General Education Requirements

Howard Community College has the responsibility to ensure that all degree recipients have achieved a broad educational experience. To achieve this breadth of learning, the college has established fundamental general educational goals. Howard Community College students will:

• Express ideas effectively both orally and in writing.
• Perform mathematical operations at a college level and apply these skills.
• Demonstrate the ability to reason logically, and to evaluate the reasoning of others through the utilization of open-mindedness, critical inquiry, and the rational assessment of data and text.
• Display technological competence.
• Demonstrate informational literacy.
• Demonstrate global competency.
• Demonstrate a perceptual awareness of and aesthetic sensitivity to the arts.

To ensure these general education goals are met by each student, Howard Community College requires all students to take courses in writing, literature, fine arts, humanities, mathematics, science, history, social sciences, and interdisciplinary and emerging issues. These topics are woven into the General Education Core Courses. Students completing the associate of arts degree at Howard Community College must complete 30-36 credits from the general education core as designated in the specific curriculum and delineated below. Also, see STUDENT TRANSFER POLICIES. Students completing the associate of applied science degree will complete at least 20 credits in general education as specified in the individual curriculum.