All degree-seeking students at BRTC should demonstrate competency in the following domains general education domains.
A habit of mind characterized by the comprehensive exploration of issues, ideas, artifacts, and events before accepting or formulating an opinion or conclusion.
A critical analysis of and an engagement with complex, interdependent global systems and legacies and their implications for people’s lives and the earth’s sustainability. Through global learning, students should 1) become informed, open-minded, and responsible people who are attentive to diversity across the spectrum of differences, 2) seek to understand how their actions affect both local and global communities, and 3) address the world’s most pressing and enduring issues collaboratively and equitably.
The ability to know when there is a need for information, to be able to identify, locate, evaluate, and effectively and responsibly use and share that information for the problem at hand.
A prepared, purposeful written or oral presentation designated to increase knowledge, to foster understanding, or to promote change in the audience’s attitudes, values, beliefs, or behaviors. Communication involves learning to work in many genres and styles. It can involve working with many different technologies, and mixing texts, data, and images. Communication abilities develop through iterative experiences across the curriculum
Also known as Numeracy or Quantitative Reasoning – is a “habit of mind,” competency, and comfort in working with numerical data. Individuals with strong QL skills possess the ability to reason and solve quantitative problems from a wide array of authentic contexts and everyday life situations. They understand and can create sophisticated arguments supported by quantitative and they can clearly communicate those arguments in a variety of formats (using words, tables, graphs, mathematical equations, etc., as appropriate).