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General Education
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Purpose: An educated person must be able to read critically, communicate effectively, and think clearly.

Select one course from each of the following four categories for a minimum of 12 units.

• Oral Communication - One A1 course (Area A).
• Written Communication - One A2 course (Area A).
• Critical Thinking - One A3 course (Area A).
• Quantitative Reasoning - One B4 course (Area B).

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Oral Communication

• COMM 3 - Fundamentals of Public Communication (Area A1)
• COMM 7 - Persuasion (Area A1)
• COMM 8 - Group Discussion (Area A1)

Written Communication

• ENGL 5B - Academic Literacy II (Area A2)
• ENGL 10 - Accelerated AcademicLiteracy (Area A2)

Critical Thinking

• AAIS 20 - Critical Thinking about Race (Area A3)
• ANTH 30 - Critical Thinking in Anthropology (Area A3)
• CLAS 30 - Critical Thinking in Chicano and Latin American Studies (Area A3)
• COMM 5 - Argumentation (Area A3)
• CSCI 1 - Critical Thinking and Compter Science (Area A3)
• GME 5 - Critical Reasoning (Area A3)
• NSCI 4 - Science and Nonsense: Facts, Fads, and Critical Thinking (Area A3)
• PHIL 25 - Methods of Reasoning (Area A3)
• PHIL 45 - Introduction to Logic (Area A3)
• SOC 3 - Analysis of Social Life (Area A3)
• WS 12 - Critical Thinking: Gender Issues (Area A3)

Quantitative Reasoning

• DS 71 - Quantitative Analysis (Area B4)
• MATH 45 - What Is Mathematics? (Area B4)
• MATH 75 - Mathematical Analysis I (Area B4)

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