List of Competencies Ordered by Number of Courses Achieving Them
Frequency is in parentheses. Last updated March 27, 2015.
Note: Doesn’t include competencies listed as “other possible CU competencies” on draft syllabi
(1) B10CGI-2AD – Advocacy for Self and Others
(1) B10LL-3Col – Collaboration
(1) MM2 – Uses social media strategies
(1) G1- Analyzes and Documents Prior Learning
(1) G2 – Plans for Financing Education
(1) G3 – Develops and Maintains a Personal Learning Plan
(1) B10FI-2Ad – Advocacy for Self and Others
(1) B10FI-3Col – Collaboration
(1) B10FI-5Cr – Creativity
(1) B10FI-10Res – Resilience
(1) B10CGI-1AC – Accountability
(1) B10CGI-4COM – Communication
(1) WC2 – Applies Ethics and Rules of Standard English in Workplace Communications
(2) ST-O1 - Applies Organizational Theory
(2) M1 – Applies Mentoring Theories
(2) M3 – Applies Effective Coaching Skills
(2) LD2 – Understands Collective Bargaining
(2) WC1- Writes in a Variety of Workplace Genres
(2) WC3 – Discovers and Proposes Grants
(2) B10CGI-5Cr – Creativity
(2) B10CGI-10Res – Resilience
(3) B10LL-2Ad – Advocacy for Self and Others
(3) B10FI-9Ref – Reflection
(3) B10CGI-3COL – Collaboration
(4) B10LL-8PS – Problem Solving
(4) PN2 – Develops and Publicly Shares Story of Us
(4) B10LL-5Cr – Creativity
(4) B10LL-1AC – Accountability
(4) LD1 – Applies the History of U.S. Labor and Economics to Present Day Polices and
(4) AL3 – Designs and Implements a Collaborative Network
(4) B10FI-1AC – Accountability
(4) B10FI-8PS – Problem Solving
(4) GL3 – Places Action Research Project in a Global Context
(4) B10CGI-8PS – Problem Solving
(5) PD1 – Analyzes Audience
(5) PN3 – Develops and Publicly Shares Story of Now:
(5) QR1 – Posing Problems
(5) B10LL-7IAL – Integrated and Applied Learning
(5) MM1 – Analyzes media messages:
(5) PAR-COMM3 – Engages in Action Research
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(6) B10LL-10Res – Resilience
(6) PD3 – Applies Skills of Argument and Persuasion
(6) QR2 – Solving Problems
(6) ER2 – Testing Hypotheses.
(6) B10LL-4Com – Communication
(6) M2 – Practices Simultaneous Leadership and Learnership
(6) AL2 – Defines and Solves Problems
(6) B10FI-4Com – Communication
(6) B10CGI-9Ref – Reflection
(7) B10CGI-6CT – Critical Thinking
(7) CW-1 – Uses Personal Experience to Examine the Workplace
(7) DF3 – Collaborating Across Geographic Boundaries
(7) PAR-C2 – Engages in Action Research
(7) B10CGI-7IAL – Integrated and Applied Learning
(8) B10FI-7IAL – Integrated and Applied Learning
(8) MM3: Analyzes and Reaches Audience
(8) SR3 – Demonstrating Civic Engagement
(9) ER1 – Designing Inquiries
(9) PD2 – Frames Issue
(9) ST-C3 – Applies Participatory Techniques
(9) GL1 – Welcomes Difference and Diversity
(9) PN1 – Develops and Publicly Shares Story of Self
(9) PAR-COMM2 – Facilitates Stakeholder Discussion
(10) DF2 – Communicating Ideas
(10) PAR-S2 – Preparing for Research
(10) DF1 – Gathering Information
(10) QR3 – Communicating Quantitative Evidence
(10) ST-O3 – Designs, Implements, and Evaluates Changes
(10) RF1 – Plans for, Analyzes, and Learns From Failure
(10) PAR-COMM1 – Analyzes Power Structure
(11) CW-2 – Applies Sociological and Anthropological Concepts of Work
(11) ETH1 – Applying Ethical Decision Making
(11) PAR-C1 – Identifies Power Structure
(12) ST-S2 – Setting Personal Goals
(12) B10LL-6CT – Critical Thinking
(13) AL1 – Applies Theories of Leadership
(13) B10FI-6CT – Critical Thinking
(13) ER3 – Communicating Empirical Evidence
(14) PAR-S1 – Surfacing Assumptions
(15) B10LL-9Ref – Reflection
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(15) CW-3 – Understands Community, National, and Global Systems Affecting Work:
(15) ST-C1 – Applies Community Development Theory
(15) PBR1 - Theories of Place
(15) SR1 – Demonstrating Social Perspective
(16) SR2 – Appreciating Cultural Diversity
(17) ST-S1 – Conducting Personal Inventories
(17) ST-O2 – Diagnoses Problems
(19) PBR2 - Cultural Practices of Place
(20) GL2 - Analyzes Problems and Issues from a Global Perspective
(24) ST-C2 – Analyzes Cause and Effect
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List of Competencies with Courses per Competency
Note: Doesn’t include competencies listed as “other possible CU competencies” on draft syllabi
GATEWAY
(1) G1- Analyzes and Documents Prior Learning: Assesses college level knowledge acquired outside the
traditional classroom.
1. Gateway
(1) G2 – Plans for Financing Education: Examines personal finances, determines need, explores options,
and develops a plan for funding and repayment.
1. Gateway
(1) G3 – Develops and Maintains a Personal Learning Plan: Develops, maintains, and uses a learning
plan to guide the accomplishment of personal and professional goals.
1. Gateway
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SELF
Systems Thinking
Systems thinking is a holistic approach to analysis that focuses on the way that a system's constituent
parts interrelate and how systems work over time and within the context of larger systems. This deep
understanding of personal underlying structures helps develop the self-awareness, self-regulation, selfmotivation skills necessary for self-directed, lifelong learning.
