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Why Have General Education Requirements for Students? General education is an important component of students' education at the University of Illinois. In order to be a well-educated, successful, and valuable participant in our rapidly changing global community, students need more than a professional or vocational training. When they graduate, they will enter a world in which they can expect to hold different jobs, and indeed even work in a succession of careers over the course of their lives. In order to prepare for this exciting, challenging future, they need during their college years not only to specialize in a major and train for a career, but to become more broadly educated, conversant with at least some of the many rapidly changing disciplines. They need to gain a sense of our past achievements, present developments, and future possibilities. As undergraduates at the University of Illinois, students can expect to enlarge their perspectives (historical, aesthetic, cultural, literary, scientific, philosophical), to improve their critical and analytical thinking, and to learn skills in finding, managing, and communicating knowledge. General education requirements are meant to help students fulfill these goals. | | |
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