Associate of Arts in General Education (Online)

The Associate of Arts in General Studies requires 60 credit hours. The Associate of Arts degree can serve as preparation to enter one of the Adult Studies programs, or it may serve as a terminal degree. Classes meet online, which enables students to maintain full-time employment while attending the University full time.

Program Learning Outcomes

The following Program Learning Outcomes have been established by Evangel faculty to define the areas of knowledge and skills that students graduating from this major degree program should have developed.

1. Demonstrate analytical reading skills and engage imaginatively with texts in a variety of disciplines.

2. Recognize, follow, and construct logical argument.

3. Practice spiritual disciplines and articulate the contribution of these disciplines to their personal relationship with Christ.

4. Articulate the integration of faith, learning, and life.

5. Employ effective communication appropriate to audience, context, and purpose.

6. Recognize and demonstrate elements of healthy relationships in civic and personal life.

7. Articulate his or her own perspectives and respect, understand, and evaluate the perspectives of other individuals and the worldviews of other people groups, historic and contemporary.

8. Define essential issues in human history, identify ways others have addressed those issues, and explore the applicability of those approaches to other intellectual, political, and social, and/or spiritual contexts