Recognize the components of scholarly work and that scholarship can take many forms.Compose in multiple environments using traditional and digital communication tools.Īfter completing the Madison Research Essential Skills Test (MREST), JMU’s information literacy test, and course work in critical thinking, human communication and writing, students should be able to:.Demonstrate an awareness of conventions, the formal and informal guidelines that define what is considered to be correct and appropriate in a variety of texts.Employ critical thinking, which includes the ability through reading, research and writing, to analyze a situation or text and make thoughtful decisions based on that analysis.Demonstrate an awareness of rhetorical knowledge, which may include the ability to analyze and act on understandings of audiences, purposes and contexts in creating and comprehending texts.Utilize information literacy skills expected of ethical communicators.Īfter completing course work in writing, students should be able to:.Respond to messages consistent with the diversity of communication purpose, audience, context and ethics.Construct messages consistent with the diversity of communication purpose, audience, context and ethics. ![]() ![]() Explain the fundamental processes that significantly influence communication.Demonstrate an intellectual disposition to be fair-minded in considering evidence, arguments and alternative points of view.Īfter completing course work in communication, students should be able to:.Evaluate arguments for soundness, strength and completeness.Evaluate claims and sources for clarity, credibility, reliability, accuracy and relevance.Identify the basic components of arguments, including premises, supporting evidences, assumptions, conclusions and implications.Critical ThinkingĪfter completing a 100-level Critical Thinking course, students should be able to: Cluster One Learning ObjectivesĪfter completing Cluster One: Skills for the 21st Century, students should be able to use reading, writing, human communication, critical thinking and information literacy skills for inquiring, learning, thinking and communicating in their personal, academic and civic lives. There are no overrides available in Cluster One courses. ![]() Permission to enroll in additional Cluster One courses is given based on course availability. Cluster One areas and courses are not repeatable without permission. Cluster One courses may be taken in any order. Therefore, all students are required to complete Cluster One requirements during their first academic year at JMU. Through course work in three areas and a required information literacy test, this cluster requires students to demonstrate:Ĭompetence in these areas is fundamental to subsequent study in major and professional programs. Cluster One is the cornerstone of General Education: The Human Community at JMU.
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