EARLY/MIDDLE CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
The competent teacher candidate demonstrates the knowledge, skills and dispositions that:
- Confirm a commitment to diversity.
- Verify s/he is knowledgeable about the learner and the learning process.
- Verify s/he knows his/her specific content area and the relevant pedagogical tools for teaching and assessing it.
- Indicate s/he practices reflective thinking.
- Enable him/her to act as a facilitator of learning.
- Are indicative of a professional educator.
NEUROSCIENCE
Students in the neuroscience major will:
- Illustrate critical thinking skills and apply these skills when both conducting and evaluating research within the field.
- Understand how neural mechanisms impact behavior and evidence the interdisciplinary nature of neuroscience in their work.
- Apply the ethical practice of scientific inquiry within the field of neuroscience through conducting, analyzing, and evaluating such research.
- Use effective communication skills within the discourse of the discipline.
- Demonstrate preparation for entry into the workplace or advanced study.
PSYCHOLOGY
Upon successful completion of the program, Psychology graduates will be able to:
- Apply critical thinking skills when both conducting and evaluating research within the field.
- Apply knowledge of the major theories and concepts in the field of psychology to human behavior.
- Apply the ethical practice of scientific inquiry within the field of psychology through conducting, analyzing, and evaluating research.
- Use effective communication skills within the discourse of the discipline.
- Demonstrate preparedness for entry into the workplace or advanced study.