(17) ST-S1 – Conducting Personal Inventories: Examines aptitudes, skills, values, and preferences to
understand the personal DNA that influences decisions, behaviors, and productivity.
1. Introduction to Organizational and Community Development
2. The City and Its Storytellers
3. Teaching & Learning in Urban Contexts
4. Collective Decision Making
5. Contextualizing Work
6. Creative Problem Solving
7. Digital Storytelling and Listening
8. Grassroots Community Organizing
9. Imaging Identities: Autobiographical Narratives and the Representation of Others
10. Integrated Studies in Liberal Arts: Public Speaking & Writing
11. Integrated Studies in the Liberal Arts – Literature and Writing
12. Leadership and Motivation
13. Lifelong Learning Seminar
14. Reframing Failure
15. Political Unrest and Social Movements
16. Public Speaking/Debates
17. Gateway
(12) ST-S2 – Setting Personal Goals: Develops individualized academic, career, and personal
development strategies. Sets development goals consistent with assessments and other feedback.
Determines projects and activities with measurable goals, standards, and timelines.
1. Introduction to Organizational and Community Development
2. Politics and Policies of Community Housing
3. The City and Its Storytellers
4. Sustainable Impact
5. Strategic Thinking and Change
6. Capstone Seminar for Organizational and Community Studies
7. Digital Storytelling and Listening
8. Expository Writing
9. Lifelong Learning Seminar
10. Reframing Failure
11. Public Speaking/Debates
12. Gateway
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Quantitative Reasoning
Quantitative Reasoning is understanding and using quantitative measures and inferences that allow one
to function as a responsible citizen, productive worker, and discerning consumer.
(5) QR1 – Posing Problems: Regards mathematics as a way to reason and conceptualize, posing and
defining problems for quantitative analysis.
1. Statistics for Problem Solving
2. Sociology Integrated Seminar
3. Capstone Seminar for Organizational and Community Studies
4. Globalization and Education
5. Quantitative Skills for Liberal Arts
(6) QR2 – Solving Problems: Solves quantitative problems from a wide array of authentic contexts and
everyday life situations.
1. Community Knowledge and Research Methods
2. Statistics for Problem Solving
3. Sociology Integrated Seminar
4. Capstone Seminar for Organizational and Community Studies
5. Globalization and Education
6. Quantitative Skills for Liberal Arts
(10) QR3 – Communicating Quantitative Evidence: Expresses sophisticated arguments supported by
quantitative evidence, communicating both the reasoning and results.
1. Community Knowledge and Research Methods
2. Statistics for Problem Solving
3. Sociology Integrated Seminar
4. Capstone Seminar for Organizational and Community Studies
5. Community Assessment
6. Globalization and Community
7. Globalization and Education
8. Life Science Methods
9. Quantitative Skills for Liberal Arts
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Empirical Reasoning
Empirical Reasoning is using available empirical evidence (facts and data gathered through observation
and experimentation) to make sound decisions under conditions of uncertainty—e.g., choosing medical
treatments, deciding whether to support policy, determining guilt or innocence as juror—and to
evaluate the empirical claims of others.
(9) ER1 – Designing Inquiries: Designs inquiries that rely on empirical evidence and testable theory to
describe, predict, understand, and draw informed conclusions.
1. Assessment of Health and Community Services
2. Community Knowledge and Research Methods
3. Sustainable Impact
4. Community Growth and Economic Change
5. Sociology Integrated Seminar
6. Capstone Seminar for Organizational and Community Studies
7. Counseling Theory and Practice: Social Work
8. Globalization and Education
9. Life Science Methods
(6) ER2 – Testing Hypotheses: Demonstrates a problem-solving orientation, applying scientific
reasoning within authentic contexts and everyday situations to test hypotheses and gather evidence.
1. Assessment of Health and Community Services
2. Community Knowledge and Research Methods
3. Community Growth and Economic Change
4. Sociology Integrated Seminar
5. Capstone Seminar for Organizational and Community Studies
6. Globalization and Education
(13) ER3 – Communicating Empirical Evidence: Communicates about science using appropriate oral and
written means.
1. Assessment of Health and Community Services
2. Community Knowledge and Research Methods
3. Community Growth and Economic Change
4. Sociology Integrated Seminar
5. Capstone Seminar for Organizational and Community Studies
6. Community Assessment
7. Contextualizing Work
8. Counseling Theory and Practice: Social Work
9. Globalization and Community
10. Globalization and Education
11. Life Science Methods
12. Pedagogy, Affect, and Social Change
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Social Reasoning
Social Reasoning is paying attention to diverse perspectives and contexts to better understand social
issues and problems.
(15) SR1 – Demonstrating Social Perspective: Situates and analyzes social questions beyond their
immediate environment and time, analyzes social change and social problems, recognizing how the
world influences humans and how humans influence the world.
1. Violence and Nonviolence in American Culture
2. The City and Its Storytellers
3. Teaching & Learning in Urban Contexts
4. Designing a 21st Century College
5. A Study in Community and Place
6. Education and Community Development
7. Expository Writing
8. Introduction to Health and Community Services
9. Globalization and Community
10. Imaging Identities: Autobiographical Narratives and the Representation of Others
11. Integrated Studies in Liberal Arts: Public Speaking & Writing
12. Understanding NonProfit Management
13. Political Unrest and Social Movements
14. Pedagogy, Affect, and Social Change
(16) SR2 – Appreciating Cultural Diversity: Understands and articulates how culture, society, and
diversity shape the role of the individual within society and human relations across cultures.
