General Education Goals

Approved by the Undergraduate Council 1/30/04

Approved by the University Senate 2/13/04

Goal I.  Communication

1. Students communicate effectively using appropriate writing conventions and formats.

2. Students communicate effectively using appropriate oral or signed conventions and formats.
 

Goal II. Collaboration

 1. Students participate effectively in collaborative activities.

 

Goal III. Critical Thinking

1. Students formulate appropriate questions for research. 

2. Students effectively collect appropriate evidence.   

3. Students appropriately evaluate claims, arguments, evidence and hypotheses.

4. Students use the results of analysis to appropriately construct new arguments and formulate new questions.

Goal IV.  Contemporary Issues
1. Students effectively analyze contemporary issues within the context of diverse disciplinary perspectives.
2. Students effectively analyze contemporary multicultural, global, and international questions.

Goal V.  Quantitative Skills
1.  Students effectively perform arithmetic operations, as well as reason and draw appropriate conclusions from numerical information.
2.  Students effectively translate problem situations into symbolic representations and use those representations to solve problems.

Goal VI.  Technology 
1. Students effectively use computers and other technology appropriate to the discipline.