GEN 499 Week 1 Discussion - Purpose of General Education

Write: For this discussion, address the following prompts:

• Provide at least three reasons why every student should be required to take general education courses. Explain your rationale.
• Describe what you have learned from at least two specific courses (e.g., philosophy, history, or psychology) that illustrated usefulness in your daily life. For instance, what did you learn in history classes beyond just names, dates, and places? In literature courses, what did you learn about life, the university, and everything beyond the literary work itself?
• Support your claims with examples from required material(s) and/or other scholarly sources, and properly cite any references. Be sure to include information from the websites and articles.
• Your initial post should be at least 250 words in length.