1. Introduction to Academic Arguments and Writing
2. Violence and Nonviolence in American Culture
3. The City and Its Storytellers
4. Teaching & Learning in Urban Contexts
5. A Study in Community and Place
6. Sociology Integrated Seminar
7. Aesthetics: Sounds of the City
8. Counseling Theory and Practice: Social Work
9. Elements and Issues in Community Development
10. Introduction to Health and Community Services
11. Globalization and Community
12. Collaboration and Group Dynamics
13. Imaging Identities: Autobiographical Narratives and the Representation of Others
14. Interpersonal Skills for Virtual and Co-Located Teams
15. Pedagogy, Affect, and Social Change
(8) SR3 – Demonstrating Civic Engagement: Enhances and promotes the quality of life in a community
through both political and non-political processes, working within and learning from democratic
citizenship.
1. Violence and Nonviolence in American Culture
2. The City and Its Storytellers
3. Sustainable Impact
4. A Study in Community and Place
5. Grassroots Community Organizing
6. Leadership in Action
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7. Political Unrest and Social Movements
8. Pedagogy, Affect, and Social Change
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Ethical Reasoning
Ethical Reasoning is the ability to reflect on moral issues and to identify, assess, and develop ethical
arguments from a variety of positions.
(11) ETH1 – Applying Ethical Decision Making: Able to reason about right and wrong human conduct,
analyzing different ethical perspectives, assessing personal ethical values, and applying them to ethical
dilemmas.
1. Violence and Nonviolence in American Culture
2. Community Growth and Economic Change
3. Counseling Theory and Practice: Social Work
4. Critical Writing for the Professions: Grant and Technical Writing
5. Introduction to Health and Community Services
6. Globalization and Education
7. Life Science Methods
8. Social and Business Ethics
9. Political Unrest and Social Movements
10. Pedagogy, Affect, and Social Change
11. Storying the Foodshed: Race, Class, Labor, Gender, and Food
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Digital Fluency
Digital Fluency is the aptitude to effectively and ethically interpret information, discover meaning,
design content, construct knowledge, and communicate ideas in a digitally connected world.
(10) DF1 – Gathering Information: Apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, ethically interpret and use
information in a digitally connected world.
1. Introduction to Organizational and Community Development
2. Introduction to Academic Arguments and Writing
3. Internship/Practicum
4. Designing a 21st Century College
5. Community Knowledge and Research Methods
6. A Study in Community and Place
7. Critical Writing for the Professions: Grant and Technical Writing
8. Digital Storytelling and Listening
9. Field Studies in Mentorship (Internship/Practicum)
(10) DF2 – Communicating Ideas: Designs content, constructs knowledge, and communicates ideas in a
digitally connected world.
1. Introduction to Academic Arguments and Writing
2. The City and Its Storytellers
3. Assessment of Health and Community Services
4. Internship/Practicum
5. Designing a 21st Century College
6. Community Assessment
7. Critical Writing for the Professions: Grant and Technical Writing
8. Digital Storytelling and Listening
9. Field Studies in Mentorship (Internship/Practicum)
10. Storying the Foodshed: Race, Class, Labor, Gender, and Food
(7) DF3 – Collaborating Across Geographic Boundaries: Uses digital media and environments to
communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support personal learning and
contribute to the learning of others.
1. The City and Its Storytellers
2. Internship/Practicum
3. Designing a 21st Century College
4. A Study in Community and Place
5. Digital Storytelling and Listening
6. Field Studies in Mentorship (Internship/Practicum)
7. Pedagogy, Affect, and Social Change
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Participatory Action Research – Self as Researcher
Participatory Action Research emphasizes participation and action, seeking to understand the world by
trying to change it collaboratively following reflection.
(14) PAR-S1 – Surfacing Assumptions: Recognizes the personal assumptions, world views, and biases
brought to the research project.
1. Violence and Nonviolence in American Culture
2. Sustainable Impact
3. A Study in Community and Place
4. Contextualizing Work
5. Creative Problem Solving
6. Digital Storytelling and Listening
7. Introduction to Health and Community Services
8. Globalization and Community
9. Lifelong Learning Seminar
10. Understanding NonProfit Management
11. Participatory Action Research Methods
12. Reframing Failure
13. Political Unrest and Social Movements
(10) PAR-S2 – Preparing for Research: Prepares for a transparent and systematic research process,
determining a research question reflective of personal interest and impact goals.
1. Introduction to Organizational and Community Development
2. Community Knowledge and Research Methods
3. Sustainable Impact
4. Critical Writing for the Professions: Grant and Technical Writing
5. Globalization and Community
6. Grassroots Community Organizing
7. Life Science Methods
8. Participatory Action Research Methods
9. Pedagogy, Affect, and Social Change
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Big 10 – Lifelong Learning/Self
Intentionally applies the Bi g 10 skills to learning projects that develop the habits of mind necessary for
systems thinking, quantitative reasoning, empirical reasoning, social reasoning, ethical reasoning, digital
fluency, and Participatory Action Research, building a foundation for self-directed lifelong learning.
(4) B10LL-1AC – Accountability: Demonstrates the ability to meet or exceed agreed upon expectations,
taking ownership of all that happens as a result of personal choices and actions, and looking for
solutions when there is a problem.
1. Capstone Seminar for Organizational and Community Studies
2. Introduction to Community Development
3. Lifelong Learning Seminar
4. Gateway
(3) B10LL-2Ad – Advocacy for Self and Others: Actively negotiates positive change for self and/or
others, clearly seeing both sides of the issue and proposing new processes or parameters that more
effectively meet the needs of all stakeholders.
1. Leadership in Action
2. Political Unrest and Social Movements
(1) B10LL-3Col – Collaboration: Deliberately partners with others, negotiating, challenging, and being
challenged on issues of partnership, in order to produce something together.
1. Storying the Foodshed: Race, Class, Labor, Gender, and Food
(7) B10LL-4Com – Communication: Constructs sustained, coherent argument or presentation on issues
and processes in more than one medium for general and specific audiences, adapting behaviors and
goals to meet the needs of interaction and achieve shared meaning.
