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Graduation
Expectations
| Rockford College graduates will have the
necessary tools to be active, effective and reflective
citizens: knowledge for understanding the world, values
for envisioning the world, and skills for shaping the
world. The academic, social, civic and personal experiences
of our liberal arts education provide these tools. For
knowledge and skills require values in order to be ethical;
knowledge and values require skills to be effective,
and values and skills without knowledge are at best
empty and at worst destructive. Rockford College graduates
will contribute to the world as knowledgeable, ethical,
productive citizens. |
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Knowledge—Understanding
the world
Knowledge is the foundation for developing skills and values.
Both general and discipline-specific knowledge are essential
to becoming an educated, reflective person. The curricula
offer a liberal arts perspective to our academic disciplines.
Graduates will understand how their world came to be, its
nature, and what it might become. The Rockford College experience
leads to a life of learning and active citizenship.
Values—Envisioning the world
Values are formed, challenged, and debated at Rockford College.
Interpersonal relationships, classroom and experiential
learning, and civic engagement foster the development of
values for a democratic society. Rockford College graduates
make ethically informed choices and are engaged citizens
in a world community.
Skills—Shaping the world
The liberal arts embody a set of skills, habits of mind,
and practice in addition to addressing rigorous content.
Those skills and habits include thoughtful analysis, precise
communication and effective application—the ability
to connect theory and application, knowledge and values,
values and actions—the way one thinks and works. At
Rockford College, the liberal arts represent not only a
set of academic disciplines but also methods of inquiry
appropriate to respective fields of learning.
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