What is General Education Programme
The General Education programme is a component of undergraduate degrees at The University of Auckland. The programme consists of high quality, intellectually challenging courses taught by some of the University’s best teachers and researchers.
Eight Elements of General Education
The Task Force on General Education’s final proposal for that part of undergraduate studies specifies courses in eight subject areas, in addition to the College’s requirement for some foreign-language proficiency and Expository Writing, a first-year mandate (itself subject to revision, to incorporate instruction in writing and speaking throughout a student’s academic experience). The categories are:
• Aesthetic and interpretive understanding;
• Culture and belief
• Empirical reasoning;
• Ethical reasoning;
• Science of living systems;
• Science of the physical universe;
• Societies of the world; and
• The United States in the world.