Curriculum & Courses

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Critical and Analytical Thinking: Students will be able to analyze, evaluate, and construct arguments, engaging with ideas, evidence, and artifacts.
4. Effective Communication Skills: Students will be able to speak and write effectively, communicating with precision, clarity, and rhetorical force.

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.
2. Students will demonstrate understanding of the methods used in the humanities, such as argumentation and interpretation.
3. 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.
4. Students will evaluate claims and the evidence and/or reasons given in support of these claims, as found in primary and secondary sources.
5. 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).

1. Students will increase their knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of the natural world, science, and mathematics.
2. Students will demonstrate knowledge of the nature of science and/or mathematics as a knowledge making process. 
3. Students will develop and evaluate claims that involve a scientific or mathematical component.
4. Students will display curiosity about nature, natural science, and/or mathematics.
5. Students will confidently attempt reasoning tasks that involve a scientific or mathematical component.
6. Students will demonstrate appreciation for the role of science and/or mathematics both in everyday life and in contemporary issues.

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.

1. Students will formulate inquiries emerging from readings of texts.
2. Students will establish research methods.
3. Students will analyze and synthesize multiple texts and cite evidence. 
4. Students will construct a complex claim and an argument.
5. Students will practice the writerly process (i.e. revision, reflection, and peer review).

1. Students will question and explore how human behavior, societal arrangements, and cultural practices vary across time and space.
2. Students will demonstrate understanding of the investigative methods used in the social sciences. 
3. Students will evaluate and develop claims based on primary and secondary sources. 
4. Students will communicate clearly in written and oral forms.
5. Students will write citations and bibliographies in accordance with one or more social science disciplines.