Definition of I&P Component of General Education

The category of courses identified as Issues and Perspectives is conceived as a way of addressing the need for a component in
general education that exposes students to certain valuable but non-canonical subjects and methodologies.

In this category the committee thought to include the following types of courses.

1. Courses having as their focus issues or problems which have emerged as matters of concern from contemporary conditions of life and culture. e.g.
   1. Problems concerning technology, ecology, and economics in relation to ethics, religion, politics, etc.
   2. Issues arising from diversity of cultures, nationalities gender, race, ethnicity, class, ideologies, power, etc.
   3. Global concerns such as war and peace, nationalism, resource distribution, environment, etc.
2. Courses from any disciplines that combine two or more disciplinary subjects to demonstrate the interdependence of
   knowledge, as well as the connectedness of the world. e.g.
   1. Religion, poetry, philosophy, and science in various pairings.
   2. The interrelationship of the arts—or the arts and other disciplines.
   3. Synchronic viewing of an event or moment in history from the scientific, political, artistic, and religious points of view.
   4. Psychology, anthropology, social studies, business, education, engineering, and health professions
   5. Mathematics, the language of many disciplines.