Learning outcomes
Personal and Ethical Development
Students will be able to:
- Demonstrate awareness of and responsibility for their own learning process.
- Recognize and reveal their own academic strengths and weaknesses.
- 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 make socially responsible decisions.
- Demonstrate an appreciation for the religious and/or spiritual dimension of the human person and of the human community.
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.
- Demonstrate competence in the skills of careful reading, analysis, critical thinking, interpretation, and communication in both written and oral forms.
- Recognize their own achievements as dancers, as well their potential to excel in other areas.
- Use concrete experience, theory, and reflection as critical sources of learning.
- Recognize the constructed and integrated nature of knowledge and recognize their responsibility in the construction of that knowledge.
- Demonstrate problem-solving and decision-making capabilities by being able to gather and analyze data and information.
- Effectively use technology and continually challenge themselves to learn about new technologies.
