Students will demonstrate the ability to act ethically and positively to foster a supportive community both in an instructional environment as well as a co-curricular environment. Students will develop their emotional intelligence and refine their interpersonal skills to work effectively with others toward common goals.  

Students will integrate diverse ways of knowing, perspectives, experiences, and skills when approaching a topic, issue, or argument. Students will practice comparing, contrasting, and interpreting relationships between multiple disciplines. Students will identify points of intersection across differences and use those intersections to both inform and transform knowledge.

Students will engage in pursuits that create new knowledge and contribute to one or more scholarly areas. This includes the ability to:

• advance a position with a specific thesis or hypothesis.
• provide conclusions that acknowledge the complexities of an issue.
• support research with sound claims, logical reasoning, and sufficient evidence. 

Students will apply creative problem-solving skills to generate innovative solutions, adapting to new challenges. Students will exercise curiosity when approaching a challenge: asking questions, exploring different perspectives, and seeking new information. Students will explore unconventional solutions, including designing projects as a response to flexible guidelines and goals.  

Students will develop theoretical and practical communication skills, including the following:

• create messages appropriate to an audience, purpose, and context.
• deliver effective formal presentations in front of live audiences.
• demonstrate proficiency in effective written argument, including academic writing.