General EducationThe general education programs at UMKC provide the curricular foundation for baccalaureate degrees. This program of study encourages students to acquire and use the intellectual tools, knowledge and creative capabilities necessary to study the world as it is, as it has been understood and as it might be imagined. The curricular options furnish students with the skills required to deepen that understanding and to communicate it to others. Through general education, the University equips students for success in their specialized areas of study and for fulfilled lives as educated persons, as active citizens and as effective contributors to their own prosperity and to the general welfare.The general education curriculum is constructed to introduce students to the traditional disciplines of the arts and sciences. As that knowledge is ever changing, general education alerts students to the connections between the traditional disciplines and to the potential for interaction among all branches of knowing, ordering and imagining the real world. General education informs students that the world is understood in different ways and provides them with the means to come to terms, intelligently and humanely with that diversity. Ways of knowing and understanding are diverse, thus students must acquire appropriate investigative, interpretative and communicative competencies through the general education curriculum.
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