- General Education
Objectives
As a result of a planned education process, the General Education Program will achieve the following student learning outcomes:
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Expose students to broad areas of knowledge
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Encourage the improvement and refinement of students' academic skills
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Foster the strengthening and broadening of students' spiritual lives
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Encourage the attitudes and practices of healthful living
To demonstrate achievement of those outcomes, students will be able to:
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Expose students to broad areas of knowledge
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Evaluate algebraic and numerical expressions
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Solve equations and inequalities
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Read accurately and critically by asking pertinent questions about a text, by recognizing assumptions and implications, and by evaluating ideas
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Read literary texts analytically, seeing relationships between form and content
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Understand the various elements of the writing process, including collecting information and formulating ideas, determining relationships, arranging sentences and paragraphs, establishing transitions, and revising written text
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Use the conventions of standard written English
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Write an organized, coherent, and effective essay
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Recognize basic features and concepts of world geography
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Recognize basic features and concepts of the world's political and economic structures
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Recognize appropriate investigative and interpretive procedures in the social sciences
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Understand the fundamental concepts, principles, and theories of the natural sciences
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Demonstrate basic computer skills appropriate to information literacy
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Utilize interpretive reasoning, strategic reasoning, and adaptive reasoning in all academic subjects.
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Demonstrate a sense of harmonious interconnectedness between self, others, nature, and God, which exists throughout and beyond time and space
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Encourage the attitudes and practices of healthful living
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Acquire skills that enable participation in lifetime physical activity
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Understand how individual decision making and behavior impact personal health.
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