General Education-Breadth

The CSUEB catalog does not mention Area E, nor does the business department. They list A,B,C,D,F, and G as the required areas.

CSUH Catalog 2004-2005: B.A./B.S. Degree Requirements

What are the General Education-Breadth requirements?

The Cal State Hayward General Education (G.E.) Program is designed so that, taken with the major depth program and electives, it will assure that graduates have made measurable progress toward becoming truly educated persons for a diverse society. Particularly, the purpose of the General Education Program is to provide means whereby graduates:

A. achieve the ability to think clearly and logically, to find information and examine it critically, to communicate orally and in writing, and to reason quantitatively;

B. acquire appreciable knowledge about their own bodies and minds, about how human society has developed and how it now functions, about the physical world in which they live, about the other forms of life with which they share that world, and about the cultural endeavors and legacies of their civilizations;

C. come to an understanding and appreciation of the principles, methodologies, value systems, and thought processes employed in human inquiries;

D. come to understand and appreciate the contributions to knowledge and civilization that members of diverse cultural groups and women have made.