COLLEGE OF GENERAL STUDIES

Introduction

In order to acquire the fundamental skills and cultural background that are the marks of an educated person, all students at Southwest Texas State University complete a program of General Studies which serves as the common foundation for all majors.

Conceptually, the General Studies experience starts with a common integrative Seminar taken by all freshmen, branches out to a series of courses in essential skills and disciplinary perspectives, and then moves on to the student's chosen major. It then, in many departments, returns to an integrative experience which may be a Capstone course taken during the last year. This course pulls together much of the major and the general educational course work.

Thus, at the end of the bachelor's program, the student is prepared not only in a departmental field of study, but also in the general abilities of questioning, explaining, and learning that remain universally useful in a rapidly changing world. Southwest Texas State University graduates have the raw materials to build solutions as they fulfill career and civic responsibilities.

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