STUDENT SPOTLIGHT
Evan | Graphic Design 27′
“I often apply analysis to understand design styles when attempting a new design, medium, or application. Analyzing and wanting to know more about something leads to motivation for improvement. It’s also very useful to help me understand certain styles and adapt those to help find my personal style. I often practice this during new projects that require new ways of thinking for different mediums, allowing me to be more well versed in different mediums and situations.”
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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.”