1. Sociology Integrated Seminar
2. Collective Decision Making
3. Critical Writing for the Professions: Grant and Technical Writing
4. Expository Writing
5. Integrated Studies in the Liberal Arts – Literature and Writing
6. Leadership and Motivation
7. Gateway
(4) B10LL-5Cr – Creativity: Consistently brings into being products, processes, or thoughts that did not
previously exist, merging ideas and making connections between seemingly unrelated phenomena to
generate solutions.
1. The City and Its Storytellers
2. Creative Problem Solving
3. Integrated Studies in the Liberal Arts – Literature and Writing
4. Storying the Foodshed: Race, Class, Labor, Gender, and Food
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(12) B10LL-6CT – Critical Thinking: Engages in evidence-based practice, able to identify the
issue/dilemma/problem, frame it as a specific question, explore and evaluate information relevant to
the question, and draw conclusions, applying conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best
evidence
1. Violence and Nonviolence in American Culture
2. Statistics for Problem Solving
3. Sociology Integrated Seminar
4. Capstone Seminar for Organizational and Community Studies
5. Conflict Resolution
6. Contextualizing Work
7. Critical Writing for the Professions: Grant and Technical Writing
8. Expository Writing
9. Globalization and Community
10. Integrated Studies in the Liberal Arts – Literature and Writing
11. Lifelong Learning Seminar
12. Quantitative Skills for Liberal Arts
(5) B10LL-7IAL – Integrated and Applied Learning: Selects and uses knowledge and skills appropriate to
the context, combining life experience with examples, facts, theories and skills from various
disciplines/fields.
1. Statistics for Problem Solving
2. Education and Community Development
3. Globalization and Community
4. Globalization and Education
5. Quantitative Skills for Liberal Arts
(4) B10LL-8PS – Problem Solving: Identifies and analyzes problems and uses prior knowledge, logic, and
imagination, weighing the relevance and accuracy of information to develop, recommend, and
implement alternative solutions.
1. Statistics for Problem Solving
2. Creative Problem Solving
3. Quantitative Skills for Liberal Arts
4. Storying the Foodshed: Race, Class, Labor, Gender, and Food
(15) B10LL-9Ref – Reflection: Engages in an intentional process of continuous learning, consciously
analyzing personal decision-making and actions as well as the reactions they prompt in themselves and
others, drawing on theory and experience, and modifying actions as for the benefit of themselves and
the communities they serve.
1. Introduction to Academic Arguments and Writing
2. The City and Its Storytellers
3. Statistics for Problem Solving
4. Capstone Seminar for Organizational and Community Studies
5. Conflict Resolution
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6. Digital Storytelling and Listening
7. Expository Writing
8. Globalization and Community
9. Integrated Studies in the Liberal Arts – Literature and Writing
10. Leadership and Motivation
11. Leadership and Organizations
12. Lifelong Learning Seminar
13. Health and Community Services Policy
14. Gateway
15. Storying the Foodshed: Race, Class, Labor, Gender, and Food
(6) B10LL-10Res – Resilience: Able to maintain effectiveness, remaining focused, composed, and
optimistic when faced with time pressures, adversity, disappointment, or opposition, and recovers
quickly from setbacks and failures.
1. Introduction to Academic Arguments and Writing
2. Creative Problem Solving
3. Lifelong Learning Seminar
4. Quantitative Skills for Liberal Arts
5. Gateway
6. Storying the Foodshed: Race, Class, Labor, Gender, and Food
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Competencies for Field Impact CAREER
Systems Thinking – Organizations
Applies a systematic and critical analysis of how an organization’s underlying structures affect an
organization’s effectiveness and how people behave.
(2) ST-O1 - Applies Organizational Theory: Applies organizational theory to actual organizations in order
to solve real-life problems.
1. Organizational Theory & Management
2. Political Unrest and Social Movements
(17) ST-O2 – Diagnoses Problems: Identifies problems within organizational structures that lead to
ineffectual behaviors.
1. Politics and Policies of Community Housing
2. The Culture of Disaster Response and Recovery
3. Teaching & Learning in Urban Contexts
4. Assessment of Health and Community Services
5. Designing a 21st Century College
6. Strategic Thinking and Change
7. Strategic Management and Policy
8. Conflict Resolution
9. Introduction to Health and Community Services
10. Grassroots Community Organizing
11. Human Resource Management
12. Imaging Identities: Autobiographical Narratives and the Representation of Others
13. Understanding NonProfit Management
14. Organizational Theory & Management
15. Reframing Failure
16. Political Unrest and Social Movements
(10) ST-O3 – Designs, Implements, and Evaluates Changes: Designs appropriate strategies and
interventions that will lead the organization to appropriate outcomes or organizational goals and
implements a successful organizational change project using participatory action research methods.
1. Designing a 21st Century College
2. Sustainable Impact
3. Strategic Thinking and Change
4. Conflict Resolution
5. Globalization and Community
6. Human Resource Management
7. Organizational Theory & Management
8. Political Unrest and Social Movements
9. Project Management
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Mentorship
Moves comfortably between the roles of mentor and mentee, understanding the complexities of that
working relationship, the ability to discern and articulate strengths and skills gaps, build and maintain
rapport, give and receive critical feedback, maintain the appropriate balance between stretch and
nurture, and determine next steps.
(2) M1 – Applies Mentoring Theories: Applies a systematic review of organizational roles and
relationships, identifies mentoring needs, and recommends action.
1. Field Studies in Mentorship (Internship/Practicum)
(6) M2 – Practices Simultaneous Leadership and Learnership: Moves comfortable between the roles of
mentor and mentee recognizing self as both leader and learner.
1. Violence and Nonviolence in American Culture
2. Sustainable Impact
3. Community Assessment
4. Digital Storytelling and Listening
5. Organizational Theory & Management
(2) M3 – Applies Effective Coaching Skills: Mentors others in the role of coach and facilitator, modeling
and fostering personal responsibility and self-directed learning in mentees.
