Intellectual HOM
Learned qualities and traits of a person that are developed over time through practice.
What are: Habits of Mind?
Communication Literacy 1, Communication Literacy 2, and Qualitative Literacy.
What are: competency requirements?
Required for the bachelor's degree, but not required to complete General Education or an Associate degree.
What is: University Studies?
USU's ultimate goal is for students to graduate as this type of engaged, commuity-minded scholar?
What is: Citizen Scholar?
Many students think the primary purpose of college is to get one of these after graduation.
What is: a job?
Few workers work entirely in this setting.
What is: alone?
Teaches a student to demonstrate a substantive understanding of institutions and processes central to the American political systems, processes, and issues.
What is: the American Institutions breadth requirement (BAI)?
Upper-division courses meant to help students get outside of their major to develop the broad collection of skills employers say they need to be successful.
What are: depth courses?
62% of surveyed employers want college graduates with this ability.
What is: the ability to work in teams?
According to Sanders, employers often value this skill more than specific technical training because graduates must adapt to changing careers.
What is: critical thinking?
The goals of the whole degree at USU is to great people who can think in this way.
What is: critically?
OR
What is: analytically?
Can articulate big questions about the experience of being human.
What is: a student who attains proficiency in the Breadth Humanities (BHU).
For most students, these requirements are built into their major requirements.
What are: Communication and Quantitative Intensive Courses?
USU teaches this responsibility alongside academic content.
What is: civic responsibility?
Sanders argues that the goal of college is not just earning a degree but becoming this type of person.
What is: a learner?
Every academic task a student, researcher, or employee undertakes.
What is: is communicated in one way or another?
Teaches students the key laws, concepts, and processes that govern biological systems.
What is: Breadth Life Science (BLS) courses?
Can write or illustrate knowledge of a scientific idea or concept clearly, comprehensively, and concisely.
What is: a student who attains proficiency in a Depth Science course?
Citizen Scholars strengthen these while gaining valuable experience.
What are: communities?
Rather than asking, "What career do I want?" Sanders challenges students to ask this deeper question.
What is: who do I want to become?
This will help you see the value of your academic experiences at Utah State University.
What is: cultivating habits of mind?
Demonstrates an understanding of the similarities and differences among individuals, between social groups, and between socities.
What is: a student who attains proficiency in Breadth Social Sciences (BSS).
Has developed skills of critical and aesthetic judgement; can compare, contrast, and apply a variety of critical perspectives at an upper-division level.
What is: a student who attains proficiency in Depth Humanities/Arts (DHA)?
Depends on our capacity to reason through difficult questions together, to hear and understand each other, to find shared principles, and to weigh competing claims and bodies of evidence together.
What is: our capacity for a civilized life?
In his chapter "An Invitation," Sanders invites students to reconsider their purpose and embrace this.
What is: the opportunities of education.