Common Course of Study Requirements and Learning Outcomes

HUMANISTIC OR ARTISTIC INQUIRY, ANALYSIS OR CREATION (Requirement: 1 course from HAA or HAH)

• Artistic Inquiry, Analysis or Creation (HAA)
  • HAA 1: Contextualize student-generated creative works.
  • HAA 2: Employ a process-based, collaborative, and revision-focused approach to creative work that results
    in a genre-specific final project.
• Humanistic Inquiry, Analysis or Creation (HAH)
  • HAH 1: Analyze the works and issues created and studied in the Humanities and Arts (language, literature,
    visual media, philosophy, religion, rhetoric and composition, creative and performing arts).
  • HAH 2: Demonstrate an ability to express and to evaluate one’s responses to the works and issues created
    and studied in the Humanities and Arts.
  • HAH 3: Demonstrate a critical understanding of the virtues and values of Humanistic inquiry in today’s world
    (ethical reasoning, visual acuity, verbal analysis, aesthetic representation and engagement, and so on) and
    an appreciation of cultural difference over time and place.

STUDY OF SOCIAL ACTIVITY (Requirement: 1 course)

• SAA 1: Demonstrate an understanding of basic findings and theories in the social sciences.
• SAA 2: Demonstrate an ability to construct and evaluate arguments using ideas, explanations, and evidence within
  the social sciences.

STUDY OF THE NATURAL WORLD (WITH LAB) (Requirement: 1 course)

• NW 1: Employ the fundamental elements of the scientific method in the physical and natural world by
  identifying and evaluating a testable scientific hypothesis.
• NW 2: Create and evaluate descriptions and representations of scientific data via equations, graphs, tables,
  and/or models.

HUMAN INTERNACTION WITH THE NATURAL WORLD (Requirement: 1 course from INEC, INSS, INST, or INSU)

• Engineering or Computer Science (INEC)
  • INEC 1: Apply concepts from math and/or science to design or analyze part or all of a process, product, or
    policy subject to constraints and objectives.
  • INEC 2: Communicate the results of an analysis or design of a process, product, or policy to a technical
    audience
• Natural Science in Society (INSS)
  • INSS 1: Understand and analyze how phenomena in the natural world have impacted or are impacting
    societies.
  • INSS 2: Analyze and evaluate how applications of scientific development affect the physical and natural
    world.
• Science, Technology, and Society (INST)
  • INST 1: Recognize and describe the methods by which scientific and technological knowledge is developed
    and distributed by humans.
  • INST 2: Place changes in science and technology in historical, social, and cultural context.
  • INST 3: Critically evaluate normative considerations relevant to science and technology.
• Sustainability (INSU)
  • INSU 1: Demonstrate understanding of interconnectedness among human well-being, economies, and
    environmental integrity.
  • INSU 2: Apply your understanding of sustainability to contribute to restorative action relevant to an
    environmental issue within your field of study.

GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES (Requirement: 1 course)

• GP: Understand and articulate differences and commonalities (e.g., cultural, demographic, economic, legal,
  social, or technical) within and across societies, cultures, or countries outside of the United States.

CRITICAL ENGAGEMENT WITH CULTURE AND SOCIETY (Requirement: 1 course)

• CECS 1: Critically examine the origins and evolution of cultural, political, or societal structures and hierarchies
  while including the perspectives of those who have sought to challenge them.
• CECS 2: Recognize and confront ideologies and myths that have contributed to the marginalization and/or
  domination of groups based on dimensions of identity including but not limited to age, caste, class, disability,
  ethnicity, gender, race, religion, or sexuality.
• CECS 3: Demonstrate an understanding of the interconnected nature of dimensions of identity and the ways in
  which overlapping identities shape an individual or group’s relationship with culture or society. Courses must
  discuss at least two dimensions of intersecting identity, at least one of which must be treated in depth.

QUANTITATIVE OR COMPUTATIONAL REASONING (Requirement: 1 course from RQ or RC)

• Quantitative Reasoning (RQ)
  • RQ 1: Translate information between narrative and graphical forms (e.g. equations, graphs, diagrams,
    and/or tables).
  • RQ 2: Solve problems using arithmetic, algebraic, geometric, or statistical methods.
  • RQ 3: Evaluate mathematical results for reasonableness and validity
• Computational Reasoning (RC)
  • RC 1: Translate requirements between narrative and program implementation providing mechanisms for
    exploring functionality.
  • RC 2: Solve problems using programming techniques.
  • RC 3: Evaluate computational results for efficiency and correctness.

ELEMENTARY PROFICIENCY IN A SECOND LANGUAGE (Requirement: 0-2 courses)

• EPSL: Demonstrate elementary proficiency in a second language.

FIRST YEAR SEMINAR (Requirement: 1 course)

• FYS 1: Demonstrate critical thinking strategies related to interpretation and evaluation of texts (verbal, visual, or
  performative) in the context of course materials.
• FYS 2: Identify and consider one’s assumptions, thereby building informed perspectives.
• FYS 3: Information Literacy
  • FYS 3a: Identify and use information relevant to a specific purpose or goal.
  • FYS 3b: Employ effective search strategies to locate useful information.
  • FYS 3c: Access and use information ethically and legally.

WRITING (Requirement: 4 courses – 1 FYS, 1 in the major, 1 outside the major, 1 additional)

• W 1: Analyze a variety of rhetorical situations.
• W 2: Identify and employ a range of strategies for discovering, developing, organizing, revising, and editing.
• W 3: Identify and apply the discourse conventions of a chosen academic discipline(s) or fields(s) (including
  conventions of genre, format, citation, structure, and vocabulary).