KNIT's Goals

Knowledge Integrated (KNIT) has four major goals, each consisting of three specific student learning outcomes that will be used to measure the program’s effectiveness during the five-year implementation. These goals and outcomes are described in detail in the QEP document.

In plain terms, students who participate in KNIT courses will:

• Understand how each of the core disciplines contributes to human knowledge and society
• Better understand how historical events have shaped today’s values and ideas
• Better recognize the relevance of historical issues and discipline-specific inquiry to their own lives and experiences
• Feel more connected to a campus intellectual community united by its shared knowledge about important people, texts, and events
• Better appreciate the pleasures of intellectual conversation outside the classroom
• Better understand the personal benefits of a college education beyond the basic concern to obtain a degree and a job