General Education
Indiana Tech’s general education program offers a comprehensive and dynamic curriculum that aims to equip students with essential skills in “How to Communicate,” “How to Analyze,” and “How to Lead.” General education is designed to complement students’ major areas of study and fosters well-rounded development preparing students to succeed in a competitive global landscape.
Indiana Tech general education components are organized through three primary competency areas, each with three descriptive building blocks designed to both offer flexibility and choice and build individual skills and experiences needed for successful professional careers.
General Education Competency Description:
HOW TO COMMUNICATE:
1. Collaborate Communication
2. Written Communication
3. Oral Communication
HOW TO ANALYZE
1. Quantitative Reasoning
2. Qualitative Analysis
3. Data Analytics/Critical Analysis
HOW TO LEAD
1. Lead Self
2. Lead Others
3. Lead Globally
General Education Learning Outcomes
The curricula at Indiana Tech are constructed to assure that students will master the following learning outcomes
Demonstrate effective communication:
To help students develop flexible communication strategies appropriate for professional and interpersonal contexts by undertaking speaking and writing as a process that responds to rhetorical situations.
Utilize quantitative and qualitative reasoning for problem solving:
To support career and personal advancement by demonstrating competence in mathematical problem solving and the presentation and application of data.
Demonstrate progress toward building a life of significance and worth:
To help students identify what “significance and worth” means to them and encourage meaningful engagement in diverse opportunities.
Demonstrate professional readiness:
To practice and demonstrate professional readiness skills including teamwork, applying critical feedback, self-exploration, profession-specific expectations and ethical guidelines.
Utilize information literacy:
To develop appropriate strategies for identifying problems of practice, posting generative questions, and finding, evaluating, and synthesizing information addressing authentic issues in professional and civic settings.
Engage with a diverse and global society:
To develop a global mindset and demonstrate openness, inclusiveness, sensitivity and the ability to interact respectfully regardless of background or experience.
General Education Core
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***Please note, if courses are duplicated between general education and the major, approved electives increase by the number of credits duplicated.***
How to Communicate
Choose one course (at least 3 credits) from each building block:
Collaborative Communication
Written Communication
Oral Communication
Total Credits Required: 9
How to Analyze
Choose one course (at least 3 credits) from each building block:
Quantitative Reasoning
Qualitative Analysis
Data Analytics and Critical Analysis
Total Credits Required: 9
How to Lead
Choose one course (at least 3 credits) from each building block:
Lead Self
Lead Others
Lead Globally
Total Credits Required: 9
Global Issues Problem Solving Seminar
Total Credits Required: 3
Total Credits Required: 30
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