Academic Foundations
Broad Learning Goals for Critical Text Analysis
Adapted from the AAC&U Value Rubrics
A. READING: Students will demonstrate the ability to comprehend, analyze, interpret, and understand the context and implications of written content and text passages. UNM SLG: SKILL
B. PROBLEM SOLVING: Students will demonstrate knowledge of different approaches to problem-solving by identifying problems, practicing multiple strategies to minimize and eliminate issues, and monitoring and evaluating solutions. UNM SLG: SKILL
C. ACADEMIC RESPONSIBILITY: Students will recognize their own learning values that include maturing in educational experiences by expanding a knowledge base or skills, pursuing opportunities relevant to continual learning, initiating curiosity, formulating learning goals, and evaluating one's own individual learning process. UNM SLG: RESPONSIBILITY
Broad Learning Goals for Foundational Math
Adapted from the AAC&U Value Rubrics
A. QUANTITATIVE LITERACY: Students will illustrate the ability to calculate and solve mathematic problems, convert numerical data, explain information presented in mathematical forms, and draw conclusions based on qualitative analysis. UNM SLG: SKILL
B. ACADEMIC RESPONSIBILITY: Students will recognize their own learning values that include maturing in educational experiences by expanding a knowledge base or skills, pursuing opportunities relevant to continual learning, initiating curiosity, and formulating learning goals, and evaluating one's own individual learning process.UNM SLG: RESPONSIBILITY
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The University of New Mexico Student Learning Goals *
University of New Mexico students will develop the following aptitudes and habits of mind in the course of their general and major study at UNM:
- KNOWLEDGE of human cultures and the natural world, gained through study in the sciences and mathematics, social sciences, humanities, histories, languages and the arts.
- SKILLS, both intellectual and applied, demonstrated in written and oral communication, inquiry and analysis, critical and creative thinking, quantitative literacy, information literacy, performance, teamwork and problem solving.
- RESPONSIBILITY, both personal and social, that will be manifested in civic knowledge and engagement, multicultural knowledge and competence, ethical reasoning and action, and foundations and skills for lifelong learning.