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| Area A: Written Communications |
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Written communications skills are applicable in both the workplace and society. Proficiency in written communication helps students write effectively to ensure strong communication with a variety of audiences, using critical thinking skills, evaluation of sources, and appropriate syntax, mechanics, organization, and style.
WCU students completing Written Communications competency requirement courses will:
- Write effectively using appropriate syntax, mechanics, organization, and style.
- Integrate valid scholarly sources to support main ideas.
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Online Program Course Offerings:
ENGL 130 College Composition I
ENGL 230 College Composition II
ENGL 250 Technical Writing
Ground Program Course Offerings:
ENGL 140 Written Communications I
ENGL 240 Written Communications II
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| Area B: Oral and Interpersonal Communications |
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Oral and interpersonal communication skills are necessary to communicate effectively with diverse audiences and in collaboration with teams. Proficiency in communication and teamwork allows students to critically evaluate communication to have knowledge and awareness of individuals’ perspectives in various contexts.
WCU students completing Oral and Interpersonal Communications competency requirement courses will:
- Effectively communicate with a diverse audience utilizing applicable presentation skills, unity, clarity, and coherence.
- Select and apply appropriate communication theory to varying environments utilizing skills necessary to collaborate successfully within a group with an awareness of team dynamics.
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Online Program Course Offerings:
COMM 200 Interpersonal Communications
SPCH 140 Public Speaking
Ground Program Course Offerings:
SPCH 142 Oral Communications
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| Area C: Critical Thinking & Ethical Reasoning |
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Critical thinking skills allow students to rationally analyze the decision-making process and understand ethical issues. Students evaluate evidence, arguments, and theories to reason inductively and deductively and reach factual conclusions though the use of digital and or information literacy skills.
WCU students completing Critical Thinking and Ethical Reasoning competency requirement courses will:
- Reach factual, ethical conclusions using appropriate decision-making processes that incorporate digital and or information literacy skills.
- Evaluate sources, arguments, and theories appropriately and ethically.
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Online Program Course Offerings:
DIG 101 Digital Literacy
PHIL 251 Survey of Contemporary Ethics
PHIL 340 Critical Thinking
PHIL 435 Methods of Conflict Resolution
Ground Program Course Offerings:
PHIL 341 Critical Reasoning
PHIL 434 Medical Ethics and Issues
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| Area D: Quantitative Literacy |
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Quantitative literacy and reasoning skills are necessary to apply mathematical reasoning skills to interpret the world around us. Quantitative reasoning skills help students understand data and mathematical information, solve applied mathematical problems, and function in a mathematical world.
WCU students completing Quantitative literacy competency requirement courses will:
- Apply mathematical concepts and calculations to solve a problem or support a claim.
- Evaluate and interpret data using models, problem-solving, mathematical formulas, and or quantitative evidence.
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Online Program Course Offerings:
MATH 102 Applied Mathematics
MATH 107 Intermediate Algebra
MATH 207 Elementary Statistics
Ground Program Course Offerings:
MATH 108 College Mathematics I
MATH 211 Statistics
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| Area E: Social and Behavioral Sciences Awareness |
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The scientific study of societal relations and human behavior provides students the opportunity to develop a deeper understanding of the world, people, and relationships around them with an awareness of the impact human behavior has on relationships.
WCU students completing social and behavioral sciences awareness competency requirement courses will:
- Analyze thoughts, ideas, relationships, and or social norms to apply to social and or behavioral sciences.
- Evaluate the impact of social and behavioral sciences on society.
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Online Program Course Offerings:
PSYC 160 Introduction to Psychology
PSYC 200 Emotional Intelligence
SOC 270 Principles of Sociology
Ground Program Course Offerings:
PSYC 160 Introduction to Psychology
PSYC 290 Life Span Psychology
SOC 280 Sociology
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| Area F: Historical, Cultural, and Aesthetic Recognition |
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Cultural recognition, historical knowledge, and aesthetic awareness provides students an opportunity to develop a deeper understanding of the world, people, and relationships around them with a respect for diversity, and an understanding of equity, bias, norms and inclusion.
WCU students completing social responsibility, cultural recognition, and aesthetic awareness competency requirement courses will:
- Analyze thoughts, ideas, creative expressions, relationships, and or social norms to apply to art, philosophy, history, and or humanities theories.
- Evaluate the impact of culture, diversity, art, and or history on society.
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Online Program Course Offerings:
HIST 100 US History
HUM 360 Cultural Diversity
Ground Program Course Offerings:
HUM 370 Cultural Pluralism
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| Area G: Scientific Reasoning |
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Proficiency in life and physical sciences allows students to solve problems using critical thinking in a scientific framework. This allows students to have a deeper understanding of the problems in front of them to develop a justifiable solution grounded in science.
WCU students completing Life and Physical Science competency requirement courses will:
- Analyze theories, problems, ideas, and solutions using a scientific framework
- Develop evidence-based solutions grounded in science
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Online Program Course Offerings:
BIO 250 General Human Biology
SCI 210 Survey of Science and Technology
Ground Program Course Offerings:
ANAT 260 Human Anatomy
CHEM 280 Chemistry
CHEM 285 Biochemistry, DH
MICR 290 Microbiology
PATH 370 Pathophysiology
PHYS 261 Human Physiology
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