Outcomes of the General Education Program, Spring 2011
Effective Spring 2011, students completing the general education core curriculum (outlined above) will be able to:
1. Use appropriate language, conventions, organization, supporting evidence, and content to effectively communicate in writing for the purpose and audience. (Written Communication)
2. Use appropriate language, conventions, elocution, poise, organization, supporting evidence, and content to effectively communicate through the spoken word for the purpose and audience. (Oral Communication)
3. Collect, synthesize or deconstruct, analyze, interpret and evaluate information and concepts across or within a discipline to solve problems. [Critical Thinking (to include inquiry, analysis, problem solving)]
4. Extract, decode, evaluate, interpret, and construct meaning through interaction with written language. (Critical Reading)
5. Exhibit knowledge of scientific concepts and processes and ability to engage the scientific method towards informed decision making and participation in civic, social, cultural, and economic affairs. (Scientific Literacy)
6. Understand and create arguments that are supported by empirical evidence and clearly communicate those arguments in a variety of formats such as using words, tables, graphs, mathematical equations, as appropriate. (Quantitative Literacy)
7. Identify, locate, evaluate, and use information effectively and responsibly to increase understanding. (Information Literacy)
The general education outcomes are to be developed in the courses listed in the general education curriculum distribution list above.