2025-2026 Winona Undergraduate Catalog
General Education Program
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Kristen Sellke, PhD., Director Lasallian Explorations Program
John Kerr, PhD., Director Lasallian Honors Program
General education at Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota exhibits the active, collaborative and contextual commitment of our Lasallian mission to serve the needs of individual learners. Our general education offerings support students as they develop lifelong learning skills, and acquire a breadth of knowledge that supports an understanding of our human condition. All of our educational offerings foster a Lasallian disposition toward leadership and service. Our Lasallian Catholic mission explicitly recognizes that education at Saint Mary’s University is continuous dialogue between the commitments of our faith and the fruits of our rational inquiry. We are always working to help our students see that there is unity in knowledge as we seek the truth.
Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota offers two general education pathways: the disciplinary-based Lasallian Explorations Program, and the interdisciplinary, cohort-based Lasallian Honors Program. The university is committed to a common set of general education program objectives; all of the objectives are met regardless of a student’s pathway.
Those students in the Lasallian Explorations Program choose from a variety of courses grounded in different academic disciplines. All of these courses meet a common set of learning outcomes for the disciplinary area. While there is a wide range of choice in the disciplinary offerings, all of these students take a common First Year Experience course, and a common Capstone course. Additionally, these students take courses in the essential skills for written and oral communication.
Invited students may instead select an interdisciplinary, cohort-based general education experience in our Lasallian Honors Program. The Lasallian Honors experience is built around a shared inquiry model for seminar participation where all of the students take courses in common in their given year. The design is to build learning communities that will develop and mature over the course of the undergraduate experience. The cohort based learning experience is supplemented by courses outside of the Honors sequence considered essential for liberal education.
The General Education program is required for all undergraduate students. Student may complete their General Education requirement by completing either
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