Honors Course Learning Outcomes
At graduation from the Honors Program, students will demonstrate competence in:
- Self-directed learning
- Students will make choices to be active agents in their own education.
- Written and oral communication skills
- Students will employ an understanding of audience, purpose and context to communicate effectively to various audiences.
- Ethical maturity and good citizenship
- Students will articulate the potential ethical ramifications for given situations and reflect on how ethics apply to themselves as local, national, and global citizens, with an ability to integrate viewpoints involving different cultures and/or perspectives.
- Context-driven research skills
- Students will demonstrate the ability to perform applied research in various contexts and use research conventions and technologies suitable to their research question and purpose.
- Interdisciplinary synthesis
- Students will apply the benefits of a liberal arts education by demonstrating that they are able to view topics through the lens of more than one discipline.
- Active participation in the UMW and/or Fredericksburg communities
- Students will actively participate in the extracurricular life of UMW, demonstrating service and creating community within both UMW and the larger Fredericksburg area.
- Active meta-analysis of self and others
- Students will actively engage in self-reflection, using meta-analysis as a tool for personal growth and general problem solving and reflection.
