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Graduate Learning Goals

Institutional Graduate Learning Goals for Masters Programs

  1. Disciplinary knowledge: Master, integrate, and apply disciplinary knowledge and skills to current, practical, and important contexts and situations.
  2. Communication: Communicate key knowledge with clarity and purpose both within the discipline and in broader contexts.
  3. Critical thinking/analysis: Demonstrate the ability to be creative, analytical, and critical thinkers.
  4. Information literacy: Demonstrate the ability to obtain, assess, and analyze information from a myriad of sources.
  5. Professionalism: Demonstrate an understanding of professional integrity.
  6. Intercultural/Global Perspectives: Demonstrate relevant knowledge and application of intercultural and/or global perspectives.

Institutional Graduate Learning Goals for Doctoral Programs

All of the above Institutional Graduate Learning Goals for Masters Programs, with the addition of:

  1. Research: Conduct independent research resulting in an original contribution to knowledge in the focused areas of their graduate program.

These goals appear as columns in the revised Graduate Learning Goals report form.