General Education Requirements
The purpose of the General Education Core Curriculum is to provide UT Permian Basin graduates with knowledge and basic intellectual competencies that are essential tools for learning in any discipline. Completion of the Core Curriculum will ensure that graduates acquire:
- Communicate clearly through the effective development, interpretation and expression of ideas through written and oral communication.
- Manipulate and analyze numerical data or observable facts resulting in informed conclusions.
- Think critically using creative thinking, innovation, inquiry, analysis, evaluation, and synthesis of information.
- Consider different points of view and work effectively with others to support a shared purpose or goal.
- Demonstrate social responsibility through knowledge of intercultural competence, civic responsibility, and the engagement in regional, national and global communities.
- Demonstrate personal responsibility through the ability to connect choices, actions, and consequences to ethical decision-making.
UT Permian Basin Core Curriculum complies with State law and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) rules. The courses in the General Education Core Curriculum have been approved by UT Permian Basin and the THECB.