Graduates of the College should demonstrate the following personal and intellectual capacities for:
Independent Thinking, through the ability to:
- Engage in critical and creative thinking
- Devise, formulate, research, and bring to fruition a complex and creative project
- Embody the intellectual curiosity, passion, and self-confidence necessary for life-long learning
- Appreciate and critique ideas, values, and beliefs including their own
Integrative and Collaborative Inquiry, through the ability to:
- Synthesize knowledge from multiple disciplines
- Actively integrate theory and practice
- Engage in effective intellectual collaboration
Dynamic Understanding of the Liberal Arts, through the ability to:
- Understand disciplinary knowledge in arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics, and physical and natural sciences
- Evaluate evidence using methodologies from multiple disciplines
- Demonstrate quantitative, textual, visual, and digital literacy
- Employ deep knowledge, insight, and judgment to solve real world problems
Effective Communication, through the ability to:
- Exhibit skill in oral, written, and digital communication
- Engage in effective discourse through active listening, questioning, and reasoning
Global Engagement, through the ability to:
- Understand the histories, causes, and implications of environmental and global processes
- Engage with the global community through knowledge of a second language and culture
- Display self-reflective awareness of their roles in diverse local and global communities
Justice and Civic/Social Responsibility, through the ability to:
- Understand and respect the diversity and complexity of human identities, including but not limited to race, class, gender, sexuality, ability, culture, and religion
- Actively promote equity and inclusion
- Demonstrate ethical judgment and work towards a just society
- Exhibit a commitment to community, civic engagement, and serving others