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   Prescott College Undergraduate Learning Goals

 

Please link to the assignments (artifacts) within your eportfolio that demonstrate each learning goal; place your link within the "Artifact" column for the corresponding goal. Use your best judgment to determine which artifacts address each goal.  You may link multiple artifacts for each goal. 

                                                          

Learning GoalArtifacts
  • Competence within the Specific Field(s) of Study

Competence in the content and methodology of the chosen field, including knowledge of the basic history, the important individuals and their work, the major current theories and their application and demonstrated capacity to use the critical research techniques, scholarly methods, leadership skills, artistic modes of expression, etc., employed in that area. The demonstration of competence requires personalization, interconnection, and application of learning.

 Sustainability has quite a variety of meanings.  I first looked at sustainabiility as a word meaning,"to stop the un-necessary usage and depletion of our natural resources whether that meant defoleaging the amount of trees available in our forests, using up finite amounts of petroleum, creating a level of polution in our atmosphere which causes many health concerns, taking away the minerals and stripping our farmlands of the much needed topsoils which allow the opportunity of having food sources readily avialable.

 

Earthen Buildings of Upstate New York.docx

  • Humanities and Arts Knowledge

An appreciation of literature, language, and the arts provides the foundational knowledge needed to pursue critical and creative approaches to reading, writing, problem-solving, communication, performance, and the making of art.  A well-rounded understanding of the humanities and the arts supports the development of an informed aesthetic, effective communication and performance skills, and insight into different cultural and artistic sensibilities, forms, contexts, and histories. 

 Acequias, the life line of The Land of Enchantment.docx
  • Global Cultural Literacy 

Global cultural literacy involves both an academic and a personal understanding of the depth of our interdependence as human beings and communities. It involves an awareness of the challenges that we face--and must address--as a global community. It requires the ability to critically analyze the ways that power is distributed within regions and societies, and to trace the historical roots and current reality of social, political and economic inequality. It involves knowing about diverse cultures of the world, about differences of gender and sexuality, race, religion and ethnicity, and developing a relationship with oneself and one’s own position within larger systems of privilege. To be literate in this area is to learn to listen, share and reciprocate, to reach across borders of unequal power with critical awareness, humility and commitment.

Introduction to Sustainable Construction.docx 
  • Civic Engagement

Civic engagement requires a combination of knowledge, skills, and motivation that are applied with the intention of creating positive social change in communities ranging from local to global.  It may involve political or non-political activities of individual or collective concern that demonstrate personalization of learning, ethical reasoning, and social action of potential benefit to the community.

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  • Ecological Literacy

Ecological literacy is based on an understanding of unperturbed natural systems, and  an examination of human impact on the integrity of those systems and the diversity of life. Ecological literacy involves exploring humanity's historic and current relationship with the natural world and the processes that sustain all life.  It ultimately fosters healthy relationships between human communities and the natural world. 

 my journey into sustainability.docx
  • Skills for Inquiry, Analysis and Synthesis

Inquiry is a systematic process of exploring issues, facts, or works through the collection and analysis of evidence that result in informed conclusions or judgments. Analysis is the process of breaking complex topics or issues into parts to gain a better understanding of them; synthesis is the dynamic assembly of discrete elements into new wholes or systems.  Skills for inquiry, analysis and synthesis include the capacity to use research techniques, mathematics, and other qualitative and quantitative scholarly methods as tools for learning in the competence and the breadths.

my journey into sustainability.docx 
  • Skills for Self-direction and Lifelong Learning

The skills and dispositions involved in lifelong learning are curiosity, transfer, independence, initiative, and reflection.    Lifelong learning depends on the ability to be a self-directed learner who integrates and applies these skills and abilities to improve her or his knowledge, skills and competence to meet new challenges throughout life.

 activity 1.docx
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