University of Colorado at Boulder

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Learning Goals for all Boulder Baccalaureate Graduates

Baccalaureate Graduates of the University of Colorado Boulder will be able to:

  • Think critically, comprehensively, and creatively about texts, artifacts and problems
  • Communicate clearly in written and oral forms for various audiences
  • Understand and apply high ethical standards to all endeavors
  • Formulate and investigate research, creative work and open-ended questions
  • Sustain complex arguments with appropriate evidence
  • Locate, evaluate and apply relevant evidence and technologies to solve problems in their disciplinary areas of study
  • Understand and appreciate multiple historical and cultural viewpoints in their social contexts
  • Work collaboratively and individually
  • Solve problems even with ambiguous, contradictory and controversial information
  • Participate in lifelong learning for professional and personal development
  • Contribute actively as civically literate citizens of the community, the state and the world

Approved by the Provost and the Council of Deans at the September 13, 2011 meeting.

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