General Education at Enterprise-Ozark Community College is designed to create a sound educational foundation of skills and experiences which provides understanding and creates interest in the personal, social, and political problems confronting citizens in a democracy.

The faculty of the College believe that all students can benefit from a common core of knowledge when the subject matter is studied, not as an end in itself, but rather as a means for understanding the society in which one lives. In this way the student is assisted in relating the prescribed area of specialization to larger areas of knowledge and then to the position in life that one will occupy.

In planning a program of study, "Majors" and "Concentrations" are defined as:

           MAJORS = Series of introductory courses providing a common core of 
           knowledge within a subject area.

           Major courses are taken to:
           1) prepare a student for upper-level study in a particular area, and/or 
           2) prepare a student for entry-level work in a particular career field. 

           CONCENTRATION = Series of courses providing the basis for a chosen career 
           specialization. 

           Concentration courses build upon major courses and are taken to
           1) prepare a student for transfer study, and/or 
           2) prepare a student to perform specific job duties within a broader career field. 

In selecting elective subjects students should be guided by the program requirements of the university or college to which they plan to transfer. 

 GENERAL EDUCATION COURSES                                                        Semester
                                                                                                                    Hours Credit 

 Area I:  Written Composition I and II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 
              (ENG 101 and ENG 102)

 Area II:  Humanities and Fine Arts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 
              Must complete 3 semester hours in Literature.**
                   Must complete 3 semester hours in Speech.
                   Must complete 3 semester hours in the Arts.
 Remaining hours must be selected from the Humanities and Arts disciplines including but not limited 
 to :  Literature, Art and Art History, Foreign Languages, Music and Music History, Philosophy, Ethics,
 Religious Studies, and Speech.

 Area III: Natural Science and Mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 
              Must complete 3 semester hours in Mathematics and the Precalculus Algebra (MTH 112)
                         or Finite Math (MTH 110) level or higher.
                   Must complete 8 semester hours in the Natural Sciences, which must include Laboratory
                         Experiences.
 In addition to Mathematices, disciplines in the Natural Sciences include:  Biological Sciences,
 Chemistry, Physics, and Physical Science.

 Area IV:  History, Social, and Behaviorial Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . . . 12 
               Must complete 3 semester hours in History.**
                    Must complete at least 6 semester hours among other disciplines in the Social and 
                          and Behaviorl Sciences.
 Social and Behaviorial Sciences include but are not limited to:  Anthropology, Economics, Geography,
 History, Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology.

 Area I-IV:  Minimum General Education Requirments (CORE).......subtotal.........
                     41 credit hours

 **NOTE:  Must complete a 6 semester hour sequence either in Literature or History.
 The sequence in Area II and IV in Literature or History needs to follow the sequence
 requirements according to the student's major and transfer plans.