1. Organizational Theory & Management
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Contextualizing Work
Investigates work considering personal context, the larger context of the organization, and the larger
context of the world.
(7) CW-1 – Uses Personal Experience to Examine the Workplace: Engages in a disciplined examination
of what is known about the workplace and what is known about the knower.
1. Politics and Policies of Community Housing
2. American Labor History
3. Contextualizing Work
4. Globalization and Education
5. Reframing Failure
6. Health and Community Services Policy
(11) CW-2 – Applies Sociological and Anthropological Concepts of Work: Examines the system of
interrelationships connecting individuals in the common culture of the workplace.
1. Introduction to Organizational and Community Development
2. Community Growth and Economic Change
3. Sociology Integrated Seminar
4. American Labor History
5. Contextualizing Work
6. Counseling Theory and Practice: Social Work
7. Education and Community Development
8. Health and Community Services Policy
9. Pedagogy, Affect, and Social Change
10. Storying the Foodshed: Race, Class, Labor, Gender, and Food
(15) CW-3 – Understands Community, National, and Global Systems Affecting Work: Examines the
workplace within the context of the local community, the nation, and the global community.
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Teaching & Learning in Urban Contexts
Assessment of Health and Community Services
Community Growth and Economic Change
Strategic Management and Policy
American Labor History
Collective Decision Making
Community Assessment
Education and Community Development
Introduction to Health and Community Services
Globalization and Community
Globalization and Education
Health and Community Services Policy
Pedagogy, Affect, and Social Change
Storying the Foodshed: Race, Class, Labor, Gender, and Food
Labor and Democracy
Recognizes the relationships and dependencies between labor and democracy.
(4) LD1 – Applies the History of U.S. Labor and Economics to Present Day Polices and Practices:
Analyzes major events, personalities, and themes in the history of U.S. labor and economics
1. Community Growth and Economic Change
2. American Labor History
3. History of the American College and University
(2) LD2 – Understands Collective Bargaining: Recognizes freedom of association and collective
bargaining as crucial components of a well-functioning democracy.
1. American Labor History
2. Political Unrest and Social Movements
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Writing for Careers
Recognizes and implements the forms and qualities associated with effective business writing,
particularly the hallmarks of correctness, conciseness, coherence, and clarity.
(2) WC1- Writes in a Variety of Workplace Genres: Writes in a variety of workplace genres including
resumes, letters, emails, memos, presentations, proposals, white papers, and reports
1. Community Knowledge and Research Methods
2. Critical Writing for the Professions: Grant and Technical Writing
WC2 – Applies Ethics and Rules of Standard English in Workplace Communications
1. Critical Writing for the Professions: Grant and Technical Writing
(2) WC3 – Discovers and Proposes Grants: Locates funding sources and describes organizational needs
and effectively advocates for organization within grant parameters.
1. Critical Writing for the Professions: Grant and Technical Writing
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Adaptive Leadership
Uses an adaptive leadership model to influence behavioral habits and cultural practices and policies in
organizations and communities.
(13) AL1 – Applies Theories of Leadership: Analyzes historical, theoretical, and practical leadership
concepts and applies those appropriate to the context.
1. Violence and Nonviolence in American Culture
2. Teaching & Learning in Urban Contexts
3. Community Assessment
4. Education and Community Development
5. Collaboration and Group Dynamics
6. History of the American College and University
7. Introduction to Community Development
8. Leadership in Action
9. Leadership and Motivation
10. Leadership and Organizations
11. Organizational Theory & Management
12. Political Unrest and Social Movements
(6) AL2 – Defines and Solves Problems: Operates from a stance of continuous improvement, surfacing
and defining problems, facilitating and implementing solutions, and reviewing the results.
1. Sustainable Impact
2. Grassroots Community Organizing
3. History of the American College and University
4. Leadership in Action
5. Leadership and Motivation
(4) AL3 – Designs and Implements a Collaborative Network: Designs and implements inclusive,
collaborative planning processes to help stakeholders move from their current situation to their
desired future state.
1. Community Assessment
2. History of the American College and University
3. Leadership in Action
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Reframing Failure
Views failure as intentional iteration, a way of building knowledge through experimentation.
(10) RF1 – Plans for, Analyzes, and Learns From Failure: Applies an iterative process of prototyping,
testing, analyzing, and refinement.
1. Introduction to Academic Arguments and Writing
2. Digital Storytelling and Listening
3. Expository Writing
4. Imaging Identities: Autobiographical Narratives and the Representation of Others
5. Integrated Studies in Liberal Arts: Public Speaking & Writing
6. Lifelong Learning Seminar
7. Reframing Failure
8. Public Speaking/Debates
9. Quantitative Skills for Liberal Arts
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Participatory Action Research – Career
Develops basic Participatory Action Research practices, examining the organization as both participant
and researcher.
(11) PAR-C1 – Identifies Power Structure: Identifies and uses decision-making infrastructures to further
action research.
1. Violence and Nonviolence in American Culture
2. Sustainable Impact
3. A Study in Community and Place
4. Strategic Management and Policy
5. Aesthetics: Sounds of the City
6. Collective Decision Making
7. Contextualizing Work
8. Introduction to Health and Community Services
9. Grassroots Community Organizing
10. Participatory Action Research Methods
11. Political Unrest and Social Movements
(7) PAR-C2 – Engages in Action Research: Applies tools of Participatory Action Research to identify and
solve problems.
1. Violence and Nonviolence in American Culture
2. Community Knowledge and Research Methods
3. Contextualizing Work
4. Globalization and Community
5. Participatory Action Research Methods
6. Political Unrest and Social Movements
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Big 10 – Field Impact (Career)
Intentionally applies the Big 10 skills to learning projects aimed at career exploration and personal
career skills development.
