Gen Ed Outcomes

Gen Ed Outcomes

Below are the course outcomes group by Gen Ed program section.

Quantitative Reasoning

In a Quantitative Reasoning Course, students will learn to solve real-life problems using a mathematical modeling process. They will learn to:

• Identify an appropriate model
• Identify and discuss assumptions
• Collect or generate appropriate data
• Analyze a situation using arithmetic, geometric, algebraic, and probabilistic or statistical methods
• Estimate answers
• Propose and evaluate solutions
• Predict outcomes in other situations based on what they have learned from their analysis
• Understand and communicate quantitative relationships using symbols, equations, graphs, and tables
• Share their findings in oral and written reports using appropriate mathematical language
• Write summaries to explain how they reached their conclusions
• Draw inferences from a model
• Discuss the limitations of the model

Global Awareness

In the Global Awareness course, students will:

• Explore specific global issues influencing diverse nations and/or cultures, along with their interrelations within the global community
• Explore their own culture and cultural practices and how these relate to the cultures and cultural practices of others in the global community
• Explore the social and historical dynamics that create and influence nations, governments, global alliances, and global conflicts
• Explore the causes and consequences of social, cultural, and racial intolerance in the world
• Analyze and synthesize information from diverse sources to make informed decisions regarding global issues

U.S. Diversity

In the U.S. Diversity course, students will:

• Examine the complexity of their own cultural identities and how these relate to the cultural identities of others in the U.S.
• Explore the causes and consequences of social intolerance in the U.S.
• Examine the differences between social intolerance and institutionalized racism, ethnocentrism, and exclusion in the U.S.
• Explore how diversity has affected and continues to affect income distribution, economic mobility, political access, and the democratic process in the U.S.
• Develop an awareness of alternative values, views, and communication styles in the U.S.

Arts

In the Arts courses, students will:

• Acquire basic knowledge and skills in the use of the vocabularies, materials, tools, techniques, and intellectual methods in an arts discipline
• Examine the relationship between creative and critical thinking
• Learn the relationship between content and form
• Begin to understand historical development in an arts discipline
• Develop ability to evaluate work in an arts discipline
• Learn to define and solve artistic problems

Humanities

In Humanities courses, students will:

• Recognize how the humanities cultivate aesthetic appreciation, imagination, and empathic understanding of others
• Demonstrate basic competency in reading and understanding literary, philosophical, or religious works both in their original historical context and as they inform debate and dialogue today
• Analyze and write about literary, philosophical, or religious works
• Demonstrate basic knowledge of the history of literary works, or religious or philosophical ideas
• Become familiar with the discursive practices particular to the study of the humanities
• Begin to recognize how society influences humanistic thought and how the humanities transform society
• Become practiced in the interpretation and generation of ideas

Foreign Language

In Foreign Language courses, students will:

• Communicate at a basic functional level in a language other than their own native language
• Demonstrate a basic understanding of the relationship between culture and language
• Use basic forms and structures of a language in communicating in that language

Social Science

In Social Science courses, students will:

• Acquire an understanding of social science methods and of how they are used to engage in the systematic study of society and culture
• Understand and compare formal and informal social and political structures, organizations, and institutions
• Explore and understand power relationships and the impact of social change on different groups and on society in general
• Develop an appreciation of different interpretations of contemporary issues, institutions, or structures
• Use social science methods and content to interpret and analyze data and reports in the media and to make informed decisions regarding local, national, and international issues
• Use basic social scientific research techniques to examine and present information in a clear and concise manner
• Understand the relation between qualitative and quantitative research

Natural Science

In Natural Science courses, students will:

Apply the scientific method and its assumptions to pose and answer questions.

• Make observations, develop appropriate classifications, and infer trends
• Gather original data to verify the validity and reliability of accepted scientific principles
• Analyze and solve a scientific problem by drawing conclusions based on original data gathered using appropriate experimental techniques
• Use the processes and methods of science to demonstrate how reproducible experimental observations give rise to fundamental laws and theories
• Demonstrate an understanding of the ways in which theories may evolve with time
• Analyze and solve problems by identifying and utilizing appropriate data and methodology

Attain a basic knowledge of current scientific understanding of the universe and the laws that govern it.

• Demonstrate a core knowledge base of facts and information
• Demonstrate a working knowledge of the hierarchical structure of natural science

Become a scientifically literate citizen.

• Acquire and apply an appropriate technical vocabulary
• Interpret, analyze, and critically evaluate data and reports in the media relating to the natural sciences
• Engage in informed discussions about the validity of the conclusions from reports in the media relating to the natural sciences
• Employ available resources to find relevant scientific or technical information
• Make informed decisions about scientific issues in daily life