General Education Student Learning Outcomes
The General Education curriculum at PHSC provides students with varied opportunities to integrate knowledge, skills, and attitudes that are essential for personal, intellectual, and professional enrichment. The College's General Education curriculum assures breadth that cannot be found in any specific discipline. It exposes all degree seeking students to a diversity of disciplines. A student learning outcome is a statement of the knowledge, skills, or attitudes a student will be able to demonstrate, represent, or produce as a result of a given educational experience. The College's General Education Student Learning Outcomes are:
- Written Communication: Students will demonstrate effective written communication.
- Oral Communication: Students will demonstrate effective oral communication.
- Critical Thinking: Students will critically analyze information from various forms of discourse.
- Scientific Reasoning: Students will use scientific methods to explain the natural world.
- Quantitative Reasoning: Students will apply mathematical principles and methods to solve problems.
- Information Literacy: Students will locate, evaluate, incorporate, and document information from diverse sources.
- Technological Fluency: Students will use a variety of technology based applications and strategies to accomplish a task or solve a problem.
- Cultural Literacy and Global Awareness: Students will develop a critical understanding of the social, behavioral, cultural, ethical, global, and historical processes that define human diversity.