Widener University

General Education

General Education Purpose Statement

Widener University cultivates critical, creative, and independent thinking to develop undergraduates who demonstrate intellectual integrity, civic engagement, and potential for leadership. General education promotes awareness and synthesis of different strategies of knowing, questioning, and understanding.

Through the integration of experiences both inside and outside the classroom, students learn to act as responsible citizens and to pursue knowledge beyond the boundaries of the university.

General Education Learning Goals

• Students communicate effectively.
• Students understand and use quantitative methods effectively.
• Students understand the world from multiple perspectives.
• Students cultivate an awareness of themselves and their role within the human community.
• Students cultivate an awareness of their relationship to the natural world.
• Students understand ethical theories and how to apply them personally and professionally.
• Students understand and apply methods of inquiry and interpretation.
• Students think critically.

Widener students have an opportunity to achieve these goals through meeting our distribution requirements, writing requirements, experiential learning courses, and their majors.

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