What is the General Education Curriculum?

Founded on the belief that writing is closely tied to academic depth and rigor, this requirement prepares students for writing in the workplace and/or graduate education.

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The compelling idea behind this requirement is to help students understand and appreciate the American founding, the United States Constitution, and the American system of government and institutions in the context of the Restored Gospel. A fundamental question is, “How do we create a society that resolves, harmonizes, and coordinates conflicting interests while preserving freedom?”

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Arts courses cultivate in each student "a lively appreciation of the artistic… achievements of human cultures” (The Aims of a BYU Education).

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The Civilization sequence aims to cultivate in students a knowledge of events fundamental to the history of our civilization, an exploration of important questions and themes, and an understanding—established through active confrontation with individual works—of the works’ beauty, power, and worth.

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The BYU Mission Statement and The Aims of a BYU Education identify the ability to communicate effectively as among the primary skills students should acquire as part of a broad university education.

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The University’s Mission Statement affirms students at BYU should understand “important ideas in their own cultural tradition as well as that of others” and concludes with the hope that BYU will play a role in improving the world. This requirement proceeds from the assumption we cannot improve that which we do not understand.

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This requirement gives students the opportunity to focus on building specialized computational skills in advanced mathematics or advanced communication skills in a second language.

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The Letters requirement invites students to approach language and literature as a source of knowledge and aesthetic pleasure, a mode of encountering and evaluating diverse minds and attitudes, a vehicle for art and action, a means of historical understanding, and a source of spiritual insight.

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These courses equip students with capacities to understand and explain the world in quantitative terms, interpret numerical data, and evaluate arguments that rely on quantitative information and approaches.

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Courses in this area encourage students to see the excitement of discovery. These courses focus on the ability to reason using the tools of science rather than mastering large amounts of current scientific knowledge in a particular discipline.

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