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The GER should help the student to:
- Acquire a significant introductory body of knowledge about both the western and non-western traditions broad enough to ensure an educational balance among the major areas of knowledge: the arts, the humanities, mathematics, the natural sciences, and the social and behavioral sciences.
- Develop an aesthetic understanding and an appreciation of creative works in the fine arts, music, theatre, and dance.
- Develop the knowledge, understanding, and skills necessary for interpreting the human condition and the values inherent in it. Through the study of language, literature, and history, the student is expected to develop insights into and a critical evaluation of life in its everyday details as well as in its historical and universal dimensions.
- Develop knowledge of the nature and importance of mathematics in both the scientific and the everyday worlds.
- Acquire knowledge and understanding of the nature of science and a sensitivity to the ecological balance of nature.
- Develop the knowledge, understanding, and skills necessary to use, control, and make sound decisions about technology.
- Understand the psychological and social determinants of human behavior through the scientific study of the behavioral and social sciences.
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