Goals and Student Learning Outcomes
Goals
- To develop critical thinking, sound reasoning, and logical communication.
- To enhance literacy in writing, reading, speaking, and listening.
- To encourage mathematical organization and skills.
- To foster respect and understanding of science and scientific inquiry.
- To provide a historical awareness.
- To encourage continuing respect for the other peoples and cultures.
- To provide attentiveness to one’s own values and to those of others.
- To develop a consciousness and appreciation of the arts.
Student Learning Outcomes
- Critical Thinking - The student will assess information to apply sound reasoning.
- Communication - The student will create professional, verbal, and written communication with logical organization and effective support.
- Information Literacy - The student will identify sources of information, investigate accuracy and relevance, and synthesize others' ideas with the student's own with appropriate attribution.
- Global, Cultural, and Historical Awareness - The student will identify facts, themes, and ideas by evaluating cultural and historical interactions, comparing multiple viewpoints, and comprehending the role of global diversity in shaping societies.
- Ethical Reasoning - The student will apply core values and ethical principles to decision-making.
- Scientific Inquiry and Mathematical Reasoning - The student will examine the world by interpreting data, applying mathematical reasoning and methods to solve problems, and connecting to principles of the natural sciences.
- Creative and Artistic Literacy - The student will identify principle elements and recognize historical contexts of the arts.