General Education is a sequence of courses designed to complement the college’s four schools by emphasizing core academic skills while addressing topics and concepts relevant to students’ future careers and pursuits. The content and structure of the General Education program is entirely unique to Kendall College. The courses are taken sequentially and the learning builds from course to course throughout the program. Ultimately, the courses lead students to consolidate learning from major courses and General Education courses to make them well-rounded and versatile professionals. In totality, General Education aims to prepare students with the skills, knowledge, and values to be educated, responsible, adaptable, and ready for the world.
Please note, students completing their degree by June 2019 will be able to complete their degree based upon the Kendall College requirements listed in this section. Students completing their degree after this date will be required to meet the NLU General Education requirements. Any KCC general education coursework previously completed will be accepted in lieu of NLU requirements. New students enrolling in Fall 2018 and future terms will follow the NLU General Education Core.
General Education for Bachelor of Arts Degrees
General Education for B.A. students consists of four, thematic clusters: The Citizen, The Professional, The Globalist, and The Leader. The entire program has 12 courses (48 credit hours), and each cluster includes three courses (12 credit hours).
General Education for Bachelor of Arts Degrees
Creating tomorrow's professionals who are Ready for the World.
Each course in a cluster explores the cluster’s theme in an interdisciplinary manner, meaning it approaches the theme from various and multiple disciplines of study (humanities, science, mathematics, and social science). Furthermore, the courses integrate institutional competencies (oral and written communication, analyzing and problem solving, generating ideas and innovating, decision-making, and collaboration) into the context of the cluster’s theme and the student's chosen major. At the conclusion of the four clusters, students will demonstrate accomplishment of the cluster’s academic goal in a mini-capstone project.
The Citizen
Students will evaluate their citizenship in the various communities in which they belong.
The Professional
Students will propose solutions to resolve the cultural and professional tensions between workers (the individual) and employers.
The Globalist
Students will determine the impact of the global interconnectedness of economic, political, and cultural institutions on the individual and the communities of which the individual is a part.
The Leader
Students will judge various leaders’ traits and styles and recommend the most effective traits and styles for having a positive and productive impact on local, global, and professional communities.
General Education for Associate of Applied Science Degrees
General Education for the A.A.S. degrees consists of two thematic clusters: The Citizen and The Professional. (These are the first two clusters in General Education for B.A. degrees at the college.) The entire program for A.A.S. degrees has six courses (24 credit hours), and each cluster includes three courses (12 credit hours), which explore the cluster’s theme in an interdisciplinary manner, meaning it approaches the theme from various and multiple disciplines of study (humanities, science, mathematics, and social science). Furthermore, the courses integrate institutional competencies (oral and written communication, analyzing and problem solving, generating ideas and innovating, decision-making, and collaboration) into the context of the cluster’s theme and the student's chosen major. At the conclusion of the two clusters, students will demonstrate accomplishment of each cluster’s academic goal in a mini-capstone project.
General Education for Associate of Applied Science
Creating tomorrow's professionals who are Ready for the World.
The Citizen
Students will evaluate their citizenship in the various communities in which they belong.
The Professional
Students will propose solutions to resolve the cultural and professional tensions between workers (the individual) and employers.
General Education Enrollment Policy
General Education is a sequential program, meaning its design requires students to take the courses in sequence. Students will begin with the first course in a cluster and continue to take the courses in order until they complete General Education. Students are allowed to take two, but no more than two, courses concurrently (in the same quarter). The two courses must be adjacent to each other in the sequence. For example, students may take courses KCC 101 and KCC 102 during the same quarter or another example: KCC 106 and KCC 207. However, students are not allowed to take KCC 101 and KCC 103 concurrently or KCC 106 and KCC 208. Therefore, when taking two General Education courses concurrently, if a student fails or withdraws from one General Education course, the student will need to successfully complete that course before continuing the General Education sequence. For example, if a student is enrolled in KCC 101 and KCC 102 and the student withdraws from KCC 101 and successfully completes KCC 102, the student will need to enroll in and successfully complete KCC 101 before enrolling in KCC 103.
General Education is a degree requirement at the college and all cluster courses must be successfully completed to be awarded a degree.