The Directorate of General Studies Program was established by the former Vice Chancellor Professor Umar Musa Ibrahim, OON on 1st August, 2016 (before then, the GENS courses were domicile in various Departments). The curriculum of the Directorate offers a range of compulsory course units designed to expand the students’ academic prospect and enhance their academic and practical skills, including their moral, social and psychological discipline and capacity for a broader vision of life, social tolerance, and enlightened judgment. All these are offered to inculcate in the students awareness on the economic, environmental, political, cultural, and social issues facing the world, and the skills to address them. All the recommended General Studies courses are compulsory to all students. The courses are coordinated centrally and examined in the semester in which they are taught by the Directorate. All the courses are computed as part of the Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of every student. In view of the peculiar nature of the General Studies courses, reading manuals are prepared for each course to enable students to understand the GENS courses better. The reading manuals are unique collections put together to give a first hand, and practical over-view of General Studies. The GENS lecturers have carefully selected the topics to reflect the syllabus as contained in the course content prepared based on the National Universities Commission Minimum Bench Mark.

Among the objectives of the Directorate is to provide a cross disciplinary teaching and instruction which are intended to get students and graduates of Gombe State University to make substantial gain in critical thinking, complex reasoning and writing skills. At present, the Directorate is striving hard to convert from the traditional mode of teaching to electronic e-teaching and learning as well as ‘E’ assessment especially the Computer Based Testing (CBT). This transformation will fast track teaching and learning and make it easy and convenient for both the teachers and the students of Gombe State University.

The Directorate of General Studies Program is saddle with the responsibility of teaching and coordinating all the General Studies courses in the university as stipulated by National Universities Commission (NUC). In order to satisfy the requirements for the award of a degree, a postgraduate and an undergraduate student must register for, and pass all required departmental courses as well as the prescribed courses of the General studies Program listed below.

From the inception of the Directorate in August 2016 to date, the unit was involved in the following activities: