Undergraduate Catalog 2011-2012

University College Core Curriculum - University College

Learning Outcomes

All Fayetteville State University graduates, regardless of major, will achieve the following learning outcomes, which will be introduced in 100- and 200- level courses and reinforced throughout a student’s major courses.

1. Communication Skills: Students will comprehend, analyze, and evaluate the effectiveness of various forms of written and spoken communication, and they will assemble original written and spoken communications that display appropriate organization, clarity, and documentation for a given purpose and audience.
2. Reasoning Skills
1. Reasoning Skills - Critical Thinking:  Students will accurately evaluate the reasonableness of arguments’ evidence and support, and they will construct reasonable arguments using various forms of evidence drawn from multiple sources.
2. Reasoning Skills - Quantitative: They will apply math to situations common in everyday living, and they will calculate, interpret, and assess statistical data and concepts, percentages, proportions, rates of change, geometric measures, linear equations, probability and risk.
3. Inquiry Skills: Students will formulate effective questions based on a need; organize, sort, evaluate, and retrieve academic information to address the need; cite sources appropriately for their context.
4. Scientific Literacy: Students will create and assess hypotheses using research methods, interpret and express the results of observation and experimentation, understand the fundamental concepts of natural and social sciences, and apply scientific knowledge to situations common to daily life to promote physical and psychological well-being.
5. Global Literacy: Students will appreciate the global diversity of cultures, values, and belief systems and the common humanity underlying them; interact effectively with culturally different peoples; understand cultural interdependence, and create solutions to intercultural problems.
6. Ethics and Civic Engagement: Students will develop a personal system of ethics and morality and demonstrate it in daily self-discipline and interpersonal relationships, in volunteer work, and through participation in organizations; they will synthesize source material from a variety of disciplines to understand and apply theories of morality and ethics.

The University College Core Curriculum is designed to ensure that graduates will achieve these learning outcomes.