Any topic can be viewed from the four perspectives, or lenses, of general education: the humanities, the natural sciences, the social sciences, and history. Researching and analyzing through these lenses requires a general understanding of them, as offered in the mind map below. When you use each lens to pose questions about your topic, your understanding expands! For an explanation of how to form these questions, watch our general education lenses video by clicking here.

See below for a breakdown of this flow chart as a table:

Consider joining the General Education Office Hours with Academic Support to ask questions about the lenses. Click here to see our full schedule of Workshop and Office Hours sessions.