Student Spotlight
Cricket | Psychology 27′
“Communication, scientific literacy, and cultural understanding allows me to approach everything from a well rounded and informed perspective while also allowing me to communicate when needed with my peers and others around me. I use at least these competencies if not more with just about everything I do both in my academic and in my professional life.”
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Jonathan Banfill
“I hope students understand that the competencies help give a
structure that is beyond any quality of a particular course or major.
The goal is much bigger than what’s on your transcript.”
Eric Shonstrom
“The competencies are broken down into interacting, thinking, and
literacy categories. For me, the communication and collaboration piece
is huge. Every single one of my classes is built around: How do you work
with other people? How do you solve problems as a group? How do you
move forward through a difficult scenario?”
Weiling Deng
“These are important skills – sometimes people understand them as
soft skills, but they’re actually interwoven and grounded in specific
professional skills. They provide each and every class a pathway to
meta-thinking”
Steve Wehmeyer
“Students walk away from a class thinking, ‘I had fun in that class
and it was interesting, but now I see how I can apply that elsewhere.’
That’s part of what the competencies do. They bring us back to what
we’re really teaching.”