EXPECTED STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES OF GENERAL EDUCATION AT

AUGUSTA STATE UNIVERSITY

I. Knowledge

Upon completion of their general education requirements, students will have acquired college-level knowledge in the following areas:

(a) The contemporary world, including its history, geography, institutions, interdependence, belief systems, political and economic systems, predominant cultures, and major global issues and problems;

(b) The United States including government, institutions, resources, history, and problems;

(c) Human behavior, including individual and group behavior, and the forces and factors that govern such behavior;

(d) The arts including the forms and elements of the literary, musical, and visual arts, and the major ideas and works which have shaped western culture; and

(e) Mathematics and the sciences, including concepts, terms, and procedures common to the sciences, the processes of systematic experimentation, and the implications of scientific and technological progress.

II. Skills

Upon completion of their general education requirements, students will have acquired college-level skills in the following areas:

(a) Thinking, including the ability to integrate new information with information previously acquired, and to solve complex problems which require abstract and critical thinking;

(b) Communication, including the ability to read, write, listen, and speak at an appropriate level for college work and their careers, using Standard English in formal contexts, and basic competence in at least one foreign language;

(c) Mathematics, including the skills to solve problems and interpret quantitative information in a variety of disciplines;

(d) Critical appreciation, including the ability to appreciate and make informed judgments about the arts; and

(e) Research, including the ability to use computerized data bases, do laboratory experimentation, engage in library research, and report the results of research in correctly documented form.

III. Perspectives

Upon completion of their general education requirements, students will have acquired broadened perspectives in the following areas:

(a) Decision-making, including recognition of the difference between informed and uninformed decisions, of the ethical dimensions of decisions and actions, and of the values implicit in them;

(b) Tolerance, including understanding of, and respect for, individual and cultural diversity; and

(c) Learning, including recognition of the importance of continuing to question and learn, and of the interdependence of all fields of knowledge.