Undergraduate Learning Outcomes and Competencies
I. Communication Outcome:
Express and interpret ideas clearly, using a variety of written, oral and/or visual forms.
- Construct coherent, organized expression appropriate to a variety of disciplines and audiences.
- Apply the basic mechanics of language (syntax, grammar, punctuation, and spelling) effectively.
II. Critical & Creative Thinking:
Use different modes of disciplinary and interdisciplinary inquiry to explore ideas and issues from multiple perspectives.
- Assess ideas, research, and/or theories presented by others.
- Synthesize multiple perspectives into a coherent understanding of a problem, issue, or question.
- Generate alternative questions, interpretations, or approaches within an established discipline or field of inquiry.
III. Ethical & Social Responsibility:
Express ethical & social implications in one’s social, professional, artistic and/or scholarly practice.
- Articulate own values and situate them with respect to the larger society.
- Identify the ethical and social implications of one’s own values.
- Exhibit ethical scholarly practice in attributing appropriate credit to other scholars (avoiding plagiarism).
IV. Social and Global Perspectives:
Articulate a perspective on power in the world and one’s own place in the global community.
- Recognize the contributions of diverse peoples and cultures to the development of the world.
- Analyze social issues involving individuals, communities, and institutions from different disciplinary perspectives.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the world as sets of interactive and interrelated systems.
- Develop a sense of global citizenship.
V. Area of Concentration:
Explain and apply major terms, methods, concepts, and/or theories relevant to the area of concentration.
To be worked out by faculty with area expertise.