Arts: Upon successful completion of the General Education Arts requirement, students will be able to:

Understand: Explain the creative artistic process as an iterative and recursive practice culminating in an expression of human experience and emotion through a medium;
Appreciate: Apply artistic concepts and ideas drawn from traditions of artistic creation and theory to better engage with, analyze and understand a creative work;
Connect: Examine connections between art and society and articulate how the arts are a historical and cultural phenomenon.

Humanities: Upon successful completion of the General Education Arts requirement, students will be able to:

Understand: Explain the creative artistic process as an iterative and recursive practice culminating in an expression of human experience and emotion through a medium;
Appreciate: Apply artistic concepts and ideas drawn from traditions of artistic creation and theory to better engage with, analyze and understand a creative work;
Connect: Examine connections between art and society and articulate how the arts are a historical and cultural phenomenon.

Life Science: Upon successful completion of the General Education Life Sciences requirement, students will be able to:

Apply Scientific Methods: Describe and apply approaches to scientific discovery and interpretation of experimental data;
Understand: Demonstrate understanding of matter, energy, and their influence on biological systems;
Apply Knowledge: Describe and apply evolutionary concepts in terms of inheritance, adaptation, and diversity of life;
Explain: Explain the mechanisms of information storage, expression, and exchange in living organisms or eco-systems; and
Reflect: Reflect on the relevance of life sciences in a broader context.

Physical Science: Upon successful completion of the General Education Physical Sciences requirement, students will be able to:

Explain scientific methods: Explain science as a process and as a way of understanding the physical world;
Understand: Demonstrate understanding of matter, energy, and their influence on physical systems;
Evaluate: Evaluate the credibility of various sources of information about science-related issues; and
Apply: Describe how the Physical Sciences utilize their foundational principles to confront and solve pressing local and global challenges, shaping historical, ethical, or social landscapes in the process.

Social/Behavioral Science: Upon successful completion of the General Education Social and Behavioral Sciences requirement, students will be able to:

Examine: Examine institutions and human behavior through social and behavioral concepts, methods, or theories;
Analyze: Identify diverse perspectives to explore and examine social and behavioral phenomena; and
Apply: Apply discipline-relevant and scientific theories and methods to make inferences about or applications to social and behavioral phenomena at personal, institutional, or cultural levels.

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