The general education requirements at Bethany College consist of four major component areas:

A. Skills for Discourse and Intellectual Life (19-22 hrs)
B. Fields of Inquiry (11-19 hrs)
C. Global Citizenship (3 hrs)
D. Christianity in its Global Context (4 hrs)
E. Other Course Requirements (New freshmen and transfers only)

Skills for Discourse and Intellectual Life

General Education Components	Courses	Outcomes
Comunication: Speaking and Listening: One course:	CM101 Introduction to Human Communication CM110 Speaking and Listening	The student will demonstrate the ability to: � Determine the requirements of a speaking situation by identifying the purpose and analyzing the audience and relevant situational factors; � Compose messages suitable to the topic, purpose and audience; � Transmit messages suitable to the topic, purpose, and audience; � Listen with literal comprehension; � Listen with critical comprehension; � Listen with empathy; and � Interpret cultural meaning of verbal and non-verbal communication from cultures other than culture of origin of student.
Comunication: Reading and Writing: One semester:	EN101 Thinking and Writing	The student will demonstrate the ability to: � Read and critically analyze a variety of written materials with literal and critical comprehension and with empathy; � Critically examine an issue and blend thoughts into a written argument; � Organize and present thoughts in logical form; and � Write successfully using the basics of: ideas and content, conventions, organization, voice, word choice and sentence fluency.
Comunication: Writing and Thinking: Two courses:	AR386 Art History II AR395 Gallery Practice BI/CH345 Scientific Research & Writing BI350* Ecology BU390 Business Policy BU394 Human Relations in Business CH321* Analytical Chemistry II CJ345 Criminology & Delinquency CJ/SW371 Social Research Methods EC309 Economics Seminar ED358 Foundations of Education EN301 Writing, Language, and Rhetoric EN312* Shakespeare EN333* The American Novel EN343* The English Novel HI327* Europe During the Long 19th Century HI332* Twentieth Century Europe HI333* Modern Germany HI340* History of Russia PL320* Ancient & Medieval Philosophy PL321* Modern & Contemporary Philosophy PL322* Philosophy of Religion PE342* Physiology of Exercise PE390* Nutrition PY300 Experimental Psychology SW325 Foundations of Professional Practice	The student will demonstrate the ability to: � Write successfully using the basics of: ideas and content, writing conventions (such as thesis, paragraph development, etc.), organization, voice, word choice and sentence fluency; � Learn the basics of academic research through exposure to various sources and research methods: print; computer databases; primary, secondary and tertiary sources; etc.; �  Learn to engage in academic discourse by reading, comprehending, and responding to the work of other scholars; � Learn proper documentation format within a given discipline (MLA, APA, Chicago or other styles); � Engage in writing and research as a recusive practice, producing multiple drafts of their work; � Discover the degree and sope of research writing by completing a project at a designed length and level of critical inquiry.
Comunication: Critical Thinking - Quantitative: One course:	EC/PY201 Statistics for Behavioral Social Science MA102 College Algebra and Trigonometry MA120 Elementary Statistics	The student will demonstrate the ability to: � Use mathematics to model and solve everyday life problems and to communicate about everyday life; � Summarize, represent, and interpret data, empirical and theoretical, in various forms, including graphical, tabular and symbolic; and � Perform basic operations with real numbers, extivate the answer to a calculation, and judge the reasonableness of a numerical solution to a problem.
Comunication: Critical Thinking - Logical: One course:	CM211 Argumentation PL101 Introduction to Philosophy PL102 Ethics PL202 Business Ethics PL215 Logic	The student will demonstrate the ability to: � Recognize prmises and conclusions; � Identify the relevant evidence required to make a logical decision; � Recognize and utilize deductive and inductive reasoning; � Evaluate the quality and sufficiency of supporting evidence; � Recognize common fallacies in reasoning; and � Recognize personal, social, and cultural biases when assessing and evaluating arguments.

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Fields of Inquiry

General Education  Components	Courses	Outcomes
Artistic: One course (must have 2-3 hrs):	AR100 Introduction to Visual Arts AR105 Basic Design AR130 Introduction to Ceramics AR171 Basic Web Design AR180* Introduction to Crafts MU100 Explorations in Music MU106/107 Voice Class MU120-138 Music Lessons Secondary MU180-194 Music Lessons Primary MU165 Bethany Choir MU208*/308* Interterm Musical Theatre TH110 Introduction to the Theatre TH111 Acting TH212* Survey of Design and Technical Theatre TH330* Directing (Instructor consent needed) TH208/308* Interterm Theatre	The student will demonstrate the ability to: � Produce an artistic work (visual or performance), � OR critically analyze an artistic work (visual or performance) by:    - Identifying the elements of the work:    - Explaining the context in which the artist created;    - Exploring the artist's possible motivation; and    - Describing the personal aesthetic experience.
Humanistic: One course:	AR385* Art History I AR386* Art History II EN224* Classics of Western World Literature EN233* Survey of American Literature I EN234* Survey of American Literature II EN243* Survey of English Literature I EN244* Survey of English Literature II EN312* Shakespeare EN333* The American Novel EN343* The English Novel HI101 History of the U.S. to 1877 HI102 History of the U.S. from 1877 HI104 World History from Prehistory to 1700 HI105 World History from 1700 to Present HI301* Colonial and Revolutionary America HI306* United States History, 1791-1877 HI307* United States History 1877-1945 HI308* United States History 1945-Present MU360 Music History I MU361 Music History II PL102 Ethics PL320* Ancient and Medieval Philosophy PL321* Modern and Contemporary Philosophy PL322* Philosophy of Religion RL360* Twentieth Century Theology TH320* Theatre History (Instructor consent needed)	The student will demonstrate the ability to critically analyze a text by: � Identifying its themes, elements, or thesis as appropriate; � Explaining its ideas; and � Explaining its relationships to other contexts.
Scientific: One course:	BI115 Introduction to Environmental Sciences BI124 Introductory Biology I CH101 Introduction to Chemistry CH110 General Chemistry CH110H Honors General Chemistry	The student will demonstrate the ability to: � Eistinguish between information, fact, hypothesis, theory and law; � Devise, execute and analyze an experiment to test a hypothesis; � Identify the uncertainties in a scientific conclusion; and � Identify the social aspects of scientific inquiry.
Socio-Cultural: One course:	AN201 Cultural Anthropology CJ345 Criminology & Delinquency EC111 Macro-economics EC115H Honors Economics SO101 Principles of Sociology SW240 Social and Cultural Diversity SW315 Gender, Sexual Orientation, & Family Diversity	The student will demonstrate the ability to: � Describe the structure and functions of social institutions (e.g. familial, political, economic, religious) in society (a macro perspctive); � Discuss the similarities and diferences (e.g. cultures, religions, racial and ethnic groups, social classes, genders, etc.) of human societies; � Describe the methods used to analyze human society; and � Analyze the practices and challenges of one's own society from a different socio-cultural perspective.

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Global Citizenship

General Education Components	Courses	Outcomes
Global Citizenship One course:	EC336* Economic Development and World Resources EC338* International Economics GO120 Human Geography HI226* The Middle East HI241* East Asia RL330* World Religions (Any international study/trip course)	The student will demonstrate the ability to: � Discuss current issues of the region, institution, ideology or discipline addressed in the course or other experience; � Formulate an argument based on issuses involving the region, institution, ideology or discipline addressed in the course or other experience; and � Analyze global problems and opportunities from comparative perspectives.

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