General Education Curriculum
Background
Still in its infancy, General Education Center of URS is established to unite, promote, and provide an avenue for multi-disciplinary academic strands in the general education curriculum across Colleges. The center is working to build-up the university’s reformed educational system to fulfill the ideals of well-rounded education among the 21st century higher education learners. GE serves as the students’ training circle and leading-edge prior to their enrollment in major subjects. It plays a vital role in crafting today’s university curriculum, the academic reform which favors students’ development through the study of time-honored history, engage the learners in various dialogues in natural, behavioral, and social sciences to delve in the realm of research and knowledge, and ponder on artistic and cultural practices applied to real life.
Vision - Mission
General Education is a core component of academic programs that fortify the requirements of the current Four Fold Functions of the University. It aims to provide a common intellectual, societal, and cultural grounds among students to become responsive to the concerns of time and human existence. GE is framed to facilitate the students’ competencies, attitudes, and aptitudes that are vital for autonomous learning, such as:- a holistic know-how on major ideas that shape the world today.
- an intellectual interest in addressing the issues related to their self, life, culture, and society
- the readiness and competence to examine the old, new, and different theories through research
- the ability to articulate their own ideas clearly and systematically in writing and oral communication.