First-Year Experience Understanding General Education

GE Components are at the root of your Westmont Education. These Include: 

Common Contexts

These courses will GIVE you an understanding of the context of Christianity and the Liberal Arts.

• Offer Biblical understanding and Christian faith literacy
• Provide an understanding of the Liberal Arts in global context

Common Inquiries

These courses will GIVE you knowledge and tools for different methods of seeking the truth. 

• Develop breadth of knowledge on key subjects
• Expand your ways of knowing, learning and asking questions

Common Skills

These courses will GIVE you a broad base of skills, including writing, reasoning, foreign language, and physical education skills

• Hone writing and speaking skills
• Develop quantitative skills
• Establish healthy ways of being

Compassionate Action

These courses will GIVE you the tools to effectively live out what you have learned.

• Help students to serve & lead in a diverse world
• Articulate the Scriptural call to enacting justice

* More information on General Education can be found here.

Your Westmont Experience is intended to grow you to become thoughtful scholars, grateful servants and faithful leaders. Let the journey begin!