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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 and outcomes. These include:
- Synthesis of ideas across broad areas of knowledge within the liberal arts
- Linkage of theory and practice within group and self-directed research leading to intellectual or creative contributions
- Mastery of essential content, methods, concepts and technical aspects of an academic discipline
- 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
- 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