College Academic Learning Goals

Delaware County Community College’s competency-based degree and certificate programs have been designed to offer graduates the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to perform competently in their area of study.

Our degree programs include three types of competencies - College Academic Learning Goals, Program Outcomes, and Course Competencies. The nine College Academic Learning Goals (CALGs) are broad statements of the learning opportunities that are included in every degree program. Program Outcomes describe the specific skills and knowledge included in particular degree programs. Course competencies describe the specific knowledge and skills included in particular college courses.

Since the focus is on skills, knowledge and abilities rather than courses, there is no mandatory set of courses that every graduate will take to complete the general education portion of a degree program. Instead, each degree program, career and transfer, has been designed by the College’s faculty to meet these goals. The goals are met either by general education courses or by required program courses that have been designed to meet one or more of the learning goals.

Each degree program guides its graduates to achieve the College Academic Learning Goals in the way that is most reasonable and helpful to students in that field of study.

The courses that meet the goals are part of, not in addition to, the program. The nine College Academic Learning Goals are:

Critical Reasoning: Graduates will demonstrate critical reasoning.

Diversity and Social Justice: Graduates will demonstrate an understanding of inequality, oppression, power, privilege, and the struggle for social justice faced by historically marginalized people.

Global Understanding: Graduates will demonstrate the ability to recognize and analyze global topics and issues.

Information Literacy: Graduates will demonstrate the ability to find, evaluate, and communicate information found in the course of their research.

Information Technology: Graduates will demonstrate the ability to use information technology.

Oral Communication: Graduates will demonstrate the ability to communicate orally by delivering and receiving messages competently.

Quantitative Reasoning: Graduates will demonstrate the ability to apply mathematical concepts and quantitative reasoning to solve problems.

Scientific Inquiry: Graduates will demonstrate a conceptual and a quantitative understanding of natural science disciplines and develop scientific inquiry skills.

Written Communication: Graduates will demonstrate the ability to compose coherent, evidence-based academic writing.

College Academic Learning Goals Designated Courses

This list is for Spring 2018 and will be continuously changing. Please check back here for the most up-to-date list.

Critical Reasoning	Diversity and Social Justice	Global Understanding	Information Literacy	Information Technology
Computing DPR 101* Humanities ENG 100* ENG 112* HUM 160* PHI 100* Social Science ECE 121* HIS 110* HIS 120* HIS 150* HIS 160* HIS 200* HIS 224* HIS 225* HIS 235* PSY 130 PSY 140 PSY 200 PSY 205* PSY 210* PSY 220* PSY 235* PSY 241* PSY 242* SWO 203/PSY 203* Not intended for transfer Other NUS 110*	Humanities ENG 230 ENG 231 ENG 240* ENG 241* HUM 12 0* HUM 121* HUM 160* Social Science HIS 110* HIS 120* HIS 150* HIS 160* HIS 200* HIS 235* POL 120 PSY 205* PSY 210* PSY 220* PSY 221/SOC 220 PSY 235* PSY 241* PSY 242* SOC 110* SOC 120* SOC 180 SOC 210* SOC 215/PSY 225 SOC 219 SWO 203/PSY 203*	Business ADJ 202 ECO 210 ECO 220 Humanities ART 110 ART 111 ART 112 ART 115 ART 116 ENG 240* ENG 241* HUM 12 0* HUM 121* HUM 160* PHI 100* SPA 101 SPA 102 Science BIO 102* Social Science HIS 110* HIS 120* HIS 150* HIS 160* HIS 224* HIS 225* HIS 235* PSY 210* PSY 235* PSY 241* PSY 242* SOC 110* SOC 120* SOC 210*	Humanities ENG 100* ENG 112* Social Science EDU 206* SOC 260	Computing DPR 100 DPR 101* DPR 110 Humanities ART 211 ART 236 Social Science ECE 111/112/ 121/130/ 140/201 Bundle EDU 206* Not intended for general transfer but may be accepted in related curricula via articulation Business NET 110 Not intended for transfer Business PLG 130 Other EMTP 200 NUS 110* RTH 104/105 Bundle TCC 111

* Multiple College Academic Learning Goals Designations

Oral Communication	Quantitative Reasoning	Scientific Inquiry	Written Communication
Business BUS 130 Humanities COMM 100 COMM 111	Business BUS 220 Mathematics MAT 110 MAT 120 MAT 121 MAT 128 MAT 125 MAT 135 MAT 151 MAT 152 MAT 160 MAT 210 Not intended for transfer Business BUS 104	Science BIO 100 BIO 102* BIO 110 BIO 150 CHE 101 CHE 110 ESS 100 ESS 105 ESS 110 PHY 110 PHY 131 Not intended for general transfer but may be accepted in related curricula via articulation Science PHY 107 Other AHM 104/105/220 Bundle	Humanities ENG 100* ENG 112* HUM 121*

* Multiple College Academic Learning Goals Designations