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BREADTH: THE MAJOR LEARNING OUTCOMES
The Breadth Major Learning Outcomes are designed to give students an
integrated and multidisciplinary understanding of humanistic approaches
and bodies of knowledge. The Breadth requirements consist of eight Major
Learning Outcomes. Two of these (MLOs 1 and 2) are included in the Core.
Achievement of the remaining six outcomes may be through Course-based
assessment or Independent assessment (see Pathways
for Assessment).
MLO 1 Critical Communication
Skills
Ability to communicate critically and empathically in both oral
and written contexts, including reading, writing, listening,
and speaking.
MLO 2 Research Skills
Ability to acquire, evaluate, interpret, synthesize, apply, document,
and present knowledge gained through diverse and appropriate
methods of inquiry in the context of an analysis of an issue,
question, or problem.
MLO 3 Relational Communication
Skills
Ability to interact ethically and effectively in interpersonal
and group communication and decision-making processes.
MLO 4 Philosophical Analysis
Ability to understand why and how beliefs, values, assumptions,
and communication practices interact to shape ways of being and
knowing.
MLO 5 Critical Cultural Analysis
Ability to investigate and explain relationships among cultural
ideologies and socio-historical experiences, interests, identities,
and actions of specific cultural groups.
MLO 6 Comparative Literary Analysis
Ability to appreciate and analyze literature in a social, historical,
and cultural context; ability to compare and contrast literatures
of at least three different cultural traditions, including non-Eurocentric
traditions.
MLO 7 Historical Analysis
Ability to actively engage our complex multicultural pasts by
integrating historical understanding with historical thinking
skills.
MLO 8 Creative Writing and
Social Action
Ability to acquire basic competency in creative writing; ability
to apply this skill to the production and presentation of an
art project that actively responds to a public issue; ability
to sustain the creative process throughout a given project, taking
it to completion.
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