General Education Goals (Draft 3/31/06)
MISSION: The General Education Program at SCSU is committed to the ideal of liberal
education that provides knowledge, skills and experience and promotes critical thinking
and ethical values for a lifetime of integrative learning in a diverse and changing society.
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Integrated learning
Collaborate with others
Communicate orally and in writing
Understand mathematical techniques and reason quantitatively
Identify, analyze and critically evaluate reasoning
Use information technology to gain understanding
Understand and appreciate modes of human expression, systems of
thought, and production and performance of meaning
Discover and understand the natural world
Reason scientifically
Discover and understand social and historical structures of human
society
Understand and respect values of a diverse society and a multicultural
world
Approach issues from a global perspective
Demonstrate concern for individual worth and human rights
Become socially, ethically and civically responsible
Understand the natural environment and critique conceptions of our
relations to it
The General Education Committee offers these draft goals for your consideration and
input. We invite you into the conversation with us as we refine proposed general
education programmatic goals. In this way, we hope to move thoughtfully in this
direction:
SCSU GENERAL EDUCATION PROGRAM MISSION
SCSU GENERAL EDUCATION PROGRAM GOALS
SCSU GENERAL EDUCATION PROGRAM STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES
SCSU GENERAL EDUCATION PROGRAM STRUCTURE