Draft List of Core Skills

 

Communication:  Students will communicate effectively in many different situations, involving diverse people and viewpoints.

Speaking: Students will speak in an understandable and organized fashion to explain their ideas, express their feelings, or support a conclusion.

Listening: Students will listen actively and respectfully to analyze the substance of others' comments.

Reading: Students will read effectively and analytically and will comprehend at  the college level.

Writing:  Students will write in an understandable and organized fashion to explain their ideas, express their feelings, or support a conclusion.

 

Cognition: Students will think logically and critically in solving problems; explaining their conclusions; and evaluating, supporting, or critiquing the thinking of others.

Analysis and Synthesis: Students will understand and build upon complex issues and discover the connections and correlations among ideas to advance toward a valid independent conclusion.

Problem Solving: Students will identify and analyze real or potential problems and develop, evaluate, and test possible solutions, using the scientific method where appropriate.

Creative Thinking: Students will formulate ideas and concepts in addition to using those of others.

Quantitative Reasoning: Students will use college-level mathematical concepts and methods to understand, analyze, and explain issues in quantitative terms.

Transfer of Knowledge and Skills to a New Context: Students will apply their knowledge and skills to new and varied situations.

 

Information Competency: Students will use printed materials, personal communication, observation, and electronic resources to find and evaluate information.

Research: Students will do research at a level that is necessary to achieve personal, professional, and educational success.

Technological Competency: Students will use technological applications to find, organize, and present information effectively.

 

Social Interaction: Students will interact with individuals and within groups with integrity and awareness of others' opinions, feelings and values.

Teamwork: Students will participate effectively in teams, committees, task forces, and in other group efforts to make decisions and seek consensus.

Effective Citizenship: Students will take personal responsibility for being informed, ethical and active citizens of their community, their nation, and their world.

 

Aesthetic Responsiveness: Students will produce or respond to artistic and creative expression.

 

Personal Development and Responsibility: Students will develop individual responsibility, personal integrity, and respect for diverse people and cultures.

Self-management: Students will demonstrate habits of intellectual exploration, personal responsibility and physical well being.

Ethics and Values: Students will demonstrate an understanding of ethical issues that will enhance their capacity for making sound judgements and decisions.

Respect for Diverse People and Cultures: Students will respect and work with diverse people including those with different cultural and linguistic backgrounds and different physical abilities.