Undergraduate Learning Outcomes and Competencies

I. Communication Outcome:
Express and interpret ideas clearly, using a variety of written, oral and/or visual forms.

Competencies:

1. Construct coherent, organized expression appropriate to a variety of disciplines and audiences.
2. 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.

Competencies:

1. Evaluate different evidence-based perspectives in the formulation and analysis of a problem or question.
2. Interpret quantitative and qualitative information.
3. Support a position with appropriate evidence.
4. Integrate one’s own ideas with those of others to address an issue.
5. Apply a creative process to explore an issue using imagination, intuition, and analytical methods.

III. Ethical & Social Responsibility:
Express ethical & social implications in one’s social, professional, artistic and/or scholarly practice.

Competencies:

1. Reflect on one’s value system and the value systems of others.
2. Describe ethical responsibility in the context of professional or scholarly practice.
3. Articulate and evaluate the reasons and justifications that support particular values.

IV. Social and Global Perspectives:
Articulate a perspective on power in the world and one’s own place in the global community.

Competencies:

1. Recognize the contributions of diverse peoples and cultures to the development of the world.
2. Analyze social issues involving individuals, communities, and institutions from different disciplinary perspectives.
3. Demonstrate an understanding of the world as sets of interactive and interrelated systems.
4. 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.

Competencies:
To be worked out by faculty with area expertise.