Curriculum & Courses

LA_SLG1) Ways of Knowing Students: Students will demonstrate awareness and appreciation of multiple ways of knowing, as reflected in the fields of study and areas of expertise within the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

LA_SLG2) Cultural Breadth and Global Awareness: Students will demonstrate familiarity with a range of cultural, social, and intellectual traditions in the context of a changing, globalized world.

LA_SLG3) Critical and Analytical Thinking: Students will be able to analyze, evaluate, and construct arguments, engaging with ideas, evidence, and artifacts.

LA_SLG4) Effective Communication Skills: Students will be able to speak and write effectively, communicating with precision, clarity, and rhetorical force.

HUM_SLG 1) Students will study and question how crucial ideas about human and non-human nature, knowledge, experience, and value have been developed, supported, and/or expressed in major areas of the humanities, such as philosophy, religion, literature (including poetry and the dramatic arts), and music in various cultures and time periods.

HUM_SLO1.1) Students will demonstrate understanding of the methods used in the humanities, such as argumentation and interpretation.

HUM_SLO1.2) Students will demonstrate understanding of the crucial ideas in the humanities as they have been explored in different cultures and times, and/or in connection to issues that currently affect individuals and societies across the globe.

HUM_SLO1.3) Students will evaluate claims and the evidence and/or reasons given in support of these claims, as found in primary and secondary sources.

HUM_SLO1.4) Students will construct their own claims and defend them in written and/or oral forms, and using proper methods of documentation (e.g. citation and bibliography).

SCI_SLG1) Students will increase their knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of the natural world, science, and mathematics.

SCI_SLO1.1) Students will demonstrate knowledge of the nature of science and/or mathematics as a knowledge making process. 

SCI_SLO1.2) Students will develop and evaluate claims that involve a scientific or mathematical component.

SCI_SLO1.3) Students will display curiosity about nature, natural science, and/or mathematics.

SCI_SLO1.4) Students will confidently attempt reasoning tasks that involve a scientific or mathematical component.

SCI_SLO1.5) Students will demonstrate appreciation for the role of science and/or mathematics both in everyday life and in contemporary issues.

FYS_SLG1) Students will learn to embrace the writing process and establish writerly habits, while developing guided critical reading, thinking, and writing skills necessary for their success in upper-level course work. Students will learn to collaborate and to take their work, and the work of their peers seriously, thereby establishing best practices of critique.

FYS_SLO1.1) Students will formulate inquiries emerging from readings of texts.

FYS_SLO1.2) Students will establish research methods.

FYS_SLO1.3) Students will analyze and synthesize multiple texts and cite evidence. 

FYS_SLO1.4) Students will construct a complex claim and an argument.

FYS_SLO1.5) Students will practice the writerly process (i.e. revision, reflection, and peer review).

SOSCI_SLG 1) Students will question and explore how human behavior, societal arrangements, and cultural practices vary across time and space.

SOSCI_SLO1.1) Students will demonstrate understanding of the investigative methods used in the social sciences. 

SOSCI_SLO1.2) Students will evaluate and develop claims based on primary and secondary sources. 

SOSCI_SLO1.3) Students will communicate clearly in written and oral forms.

SOSCI_SLO1.4) Students will write citations and bibliographies in accordance with one or more social science disciplines.