Centenary Core Student Learning Outcomes

Centenary University Core Student Learning Outcomes (SLO)     40 credits

1. Category: Academic Foundations

   Area I: Broad, Enduring Interest (4 credits)

   • Analyze issues of immediate relevance from a variety of disciplinary perspectives
   • Demonstrate the independent, expansive, critical thinking privileged at university.
   • Work effectively in teams.
   • Apply complexities of history, especially regarding race, class, gender, sexuality, and other diversities

   Area II: Professional Development: The Nature of Work (2 credits)

   • Develop an understanding that work is meaningful and career a significant expression of identity.
   • Engage in self-examination and self-critique to make thoughtful life and career choices.
   • Develop skills relevant to a successful job search.
   • Utilize effective written and oral skills in a professional setting.
   • Employ a working knowledge of financial literacy for personal and professional use.

        Area III: Personal Development: Wellness (2 credits)

   • Become acquainted with university resources and programs to promote academic success and campus engagement.
   • Develop effective techniques and skills focused on physical, mental, and/or spiritual health.
   • Apply skills to become a successful student.

    

2. Category: Communication

   Area I: Writing (8 credits)

   • Demonstrate understanding of a variety of purposes and audiences for a text
   • Exhibit knowledge of rhetorical genres and their associated disciplinary conventions
   • Incorporate sources and show proficiency with standard documentation styles where appropriate
   • Demonstrate proficiency with academic discourse in written and oral responses

   Area II: Public Speaking (4 credits)

   • Develop proficiency in presenting ideas to groups of a variety of sizes and levels of formality
   • Incorporate research, sound reasoning, and evidence to support claims
   • Analyze different formats for preparing speeches (transcription, outline, etc.)

    

3. Category: STEM Engagement - Math, Quantitative Science, Analytics, Technology (8 credits)
   • Make connections between the natural world, physical processes, mathematical principles and students’ lived experiences.
   • Identify and apply fundamental concepts in science, math, or technology.
   • Interpret and analyze various types of data.
   •  Develop the habit of thinking logically to solve problems.
   • Utilize quantitative reasoning to solve problems.
     
     
     
4. Culture & Society

Area I: Cultural Understanding in a Global Context (4 credits)

• Develop an understanding of the diversity and fluidity of cultural identity across borders in a global society.

  Area II: Social & Community Responsibility (4 credits)

• Analyze the productive tension in modern society between individual fulfillment and community responsibility
• Explore aspects of the nature and function of a democratic society
• Reflect on one’s own commitment to ethical behavior, and the social responsibility required for a diverse democratic society

  Area III: Creative Expression & Creative Self (4 credits)

• Analyze the place of artistic expression in a self-critical and analytical social framework
• Develop skills for organizing experience, emotion, and ideas in ways compelling to others

• Identify points of view developed in countries different from one’s own

• Reflect upon one’s place in a global network
• Compare cultural, economic, and political norms across national and ethnic boundaries.

• Demonstrate comprehension of artistic expression through analysis and/or creation
• Reflect upon cultural, intellectual, or political changes over time, in particular as they pertain to histories of oppression and exclusion