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.
* Multiple College Academic Learning Goals Designations
Oral
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Quantitative
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Scientific
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Written
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| 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
