Learning Outcomes in Liberal Arts Studies

To achieve the goals of the LAS program, students will be guided into a balanced program of LAS courses in which assignments and activities will foster intellectual growth and competence. Students will demonstrate academic achievement of the following LAS Learning Outcomes:

Breadth
Students will articulate their understanding of various ways of knowing, including the scientific, aesthetic, cultural, historical, ethical, and religious.

Communication
In oral and written forms, students will construct and deliver reasoned arguments from multiple perspectives, provide evidence to support assertions, and develop content in keeping with conventions of genre and discipline.

Critical Thinking
Students will examine assumptions, delay judgments, deconstruct arguments, integrate multiple perspectives, and demonstrate comfort with ambiguity.

Problem Posing
Students will gather the tools necessary to be agents of social change, examining their own cultural contexts, challenging biases and habits of thinking, and working across differences to solve problems.