{"id":3775,"date":"2015-08-04T17:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T21:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/catalog-2015-2016\/?page_id=3751"},"modified":"2015-08-04T17:00:30","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T21:00:30","slug":"general-education-goals-outcomes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/catalog-2017-2018\/general-education-goals-outcomes\/","title":{"rendered":"General Education Goals &amp; Outcomes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong>MISSION<\/strong><strong> PILLARS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Outcome: Interdisciplinary Analysis <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Students will be able to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Evaluate, integrate and apply disparate sorts of knowledge.<\/li>\n<li>Create and employ innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to identify, comprehend, and address contemporary problems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Outcome: Experiential Learning <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Students will be able to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Construct and enhance practical skill sets by applying theoretical knowledge and conceptual understanding in authentic environments.<\/li>\n<li>Identify how prior knowledge, skills, and conceptual understanding have been applied to their experiences and how their experiences will enhance future academic study and personal, professional, and civic development.<\/li>\n<li>Reflect on their experiences individually and collectively by contextualizing assumptions and hypotheses about their knowledge, outcomes of their decisions, and actions they have taken, and by sharing their insights.<\/li>\n<li>Understand and articulate the structure, relationships between, and impacts of the multiple communities and organizations with which they interact.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Outcome: International Perspective <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Students will able to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Demonstrate adequate understanding of the complex and dynamic relationships between local, regional and global forces that shape globalization processes in the contemporary world, as they pertain to history, values, art, politics, literature, communication styles, economy, or development, and the beliefs and practices that shape these processes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Outcome: <\/strong><strong>Intercultural Perspective <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Students will able to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Demonstrate adequate understanding of the interactions and dynamics of intercultural relationships in the context of history, values, politics, communication styles, economy, or beliefs and practices within the North American context.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong>SKILLS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Outcome: Critical Inquiry <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Students will be able to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Clearly state and comprehensively describe issues or problems presented to them, providing all the relevant information necessary for their full understanding.<\/li>\n<li>Identify their own and others&#8217; 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