Essential Student Learning Goals

Experiential Learning—through involvement in multiple forms of experiential education both inside and outside the classroom.

Knowledge of Human Cultures and the Physical and Natural World—through study in the sciences and mathematics, social sciences, humanities, histories, languages, and the arts.

Intellectual and Practical Skills—through inquiry and analysis, critical creative thinking, written and oral communication, quantitative literacy, information literacy, teamwork and problem solving.

Personal and Social Responsibility—through local and global civic knowledge and engagement, intercultural knowledge and competence, ethical reasoning and action, foundations and skills for lifelong learning.

Integrated Learning—through synthesis and advanced accomplishment across generalized and specialized studies.

Based on essential learning outcomes identified by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U).