General Education Program
The General Education Program (GEP) at Saint Joseph’s University involves a distinctive liberal arts education in the Jesuit, Catholic tradition. General education is essential to the University’s mission, providing all students with the broad knowledge, essential skills, appreciation of diversity, and ethically informed perspective needed by those who would aspire to be “men and women for others.”
Course-level GEP learning objectives directly support the following six Student Learning Outcomes that are expected of all undergraduate students at SJU.
The University-Level SJU U-SLOs
Preface: The Jesuit Educational Tradition: Through study of the humanities, philosophy, theology, history, mathematics, and the natural and social sciences, students will engage with the Jesuit intellectual tradition and pursue professional success, personal transformation, and engaged citizenship by achieving the following learning outcomes:
- Communication: Students will be able to communicate through written and/or oral modes of expression across academic, professional, and/or social settings using technology appropriate to the context.
- Critical Thinking and Inquiry: Students will be able to critically analyze and/or construct arguments to support their positions using skills appropriate to the context, such as deductive reasoning, scientific inquiry, quantitative reasoning, aesthetic judgment, and/or critical examination of form, style, content, and/or meaning.
- Ethical Reasoning and Social Justice: Students will be able to assess and respond to ethical and/or social justice issues within a local and/or global context.
- Ignatian Values and Diverse Perspectives: Students will be able to apply Ignatian values and/or diverse perspectives to a variety of contexts, human beliefs, abilities, experiences, identities, and/or cultures.
