General Education (CERT)

The General Education Certificate prepares students for transfer to any four-year college or university in the state. It also satisfies many or all of the CORE requirements contained in the associate degree programs offered at Luna. The certificate is also a good choice for students who are undecided as to their major or program choice. Additionally, the certificate program will give students opportunity to sample various disciplines to determine their educational goals.

Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs)

• Graduates will analyze and evaluate oral and written communication in terms of situation, audience, purpose, aesthetics, and diverse points of view.
• Graduates will express a primary purpose in a compelling statement and order supporting points logically and convincingly.
• Graduates will use effective rhetorical strategies to persuade, inform, and engage.
• Graduates will employ writing and/or speaking processes such as planning, collaborating, organizing, composing, revising, and editing to create presentations using correct diction, syntax, grammar, and mechanics.
• Graduates will integrate research correctly and ethically from credible sources to support the primary purpose of a communication.
• Graduates will engage in reasoned civic discourse while recognizing the distinctions among opinions, facts, and inferences.
• Graduates will identify, describe and explain human behaviors and how they are influenced by social structures, institutions, and processes within the contexts of complex and diverse communities.
• Graduates will articulate how beliefs, assumptions, and values are influenced by factors such as politics, geography, economics, culture, biology, history, and social institutions.
• Graduates will describe ongoing reciprocal interactions among self, society, and the environment.
• Graduates will apply the knowledge base of the social and behavioral sciences to identify, describe, explain, and critically evaluate relevant issues, ethical dilemmas, and arguments.
• Graduates will analyze and critically interpret significant primary texts and/or works of art (this includes fine art, literature, music, theatre,& film).
• Graduates will compare art forms, modes of thought and expression, and processes across a range of historical periods and/or structures (such as political, geographic, economic, social, cultural, religious, and intellectual).
• Graduates will recognize and articulate the diversity of human experience across a range of historical periods and/or cultural perspectives.
• Graduates will draw on historical and/or cultural perspectives to evaluate any or all of the following: contemporary problems/issues, contemporary modes of expression, and contemporary thought.

Degree Requirements

Minimum of 32 Credit Hours