The Gettysburg Curriculum

What is the Gettysburg Curriculum?
The Gettysburg Curriculum - an outline

The chart in the above link outlines the Gettysburg Curriculum. The top row of boxes gives an explanation of each of the 4 main curricular goals; the bottom row of boxes lists the requirements currently associated with each goal.

What are the Goals of the Gettysburg Curriculum? - Select the links below for more details about each goal.

The degree requirements of the Gettysburg College Curriculum are guided by an overarching aim based on four main learning goals: To develop lifelong learners who are able to acquire and process information and ideas in multiple ways (Multiple Inquiries Goal), are integrative thinkers (Integrative Thinking Goal), are skilled in communication (Effective Communication Goal), and are prepared for the responsibilities of local and global citizenship (Local and Global Citizenship Goal).

How do the individual requirements relate to the four Goals of the Gettysburg Curriculum?

The requirements for earning a degree at Gettysburg College are guided by four main learning Goals. These Goals represent those broad areas of learning, skills, and ways of being in the world that the College believes are fundamental to your becoming a liberally educated person. The College has requirements as a way of making sure you begin to address intentionally and directly each of the Goals.

Each of the individual requirements is associated with one of these four Goals as a particular focus, but the goal is always bigger than a particular requirement. For example, completing the First-Year Writing course requirement is just one step on the way to the Effective Communication Goal. Even after you complete the basic requirements for the Goals, you should think about your progress toward the broader aspirations the Goals represent. Throughout your career at Gettysburg you will make curricular and co-curricular choices guided by these Goals and your continuing progress toward truly achieving them.

In short, "requirements" are not courses to "get out of the way." They are an integral part of your education and first steps toward becoming a liberally educated person.