Student Learning Outcomes

SLOs

• Students will connect personal and social responsibility to their own academic efforts.

• Students will identify the social and political contexts of the Founding Documents (United States Constitution, Declaration of Independence, Federalist Papers, and Emancipation Proclamation). 
• Students will identify one or more documents that are foundational to the African American Freedom struggle.

• Students will explore societies and cultures outside the dominant historical and cultural experience of the United States.
• Students will describe the development and functioning of the modern world.
• Students will identify relevant connections between course material and a global cultural event.
• Students will explore societies and cultures outside the dominant historical and cultural experience of the United States.

• Students will examine knowledge or ideas from a historical perspective.
• Students will demonstrate their ability to think historically by identifying sound and unsound historical reasoning.

• Students will describe diversity in people, or ideas, or institutions, or moral codes, or ethical principles. 
• Students will analyze a complex issue, subject, or matter in relation to a cultural, societal, linguistic, historical, or artistic perspective (as appropriate to the discipline).

• Students will demonstrate competency in written communication through completion of one of more written assignments totaling 4,000 words of more.

• Students will be conversant with a few fundamental concepts from natural science, including earth, life, and/or physical sciences.