Arts & Communication

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Below is a list of our Areas of Study program maps that will prepare you to earn a degree or certificate.

Learning outcomes

Communications

  • Demonstrate an ability to analyze how multicultural audiences shape written, visual, oral, aural, and performative communication and its meaning.
  • Generate effective written and oral communication for a variety of purposes and diverse audiences.
  • Generate effective visual or performative communication. 

Quantitative Reasoning

  • Apply basic computational skills to practical applications.
  • Recognize functional relationships between and among measurable phenomena
  • Apply systematic approaches and logic to solving quantitative problems
  • Translate mathematical symbols into words and words into mathematical symbols

Information

  • Identify research goals and retrieve information.
  • Synthesize, apply, and properly cite information to meet an identified purpose.
  • Evaluate the credibility of information and information sources, and distinguish between fact and opinion.

Critical Thinking

  • Interpret and analyze meaning from written, visual, oral, aural, and performative works.
  • Analyze and understand diverse individual and community perspectives and values.
  • Understand and analyze social justice issues and movements.
  • Generate creative works that demonstrate a process of critical reflection, analysis, experimentation, and original thought.

Personal & Interpersonal

  • Consider ideas that conflict with individual value systems.
  • Function under conditions of ambiguity and uncertainty.
  • Work cooperatively and collaboratively with others.