In accordance with the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB), UH general education courses incorporate six component area objectives:

• • Communication Skills (COM) - to include effective development, interpretation and expression of ideas through written, oral and visual communication

• • Social Responsibility (SR) - to include intercultural competence, knowledge of civic responsibility, and the ability to engage effectively in regional, national, and global communities

• • Personal Responsibility (PR) - to include the ability to connect choices, actions and consequences to ethical decision-making

• • Critical Thinking Skills (CT) - to include creative thinking, innovation, inquiry, and analysis, evaluation and synthesis of information

• • Empirical and Quantitative Skills (EQS) - to include the manipulation and analysis of numerical data or observable facts resulting in informed conclusions
    
    
  • Teamwork (TW) - to include the ability to consider different points of view and to work effectively with others to support a shared purpose or goal