Learning Outcomes
Humanities and Social Sciences
Communication Studies, B.A., B.S.
Students will be able to demonstrate
a. awareness of the theoretical issues of written and oral communication;
b. ability to communicate coherently in written, oral, and computer modes;
c. ability to use technology to develop and produce written and oral projects;
d. thoughtful engagement with important issues in the contemporary world.
Criminal Justice, B.S.
Students who complete the degree program will:
 Have a basic understanding and overview of the basic processes of policecourts-and corrections and understanding of the interconnections of the three
agencies;
 Have a detailed knowledge of policing;
 Have a detailed knowledge of the United States court, including a practical
knowledge of the rules of evidence in a criminal court, and a detailed
knowledge of the law: substantive, procedural, and constitutional;
 Have a detailed knowledge of the United States correctional system;
 Have a detailed knowledge of the juvenile justice system;
 Have a detailed knowledge of criminological theory and the theoretical
foundations of criminal justice policies;
 Have a detailed knowledge of criminal victimization and criminal justice
system victimization services;
 Have a detailed knowledge of public policy and its relationship to crime and
victimization;
 Have a detailed knowledge of how to conduct research and read research
articles;
 Be able to exercise critical thinking in solving criminal justice problems,
challenges, and opportunities;
 Be able to write professional reports
 Have the ability to solve mathematical and statistical problems.
English, B.A.
Students who complete the degree program will:
1. Knowledge
 Ability to define, to compare and to contrast theoretical critical approaches to
literary texts in reading and writing within cultural, historical, and social
contexts.
 Ability to define characteristics and trends within creative writing genres of
poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction.
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Define a range of genres from among argumentative and academic and
technical to creative and imaginative.
Define historically and culturally situated key rhetorical and linguistic concepts
with knowledge to perceive those concepts to reading and writing in academic,
work, and everyday contexts.
2. Skills
 Ability to compose, to self-assess, and to revise essays and ability to review and
to critique the work of others and to present written and oral products to others
using skills from among stylistics, proofreading, editing, and usability to solve
rhetorical and stylistic issues in one’s own work across genres.
 Critical and analytical reading skills of comprehension, summarization, close
interpretation, and analysis of a range of genres from among the literary and
prosaic to technical and scholarly.
 Ability to develop original claims about texts and to support those claims with
relevant research support from data, research, textual analysis, and personal
experience.
 Ability to employ techniques of craft in the production and significant revision
of one or more genres of imaginative writing from their own unique
experiences.
 Ability to conduct primary and secondary research using skills to locate,
evaluate, and synthesize research and the ability to integrate other voices into
students’ prose with appropriate documentation styles with attention to visual
formatting details.
3. Attitudes
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Develop a customized course of study that incorporates professionalism in
approaches to primary and/or secondary research in English Studies as well as
submission of work in a professional manner leading to suitable application
within the context of professional work or a higher academic degree (M.A.,
M.F.A., or Ph.D.).
Fine Arts, B.A.
Students who complete the degree program will:
 Know the basic technical skills in the making of art
 Have a basic understanding of the history, philosophy, and techniques of artists
 Demonstrate a satisfactory level of understanding of the interconnectedness of
humanity, using art as a common element throughout recorded human history.
 Possess the ability to write coherently about the interconnectedness of
humanity, using art as a common element throughout recorded human history.
 Possess the ability to explore the human condition
 Possess the ability to express through art the struggle to understand the human
condition.
 Possess the ability to understand the students’ own processes
History, B.A.
Students completing this degree will be able to:
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Identify major people and events in American and World History;
Articulate a historical perspective within the context of the diverse pasts of the
United
States, Europe, and the world, viewing the world from a global perspective and
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multicultural context;
Analyze primary sources of evidence and historiographical literature and be
able to
interpret evidence critically;
Integrate and synthesize a broad range of evidence, including primary sources,
into a
coherent and well-supported argument supported by appropriate historical
evidence.
Critique research methods and apply them to problem solving.
Distinguish and appreciate diverse cultures.
Communicate, both in written and verbal form, multiple ways of understanding
Interdisciplinary Humanities Major, B.A.
Students who complete the degree program will:
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Demonstrate a satisfactory level of knowledge of the range of disciplines in the
Humanities.
Demonstrate a satisfactory level of understanding of the interconnectedness
among the humanities.
Demonstrate a satisfactory level of competence in the concentration area that
the students have chosen.
Possess the ability to express themselves satisfactorily analytically,
expressively, reflectively, and synthetically.
Demonstrate a satisfactory level of understanding of the interconnections and
diversity among the whole of all humanity.
Political Science, B.S.
Students who complete the Political Science degree program will be able to:
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Relate to people of different backgrounds and beliefs;
Understand and think critically about moral and ethical problems;
Achieve depth in the professional field of knowledge which is Political Science
Demonstrate effective oral and written communications
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Identify, analyze and develop suggestions about the material under review
Conceptualize and develop informed opinions and create new ideas
Possess a broad understanding of the variety of ways to examine different political
systems and beliefs
Read and understand primary and secondary sources, including archival documents,
journal articles, monographs, and textbooks
Communicate multiple ways of understanding civic responsibility
Think logically and analytically
Conduct original research
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Sociology, B.S.
Students who complete the degree will possess:
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An understanding of how social inequalities, ethical choices, and hierarchies of
difference and power are created and maintained in social, interactional, and
structural arrangements in societies.
An ability to critically differentiate and apply dominant theoretical frames
of analysis to substantive structural, cultural, and interactional issues.
An understanding of the relationship between social structure, human age
ncy, and culture and how both individual and collective action affect soc
ial change.
Development of a sociological imagination—
the ability to see how social forces
affect private lives.
An ability to recognize and relate themselves, their culture and nation wit
hin a global context.
An ability to understand and apply research and computational skills.
An ability to express one’s self clearly, completely, and accurately through a
variety of formats including writing, speaking and technology.