Curriculum Goals

The collegiate requirements, the major, and electives are intended to realize the following goals:

1. Students should acquire depth of knowledge in a major field and breadth of knowledge in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences.
2. Students should synthesize and integrate knowledge to develop interdisciplinary solutions to open-ended questions.
3. Students should be able to access, analyze, evaluate, and use information effectively and ethically.
4. Students should be able to reason critically, historically, scientifically, quantitatively, and logically.
5. Students should engage in the creative process.
6. Students should be able to communicate effectively in writing and speaking, across differences of language and culture, using traditional and new media.
7. Students should appreciate diversity and the ethical and environmental responsibilities of local and global citizenship.
8. Students should respect the mental and physical well-being of self and others.