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While career and technical education are integral to the mission of community colleges, general education courses make up the vast majority of courses required by students in almost all degree plans at these institutions. Yet, comparatively little attention has been paid to the nature and meaning of a student’s experience in these general education courses, which are typically organized around distribution requirements. Instead of organizing general education by distribution requirements alone, we believe that it is more meaningful and engaging to organize it according to questions that are fundamental to us as human beings.
Seminar in a collaborative and supportive environment
Discussion-based general education at Community Colleges
The full list of all The Great Questions texts
What are the texts that faculty might explore with students in a discussion-based classroom that address these great questions most productively, which could be easily integrated into general education courses already present in most community college course catalogues? This is a list of 100 transformative texts that faculty representing 12 different institutions have identified as important in this regard.
The Great Questions Foundation organizes course redesign workshops each summer, which are geared toward helping faculty members incorporate the discussion-based study of texts from our list in general education courses at community colleges where they teach. Expect great discussion with community college faculty colleagues from all over the US.
The Great Questions Foundation seeks to promote liberal education and core-text and discussion-based learning at the community college through supporting faculty development and course redesign and helping to establish and support core-text programs and courses.
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