Washington State University provides undergraduate students an outstanding educational experience preparing them for active and productive lives, effective relationships, and access to opportunities. To this end, baccalaureate graduates will achieve the following educational goals ...
1. Critical and Creative Thinking
Graduates will use knowledge of evidence and context to reason and reach conclusions as well as to innovate in imaginative ways. Graduates will demonstrate critical and creative thinking by their ability to:
- Apply the WSU Guide to Rating Critical Thinking to analyze problems, explore issues, and research questions.
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Apply a Creative Thinking Rubric, such
as:
- Reframe problems, issues, and questions
- Consider multiple perspectives from various people while not censoring their own perspective
- Identify artificially imposed constraints
- Draw new analogies and associations among disparate ideas or concepts
- Generate a new preferred solution, test it, modify as needed, test, repeat.
2. Quantitative & Symbolic Reasoning
Graduates will analyze and communicate appropriately with mathematical and symbolic concepts. Graduates will demonstrate quantitative and symbolic reasoning by their ability to:
- Analyze real world problems by critically evaluating the quantitative and symbolic information used to represent and draw inference from them.
- Estimate and check answers to mathematical problems to determine reasonableness, identify alternatives, and select optimal results.
- Use fundamental computer skills to apply quantitative and symbolic methods to solve problems.
- Draw conclusions from computational and symbolic representations in order to check the logic and validity of statements and models.
- Employ symbolic reasoning to appreciate, understand, represent, and use the variety of discourses underlying the search for truth and expression in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
3. Information Literacy
Graduates will use a disciplined and systematic approach to accessing, evaluating, and using information. Graduates will demonstrate information literacy by their ability to:
- Determine the extent and type of information needed.
- Access the needed information effectively and efficiently from computer, print, and human data sources.
- Evaluate information and its sources critically.
- Use information effectively to accomplish a specific purpose, such as making a decision or communicating persuasively.
- Access and use information ethically and legally.
4. Communication
Graduates will write, speak, and listen to
achieve intended and meaningful
understanding.
Graduates will demonstrate communication by their
ability to:
- Communicate in writing, speech, and presentation in order to convey meaning, significance, emotion and values in and beyond peer groups.
- Appreciate background and interests of a group or audience and how this impacts the exchange of information.
- Visually express ideas, propositions, and beliefs in coherent, concise, and technically correct forms effective with general and disciplinary audiences.
- Engage effectively with diverse groups through listening and speaking one-on-one, in small groups, and in large groups.
5. Self in Society
Graduates will employ self-understanding and
interact effectively with others of similar and diverse
cultures, values, perspectives, and
realities.
Graduates will demonstrate a sense of self in society
by their ability to:
- Understand their own values, goals, and perspectives in order to gain an understanding of those held by other individuals and cultures.
- Reflect on, revise, and revisit issues of local and/or global significance from the vantage of a broad knowledge base.
- Provide or effectively follow, as appropriate, informed leadership to achieve desired social outcomes.
- Practice personal integrity, citizenship, and service to others shaped by a spirit of compassion.
- Commit to life-long learning.
6. Specialty
Graduates will hone a specialty for the benefit of themselves, their communities, their employers, and for society at large. Graduates will demonstrate specialty expertise by their ability to:
- Show a depth of knowledge within the chosen academic field of study that reflects an appropriate degree of specialization.
- Show a breadth of knowledge within the chosen field based on integration of its history, core methods, techniques, vocabulary, and unsolved problems.
- Apply the concepts of the discipline to personal, academic, service learning, professional, and/or community activities.
- Understand how the methods and concepts of the chosen discipline relate to those of other disciplines, and possess the ability to engage in cross-disciplinary activities.
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