Minnesota Transfer Goals Ten areas of emphasis in the Minnesota Transfer Curriculum: Goal 1: WRITTEN and ORAL COMMUNICATION - To develop writers and speakers who use the English language effectively and who read, write, speak and listen critically. Goal 2: CRITICAL THINKING - To develop thinkers who are able to unify factual, creative, rational and value-sensitive modes of thought. Goal 3: NATURAL SCIENCES - To improve students’ understanding of natural science principles and of the methods of scientific inquiry, i.e. the ways in which scientists investigate natural science phenomena. Goal 4: MATHEMATICAL/LOGICAL REASONING - To increase students’ knowledge about mathematical and logical modes of thinking. Goal 5: HISTORY and THE SOCIAL and BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES - To increase students’ knowledge of how historians and social and behavioral scientists discover, describe and explain the behaviors and interactions among individuals, groups, institutions, events and ideas. Goal 6: THE HUMANITIES - THE ARTS, LITERATURE, AND PHILOSOPHY - To expand students’ knowledge of the human condition and human cultures - especially in relation to behavior, ideas and values expressed in works of human imagination and thought. Goal 7: HUMAN DIVERSITY - To increase students’ understanding of individual and group differences (e.g. race, gender, class) and their knowledge of the traditions and values of various groups in the United States. Students should be able to evaluate the United States’ historical and contemporary responses to group differences. Goal 8: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE - To increase students’ understanding of the growing interdependence of nations and peoples and develop their ability to apply a comparative perspective to cross-cultural, social, economic and political experiences. Goal 9: ETHICAL AND CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY - To develop students’ capacity to identify, discuss and reflect upon the ethical dimensions of political, social, and personal life and to understand the ways in which they can exercise responsible and productive citizenship. Goal 10: PEOPLE and THE ENVIRONMENT - To improve students’ understanding of today’s complex environmental changes. This catalog presents the information in effect at time of publication. Contents of this catalog are subject to change without notice. 5
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