Learning outcomes
Personal and Ethical Development
Students will be able to:
- Set their own learning goals, be self-directed, and be habitual in their learning.
- Articulate and critically evaluate their own value systems and prejudices and recognize the same in others.
- Demonstrate an awareness that diverse beliefs can be coherent and therefore valid within other value systems.
- Demonstrate an ability to evaluate ethical dilemmas and to make socially responsible decisions.
- Risk action on behalf of their beliefs and commitments.
- Demonstrate an appreciation for the religions and/or spiritual dimensions of the human person and of the human community.
- Recognize and reveal one's own academic strengths and weaknesses.
Professional and Cognitive Development
Students will be able to:
- Interact and compete in the non-dance world.
- Demonstrate a love of learning and a familiarity with a wide variety of academic disciplines: e.g. literature, science, math, and the social sciences.
- Recognize their own achievements as dancers, as well their potential to excel in other areas.
- Demonstrate competence in the skills of careful reading, analysis, interpretation, and communication in both written and oral forms.
- Demonstrate effective computer skills.
- Collaborate and work effectively in teams.
- Demonstrate an ability to think critically by being able to "take perspective on their own perspective" and by articulating how they arrive at their beliefs.
- Use concrete experience, theory, and reflection as critical sources of learning.
- Demonstrate problem-solving and decision-making capabilities by being able to gather and analyze data and information.
- Exercise leadership skills.
- Recognize the constructed and integrated nature of knowledge and recognize their responsibility in the construction of that knowledge
