| General Education | |
| Student Learning Outcomes | |
| General Education (GE) | 1. Students demonstrate mastery of basic written and oral communication, including the ability to read and listen with understanding and critical discernment. |
| 2. Students develop habits of critical inquiry and mastery of critical thinking skills. | |
| 3. Students demonstrate understanding of analysis, criticism, and advocacy in the context of both deductive and inductive reasoning. | |
| 4. Students demonstrate the ability to identify relevant factors needed to make a decision, solve a problem, or produce cogent reasoning. | |
| 5. Students regard quantitative reasoning not simply as a set of techniques, but as a way to think, reason, and conceptualize. | |
| 6. Students can perform computations and symbolic manipulations. | |
| 7. Students can apply quantitative reasoning to interpret information and solve problems. | |
| 8. Students demonstrate an understanding of the historical development of American political and social institutions and ideals. | |
| 9 Students demonstrate the knowledge, abilities, and values relevant to the democratic political systems established under the U.S. and California constitutions. | |
| 10. Students demonstrate recognition of the contributions made by major national, ethnic, and social groups to the historical development of American ideals and the contexts in which those contributions were made. | |
| 11. Students demonstrate basic knowledge of the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the arts and humanities, and an appreciation of their interrelationships. | |
| 12. Students understand and apply the methodologies of the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the arts and humanities. | |
| 13. Students demonstrate an understanding of how the distinct perspectives of the major disciplines enrich their lives and foster intellectual curiosity. | |
| 14. Students can analyze similarities and differences among individuals and groups, including those based upon race, ethnicity, class, gender and social concerns. | |
| 15. Students develop greater sensitivity to perspectives and cultures other than their own. | |
| 16. Students develop skill in recognizing, analyzing and resolving ethical and social problems. | |
| 17. Students understand the relationship of self to others and their environments. | |
| 18. Students demonstrate an understanding of the ways humans adapt to a diverse and changing global environment. | |
| 19. Students demonstrate how the disciplines applied together contribute to a fuller knowledge of the theme topic. | |
| 20. Students demonstrate how study of the theme topic promotes the goals of General Education. | |