Student Development SkillsIn order to achieve the Statement of Purpose, Role, and Goals for the University, the following skills are expected to be developed by the students:Cognitive skills: The ability to formulate arguments, to assess evidence, and to discover, articulate, and evaluate assumptions. Creative skills: The ability to employ flexibility of thought which allows one to ask thoughtful and penetrating questions, to generate new insights, to seek new solutions to problems, to envisage new possibilities, and to respond positively to change. Communication skills: The ability to listen effectively, to enter into dialoge meaningfully, and write and speak with clarity and style. Research skills: The ability to read critically, to formulate and test hypotheses, to collect and interpret quantitative and qulitative data, and to draw informed conclusions. Empathetic skills: The ability to appreciate the perspectives of others and to respond sensitively. Aesthetic skills: The ability to express oneself artistically, to exercise the imagination, and to recognize quality. Technological skills: The ability to employ effecitvely and efficiently technological innovations in the pursuit, acquisition, and transmission of knowledge. Analytical skills: The ability to transform complex isssues, forms, and structures into fundamental elements and to gain insight, knowledge, and understanding from these elements and their interactions. Synthetic skills: The ability to perceive ordering principles such as those inherent in myth, history, language, science, mathematics, and schools of thought and to fit diverse pieces of knowledge together into a whole. Temporal skills: The aiblity to understand, appreciate, and value historical context with regard to the educatioal process and outcomes and to forecast the potential consequences of actions or the failure to take actions. Spatial skills: The ability to recognize patterns on the landscape and to understand the process that created them in order to value the significance of location on a continuum from the local to the global scale. Leadership skills: The ability to contribute meaningfully as an individual and member of a group in the achievement of positive goals and objectives. Service skills: The ability to understand, appreciate, and value the importance of providing assistance and support to individuals and groups who are economically or otherwise disadvantaged. Needs and legitimate interests of students (past, present, and future) should be kept in the forefront of institutional decisions. |
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