General Education Learning Outcomes

  1. Critical Thinking: Students will develop a habit of mind characterized by the comprehensive exploration of issues, ideas, artifacts, and events before accepting or formulating an opinion or conclusion. 
  2. Ethical Reasoning: Students will possess an ethical self-awareness, understand different ethical perspectives, recognize ethical issues, and apply and evaluate ethical concepts.  
  3. Global Learning: Students will become informed, open-minded, responsible people attentive to diversity in both local and global communities by attempting to address important world issues collaboratively and equitably. 
  4. Intercultural Knowledge and Competence: Students will develop cultural self-awareness, knowledge of cultural world frameworks, and the empathy necessary for interacting in a variety of cultural contexts. 
  5. Oral Communication: Students will prepare purposeful presentations designed to increase knowledge, to foster understanding, or to promote change in the listeners' attitudes, values, beliefs, or behaviors. 
  6. Quantitative Reasoning: Students will develop competency and comfort in working with numerical data within authentic contexts and use quantitative evidence in arguments. 
  7. Written Communication: Students will write effectively within multiple genres and to different audiences, integrating texts, technologies, data, and images across the curriculum. 
  8. Information Literacy: Students will understand information literacy as a reflective discovery of information, recognize the complexity of the information environment, and understand their responsibility in using information and creating new knowledge ethically. 

Approved through UIS Senate 04/07/2023 Resolution 52-31

Learning outcomes adapted from the AAC&U VALUE rubrics. “Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education (VALUE)” by the Association of American Colleges and Universities, 2009, https://www.aacu.org/initiatives/value. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0