General Education

Students will demonstrate skill with the following:

• Context and Purpose for Writing – includes consideration of audience, purpose, and the circumstances surrounding the writing task(s).
• Content Development – uses appropriate, relevant, and compelling content to illustrate mastery of the subject, conveying the writer’s understanding, and shaping the whole work.
• Genre and Disciplinary Conventions – demonstrates detailed attention to and successful execution of a wide range of conventions particular to a specific discipline and/or writing task(s), including organization, content, presentation, formatting, and stylistic choices.
• Sources and Evidence – demonstrates skillful use of high-quality, credible, relevant sources to develop ideas that are appropriate for the discipline and genre of the writing
• Control of Syntax and Usage – uses language that skillfully communicates meaning to readers with clarity and fluency.
• Revision and Feedback – shapes texts through the process of revision and feedback.

Students will demonstrate skill with the following:

• Interpretation – explain information presented in mathematical forms (e.g., equations, graphs, diagrams, and tables)
• Representation – convert relevant information into various mathematical forms (e.g., equations, graphs, diagrams, and tables)
• Calculation – demonstrate the ability to successfully complete basic calculations to solve problems
• Application/Analysis – make judgments and draw appropriate conclusions based on quantitative analysis of data, recognizing the limits of this analysis
• Assumption – make and evaluate important assumptions in estimation, modeling, and data analysis
• Communication – express quantitative evidence in support of the argument or purpose of the work (in terms of what evidence is used and how it is formatted, presented, and contextualized)
• Creation – demonstrate the ability to problem solve using quantitative literacy across multiple disciplines.

Students will demonstrate skill with the following:

• Use of Primary Documents – analyze, contextualize, and use primary source documents to understand the history, principles, form of government, and economic system of the United States
• Interpretation – explain and use historically, politically, and economically relevant information
• Communication – communicate effectively about the history, principles, form of government, and economic system of the United States
• Diversity – engage a diversity of viewpoints in a constructive manner that contributes to a dialogue about the history, principles, form of government, and economic system of the United States
• Integration – use historical, political, and economic methods to come to an understanding of the United States that integrates those viewpoints.

Students will be able to:

1. Make connections among skills, ideas and experiences to synthesize and transfer their learning to new, complex situations within and beyond the campus
2. Strategically and responsibly employ appropriate technologies to explore, create, collaborate, and organize in a digital context
3. Identify, locate, evaluate, attribute and share information effectively and ethically.

Students will be able to:

1. Discuss the scope and variety with the fine arts (i.e., art, music, theatre, or dance)
2. Recognize the aesthetic standards used in making critical judgments in various artistic fields
3. Analyze and articulate understanding of a range of artistic processes
4. Participate as an active contributor to the performance, production, exhibition, or design process in the Fine Arts
5. Demonstrate how the creative process is informed and limited by social and historical contexts.

Students will be able to:

1. Derive evidence from primary sources regarding the complexities and changes in human experience through analytical reading and critical thought
2. Describe how human experience is shaped by social, cultural, linguistic, and/or historical circumstances
3. Demonstrate attentiveness to linguistic, visual, and/or audio texts when communicating meaning
4. Use appropriate verbal, perceptual, or imaginative skills when organizing meanings, developing a sense of self, and balancing potentially disparate values.

Students will be able to:

1. Demonstrate understanding of science as a way of knowing about the natural world
2. Demonstrate basic understanding of how organisms live, grow, respond to their environment, and reproduce
3. Discuss the organization and flow of matter and energy through biological systems
4. Explain from evidence patterns of inheritance, structural unity, adaptation, and diversity of life on Earth
5. Describe how the Life Sciences have been shaped by historical, ethical, and social contexts.

Students will be able to:

1. Demonstrate understanding of science as a way of knowing about the physical world
2. Demonstrate understanding of forces in the physical world
3. Discuss the flow of matter and energy through systems (in large and small scales)
4. Develop evidence-based arguments regarding the effect of human activity on the Earth
5. Describe how the Physical Sciences have been shaped by historical, ethical, and social contexts.

Students will be able to:

1. Demonstrate understanding of relevant social and behavioral science methodologies and how they are used to understand or explain human relations or interactions
2. Identify general principles of behavioral and social functioning
3. Connect those questions and issues to the students’ own experiences
4. Demonstrate a critically reasoned understanding of social patterns and individual variation congruent with and divergent from those patterns.

SUU offers options for students to complete two General Education Knowledge Areas in one team-taught 6-credit course. This dedicated time allows for deep investigation of relevant, timely topics that integrate the learning outcomes of two Knowledge Areas. Topics vary by semester, so please contact your Student Success Advisor for information on current course offerings.

• SUU 2220 - Integrated LS & FA: Variable Topics - 6 Credit(s)
• SUU 2240 - Integrated HU & SBS: Variable Topics - 6 Credit(s)
• SUU 2250 - Integrated HU & LS: Variable Topics - 6 Credit(s)