Goals and Learning Objectives

The Core Fluencies

The entire General Education curriculum is designed around a set of core fluencies, which each of the courses develop to varying degrees. The core fluencies are basic to all the coursework, including the required English composition, foreign language courses, mathematics, natural science courses, Distribution Area courses, capstone LEH300-LEH301 sections, and writing intensive sections. These fluencies represent skills and abilities that overlap one another, as this diagram suggests.

Five Fluencies

Fluencies (also called Basic Skills, Competencies) are common to all the General Education required courses.  They are skills or abilities to think, communicate, analyze, interpret, etc.  These fluencies are developed over the student’s entire undergraduate career.

Communication and Language (written, oral, using English and other languages; also visual-graphic, aural non-verbal languages): Students will

Scientific (using laboratory technology and methodology, experimentation and demonstration, observation and confirmation): Students will

Informational and technological (using Internet and similar shared resources, computerized and multimedia data): Students will

Quantitative (using and understanding mathematical concepts, expressions, graphical representations): Students will

Critical and Analytical (using multiple disciplinary tools to compare and contrast, to make connections and explain relationships): Students will