通识教育
General education at 365bet is a diverse curriculum of related ideas and experiences to prepare students to live and work in a global society. 通识教育核心 aims to facilitate the development of foundational knowledge, skills and values that empower students to realize their full potential and inspire them to make positive 对全球社会的贡献.
所有本科生完成 the 通识教育 Core, which includes required courses in communication, history, humanities and/or fine arts, mathematics, natural 科学, and social and behavioral 科学. By taking courses in the 通识教育 Core, students develop foundational knowledge in a variety of disciplines, as well as skills and awareness in communication, quantitative reasoning, inquiry and analysis, reflection and connection, critical 推理和全球视野.
Read more about the specific knowledge and skills students gain in each required general 教育科目范围: 学科领域知识和技能
通识教育评估
Together, the 通识教育 Core requirements help students develop the skills, abilities, and values articulated in the 通识教育 Pillars. 技能和能力 and values described in the Pillars are not aligned with one particular course or set of requirements, but instead are developed throughout a variety of courses across 通识教育课程. Each Pillar is aligned with a rubric that is used to assess student learning across the curriculum.
Information on the general education assessment process for department chairs and 教师可以在这里找到: 通识教育评估 Process
通识教育评核周期
Download a pdf of the assessment cycle: 通识教育评核周期 2020-2024
通识教育 Pillars and Rubrics
Oral Communication is prepared, purposeful, presentation designed to increase knowledge, to foster understanding, or to promote change in the listeners’ attitude.
写 communication is the development and expression of ideas in writing. 写 communication involves learning to work in many genres and styles. 它可以包括 working with many different writing technologies, and mixing texts, data, and images. 写 communication abilities develop through iterative experiences across the curriculum.
定量推理 is a “habit of mind,” competency, and comfort in working with 数值数据. Individuals with strong quantitative reasoning skills possess the ability to reason and solve quantitative problems from a wide array of authentic contexts 而且形式多样.
Connection and reflection is an understanding and a disposition that a student builds across the curriculum and co-curriculum. Connection and reflection can also be understood 作为综合学习. This includes making simple connections among ideas and experiences and synthesizing and transferring learning to new complex situations within and beyond 校园.
Through global learning, students should 1) become informed, open minded, and responsible people who are attentive to diversity across the spectrum of differences, 2) seek to understand how their actions affect both local and global communities, and 3) address the world’s most pressing and enduring issues collaboratively and equitably. 全球 learning is a critical analysis of and an engagement with complex, interdependent global systems and legacies (such as natural, physical, and social, cultural, economic, and political) and their implications for people’s lives and the earth’s sustainability.
Inquiry is a systematic process of exploring issues, objects, or works through the collection and analysis of evidence that results in informed conclusions or judgements. Analysis is the process of breaking complex topics or issues into parts to gain a 更好地理解他们. Critical thinking is a habit of mind characterized by the comprehensive exploration of issues, ideas, artifacts, and events before accepting or formulating an opinion of conclusion. Information Literacy is the ability to know when there is a need for information, to be able to identify, locate, evaluate, and effectively and responsibility use and share that information. 这些概念是 相互关联的.
Critical reasoning is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, analyzing, and evaluating information gathered from observation, experience, or communication as a guide to drawing conclusions formulating beliefs 采取行动.
通识教育 Standing Committee
通识教育 Standing Committee Charge and Members
Marisa Sikes, Languages and Literature, co-chair 2023-2024
Kakali Chakrabarti, Communication, co-chair 2023-2024
Amanda Wornhoff, 制度的有效性 and Assessment, committee advisor