In 2009 COD faculty approved a set of General Education Student Learning Outcomes which they later modified and reaffirmed in 2018 for students enrolled in all associate degree programs. General Education refers to a broad body of knowledge and skills common to all educated people, regardless of their profession. A strong general education curriculum includes courses in the arts; the humanities which include literature, history, philosophy and foreign languages; mathematics, natural sciences and the social sciences.
Information Literacy Outcomes
Graduates can:
- explain the need for information
- locate information effectively and efficiently
- evaluate information and its sources critically, and
- use information effectively, ethically and legally to accomplish a specific purpose