ABSTRACT
The American University of Paris recently finalized the implementation of a new general education program named the Global Liberal Arts Core Curriculum. This chapter describes how driving principles for the new program coalesced into a series of curricular and co-curricular activities in response to a heterogeneous collection of assessment results. The need for revision in the face of changing external factors was not the only driving force behind the renewal of the general education program. Quantitative reasoning is essential to understanding and analyzing data. These courses enhance a student’s ability to restate real-world challenges in mathematical terms to help construct solutions. Digital Literacy courses teach skills in digital collaboration, writing and publishing, data management and preservation, data analysis and presentation, and research—as well as the ethics and implications of these practices.
