The General Education Core and Special Graduation requirements develop a deeper appreciation of the complexities and potentialities of the human experience from the perspectives of the arts, humanities, and the natural and social sciences while encouraging an understanding of imagination and creativity through the application of abstract and intuitive thinking.

There are two components to the General Education requirements: Core requirements and Graduation requirements.

• Core requirements include Foundations and Diversification requirements.
• Special Graduation requirements include Focus requirements and Hawaiian or a Second Language.

• Gen Ed requirements are embedded in our ILOs and WASC core competencies
• Our proposal process ensures hallmarks and learning objectives are met by faculty and departments
• Student achievement of Gen Ed learning objectives is supported with teaching and learning resources (coming soon)
• Periodic assessment ensures learning objectives are being met by students