FGCU Learning Goals
FGCU Student Learning Outcomes for Undergraduate Students
Florida Gulf Coast University is committed to the following learning goals and educational outcomes, believing they provide a foundation for lifelong learning and effective citizenship. The specific outcomes involving knowledge, understanding, analysis, evaluation and collaboration provide the basis on which the university and the learner, sharing responsibility, can measure progress toward reaching these goals.
Goal 1: Aesthetic Sensibility. Know and understand the variety of aesthetic frameworks that have shaped, and continue to shape, human creative arts. Analyze and evaluate the aesthetic principles at work in literary and artistic composition, intellectual systems, and disciplinary and professional practices. Collaborate with others in projects involving aesthetic awareness, participation and/or analysis.
Goal 2: Culturally Diverse Perspective. Know and understand the diversity of the local and global communities, including cultural, social, political and economic differences. Analyze, evaluate, and assess the impact of differences in ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, native language, sexual orientation and intellectual/disciplinary approaches.
*Goal 3: Ecological Perspective. Know the issues related to economic, social and ecological sustainability. Analyze and evaluate ecological issues locally and globally. Participate in collaborative projects requiring awareness and/or analysis of ecological and environmental issues.
Goal 4: Effective Communication. Know the fundamental principles for effective and appropriate communication, including reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. Organize thoughts and compose ideas for a variety of audiences, using a range of communication tools and techniques. Participate in collaborative projects requiring effective communications among team members.
Goal 5: Ethical Communication. Know and understand the key ethical issues related to a variety of disciplines and professions. Analyze and evaluate key ethical issues in a variety of disciplinary and professional contexts. Participate in collaborative projects requiring ethical analysis and/or decision-making.
Goal 6: Information Literacy. Identify and locate multiple sources of information using a variety of methods. Analyze and evaluate information within a variety of disciplinary and professional contexts. Participate in collaborative analysis and/or application of information resources.
Goal 7: Problem-solving Abilities. Understand the multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary nature of knowledge. Apply critical, analytical, creative, and systems thinking in order to recognize and solve problems. Work individually and collaboratively to recognize and solve problems.
Goal 8: Technological Literacy. Develop knowledge of morn technology. Process information through the use of technology. Collaborate with others using technology tools.
*Goal 9: Community Awareness and Involvement. Know and understand the important and complex relationships between individuals and the communities in which they live and work. Analyze, evaluate, and assess human needs and practices within the context of community structures and traditions. Participate collaboratively in community service projects.
**Goal 10: Personal Growth and Awareness. Identify personal values; acquire knowledge of ways to enhance mental and physical wellness; become knowledgeable about goal-setting strategies, including the goal of life-long learning. Challenge and defend personal values; select wellness strategies; set personal goals and objectives, including the goal of life-long learning. In putting values into practice, accept personal responsibility for consequences of actions; practice and refine wellness strategies; refine goals, including the goal of life-long learning, based on additional knowledge, experience, and interaction with others.
* Goal 3: Ecological Perspective, and Goal 9: Community Awareness and Involvement have been targeted to be utilized in Florida Gulf Coast University's Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) which addresses student learning and institutional effectiveness. Students and parents may learn more about the FGCU QEP and how it relates to their educational experience by visiting The FGCU QEP Website.
** Goal 10: Personal Growth and Awareness is an outcome of the FGCU General Education Program.
