1. Pursue and evaluate knowledge through the skills of
inquiry, research, critical thinking and problem solving.
2. Communicate effectively in both speech and writing.
3. Understand the varying perspectives of the liberal arts
and sciences and apply them to personal, civic or professional issues.
4. Understand and appreciate diversity and develop a
worldview informed by multicultural and global perspectives.
5. Understand and appreciate the Jesuit/Catholic linking of
faith and justice.
6. Assess their own levels of commitment to community
service and to a just world.
7. Demonstrate proficiency in the content and methodology of
their discipline or profession.
8. Think systematically about moral, ethical and spiritual
questions and assess and articulate their own values.
9. Demonstrate team and leadership skills needed to convert goals to action.
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Department/Program Communication:
Communication Studies Student
Learning Outcomes |
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Students should be able to: |
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Understand
and appreciate the role of human communication in creating, maintaining, and
modifying communities. |
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Be
able to critically analyze an act of communication, applying appropriate
conceptual tools in order to develop an explanation and evaluation of the
event/situation. |
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Be
able to conduct an appropriate situational and audience analysis as a
precursor to message design, identifying salient constraints, exigencies, and
audience features. |
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Be
able to design messages and/or communicative patterns that are strategically
and effectively adapted to both the situation and communicator goals. |
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Be
able to effectively engage in face-to-face communication with both
individuals and larger audiences (including diverse audiences and people from
different cultural/ideological backgrounds), utilizing appropriate principles
of interpersonal communication and public speaking. |
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Be
willing to use their communication skills and knowledge to serve as agents
for positive social change and have had at least one major experience in
doing so. We place particular emphasis
on developing students’ willingness to advocate for issues of social
justice. |
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