General Education Student Learning Outcomes

GE Meaning and Purpose Statement (GEMPS)

 The GE experience asks that students and faculty in our inclusive polytechnic community engage a breadth of subjects to encourage intellectual flexibility, empathy, creativity, curiosity, and rigor. The learning that takes place in GE supplements and complements the academic major. GE brings together diverse ways of knowing and doing to strengthen foundational skills, drive innovation, and adapt to new opportunities. Furthermore, it enables us to develop a deep understanding of one's self and respect for the complex identities of others and to face the critical and ethical decisions we encounter throughout our lives.

 Adopted by the Academic Senate, Fall 2019

 GE Student Learning Outcomes

• Oral Communication: Students will express their ideas through acts of speech with an awareness of audience, purpose, and context.
• Written Communication: Students will express their ideas through the written word with an awareness of audience, purpose, and form. 
• Critical Thinking: Students will engage in the logical process of inquiry to analyze information from multiple perspectives to develop reasoned arguments.
• Quantitative Literacy: Students will use quantitative information to draw inferences and communicate informed arguments. 
• Information Literacy: Students will responsibly identify, locate, and critically evaluate the array of information sources and voices necessary to engage in sound inquiry.
• Civic Literacy: Students will apply civic knowledge, associated with historical structures of power, to self-discovery and responsibility to the community. 
• Intercultural Engagement: Students will integrate knowledge and relationships reflective of the diversity of human experience and forms of expression.

 Adopted by the Academic Senate, Spring 2023