Foundations

• Engage in a systematic assessment of how historically and socially constructed categories of race, ethnicity and gender, and possibly others, shape perceptions, individual outcomes and broader societal, political, economic and cultural systems.
• Recognize and compare a range of lived experiences of race, gender and ethnicity.

Successful students will be able to:

• Describe and evaluate the social positions and representations of categories including race, gender and ethnicity, and possibly others.
• Explain how categories including race, gender and ethnicity continue to function within complex systems of power to impact individual lived experiences and broader societal issues.
• Analyze how the intersection of categories including race, gender and ethnicity combine to shape lived experiences.
• Evaluate social and ethical implications of studying race, gender and ethnicity.
• Demonstrate critical self-reflection and critique of their social positions and identities.
• Recognize how perceptions of difference shape one's own attitudes, beliefs or behaviors.
• Describe how the categories of race, gender and ethnicity influence the lived experiences of others.

• Critically analyze and apply theoretical and empirical approaches within the social and behavioral sciences, including modern principles, theories, methods and modes of inquiry.
• Recognize the implications of social and behavioral scientific findings and their potential impacts.

Successful students will be able to:

• Articulate basic facts, principles, theories and methods of social and behavioral science.
• Explain and evaluate differences, similarities and disparities among institutions, organizations, cultures, societies and/or individuals using social and behavioral science.
• Analyze how political, economic, individual or social factors and values impact social structures, policies and/or decisions.
• Appraise social and ethical implications of social scientific and behavioral research.
• Critically evaluate and responsibly use information from the social and behavioral sciences.

• Investigate and analyze historical ideas, events, persons, material culture and artifacts to understand how they shape society and people.

Successful students will be able to:

• Identify, differentiate and analyze primary and secondary sources related to historical events, periods or ideas.
• Use methods and theories of historical inquiry to describe and analyze the origin of at least one selected contemporary issue.
• Utilize historical sources and methods to construct an integrated perspective on at least one historical period, event or idea that influences human perceptions, beliefs and behaviors.
• Evaluate social and ethical implications in historical studies.

• Evaluate significant cultural phenomena and ideas to develop capacities for aesthetic and cultural response, judgment, interpretation and evaluation.

Successful students will be able to:

• Analyze and interpret selected major forms of human thought, culture, ideas or expression.
• Describe and analyze selected cultural phenomena and ideas across time using a diverse range of primary and secondary sources and an explicit focus on different theories and methodologies.
• Use appropriate sources and methods to construct an integrated and comparative perspective of cultural periods, events or ideas that influence human perceptions, beliefs and behaviors.
• Evaluate social and ethical implications in cultural studies.

• Demonstrate skills in effective reading and writing as well as in oral, digital and/or visual communication for a range of purposes, audiences and context.
• Develop the knowledge, skills and habits of mind needed for information literacy.

Successful students will be able to:

• Compose and interpret across a wide range of purposes and audiences using writing as well as oral, visual, digital and/or other methods appropriate to the context.
• Use textual conventions, including proper attribution of ideas and/or sources, as appropriate to the communication situation.
• Generate ideas and informed responses incorporating diverse perspectives and information from a range of sources, as appropriate to the communication situation.
• Evaluate social and ethical implications in writing and information literacy practices.
• Demonstrate responsible, civil and ethical practices when accessing, using, sharing or creating information.
• Locate, identify and use information through context-appropriate search strategies.
• Employ reflective and critical strategies to evaluate and select credible and relevant information sources.

• Analyze, interpret and evaluate major forms of human thought, cultures and expression, and demonstrate capacities for aesthetic and culturally informed understanding.
• Experience the arts and reflect on that experience critically and creatively

Successful students will be able to:

• Analyze and interpret significant works of visual, spatial, literary and/or performing arts and design.
• Describe and explain how cultures identify, evaluate, shape and value works of literature, art and design.
• Examine how artistic ideas influence and shape human beliefs and the interactions between the arts and human perceptions and behavior.
• Evaluate social and ethical implications in literature, visual and performing arts, and design.
• Engage in informed observation and/or active participation within the visual, spatial, literary, or performing arts and design.
• Critically reflect on and share their own experience of observing or engaging in the visual, spatial, literary, or performing arts and design.

• Engage in theoretical and empirical study within the natural sciences while gaining an appreciation of the modern principles, theories, methods and modes of inquiry used generally across the natural sciences.
• Discern the relationship between the theoretical and applied sciences while appreciating the implications of scientific discoveries and the potential impacts of science and technology.

Successful students will be able to:

• Explain basic facts, principles, theories and methods of modern natural sciences, and describe and analyze the process of scientific inquiry.
• Identify how key events in the development of science contribute to the ongoing and changing nature of scientific knowledge and methods.
• Employ the processes of science through exploration, discovery and collaboration to interact directly with the natural world when feasible, using appropriate tools, models and analysis of data.
• Analyze the inter-dependence and potential impacts of scientific and technological developments.
• Appraise social and ethical implications of natural scientific discoveries.
• Evaluate and responsibly use information from the natural sciences.

• Apply quantitative or logical reasoning and/or mathematical/ statistical methods to understand and solve problems and will be able to communicate their results.

Successful students will be able to:

• Use logical, mathematical and/or statistical concepts and methods to represent real-world situations.
• Utilize diverse logical, mathematical and/or statistical approaches, technologies and tools to communicate about data symbolically, visually, numerically and verbally.
• Draw appropriate inferences from data based on quantitative analysis and/or logical reasoning.
• Make and evaluate important assumptions in estimation, modeling, logical argumentation and/or data analysis.
• Evaluate social and ethical implications in mathematical and quantitative reasoning.

• Exhibit linguistic and cultural competence by accomplishing real-world communicative tasks in culturally appropriate ways in a language other than their first language.
• Demonstrate knowledge of target culture(s) and attitudes on cultural diversity reflective of an interculturally competent global citizen.

Successful students will be able to:

• Accomplish interpersonal communication by initiating and sustaining meaningful spoken and/or written communication in culturally appropriate ways with users of the target language while actively negotiating meaning to ensure mutual comprehension.
• Achieve interpretive listening/viewing and/or reading by comprehending the main idea and relevant details of a variety of texts (live, recorded, written) in a language other than their first language.
• Complete presentational speaking/signing and/or writing by delivering live, recorded and/or written presentations in a language other than their first language for varied purposes using information, ideas and viewpoints on a variety of topics.
• Demonstrate familiarity with the products, practices and perspectives (the 3 Ps) of target culture(s) and be able to discuss in an informed and respectful way the diversity of the 3Ps across cultures and individuals.
• Identify and demonstrate attitudes on cultural diversity reflective of an interculturally competent global citizen (such as respect, openness, curiosity and adaptability).