After taking a course in Advanced Composition, students will be able to:

Inquiry: Locate, gather, and evaluate data, primary sources, secondary sources, and other evidence by employing discipline-specific research methods. (C-SLOs 1 & 2)
Application: Produce a variety of written and/or multi-media compositions for specialist and/or non-specialist audiences. In the case of multimedia compositions, produce written annotations that substantively describe and analyze the multimodal work produced. (C-SLOs 1 & 2)
Application: Engage in writing and research as recursive processes, including drafting, review, revision, and reflection. (C-SLOs 1, 2, & 5)
Application: Analyze and synthesize relevant information from multiple primary and secondary sources. (C-SLOs 1 & 2)

Humanities and the Arts

Historical & Philosophical Perspectives

After taking a course in Literature & Arts, students will be able to:

Foundations: Identify and describe the formal elements and social dimensions of literary and/or artistic works. (C-SLOs 1 & 4)
Foundations: Express a critical understanding of literary and/or artistic concepts through a variety of accessible media such as text, speech, drawing, illustration, comics, storyboards, design, film, music, dance/movement, theatrical arts, visual art, sculpture, or video. (C-SLO 1)
Inquiry: Exercise diverse interpretive methods for understanding how literature and arts address and express matters of cultural, social, and political significance. (C-SLO 1)
Inquiry: Apply knowledge of literary and/or artistic works to develop research questions and/or produce creative projects. (C-SLO 2)
Context: Identify how material conditions and cultural constructions in a variety of global contexts shape the human experience. (C-SLO 4)

After taking a course in Life Sciences, students will be able to:

Foundations: Explain fundamental biological concepts (i.e. genetics, speciation, evolution, growth and differentiation, metabolism and bio-energetics, ecology, and behavior). (C-SLO 1)
Foundations: Interpret data, such as graphs, charts, and maps. (C-SLO 1)
Inquiry: Explain and apply the methodologies of scientific inquiry such as identifying problems, making observations, gathering and analyzing data, proposing and testing hypotheses, and drawing conclusions. (C-SLOs 1 & 2)
Context: Describe how paradigms of biology relate to society, policy, and their own lives. (C-SLOs 4 & 5)

After taking a course in Physical Science, students will be able to:

Foundations: Use scientific concepts, theories, and principles to explain phenomena in the physical universe. (C-SLO 1)
Foundations: Interpret data, such as graphs, charts, and maps. (C-SLO 1)
Inquiry: Explain and apply the methodologies of scientific inquiry such as identifying problems, making observations, gathering and analyzing data, proposing and testing hypotheses, and drawing conclusions. (C-SLOs 1 & 2)
Context: Describe how concepts of physical sciences play a role in daily life. (C-SLO 5)

After taking a course in Behavioral Sciences, students will be able to:

Foundations: Discuss, differentiate, and explore competing behavioral science theories and perspectives. (C-SLO 1)
Inquiry: Learn and experience the distinct methodologies involved in behavioral science, including empirical research, data collection, and data management.
Context: Identify how cultural, environmental, and biological factors interact to influence various processes and outcomes in humans and non-human animals, such as cognition, emotion, development, and behavior. (C-SLO 5)
Application: Understand behavioral science concepts in order to explain and evaluate real-world events/contexts and to apply this acquired knowledge in their respective fields. (C-SLOs 1 & 2)
Application: Demonstrate basic skills and knowledge of ethical principles of behavioral sciences such as maintaining confidentiality, citing credible sources, and conducting oneself professionally. (C-SLO 1)

After taking a course in Social Sciences, students will be able to:

Foundations: Describe and explain social science concepts and theories in relation to current events, global challenges, and social issues. (C-SLOs 1 & 2)
Inquiry: Develop skills in information seeking and constructing reasoned supported arguments of social science concepts. (C-SLOs 1 & 2)
Context: Discover, compare, and contrast how different social groups, institutions, and organizations interact with collective human behavior by considering the relationships of these interactions to class, race, ethnicity, women, gender, culture, identity, community, and/or other values. (C-SLOs 2 & 3)
Application: Demonstrate self-awareness, social awareness, and cultural understanding by recognizing the different ways in which societies and their sub-groups are organized chronologically, geographically or culturally.  (C-SLOs 4 & 5)

After taking a course in Cultural Studies, students will be able to:

Foundations: Explain how culture involves the interaction among the intellectual, artistic, political, economic, and social aspects of a society or other cultural grouping.
Context: Describe how topics and issues can vary depending on the culture(s) focused upon.
Application: Analyze and communicate about the interaction of intellectual, artistic, political, economic, social, and other aspects of a society’s cultural life through an investigation of a particular time and place, aspects of a society’s or group’s culture, or comparison of the constructs for cross-cultural sensitivity and analysis.

After taking a course in US Minority Cultures, students will be able to:

Foundations: Exhibit knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of the history, life, culture, and/or contributions of racial minorities in the United States. (C-SLO 4)
Context: Describe how issues of power, privilege, justice, inequality, marginalization, and resistance impact the experiences, conditions, and perspectives of U.S. racial/ethnic minority populations. (C-SLO 4)
Application: Reflect on their own cultural positionality and be able to discuss perspectives and experiences of others. (C-SLO 4)
Application: Conduct themselves responsibly, ethically, and respectfully in a racially and ethnically diverse society. (C-SLO 4)

After taking a course in Non-Western Cultures, students will be able to:

Foundations: Recognize the non-western and western binary in historical, political, cultural, and economic contexts, and understand the impact of this divide on current events in order to identify the power relations that guided the construction and maintenance of that binary.
Context: Recognize, describe, and compare the distinguishing ideological features including global power structures and cultural worldviews between western and non-western cultures.
Application: Discuss non-Western cultures in respectful conversation and/or writing to demonstrate understanding of these cultures.

After taking a course in Western/Comparative Cultures, students will be able to:

Foundations: Identify cultural elements, constructs, and contexts salient to “Western cultures” and understand which aspects of the cultural tradition evolved the confluence of Greek and Roman philosophical thought and European religious traditions.
Context: Develop and demonstrate knowledge of and sensitivity to cultural diversity and difference.
Application: Engage in respectful conversation and/or writing to demonstrate understanding of these cultures.

After taking a course in Quantitative Reasoning I, students will be able to:

Foundations: Identify and abstract relevant information to clearly define problems. (C-SLO 1)
Inquiry: Construct or select and execute a logically appropriate process for solving problems. (C-SLO 1)
Context: Recognize patterns, transfer knowledge, or integrate abstract thinking with other problems or disciplines. (C-SLO 2)
Application: Formulate, present, and justify solutions to problems. (C-SLO 1)

After taking a course in Quantitative Reasoning II, students will be able to:

Foundations: Identify problems, solve them, and present solutions. (C-SLO 1)
Inquiry: Identify and evaluate strategies to solve quantitative problems and revise these strategies as needed. (C-SLO 2)
Application: Extract relevant quantitative information from sources and apply that information to problems in their field of study. (C-SLO 1)