All undergraduate curricula, with the exception of the two-year Associate of Science curriculum in nursing, the Associate of Arts, and Associate of Science degrees, lead to a bachelor's degree and have a common area of 48 semester hours in general education. Students should select their general education courses carefully in consultation with their faculty advisors.
Undergraduate Education
Undergraduate education at Clarion University begins with course offerings and expands with co-curricular activities, student living arrangements, special cultural events in the university and the larger community, and opportunities for relevant work through participation in assistantships, internships, undergraduate research, and student and community organizations.
The university's curriculum enables students to acquire skills, knowledge, and attitudes necessary to attain the goals students set for life. The university believes students should graduate with a distinguished level of abilities and with attitudes necessary to continue developing and refining those abilities. Thus graduates of Clarion University should:
- be able to read and listen, speak and write with a degree of sophistication;
- be able to think critically and analytically;
- possess a broad awareness of human heritage;
- possess a significant sense of the influence of global affairs on personal and national life;
- comprehend an academic discipline;
- formulate, examine, and be guided by conscious personal and social values;
- be able to recognize and exercise wise choices in life;
- possess the skills and attitudes necessary to continue to learn throughout life; and
- be able to participate effectively and usefully in society.
These nine goals for undergraduate education at the university are applicable to the lives of all students regardless of major. All nine of them, taken together, represent the definition of an education which guides Clarion University.