(4) B10FI-1AC – Accountability: Demonstrates the ability to meet or exceed agreed upon expectations,
taking ownership of all that happens as a result of personal choices and actions, and looking for
solutions when there is a problem.
1. Collaboration and Group Dynamics
2. Interpersonal Skills for Virtual and Co-Located Teams
3. Reframing Failure
4. Project Management
(1) B10FI-2Ad – Advocacy for Self and Others: Actively negotiates positive change for self and/or
others, clearly seeing both sides of the issue and proposing new processes or parameters that more
effectively meet the needs of all stakeholders.
1. Counseling Theory and Practice: Social Work
(1) B10FI-3Col – Collaboration: Deliberately partners with others, negotiating, challenging, and being
challenged on issues of partnership, in order to produce something together.
1. Introduction to Health and Community Services
(6) B10FI-4Com – Communication: Constructs sustained, coherent argument or presentation on issues
and processes in more than one medium for general and specific audiences, adapting behaviors and
goals to meet the needs of interaction and achieve shared meaning.
1. Introduction to Academic Arguments and Writing
2. Designing a 21st Century College
3. Community Knowledge and Research Methods
4. Introduction to Health and Community Services
5. Project Management
6. Public Speaking/Debates
(1) B10FI-5Cr – Creativity: Consistently brings into being products, processes, or thoughts that did not
previously exist, merging ideas and making connections between seemingly unrelated phenomena to
generate solutions.
1. Digital Storytelling and Listening
(13) B10FI-6CT – Critical Thinking: Engages in evidence-based practice, able to identify the
issue/dilemma/problem, frame it as a specific question, explore and evaluate information relevant to
the question, and draw conclusions, applying conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best
evidence
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1. Designing a 21st Century College
2. Strategic Management and Policy
3. Collective Decision Making
4. Community Assessment
5. Counseling Theory and Practice: Social Work
6. Globalization and Community
7. History of the American College and University
8. Interpersonal Skills for Virtual and Co-Located Teams
9. Participatory Action Research Methods
10. Reframing Failure
11. Health and Community Services Policy
12. Social and Business Ethics
(8) B10FI-7IAL – Integrated and Applied Learning: Selects and uses knowledge and skills appropriate to
the context, combining life experience with examples, facts, theories and skills from various
disciplines/fields.
1. Assessment of Health and Community Services
2. Critical Writing for the Professions: Grant and Technical Writing
3. History of the American College and University
4. Human Resource Management
5. Interpersonal Skills for Virtual and Co-Located Teams
6. Participatory Action Research Methods
7. Project Management
(4) B10FI-8PS – Problem Solving: Identifies and analyzes problems and uses prior knowledge, logic, and
imagination, weighing the relevance and accuracy of information to develop, recommend, and
implement alternative solutions.
1. Interpersonal Skills for Virtual and Co-Located Teams
2. Participatory Action Research Methods
3. Social and Business Ethics
4. Project Management
(3) B10FI-9Ref – Reflection: Engages in an intentional process of continuous learning, consciously
analyzing personal decision-making and actions as well as the reactions they prompt in themselves and
others, drawing on theory and experience, and modifying actions as for the benefit of themselves and
the communities they serve.
1. Strategic Management and Policy
2. Critical Writing for the Professions: Grant and Technical Writing
3. Reframing Failure
(1) B10FI-10Res – Resilience: Able to maintain effectiveness, remaining focused, composed, and
optimistic when faced with time pressures, adversity, disappointment, or opposition, and recovers
quickly from setbacks and failures.
1. Reframing Failure
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Community/Global Impact Competencies (GLOBAL)
Systems Thinking – Communities
Understand the needs of the local system and translate them into actions that can be used directly by
the community
(15) ST-C1 – Applies Community Development Theory: Applies community development theory to
actual communities in order to solve real-life problems.
1. Politics and Policies of Community Housing
2. Violence and Nonviolence in American Culture
3. The Culture of Disaster Response and Recovery
4. Sustainable Impact
5. Community Growth and Economic Change
6. A Study in Community and Place
7. American Labor History
8. Community Assessment
9. Education and Community Development
10. Elements and Issues in Community Development
11. Globalization and Education
12. Grassroots Community Organizing
13. Introduction to Community Development
14. Understanding NonProfit Management
(24) ST-C2 – Analyzes Cause and Effect: Uses systems thinking to describe cause and effect—how a
system operates and how it might react to change.
1. Politics and Policies of Community Housing
2. Violence and Nonviolence in American Culture
3. The Culture of Disaster Response and Recovery
4. Designing a 21st Century College
5. Community Growth and Economic Change
6. A Study in Community and Place
7. Strategic Management and Policy
8. Sociology Integrated Seminar
9. Aesthetics: Sounds of the City
10. American Labor History
11. Conflict Resolution
12. Education and Community Development
13. Elements and Issues in Community Development
14. Introduction to Health and Community Services
15. Globalization and Education
16. Grassroots Community Organizing
17. Human Resource Management
18. Introduction to Community Development
19. Understanding NonProfit Management
20. Health and Community Services Policy
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21. Public Speaking/Debates
22. Pedagogy, Affect, and Social Change
23. Storying the Foodshed: Race, Class, Labor, Gender, and Food
(9) ST-C3 – Applies Participatory Techniques: Works with community members, organizations, and
governing bodies to surface problems, identify key drivers of change, and propose solutions, building
collective efficacy.
1. Violence and Nonviolence in American Culture
2. The City and Its Storytellers
3. Sustainable Impact
4. Community Growth and Economic Change
5. A Study in Community and Place
6. Aesthetics: Sounds of the City
7. Counseling Theory and Practice: Social Work
8. Grassroots Community Organizing
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Place-Based Reasoning
Uses local knowledge to develop localized horizontal solutions.
(15) PBR1 - Theories of Place: Applies theories of place to action research project, becoming active
citizens and stewards of the place in which they live.
