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Faculty/Staff Resources

Please direct students to the student-facing GE website.

Please contact the Director of General Education, Dr. Bryant Mathews (bmathews@apu.edu), with any questions. 

The deadline for current students to switch to the new GE program was April 30, 2025. Students who did not switch may still petition to do so for consideration on a case-by-case basis. 

New GE Courses 

• Course Development Teams (Fall 2024)

• Course Descriptions

• Syllabi

  • CORE/PRCR 100 Cornerstones

  • CORE 101 Cultivating Wellness: Building Habits for Lifelong Well-Being

  • SOT/PRST 150 Understanding the Old Testament: Creation, Covenant, Exile, Restoration

  • ART/ENGL/HIST/PHIL/PRCR 150 Visions of the Good Life 

  • SOT/PRST 200 Understanding the New Testament: Christ, Redemption, Community, New Creation

  • SOT/PRST 250 Theology and the Christian Life

  • CORE/PRCR 250 Seeking Shalom Seminar [This course is a placeholder; once topics are selected, the variants of this course will be numbered 251, 252, etc., and each variant will have its topic as the course name. “Seeking Shalom Seminar” will be continue to be the name of the requirement.]

  • CORE 450 Calling and Character Seminar

Administration of New GE Courses

• Update on administration of new GE courses (January 10, 2025)

• Implementation details for new interdisciplinary GE courses (January 10, 2025)