Articulating Characteristics

and Attributes of SJFC

Graduates and

Four-year Learning Goals

Learning Statements

Categories Goals Characteristics and

attributes

Categories of Student Learning

Discipline specific knowledge, comprehension, and understanding

Higher order thinking abilities

College-level thinking abilities

General education and liberal studies goals

Professional and career development goals

Personal growth and development goals

Learning GoalsOur graduates will:

Know specific facts, terms, concepts, conventions, and processes

Be able to perform such skills as higher order thinking, psychomotor, affective, interpersonal, and communication

Have values related to personal and professional attitudes and perspectives

Characteristics and AttributesOur graduates are:

Exemplars of academic and professional competence

Highly effective communicators

Role models of ethical behavior and

moral conduct

Broadly educated

Articulating Characteristics and Attributes of SJFC Graduates

andFour-year Learning Goals

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