1. Politics and Policies of Community Housing
2. Violence and Nonviolence in American Culture
3. The Culture of Disaster Response and Recovery
4. The City and Its Storytellers
5. Community Growth and Economic Change
6. A Study in Community and Place
7. Sociology Integrated Seminar
8. American Labor History
9. Digital Storytelling and Listening
10. Elements and Issues in Community Development
11. Globalization and Community
12. Grassroots Community Organizing
13. Introduction to Community Development
14. Pedagogy, Affect, and Social Change
(19) PBR2 - Cultural Practices of Place: Understands the cultural processes, behaviors, and priorities of a
community and honors those practices.
1. Politics and Policies of Community Housing
2. Violence and Nonviolence in American Culture
3. The City and Its Storytellers
4. Community Knowledge and Research Methods
5. Community Growth and Economic Change
6. A Study in Community and Place
7. Sociology Integrated Seminar
8. Aesthetics: Sounds of the City
9. American Labor History
10. Community Assessment
11. Education and Community Development
12. Elements and Issues in Community Development
13. Grassroots Community Organizing
14. Imaging Identities: Autobiographical Narratives and the Representation of Others
15. Interpersonal Skills for Virtual and Co-Located Teams
16. Public Speaking/Debates
17. Pedagogy, Affect, and Social Change
18. Storying the Foodshed: Race, Class, Labor, Gender, and Food
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Public Narrative
Applies the tools of public narrative as leadership practice, translating values into action.
(9) PN1 – Develops and Publicly Shares Story of Self:
1. The City and Its Storytellers
2. Contextualizing Work
3. Digital Storytelling and Listening
4. Collaboration and Group Dynamics
5. Imaging Identities: Autobiographical Narratives and the Representation of Others
6. Integrated Studies in Liberal Arts: Public Speaking & Writing
7. Reframing Failure
8. Public Speaking/Debates
9. Storying the Foodshed: Race, Class, Labor, Gender, and Food
(4) PN2 – Develops and Publicly Shares Story of Us: Uses public narrative to link own calling to that of a
community.
1. The City and Its Storytellers
2. A Study in Community and Place
3. Digital Storytelling and Listening
4. Storying the Foodshed: Race, Class, Labor, Gender, and Food
(5) PN3 – Develops and Publicly Shares Story of Now:
1. The City and Its Storytellers
2. A Study in Community and Place
3. Aesthetics: Sounds of the City
4. Digital Storytelling and Listening
5. Storying the Foodshed: Race, Class, Labor, Gender, and Food
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Public Debate - 3
Applies propositions, evidence, practical reason and general rhetorical strategies to promote and
advance one’s public or civic interests.
(5) PD1 – Analyzes Audience: Determines audience values, interests, and propositions related to the
issue.
1. Introduction to Academic Arguments and Writing
2. Teaching & Learning in Urban Contexts
3. Integrated Studies in Liberal Arts: Public Speaking & Writing
4. Public Speaking/Debates
5. Storying the Foodshed: Race, Class, Labor, Gender, and Food
(9) PD2 – Frames Issue: Identifies and uses key points and examples to persuade.
1. Introduction to Academic Arguments and Writing
2. Violence and Nonviolence in American Culture
3. Teaching & Learning in Urban Contexts
4. Sustainable Impact
5. Integrated Studies in Liberal Arts: Public Speaking & Writing
6. Health and Community Services Policy
7. Political Unrest and Social Movements
8. Public Speaking/Debates
9. Storying the Foodshed: Race, Class, Labor, Gender, and Food
(6) PD3 – Applies Skills of Argument and Persuasion: Uses the fundamental skills of rhetoric and
argumentation as a critical producer of public argument as part of a reasoned process of collective
decision-making.
1. Introduction to Academic Arguments and Writing
2. Teaching & Learning in Urban Contexts
3. Sustainable Impact
4. Integrated Studies in Liberal Arts: Public Speaking & Writing
5. Public Speaking/Debates
6. Storying the Foodshed: Race, Class, Labor, Gender, and Food
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Media and Message
Demonstrates how media technologies can be used to promote positive change.
(5) MM1 – Analyzes media messages:
1. Sociology Integrated Seminar
2. Expository Writing
3. Imaging Identities: Autobiographical Narratives and the Representation of Others
4. Imaging Identities: Autobiographical Narratives and the Representation of Others
5. Integrated Studies in the Liberal Arts – Literature and Writing
(1) MM2 – Uses social media strategies: Uses social media strategies and tactics to draw people to an
issue.
1. Storying the Foodshed: Race, Class, Labor, Gender, and Food
(8) MM3: Analyzes and Reaches Audience: Uses audience values to build a supportive community.
1. Community Knowledge and Research Methods
2. Critical Writing for the Professions: Grant and Technical Writing
3. Expository Writing
4. Grassroots Community Organizing
5. Collaboration and Group Dynamics
6. Integrated Studies in Liberal Arts: Public Speaking & Writing
7. Integrated Studies in the Liberal Arts – Literature and Writing
8. Storying the Foodshed: Race, Class, Labor, Gender, and Food
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Globalization
Understands how a globally networked world influences our understanding of others and ourselves.
(9) GL1 – Welcomes Difference and Diversity: Demonstrates increasing comfort and skills in working
with difference and diversity in its many forms (race/ethnicity, nationality, class, gender, sexual
orientation/preference, age, and ability).
1. Introduction to Academic Arguments and Writing
2. Teaching & Learning in Urban Contexts
3. Sociology Integrated Seminar
4. Conflict Resolution
5. Globalization and Community
6. Globalization and Education
7. Imaging Identities: Autobiographical Narratives and the Representation of Others
8. Leadership and Motivation
(20) GL2 - Analyzes Problems and Issues from a Global Perspective: Analyzes one or more global
issues, problems, or opportunities facing the human race.
