GE Requirement Area Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the General Education Arts requirement, students will be able to:

Understand: Explain the creative artistic process as an iterative and recursive practice culminating in an expression of human experience and emotion through a medium;

Appreciate: Apply artistic concepts and ideas drawn from traditions of artistic creation and theory to better engage with, analyze and understand a creative work;

Connect: Examine connections between art and society and articulate how the arts are a historical and cultural phenomenon.

Upon successful completion of the General Education Humanities requirement, students will be able to:

Examine: Examine how humanities artifacts (such as oral narratives, literature, philosophy, media, and artworks) express the human condition;

Explain: Explain how humanities artifacts take on meaning within networks or systems (such as languages, cultures, values, and worldviews) that account for for the complexities and uncertainties of the human condition;

Analyze: Analyze humanities artifacts according to humanities methodologies, such as a close analysis, questioning, reasoning, interpretation, and critical thinking;

Compare and Contrast: Compare and contrast diverse humanistic perspectives across cultures, communities, and/or time periods to explain how people make meaning of their lives;and

Apply: Using humanities perspectives, reflect on big questions related to aesthetics, values, meaning, and ethics and how those apply to their own lives.

Upon successful completion of the General Education Life Sciences requirement, students will be able to:

Apply Scientific Methods: Describe and apply approaches to scientific discovery and interpretation of experimental data;

Understand: Demonstrate understanding of matter, energy, and their influence on biological systems;

Apply Knowledge: Describe and apply evolutionary concepts in terms of inheritance, adaptation, and diversity of life;

Explain: Explain the mechanisms of information storage, expression, and exchange in living organisms or eco-systems; and

Reflect: Reflect on the relevance of life sciences in a broader context.

Upon successful completion of the General Education Physical Sciences requirement, students will be able to:

Explain scientific methods: Explain science as a process and as a way of understanding the physical world;

Understand: Demonstrate understanding of matter, energy, and their influence on physical systems;

Evaluate: Evaluate the credibility of various sources of information about science-related issues; and

Apply: Describe how the Physical Sciences utilize their foundational principles to confront and solve pressing local and global challenges, shaping historical, ethical, or social landscapes in the process.

Upon successful completion of the General Education Social and Behavioral Sciences requirement, students will be able to:

Examine: Examine institutions and human behavior through social and behavioral concepts, methods, or theories;

Analyze: Identify diverse perspectives to explore and examine social and behavioral phenomena; and

Apply: Apply discipline-relevant and scientific theories and methods to make inferences about or applications to social and behavioral phenomena at personal, institutional, or cultural levels.