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Students will be able to distinguish the different types of questions, methods, norms and sources
underpinning religious studies and theology.
Students will recognize a variety of religious responses to modernity and the scientific revolution
including various fundamentalisms as well as more integrative responses.
Creativity
Students will engage in the creative process.
Students will make studio art or participate in a theatrical or musical performance or write creatively.
Students will describe, analyze, and demonstrate the creative process.
Students will take creative risks with self-expression.
Students will generate a variety of potential solutions to problems.
Critical Thinking
Students will think critically as evidenced by:
Providing relevant facts to support ideas.
Assessing the relative importance of ideas.
Finding similarities and making distinctions.
Embracing complexities and presenting multiple points of view.
Evaluating and synthesizing information.
Exploring big ideas and asking nuanced questions.
Understanding and explaining cause and effect.
Communication
Students will communicate effectively.
Students will be able to express ideas, facts and research in comprehensible and grammatically correct
written and oral formats.
Students will be aware of the multiple levels of communication and various media that exist in today’s
world and anticipate possible emergent media.
Students will demonstrate an ability to listen to and understand the communication of others.
Students will demonstrate the ability to write and speak in creative, persuasive and informative modes of
expression.
Students will identify and implement various modern technologies in ways appropriate to respective
academic disciplines.
Ethical Integration
Students will examine personal and professional decisions in light of ethical principles.
Given a situation, students will be able to identify any ethical issues involved.
Students will be able to suggest an ethical response to an issue and explain the basis for deciding on this
response.
Students will be conversant with various ethical systems and evaluate decisions in relation to those
systems including but not limited to the ethical use of technology.
Diversity in Community
Students will understand the diversity and interdependence of cultures.
Students will be able to recognize important points of convergence and difference among various
cultures.
Students will cultivate an understanding of globalization that recognizes its promising and problematic
features.
Students will explain how an environment of inclusion and respect across social and cultural differences
contributes to peacemaking.
Social Responsibility
Students will realize the importance and demands of social responsibility.
Students will identify social implications of a belief in inalienable human rights.
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