General Education

An aspect of your guided pathways development that at times finds faculty often at odds is the question of general education and the role it plays in your curriculum. General education requirements are found in title 5 §55063 Minimum Requirements for the Associate Degree. Links to an external site. 

This excerpt from "Demystifying Guided Pathways" Links to an external site. by Dr. Rob Johnstone highlights a few of the issues surrounding general education.

"Currently, the path through general education at most community colleges resembles the menu at the Cheesecake Factory—hundreds of options and never enough time to even read through them before we are asked to order. Not surprisingly, students faced with this multitude of choices struggle with course selection, and the requirements are often so confusing that they make those “irrational choices” we refer to above by picking courses off their desired pathway, or satisfying the same requirement multiple times. Another net effect of this vast amount of choice is that it is very hard for students, their faculty, and/or student services advisors to actually identify how far they are along their path to goal completion." 

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