General Education Courses, Three-Unit Standard
David W. BensonPolicy #1988-3
General Education at Sonoma State University is a 48-51 unit program
of interrelated, mostly lower-division courses giving a broad,
balanced educational foundation for the more specialized work of the
major. Establishing a three-unit standard for G.E. courses reserves
ample units for major requirements and electives, helps assure
evenness in distribution and enhances scheduling possibilities. The
General Education Committee will review course offerings to assure
the availability of three-unit courses for non-majors at both the
lower- and upper-division levels.
General Education courses will be offered for three units only,
except as below:
- In cases in which a reasonable number of three-unit courses are included within a sub-category, a department may propose to the General Education Committee a limited number of courses intended for majors in that same sub-category. Such courses must meet General Education breadth criteria and may have other than a three-unit value.
- One-unit lab courses in Natural Sciences are authorized in addition to the three-unit courses when they fulfill statewide mandated General Education requirements.
- Twelve-unit General Education seminars in the Hutchins School of Liberal Studies are excluded from this policy.
Updated August 17, 1998 by SSU.policies@sonoma.edu