Baccalaureate General Education Requirements

General Education Requirements

Oregon Tech's General Education requirements provide breadth and depth to the Oregon Tech educational experience. The requirements are designed to help students widen perspectives, explore relationships between subjects and develop critical and analytical thinking skills in areas integrated with a student's major. General education provides the core of an undergraduate university education. These courses help students make progress toward becoming educated persons and provide a foundation for lifelong learning.

Through general education at Oregon Tech, students study broad topics, principles, theories and disciplines. The courses are organized within the curriculum in such a manner that students will acquire knowledge, abilities and appreciation as integrated elements of the educational experience. In addition, general education courses teach students to communicate clearly, think critically and globally, define and solve problems within and across disciplines, calculate logically and apply scientific reasoning. No matter what their major, students will benefit from studying areas of knowledge that help them become competent, well-rounded professionals as well as well-educated human beings and citizens.

All students must complete the university general education requirements as listed in the curriculum map for the major and in this catalog. If a student holds a baccalaureate degree or higher from a recognized, accredited institution, as determined by Oregon Tech, the Oregon Tech general education requirements for the Oregon Tech baccalaureate may be substituted subject to departmental accreditation requirements.

General education credits at Oregon Tech total 55 credits and include 18 credits of Communication, 9 credits of Humanities, 12 credits of Social Science and 16 credits of Science/Math with a least 4 credits of college-level math where intermediate algebra is a prerequisite.

Technology

Specific requirements for demonstrating computer proficiency may be established by the academic department.

Transfer students entering Oregon Tech who have earned either an Associate of Arts Oregon Transfer degree (AAOT) or an Associate of Science in Business degree (ASOTB) from an Oregon community college will be considered as having met Oregon Tech's lower division general education requirements. Please see the Oregon Tech website for updated list of courses granted.

* Developmental courses, including MATH 100 and WRI 115 , cannot be used for graduation.