American University

Washington, DC

American says that its General Education Program "allows you to test your ideas against" those of "great scholars, artists, poets, and philosophers" and "grapple with tricky ethical and political issues in the company of your classmates and under the guidance of a teacher whose main goal is to produce a space in which real learning can take place. You may discover a hidden aptitude for, or a love of, a subject area that you'd never considered before or learn to appreciate an area of human knowledge that you'd previously thought irrelevant. And through it all, you'll be finding out who you are." [Source]

General Education Requirements

  • 1. Composition

    YES
  • 2. Literature

    NO
  • 3. Foreign Language

    NO
  • 4. U.S. Government or History

    NO
  • 5. Economics

    NO
  • 6. Mathematics

    YES
  • 7. Science

    YES
  • General Education Assessment

    American University uses one or more of the following instruments to assess undergraduate progress in core collegiate skills: the Council on Aid to Education Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA), the Educational Testing Service Proficiency Profile, or the ACT Collegiate Assessment of Academic Proficiency (CAAP). For more information, visit www.voluntarysystem.org.

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