
General Education Requirements
OIE collaborates with and supports the GER Subcommittee’s efforts to assess NJIT’s General Education Requirements program.
OIE collaborates with and supports the GER Subcommittee’s efforts to assess NJIT’s General Education Requirements program.
The philosophy of our GER program states that we are “dedicated to producing graduates who have the knowledge, skills, and motivation necessary to advance the state-of-the-art knowledge in their respective fields in addition to possessing a devotion to lifelong personal development as well as intellectual discovery beyond their discipline.”
The GER also effectively ensures that students acquire the essential skills outlined by MSCHE: oral and written communication, scientific and quantitative reasoning, critical analysis and reasoning, technological competency, and information literacy. Through upper-level Cultural and Social Science Literacy courses, students also develop skills for critical reasoning and understanding of values, ethics, and diverse perspectives.
Please view the GER Catalog page to learn more about the requirements of the program and current GER courses.
A GER course must completely satisfy at least two-thirds of the core learning outcomes of a literacy to be a GER course.
Requirements for GER Programs per Standard III of the Middle States Commission on Higher Education’s (MSCHE) Standards for Accreditation and Requirements of Affiliation.
In collaboration with the OIE, the GER subcommittee recently undertook a comprehensive review of GER courses based on the NJIT and Middle States literacies, as well as the more recently defined NJIT sub-literacies. Departments and course instructors identified the literacy and sub-literacies satisfied by each course, empowering the subcommittee with the necessary data to confirm that all students have ample and diverse opportunities to experience all NJIT sub-literacies through the GER program. The review also formally identified the Middle States literacies aligned with each course to confirm that all students have ample and diverse opportunities to attain the skills defined in MSCHE Standard III.5.
The GER subcommittee, supported by OIE, is currently in the process of designing a system for performing outcomes-based assessment of the GER program to inform future continuous improvement of the program through the GER Course Approval Policy.