty's best judgment about achieving academic excellence with sufficient flexibility for students to create individual educational experiences that reflect their own values and goals.

Earlham College is a liberal arts college, and its General Education Requirements* are devised to prepare its students for a life of critical knowledge and informed action. The College revised these requirements in 2002-03, adapting its long-term mission to the changing needs of the present. The new requirements introduce students to ways of knowing rather than to specific disciplinary or divisional requirements.

In most cases, General Education classes are small and provide interaction and collaboration between students and faculty. Collaborative research, in fact, is part of the College’s mission. Earlham’s system of General Education allows as much student election of courses as is practical, and also invites faculty to introduce students to subjects of special interest and importance early in students’ academic careers.

Earlham’s exceptionally able and thoughtful faculty, at all levels, teach in the General Education Program. We understand that this teaching is central to the College’s mission, and we also understand that, in a broad sense, everything beyond a student’s major is part of General Education at Earlham.

* The General Education Requirements listed on the General Education Web pages begin during the 2003-04 academic year. While these requirements have been approved by the faculty, they may continue to be refined with the advice of the Faculty and the Curricular Policy Committee.

NOTE: Students and advisers need to pay careful attention to course designations. Courses fulfilling one requirement may simultaneously satisfy other General Education or major/minor program requirements if they are appropriately designated.

For more information, contact:
Bonita Washington-Lacey, Registrar, at washibo@earlham.edu.

Earlham College affirms its commitment, in all its activities and processes, to treat all people equally without concern for age, gender, sexual orientation, race, nationality or ethnic origin.

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