General Education Certificate Program Learning Outcomes
The program-level design shall ensure student demonstration of specific understanding and application of the following General Education Competencies:
- Intellectual and Practical Skills: These skills include inquiry and analysis, critical and creative thinking, written and oral communication, information literacy, teamwork and problem-solving, and practical skills such as visual, kinesthetic, design, and aural forms of artistic communication.
- Knowledge of Human Cultures and the Physical and Natural Worlds: Engagement with “big questions”—both contemporary and enduring--in the sciences, mathematics, social sciences, humanities, histories, languages, and the arts.
- Personal and Social Responsibility: Development of personal and social responsibilities, including ethical reasoning and actions, foundations and skills for lifelong learning, community and civic knowledge and engagement, involvement with diverse communities and real-world challenges, and local and global intercultural knowledge and competence.
- Integrative Learning: Demonstration of synthesis of learning and advanced accomplishment across coherent general and specialized studies, and the application of knowledge, skills, and responsibilities to new settings and complex problems.