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Dec 12, 2024
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2020-21 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Institutional Learning Goals
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Beginning in school, and continuing at successively higher levels across their college studies, students should prepare for twenty-first-century challenges by gaining proficiency in the following areas:
Learning Goal
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Achieved Through
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How Practiced
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Knowledge of Human Cultures and the Physical World
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- Study in the sciences and mathematics, the social sciences, the humanities, the histories, the languages and the arts
- Participation in co-curricular programs and activities
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By engagement with big questions, both contemporary and enduring |
Intellectual and Practical Skills
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- Knowledge acquisition and application
- Inquiry and analysis
- Critical and creative thinking
- Written communication
- Quantitative literacy
- Information literacy
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Across the curriculum and co-curriculum, in the context of progressively more challenging problems, projects and standards for performance |
Personal and Social Responsibility
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- Civic engagement
- Intercultural knowledge and competence
- Ethical reasoning and action
- Humanitarianism
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Through active involvement with diverse communities and real-world challenges |
Understanding of Self
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- Intrapersonal development
- Interpersonal competence
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Through perseverance toward the accomplishment of educational and personal goals |
Integrative Learning
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- Synthesis and advanced accomplishment
- Across general and specialized studies
- Within co-curricular activities
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Through the application of knowledge, skills, and responsibilities to new settings and complex problems |
Adapted from the Association of American Colleges and Universities’ Liberal Education and America’s Promise (LEAP) Essential Learning Outcomes
For more information about Learning Outcomes feel free to speak with someone from the Dean of Student Affairs Office at 860-512-3200.
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