General Education Learning Outcomes

Note: These are working definitions and are subject to change.

Written Communication
Students will possess the knowledge, abilities, and skills necessary to write effectively for a variety of audiences.

Oral Communication
Students will construct formal presentations and listen with literal and critical comprehension.

Scientific Reasoning
Students will be able to make observations in order to test hypotheses that explain natural phenomena. Predictions from these hypotheses can be tested by future experiments.

Scientific Phenomena
Students will be able to recognize and analyze phenomena which are subject to study by experiment.

Quantitative Reasoning
Students will use numbers or symbols representing measurement, properties, and the relationships of quantities to reason formally within abstract systems of thought to make decisions, judgments, or predictions.

Critical Analysis and Logical Thinking
Students will observe and then analyze relevant information in order to evaluate and construct arguments and draw conclusions.

Continuing Learning
Students will demonstrate the attitude and skills to learn for themselves in formal academic and non-academic settings.

Information Literacy
Students will recognize when information is needed and to locate, evaluate, and use information ethically, legally, and effectively.

Historical Phenomena
Students will have the ability to make reasoned arguments about historical cause and effect.

Social Phenomena
Students will understand the interactions and relationships among people, institutions, and the social environment.

Aesthetics
Students will understand cultural works (e.g. art, music, literature, theatre, and film) in their social and historical contexts, and how they, in turn, affect those contexts.

Ethics
Students will be aware of key concepts in ethics and philosophical reasoning, and will use critical thinking to apply these concepts in order to evaluate situations and controversies.