• IRAP
• Assessment
• College-wide

College-wide

Occidental College understands its educational goals as an evolving dynamic commitment: they are the basis for assessment, subject to constant re-evaluation and re-imagining. Within this culture of self-aware and rigorous critique, our interdisciplinary approach to the liberal arts promotes student achievement of five college-wide learning goals. These include:

1. Synthesis of ideas across broad areas of knowledge within the liberal arts
2. Linkage of theory and practice within group and self-directed research leading to intellectual or creative contributions
3. Mastery of essential content, methods, concepts and technical aspects of an academic discipline
4. Development of key intellectual skills:
   • Analytic inquiry and problem solving
   • Communication through writing, oral presentation, and creative expression
   • Critical reading, writing, and thinking
   • Critical Self-Awareness
   • Ethical Reasoning
     • Analysis of media and images
     • Quantitative reasoning
     • Scientific methodology
5. Capacity for active intellectual community engagement:
   • Community learning, participation, and service
   • Ethical reasoning and action
   • Global, intercultural and socio-political awareness
   • Leadership and collaboration
   • Personal well-being
   • Respectful engagement with diverse perspectives