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Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 13:54:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: FORDL@cofc.edu
Subject: General Education Goals
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Organization: College of Charleston
The following set of goals is submitted for use by Inquiry Groups
throughout the spring semester. The Ad Hoc Committee is continuing to
discuss issues surrounding "values" and goal statements submitted by
individual inquiry groups that seem important, but did not have wide-spread
consensus across the inquiry groups. If you have comments or questions,
please feel free to contact any member of the Ad Hoc Committee. As always,
we thank you for your commitment and hard work.
The General Education experience, curricular and extra-curricular, should
help students to:
1. acquire basic knowledge of the arts, humanities, mathematics, and the
natural and social sciences, the languages which define and convey this
knowledge, and the relationship among these branches of knowledge.
2. acquire an interdisciplinary understanding of major contemporary ethical
, political, economic, social and scientific issues and movements including
their origins, implications and interrelationships.
3. develop a knowledge of diverse cultures, natural and human-made
environments, and their global interrelationships.
4. develop effective reading, writing, and oral communication skills in
English, and basic communication skills in a language other than English.
5. develop skills in the methods and technologies of inquiry, critical
thinking, problem solving, scientific research, quantitative and historical
analysis.
6. employ the available resources to retrieve, use and evaluate information
from a variety of sources.
7. set and achieve personal goals.
8. work and interact effectively with others.
9. foster intellectual honesty and curiosity, a commitment to lifelong
learning, a sense of personal responsibility, and informed, active,
responsible citizenship in a climate of civility where dialogue about
intellectual debates and controversies can occur.
Lynne E. Ford--Political Science--College of Charleston
114 Wentworth Street--Charleston, SC 29424
FORDL@cofc.edu w:(803)953-6531 Voice Mail:(803)723-6910