All-University Core Curriculum (AUCC) Learning Outcomes
Fundamental Competencies
Fundamental Competencies in the AUCC (1A, 1B, 1C, and 2) are central to success in all courses. These include written and oral communication and quantitative reasoning. Therefore, the learning outcomes and instructional aims of these courses seek to develop and reinforce such competencies.
Download the content criteria and core learning outcomes for each the Fundamental Competency categories:
AUCC 1A Intermediate Writing (pdf)
AUCC 1B Quantitative Reasoning (pdf)
Foundations and Perspectives
Foundations and Perspectives in the AUCC (3A, 3B, 3C, and 3D) emphasize subject area methodologies, diverse perspectives and ways of knowing, modes of expression and creativity, concepts, and knowledge. Courses in this category help students apply effective use of fundamental competencies to bring diverse viewpoints, knowledge, applications and skills to life. Such courses emphasize distinctive characteristics as well as critical linkages among fields of study, promoting synthesis of learning. Students must select at least one course from AUCC Category 3 (A-D) with a designated focus on global awareness.
Download the content criteria and core learning outcomes for each the Foundations and Perspectives categories:
AUCC 3A Biological and Physical Sciences (pdf)
AUCC 3B Arts and Humanities: Arts and Expression (pdf)
AUCC 3B Arts and Humanities: Ways of Thinking (pdf)
AUCC 3B Arts and Humanities: World Languages (pdf)
AUCC 3B Arts and Humanities: Literature and Humanities (pdf)
AUCC 3C Social Sciences: Human Behavior, Culture or Social Frameworks (pdf)
AUCC 3C Social Sciences: Economic or Political Systems (pdf)
Depth, Application, and Integration
Depth, Application, and Integration in the AUCC (4A, 4B, and 4C) engage students in depth and integration of content knowledge (factual, procedural, and metacognitive). These courses help students incorporate and apply learning set forth in Fundamental Competencies and Foundations and Perspectives courses. These courses will provide a capstone experience that helps students integrate, apply, and reflect on the cumulative learning from all courses in their academic experience and major.
AUCC 4A. Applying Fundamental Competencies
Designated courses must apply and integrate knowledge from courses in the Fundamental Competencies of AUCC Categories 1A, 1B, 1C, and 2. At least 50% of the course grade must be based on activities that involve writing, speaking, and/or problem solving. Early guidance and feedback will support students’ growth as writers, speakers, and problem solvers.
AUCC 4B. Integrating Foundations and Perspectives
Designated courses must build upon the Foundations and Perspectives of AUCC Categories 3A, 3B, 3C, and 3D in an integrative and complementary way. Each course designated to fulfill this requirement shall emphasize the connections between its course content and the concepts and intellectual approaches that exemplify Foundations and Perspectives categories to:
1. deepen students’ understanding by extending concepts and intellectual approaches of appropriate Foundations and Perspectives categories in the content of the designated course;
2. broaden students’ understanding of how concepts and intellectual approaches of appropriate Foundations and Perspectives categories are placed in a different context in the designated course;
3. enrich students’ understanding of how concepts and intellectual approaches of appropriate Foundations and Perspectives categories are further developed and transformed in the content of the designated course.
AUCC 4C. Capstone Experience
Every major must require a capstone experience that offers the opportunity for integration and reflection on students’ nearly completed undergraduate education. Capstone experiences should enable students to
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- synthesize the academic and/or artistic experience of the major;
- analyze disciplinary knowledge with relation to broader areas of intellectual endeavor;
- evaluate the interaction between their discipline and society;
- apply appropriate Foundations and Perspectives competencies and knowledge gained from courses in the major;
- participate in collaborative and in interdisciplinary activities relevant to the program of study;
- make the transition into career or further academic degree programs;
- identify their roles and potential in the larger professional and/or scholarly community and in society.