Integration of Knowledge, Skills, and Applications Across the Program
Students:
- Connect learning to societal problems or issues
- Include diverse perspectives (political, religious, racial/ ethnic, gender, etc.) in course discussions or assignments
- Examine the strengths and weaknesses of own views on a topic or issue
- Are better able understand someone else’s views by imagining how an issue looks from his or her perspective
- Learn something that changes student's understanding of an issue or concept
- Connect ideas from your courses to your prior experiences and knowledge
Information Literacy
Students:
- Defines or modifies the information need to achieve a manageable focus
- Define different types of authority
- Examine and compare information from various sources in order to evaluate reliability, validity, accuracy, authority, timeliness, and point of view or bias
- Develop an open mind when encountering varied and sometimes conflicting perspectives
- Understand that first attempts at searching do not always produce adequate results
- Give credit to the original ideas of others through proper attribution and citation
- Consider research as open-ended exploration and engagement with information
- Contribute to scholarly conversation at an appropriate level
- Utilize divergent and convergent thinking appropriately when searching
