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Written Communication: the ability to develop and express one's ideas in writing for a variety of purposes, audiences, and across a multitude of genres, styles, and modalities. 

Oral Communication: the ability to deliver prepared, purposeful speech that increases knowledge, fosters understanding, or promotes change in listeners’ attitudes, values, beliefs, or behaviors.

Intercultural & Global Competency: skills that support effective engagement, interaction, and exchange of ideas across cultural and social contexts beyond one’s own.

Interfaith Literacy: the ability to identify, examine, and articulate one’s own values and beliefs, as well as to engage in respectful cooperation and dialogue with others.

Ethical Reasoning: the ability to recognize, understand, and describe ethical problems and arguments in order to formulate one’s own perspectives about right and wrong human conduct and apply ethical decision-making skills to real-world dilemmas. 

Scientific Reasoning: The ability to apply scientific methods to understand the natural world, to identify scientific aspects of daily life, and to evaluate the quality of scientific information on the basis of its source and the methods used for its generation.  

Quantitative Reasoning: the ability to reason and solve quantitative problems in authentic contexts and everyday life situations, support arguments using quantitative evidence, and communicate data using appropriate visual formats (tables, graphs, etc.).

Aesthetic Appreciation & Expression: an understanding of the theories, values, concepts, and terms used to interpret and evaluate works of art, and the ability to apply them to one’s own work or others’.

Critical Reading: using processes to understand and construct meaning from historical, primary, written, and other texts, such as interpretation, decoding, rhetorical analysis, etc. 

Inquiry & Analysis: the ability to systematically explore an issue, object, or work through a disciplinary lens, break down complex topics, and use available evidence to draw conclusions or judgements.

Information Literacy: the ability to identify an information need, and to effectively locate, evaluate, and ethically use and share information

Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion: the ability to recognize and critically reflect on historical and continuing processes of oppression.