The General Education Program prepares students for informed citizenship, leading to responsible participation in local, national, and global, communities.

REL 100 Religions of the World

Foundations - Social and Behavioral Sciences
Cultures - Global Perspectives

Knowledge Student Learning Outcomes

1. Explain how knowledge in the social and behavioral sciences is created and applied.
2. Explain major approaches, methods, theories, and substantive findings of the field.
3. Evaluate and apply concepts and theories from the social and behavioral sciences to real-life examples.
4. Explain how culture affects peoples efforts to understand, use, and survive in their environments, and how these efforts, in turn, affect culture.
5. Explain within a cultural context the worldviews, language, or ways of life of societies, nations, regions, or peoples located outside of the United States.

Essential Skills Student Learning Outcomes

1. Critical Thinking: Comprehensively evaluate issues, ideas, artifacts, or events before forming a conclusion.
• States issues, ideas, artifacts, or events clearly and describes them comprehensively.
• Develops a position or interpretation, based on evidence, that thoroughly takes into account the complexities of an issue, idea, artifact, or event, the limits of the position or interpretation, and other points of view.
• Develops conclusions, implications, and consequences that are logical and reflect an informed evaluation based on strength of evidence.
2. Ethical Reasoning: Apply ethical principles and codes of conduct to decision making.
• Recognizes ethical issues when presented in a complex, multilayered (gray) context and can recognize interrelationships among the issues.
• Applies ethical theories or concepts to a complex issue accurately and considers the full implications of the application.
• States a position in-depth and effectively defends against other ethical perspectives.