Alaska Pacific University promotes the fullest development of its students through student centered, experiential education.
Through the General University Requirements, APU combines the breadth, integrative understanding, and critical thinking of the liberal arts with practical and focused knowledge for professional careers and leadership positions.
All APU undergraduate students meet competency or coverage requirements in the following areas.
- Introduction to Active Learning: Students learn to carry out a project and are introduced to collegiate learning through project-based education and other dimensions of active learning.
- Written Communication: Students focus on developing fluency in writing for a range of disciplines.
- Speech Communication: Students enhance their understanding of the importance of effective oral communication.
- Quantitative Reasoning: Students are prepared to understand and participate in an increasingly quantifiable and quantified society, culture, and world.
- Laboratory Science: Students study through the scientive method, to observe and document the natural world.
- Social and Behavioral Sciences: Students focus on topics emerging from investigations of human social behavior and society.
- Humanities: Students explore history, literature, philosophy, and other humanistic areas to learn how to analyze and ponder questions of value and meaning from different perspectives.
- Ethical and Religious Values: Students gain greater understanding of self and society by honoring spiritual and moral values as a foundation for leadership and multicultural development.
- Language: Students develop introductory level skills in a second language.