Student Learning Outcomes
The University embraces the following definition of liberal education:
Liberal education is a philosophy of education that empowers individuals with broad knowledge and transferable skills, and a strong sense of values, ethics, and civic engagement. These broad goals have been enduring even as the courses and requirements that comprise a liberal education have changed over the years. Characterized by challenging encounters with important and relevant issues today and throughout history, a liberal education prepares graduates both for socially valued work and for civic leadership in their society. It usually includes a general education curriculum that provides broad exposure to multiple disciplines and ways of knowing, along with more in-depth study in at least one field or area of concentration.
[Source: Advocacy “What is a liberal education?” at http://www.aacu.org/advocacy/What_is_liberal_education.cfm]
- Knowledge of Human Cultures and the Physical and Natural World
Through study in fine and performing arts, humanities, mathematics and science, and social science.
Focused by engagement with big questions, both contemporary and enduring
- Skills, both Intellectual and Practical, including
Identification and objective evaluation of theories and assumptions
Critical and creative thinking
Written and oral communication
Quantitative literacy
Technology and information literacy
Teamwork, leadership, and problem solving
Practiced extensively, across the curriculum, in the context of progressively more challenging problems, projects, and standards for performance
- Responsibility, as Individuals and Communities, including
Knowledge of sustainability and its applications
Civic knowledge and engagement—local and global
Intercultural knowledge and competence
Ethical reasoning and action
Foundations and skills for lifelong learning
Developed through real-world challenges and active involvement with diverse communities
- Learning: Integrated, Synthesized, and Advanced, including
Synthesis and advanced accomplishment across general and specialized studies
Demonstrated through the application of knowledge, skills, and responsibilities to new settings and complex problems.
[Note: Learning Outcomes are adapted from AAC&U report, College Learning for a New Global Century [http://www.aacu.org/advocacy/leap/documents/GlobalCentury_final.pdf
