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Analytical Reading & Writing

Analytical Reading & Writing is intended to teach students how to:

  • Read and discuss for the purposes of careful analysis and critique;
  • Use rhetorical strategies to take a position, marshal evidence and respond to opposing views;
  • Retrieve, evaluate and synthesize evidence and commentary on a topic;
  • Revise drafts for clarity and intellectual sophistication;
  • Reflect on the writing and reading processes; and
  • Demonstrate both fluency and competence with Standard English in writing and editing personal work.
Intellectual Heritage

Intellectual Heritage courses are intended to teach students how to:

  • Develop critical approaches to reading a set of shared texts, while communicating their ideas, asking questions, and actively listening to peers in a free and honest exchange of multiple viewpoints.
  • Sharpen analysis and argumentation skills through a variety of expressive modes.
  • Evaluate the historical, social, and cultural bases of prevailing beliefs.
  • Investigate fundamental questions of human experience from a variety of perspectives.
  • Make connections between historical texts about human existence and current moral, social, and political issues. 
Quantitative Literacy

Quantitative Literacy courses are intended to teach students how to:

  • Understand quantitative models that describe real world phenomena and recognize limitations of those models;
  • Perform simple mathematical computations associated with a quantitative model and make conclusions based on the results;
  • Recognize, use, and appreciate mathematical thinking for solving problems that are part of everyday life;
  • Understand the various sources of uncertainty and error in empirical data;
  • Retrieve, organize, and analyze data associated with a quantitative model; and
  • Communicate logical arguments and their conclusions.
Arts

Arts courses are intended to teach students how to:

  • Experience and respond to a work of art or creative process;
  • Recognize and interpret a work of art or creative process in a societal, historical or cultural context;
  • Describe or evaluate a work of art or creative process using appropriate terminology;
  • Demonstrate “appreciation” for the value of art in our lives and society; and
  • Function as a member of an audience.
Human Behavior

Human Behavior courses are intended to teach students how to:

  • Understand relationships between individuals and communities;
  • Understand theories or explanations of human behavior used to describe social phenomena;
  • Examine the development of individuals’ beliefs, behaviors, and assumptions and how these affect individuals and communities;
  • Apply one disciplinary method to understand human behavior or explain social phenomena;
  • Access and analyze materials related to individuals, communities or social phenomena; and
  • Compare and contrast similar social phenomena across individuals or communities.
Race & Diversity

Race & Diversity courses are intended to teach students how to:

  • Recognize the ways in which race intersects with other group identifications or ascriptions such as gender, class, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, disability and age;
  • Understand the relationships among diversity, justice and power;
  • Explore what it means for individuals and institutions to exist in a multi-racial, multicultural world;
  • Investigate the various forms race and racism has taken in different places and times; and
  • Discuss race matters with diverse others in relation to personal experience.
Science & Technology

Science & Technology courses are intended to teach students how to:

  • Understand and describe the scientific process;
  • Understand the sequential nature of science and technology;
  • Recognize, use and appreciate scientific or technological thinking for solving problems that are part of everyday life;
  • Understand and communicate how technology encourages the process of discovery in science and related disciplines; and
  • Retrieve, organize, and analyze data associated with a scientific or technological model.
U.S. Society

U.S. Society courses strengthen students’ understanding of the history, society, culture and political systems of the United States.

They are intended to teach students how to:

  • Access and analyze historical, analytical, and cultural materials;
  • Develop observations and conclusions about selected themes in US society and culture;
  • Construct interpretations using evidence and critical analysis;
  • Communicate and defend interpretations; and
  • Analyze the ways difference and heterogeneity have shaped the culture and society of the U.S.
World Society

World Society courses are intended to teach students how to:

  • Understand the influences (e.g political, social, historical, cultural, artistic, literary, geographic, economic) on world societies or processes (e.g. globalization) linking world societies;
  • Access and analyze materials related to world societies and cultures;
  • Develop observations and conclusions about selected themes in world societies and cultures;
  • Construct interpretations using evidence and critical analysis; and
  • Communicate and defend interpretations.

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