Course Listings - Department of General Education

General education is an important component of students' education in the Real-Time Interactive Simulation degree programs at the DigiPen Institute of Technology. In order to be a well educated, successful, and valuable participant in our rapidly changing global community, students need more than a professional or vocational training. When they graduate, they will enter a world in which they can expect to hold different jobs, working in a succession of careers over the course of their lives. In order to prepare for this exciting, challenging future during their college years, students need to not only specialize in a major and train for a career but also become more broadly educated, conversant with at least some of the many rapidly changing disciplines. They need to gain a sense of our past achievements, present developments, and future possibilities. As undergraduates at DigiPen, students can expect to enlarge their perspectives (historical, aesthetic, cultural, literary, geographic, and philosophical), to improve their critical and analytical thinking, and to learn skills in finding, managing, and communicating knowledge. General education requirements help students fulfill these goals.

These requirements serve as a preparation for a thoughtful life and a source of learning from which other coursework must draw and to which that work must contribute. Students completing the general education requirements will know about basic forces, ideas and values which shape the world, and about the structure of organized human knowledge - the arts and humanities, natural and social sciences, and their values, perspectives, and methods.

All students, both transfer and non-transfer, are responsible for completing general education requirements. Please note requirements and course information are subject to change. We encourage students to consult their advisor before making any decisions based on the information in this section.

Links to courses offered by this Department:

• Biology
• Economics
• English
• Law
• Management
• Social Sciences