Program Learning Outcomes

• Students demonstrate that they possess the combination of knowledge, skills, values, and motivation to make a difference in the civic life of their community and to promote the enhancement of the quality of life in a community through both political and non-political processes.
• Students make connections among ideas and experiences and can synthesize and transfer their learning to new, complex situations within and beyond the campus.
• Students demonstrate knowledge of human cultures and the physical and natural world through study in the fine arts, humanities, social and behavioral sciences, life and physical sciences.
• Students demonstrate that they possess the skills and dispositions that are necessary for a self-sufficient learner to engage in purposeful, ongoing learning activities with the aim of improving knowledge, skills, and competence.
• Students design, evaluate, and implement strategies to answer open-ended questions or achieve a desired goal.
• Students can understand and create sophisticated arguments supported by quantitative evidence and clearly communicate those arguments in a variety of formats (using words, tables, graphs, mathematical equations, etc., as appropriate).
• Students demonstrate productive interaction with others (in or out of class) to complete assignments, tasks or projects.
• Students develop and express ideas and will be able to do so in a variety of ways, namely in writing, by speaking, visually, kinesthetically, through design or aurally.
• Students combine or synthesize existing ideas, images, or expertise in original ways, as well as think, react, and work in an imaginative way.
• Students demonstrate disciplined processes of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action.
• Students strategically and responsibly employ appropriate technologies to explore, create, collaborate, and organize in a digital context.
• Students describe and analyze positions on ethical issues, apply reasoning about right and wrong human conduct, demonstrate ethical decision-making skills, and demonstrate an evolving ethical self-identity.
• Students identify, locate, evaluate, attribute and share information effectively and ethically.
• Inquiry: Students systematically explore issues, objects or works through the collection and analysis of evidence that results in informed conclusions or judgments.
• Analysis: Students break complex topics or issues into parts to gain a better understanding of them.
• Students demonstrate that they possess a set of cognitive, affective, and behavioral skills and characteristics that support effective and appropriate interaction in a variety of cultural contexts.

Program Information

• Students must earn at least nine (9) of the General Education credits from Southern Utah University to be eligible for the Certificate of Proficiency in General Education.
• Students must earn an SUU GPA of 2.0 or higher and a cumulative GPA of 2.0 or higher.

General Education Curriculum (30-35 Credits*)

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