Roosevelt University General Education Outcomes

Content

Breadth of knowledge

• Uses the arts, sciences, and humanities as a forum for the study of values, principles, and the physical world.
• Demonstrates familiarity with multiple cultural, aesthetic, social, historical, and political traditions.
• Demonstrates quantitative literacy through mastery of essential quantitative principles.
• Demonstrates technical knowledge.
• Demonstrates knowledge in humanities, science, and social sciences.

Lifelong learning

• Recognizes the need for lifelong learning by demonstrating an intellectual curiosity and self-direction.

Content focus

• Engages in an in-depth, focused, and sustained program of study.
• Demonstrates inquiry based learning in the major.
• Demonstrates academic competence in the major.

Integrative content

• Applies learning from academic specialization to questions and problems outside the field.
• Makes connections between other disciplines and one’s own field.

 

Skills

Communication

• Writes effectively for various purposes and audiences
• Communicates effectively in spoken formats
• Communicates effectively in diverse settings and groups
• Listens effectively/critically
• Understands visual, graphic, and other forms of nonverbal communication
• Communicates discipline-specific information to general audiences

Quantitative Reasoning

• Makes effective use of calculations and formulas in solving problems.
• Accurately interprets and represents quantitative information in both symbolic and graphic forms.

Inquiry/analysis

• Can use experimental methods to answer scientific questions
• Reads critically and uses literacy skills to acquire in-depth information
• Demonstrates analytic and logical skills
• Thinks critically and independently
• Uses secondary resources and theories to move beyond the textual summary of primary sources

Integrative learning

• Demonstrates information literacy: identifies, locates, and uses appropriate sources of information to explore specific questions; locates research materials in the digital and physical libraries and critically evaluates them.
• Demonstrates technological literacy: knows how technology works and what purposes it can serve and can apply it to achieve specific goals.
• Demonstrates creativity: thinking analytically and associatively, applies original perspectives to find new solutions for undefined, fluid, and ambiguous situations

 

Dispositions

Community/citizenship

• Demonstrates knowledge of contemporary issues
• Applies knowledge regarding social, political, economic, and historical issues in the analysis of societal and professional problems
• Actively participates as a citizen of a diverse democracy

Ethics/values

• Demonstrates familiarity with ethical standards and responsibilities in academic, professional, and public/civic contexts
• Develops and articulates personal standards against which to measure new ideas and experiences
• Appreciates values, ethics, and diverse perspectives
• Transforms information into knowledge and uses that knowledge to inform judgment and to make moral and ethical choices
• Can articulate consequences, including ethical consequences, of decisions and actions

Global/multicultural

• Demonstrates understanding of cultural differences by bridging cultural and/or linguistic barriers
• Respects the complex identities of others, their histories and cultures
• Can identify the interrelations within and among global and cross-cultural communities

Personal development

• Demonstrates understanding of group and individual dynamics in organizations and can function in multidisciplinary teams
• Demonstrates persistence, creativity and flexible thinking.
• Builds consensus
• Manages change
• Demonstrates intellectual honesty

 

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