普通教育

ACPHS的通识教育项目支持学院灌输价值观的使命, attitudes and skills that enable lifelong intellectual, 文化, personal and professional growth. Courses offered in the first two years expand the student’s historical, 文化, 文学, scientific and philosophical perspectives. 这些课程还培养对道德和人文价值的批判性评估, and emphasize the communication, 批判性思维和解决问题的能力,为学生在专业学科和文化能力方面的进步做好准备. Through its blend of required and elective courses, 学院致力于让学生接触世界的复杂性,并为他们成为有价值的参与者做好准备

基本的文化

定义为:

读写能力

  1. 在特定学科的惯例和体裁范围内编写和分析英语书面语言. 
    1. 利用语法、写作惯例和特定学科的体裁来促进和传达意思. 
    2. Create purpose-driven compositions, taking into account diverse audiences. 
    3. 演示使用写作过程,包括预写,起草和修改. 
    4. 有选择地吸收和正确地归因于他人的想法和写作. 
    5. Identify the thesis or purpose of a text 
    6. 批判性地评估文本中的语句如何支持一个论点,并通过整体结构相互关联和建立, 文本特征, and discipline-specific genre. 

计算能力

  1. 使用数字和其他符号来理解和表达数量关系, employ quantitative methods, and draw inferences from mathematical models. 

2.对以数学形式呈现的信息提供准确的解释. 

2.能熟练地将相关信息转换成适当的数学形式.g., equations, graphs, diagrams, tables, words).  

2.3 Complete calculations to comprehensively solve problems. 

2.4 Use the quantitative analysis of data as the basis for judgments, drawing reasonable and appropriate conclusions from this work.

科学素养

  1. 用科学的方法获取新知识:包括对问题陈述的识别, formulation and testing of a hypothesis, identification and control of variables, 实验设计, 以及对数据的解释,得出基于证据的结论,包括潜在的未来方向.

3.1 Utilize relevant observations for problem investigation. 

3.2 Construct an appropriate method of inquiry, developing a detailed hypothesis to include pertinent facts, considering multiple points of view.

3.解释实验的目的,说明完成实验所需的材料. 

3.审查实验变量和控制,选择适当的修改进行实验. 

3.5收集, review and analyze evidence to reveal important patterns, differences or similarities related to hypothesis.  

3.回顾与假设相关的结果,并考虑进一步/未来的实验. 

3.7 Extrapolate conclusions from generated data, considering opposing viewpoints and related outcomes that are identifiable.

信息素养

  1. Determine the nature and extent of information need; find, 获取和批判性地评估信息,以达到特定的目的,并以道德和合法的方式使用信息. 

4.1 Define the scope of the information need.

4.识别与信息需求相关的关键概念或主要思想,识别信息来源的不同类型和格式, employing good judgment in the selection and use of sources. 

4.3 Determine appropriate keywords and related search terms, 使用适当的工具开发和执行有效的搜索策略. 

4.4 应用 appropriate criteria to 评估 the reliability, 相关性, 权威, 发现的信息的准确性和批判性地评估来源的创造者, 包括语气, 主体性, 和偏见. 

4.通过适当的署名和引用来承认他人的原创观点.

科技素养

  1. 应用适当的计算工具和电子资源来处理与数据存储相关的特定任务, presentation of information, 和组织.

5.选择最合适的工具和技术来完成特定的任务. 

5.2 Describe the basic security issues with various types of information, 信息使用, 信息设备.  

5.3 Use online and electronic resources to communicate and collaborate. 

5.4 Use technological resources and applications to support personal, 学术, and professional productivity.  

5.5 Use technology to create presentational content that is equally accessible.

文化素养

  1. 解释文化和人类经历内部和之间的多样性,并总结其对个人和社会的影响. 

6.通过创造和寻求其他相关问题的答案,证明并解释进一步研究其他文化的必要性.

6.描述自己的文化规则和偏见,并识别和阐明为这些规则和偏见带来新视角的价值.

6.3分析智力, 情感, and material elements important to members of at least one other 文化.

Social Justice, Equity, and Responsibility 读写能力

  1. Describe how social structures produce inequalities in 集团 outcomes, 和识别, 评估, and consider how various policies and practices alter these outcomes. 

7.描述自己文化和其他文化中固有的各种元素在历史上是如何被特权或低估的.   

7.2 Analyze at multiple levels (e.g., 个人, 集团, community) the impact of history, 文化, 机构, practices or policies on diversity and equity issues. 

7.针对特定的股权问题,分析潜在的股权策略对受影响群体的影响. 

7.解释多样性作为创造力源泉的潜力, 创新, and productive collaboration. 

公民素养

  1. Analyze complex issues that have public consequences, participate in democratic discourse, 和识别 opportunities to help 个人s and improve public policy. 

8.1 Analyze knowledge (facts, theories, etc.) from an 学术 study/ field/discipline, making relevant connections to civic engagement that has public consequences. 

8.2 Communicate in meaningful public discourse (i.e., 辩论, 游说团体, 提倡), showing ability to express, 听......, and take into account ideas and messages based on others' perspectives. 

8.确定有意参与公民环境和结构的方式,并开始反思或描述这些行动如何使个人或社区受益. 

Oral-Visual Communication 读写能力

  1. Produce and interpret spoken language and embodied communication, 包括准备好的演讲和即兴演讲,旨在增加知识, 促进理解, or promote change in the audiences’ attitudes, 值, 信仰, 或行为.

9.建立一种组织模式,增强信息的凝聚力. (i.e.,具体的介绍和结论,正文内的顺序材料,以及过渡)  

9.2 Choose language that is imaginative, accessible (e.g., translating jargon), and inclusive.  

9.3 Project confidence via delivery techniques (e.g., 体积, 眼神交流, 手势, 面部表情, 的姿势, 运动, 表达能力, 和速度). 

9.4 Use visual communication that supports the effectiveness of the message (e.g., slides data visualization, diagram, photograph, illustration).  

9.5 Practice active listening (e.g., 注意力, 开放的思想, and literal/critical comprehension) during oral presentations, 表演, 和/或分组.

 

GELOs -胜任力

 

定义为:

能力

Critical Thinking and Creative Problem Solving

  1. 识别和评估想法和信息,设计创新的方法来解决复杂的问题. Formulate responses to make informed, 理性的, and responsible decisions through the application, 合成, or repurposing of knowledge to implement solutions.

 

10.1 Describe the problem and assess information from multiple sources.

10.考虑假设和偏见,进行客观和全面的分析.  

10.3 Create a novel idea, question, approach, or product to address the problem.  

10.运用逻辑推理来解决问题,确定有效解决方案的适当途径.

Values and Ethical Decision-Making

  1. Identify ethical problems and apply ethical principles, 值语句, and other relevant considerations and skills (e.g., critical thinking) in order to act prudently in a diverse society.

11.在个人和/或团体层面分析核心信念及其起源. 

11.识别伦理/道德问题或价值判断问题,当出现在一个复杂的, 多层次的上下文.

11.3 应用 principles to the solution of an ethical/moral issue or question.

11.4 Evaluate responses to ethical/moral issues or questions (objections, 对异议的回应, 假设, 影响).

协作

  1. 通过吸收不同的观点和建立共识,有效地与他人合作,实现共同的目标.

12.解释社会和职业角色如何创造不同的视角和优先事项,从而塑造我们的合作方式.

12.2 Integrate social skills (active listening, 同理心, 自我意识, 营造一个包容的环境,让人们可以轻松地分享和讨论不同的观点.

12.整合决策过程和冲突管理策略,协商满足不同利益的解决方案.