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Learning Outcomes for General Education
[Note: these outcomes were derived from existing statements about general education and mission.]
Lock Haven University prepares students for personal and professional success by developing thoughtful, knowledgeable, and responsible graduates.
1) Thoughtful – Students will demonstrate reasoning, research, and communication skills that promote career success and lifelong learning.
a) Communication: Students will communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
b) Critical Thinking: Students will employ analytical skills to develop rational understanding, solve problems, and make decisions.
c) Information Literacy: Students will recognize the need for information and will effectively and ethically gather, evaluate, interpret, and attribute relevant information from appropriate sources to synthesize knowledge and support conclusions.
d) Mathematics : Students will identify, develop, evaluate, and communicate solutions to mathematics problems both theoretical and practical.
e) Multicultural: Students will identify, analyze, apply, and appreciate components of their own and others’ cultural identities.
2) Knowledgeable – Students will demonstrate curiosity about and knowledge of the data, concepts, and methods of the various fields of human inquiry and the ways these impact the environment, society and their own lives.
a) Humanities: Students will identify, evaluate, and interpret major aesthetic and philosophical movements, and assess their impact on the environment and society.
b) Natural Sciences: Students will identify, evaluate, and interpret major scientific concepts and methods through observation and scientific experimentation, and assess their impact on the environment, contemporary society and the student’s own life.
c) Social Sciences: Students will identify, evaluate, and interpret political, social, psychological, and historical movements and processes, and assess their impact on the environment, contemporary society and the student’s own life.
3) Responsible – Students will demonstrate personal and civic responsibility.
a) Wellness: Students will gain the knowledge and skills to make informed and appropriate health choices for themselves and others.
b) Ethics: Students will demonstrate knowledge of the skills, modes of inquiry, research tools, and theories that will enable them to make well-reasoned, responsible decisions, and act in accordance with high ethical standards in their personal, professional, and civic lives.
c) Citizenship: Students will contribute productively to their communities and the world.
d) Interpersonal: Students will relate respectfully and work well with others, including those different from themselves in background, gender, ethnicity, religion or culture.
e) External Experience: Students will apply, exercise, or perform in a setting outside the classroom, skills and knowledge gained in the academic environment.
University Learning Outcomes
Communication - Students will communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
Critical Thinking - Students will employ analytical skills to develop rational understanding, solve problems, and make decisions.
Information Literacy - Students will recognize the need for information and will effectively and ethically gather, evaluate, interpret, and attribute relevant information from appropriate sources to synthesize knowledge and support conclusions.
Math - Students will identify, develop, evaluate, and communicate solutions to mathematics problems both theoretical and practical.
Humanities - Students will identify, evaluate, and interpret major aesthetic and philosophical movements, and assess their impact on the environment and society.
Natural Sciences - Students will identify, evaluate, and interpret major scientific concepts and methods through observation and scientific experimentation, and assess their impact on the environment, contemporary society and the student's own life.
Social Sciences - Students will identify, evaluate, and interpret political, social, psychological, and historical movements and processes, and assess their impact on the environment, contemporary society and the student's own life.
Wellness - Students will gain the knowledge and skills to make informed and appropriate health choices for themselves and others.
Ethics - Students will demonstrate knowledge of the skills, modes of inquiry, research tools, and theories that will enable them to make well-reasoned, responsible decisions, and act in accordance with high ethical standards in their personal, professional, and civic lives.
Citizenship - Students will contribute productively to their communities and the world.
Interpersonal - Students will relate respectfully and work well with others, including those different from themselves in background, gender, ethnicity, religion or culture.
External Experience - Students will apply, exercise, or perform in a setting outside the classroom, skills and knowledge gained in the academic environment.
Multicultural Competency - Students will identify, analyze, apply, and appreciate components of their own and others' cultural identities.