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Nov 06, 2024
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2016-17 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 |
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