1. Violence and Nonviolence in American Culture
2. The Culture of Disaster Response and Recovery
3. Teaching & Learning in Urban Contexts
4. Assessment of Health and Community Services
5. Designing a 21st Century College
6. Community Growth and Economic Change
7. A Study in Community and Place
8. Sociology Integrated Seminar
9. Aesthetics: Sounds of the City
10. Education and Community Development
11. Introduction to Health and Community Services
12. Globalization and Community
13. Globalization and Education
14. Grassroots Community Organizing
15. Human Resource Management
16. Imaging Identities: Autobiographical Narratives and the Representation of Others
17. Social and Business Ethics
18. Pedagogy, Affect, and Social Change
19. Storying the Foodshed: Race, Class, Labor, Gender, and Food
(4) GL3 – Places Action Research Project in a Global Context: Produces independently or
collaboratively an actionable project engaging in theories of globalization.
1. Education and Community Development
2. Globalization and Community
3. Globalization and Education
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Participatory Action Research – Communities
Develops basic Participatory Action Research practices, examining the community as both participant
and researcher.
(10) PAR-COMM1 – Analyzes Power Structure: Applies PAR theories to map how and where decisionmaking happens in the community.
1. The City and Its Storytellers
2. Sustainable Impact
3. Community Growth and Economic Change
4. Collective Decision Making
5. Community Assessment
6. Education and Community Development
7. Globalization and Community
8. Grassroots Community Organizing
9. Understanding NonProfit Management
(9) PAR-COMM2 – Facilitates Stakeholder Discussion: Facilitates discussion among stakeholders
involved in/impacted by change project.
1. The City and Its Storytellers
2. Sustainable Impact
3. Collective Decision Making
4. Community Assessment
5. Conflict Resolution
6. Interpersonal Skills for Virtual and Co-Located Teams
7. Leadership in Action
8. Participatory Action Research Methods
9. Political Unrest and Social Movements
(5) PAR-COMM3 – Engages in Action Research: Applies tools of Participatory Action Research to
identify and solve community problems.
1. Violence and Nonviolence in American Culture
2. The City and Its Storytellers
3. Sustainable Impact
4. Collective Decision Making
5. Community Assessment
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Big 10 – Communities/Global Impact (World) - 10
Intentionally applies the Big 10 skills to learning projects aimed at community and global impact.
(1) B10CGI-1AC – Accountability: Demonstrates the ability to meet or exceed agreed upon
expectations, taking ownership of all that happens as a result of personal choices and actions, and
looking for solutions when there is a problem.
1. Sustainable Impact
(1) B10CGI-2AD – Advocacy for Self and Others: Actively negotiates positive change for self and/or
others, clearly seeing both sides of the issue and proposing new processes or parameters that more
effectively meet the needs of all stakeholders.
1. Storying the Foodshed: Race, Class, Labor, Gender, and Food
(3) B10CGI-3COL – Collaboration: Deliberately partners with others, negotiating, challenging, and being
challenged on issues of partnership, in order to produce something together.
1. The City and Its Storytellers
2. Sustainable Impact
3. Strategic Thinking and Change
(2) B10CGI-4COM – Communication: Constructs sustained, coherent argument or presentation on
issues and processes in more than one medium for general and specific audiences, adapting behaviors
and goals to meet the needs of interaction and achieve shared meaning.
1. Human Resource Management
2. Storying the Foodshed: Race, Class, Labor, Gender, and Food
(2) B10CGI-5Cr – Creativity: Consistently brings into being products, processes, or thoughts that did not
previously exist, merging ideas and making connections between seemingly unrelated phenomena to
generate solutions.
1. Imaging Identities: Autobiographical Narratives and the Representation of Others
2. Integrated Studies in Liberal Arts: Public Speaking & Writing
(7) B10CGI-6CT – Critical Thinking: Engages in evidence-based practice, able to identify the
issue/dilemma/problem, frame it as a specific question, explore and evaluate information relevant to
the question, and draw conclusions, applying conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best
evidence
1. Teaching & Learning in Urban Contexts
2. Communication Skills for Leaders
3. Elements and Issues in Community Development
4. Human Resource Management
5. Imaging Identities: Autobiographical Narratives and the Representation of Others
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6. Integrated Studies in Liberal Arts: Public Speaking & Writing
7. Storying the Foodshed: Race, Class, Labor, Gender, and Food
(7) B10CGI-7IAL – Integrated and Applied Learning: Selects and uses knowledge and skills appropriate
to the context, combining life experience with examples, facts, theories and skills from various
disciplines/fields.
1. Community Growth and Economic Change
2. Strategic Management and Policy
3. Sociology Integrated Seminar
4. Communication Skills for Leaders
5. Grassroots Community Organizing
6. Life Science Methods
7. Health and Community Services Policy
(4) B10CGI-8PS – Problem Solving: Identifies and analyzes problems and uses prior knowledge, logic,
and imagination, weighing the relevance and accuracy of information to develop, recommend, and
implement alternative solutions.
1. A Study in Community and Place
2. Strategic Thinking and Change
3. Human Resource Management
4. Leadership in Action
(6) B10CGI-9Ref – Reflection: Engages in an intentional process of continuous learning, consciously
analyzing personal decision-making and actions as well as the reactions they prompt in themselves and
others, drawing on theory and experience, and modifying actions as for the benefit of themselves and
the communities they serve.
1. Communication Skills for Leaders
2. Contextualizing Work
3. Imaging Identities: Autobiographical Narratives and the Representation of Others
4. Integrated Studies in Liberal Arts: Public Speaking & Writing
5. Interpersonal Skills for Virtual and Co-Located Teams
6. Introduction to Community Development
(2) B10CGI-10Res – Resilience: Able to maintain effectiveness, remaining focused, composed, and
optimistic when faced with time pressures, adversity, disappointment, or opposition, and recovers
quickly from setbacks and failures.
1. The Culture of Disaster Response and Recovery
2. Strategic Thinking and Change
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