Developing Student Skills
As WSU undergraduates complete their General Education Requirements, they grow towards mastery of WSU's faculty-endorsed Six Learning Goals of the Baccalaureate. The "GERs" help students develop skills to prepare for personal and professional success.
The GE version of the Six Learning Goals of the Baccalaureate help students to ...
Reason critically and creatively
- Define, analyze, and solve problems
- Integrate and synthesize knowledge from multiple sources
- Assess the accuracy and validity of findings and conclusions
- Understand how one thinks, reasons, and makes value judgments, including ethical and aesthetic judgments
- Understand diverse viewpoints, including differing philosophical and cultural perspectives
Use quantitative and symbolic reasoning
- Understand and apply quantitative principles and methods in the solution of problems
- Draw conclusions from computational and symbolic representations in order to check the logic and validity of statements and models
- Employ symbolic reasoning to understand and interpret the variety of discourses in the arts, humanities, and social sciences
Conduct self-directed learning projects (i.e., acquire information literacy)
- Effectively frame and solve problems
- Demonstrate knowledge of research and information retrieval strategies in the library and on the Internet
- Evaluate sources and data
Communicate clearly, concisely, and effectively to
- Critically analyze written information
- Show awareness of contexts, audiences, styles, and conventions
- Use correct Standard English
Demonstrate knowledge of self in diverse cultural contexts and understand the relationship of one’s own society to other societies and groups
- Understand how people think, reason, and make value judgments
- Understand distinctions between value assertions and statements of fact
- Demonstrate broad knowledge of the human past, including the historical development of human knowledge in global contexts
- Demonstrate broad knowledge of differing philosophical and cultural perspectives
- Demonstrate knowledge of historical and contemporary systems of political, religious, ethical, and aesthetic values
- Understand perspectives linked to race, gender, ethnicity in American society and in international contexts
- Understand the interactions of society and the environment
- Recognize one’s responsibilities, rights, and privileges as a citizen
Acquire knowledge in a variety of scholarly modes and contexts and recognize diverse disciplinary viewpoints and methods
- Understand and apply scientific principles and methods
- Understand and apply quantitative principles and methods
- Understand and apply the principles and methods of the arts and humanities
- Understand and apply the principles and methods of the social sciences.