Excellence in teaching and learning is a key component of the College's Guiding Principles. Learning opportunities-courses, programs, and related activities-incorporate specific outcomes designed to prepare students for real-world experiences and employment challenges. Embedded in all courses are educational experiences that reinforce a student's understanding of technology, critical thinking, mathematics, communications, and globalization and diversity.

Common Degree Outcomes*

Macomb Community College is committed to the continual improvement of teaching and learning. To reflect this commitment Common Degree Outcomes are provided to help establish a structured environment within which students will realize their educational goals. Therefore, associate degree recipients are expected to meet the following outcomes as appropriate to the student's program.

The graduate can integrate the knowledge and technological skills necessary to be a successful learner.

• The student will be able to utilize technology to generate work and effectively communicate with others.
• The student can locate, analyze, evaluate, and critique information resources.
• The student will be able to responsibly and ethically use and properly attribute information resources.

The graduate can demonstrate how to think competently.

• The student will be able to identify problems, approach them systematically, and explore viable solutions.
• The student will be able to evaluate the reasoning and arguments and evidence offered by others.

The graduate can demonstrate how to employ mathematical knowledge.

• The student can apply the concepts of math.
• The student can use quantitative data in everyday life.
• The student can evaluate quantitative information.

The graduate can demonstrate how to communicate competently.

• The student's written and oral work is organized, and the development is appropriate to the task and to the arguments presented by the student.
• The student can clearly distinguish between his ideas and those of others in both written and oral communication.
• The student's written work follows the conventions of standard written English in punctuation, grammar, and spelling.

The graduate is sensitive to issues relating to a diverse, global society.

• The student will have an understanding and appreciation of multicultural factors and their personal, professional and societal significance.
• The student will grasp technological, scientific, and economic advances in the context of their broader societal and international impact.
• The student will have an understanding and appreciation of diverse geographical, historical, sociological, and psychological viewpoints.

* Approved by the Curriculum Committee, May 2005