Graduate Qualities
Graduate Qualities
Graduates of The College of Wooster should demonstrate the following personal and intellectual capacities:
Independent Thinking, through the ability to:
- Engage in critical and creative thinking
- Devise, formulate, research, and bring to fruition a complex and creative project
- Embody the intellectual curiosity, passion, and self-confidence necessary for life-long learning
Integrative and Collaborative Inquiry, through the ability to:
- Synthesize knowledge from multiple disciplines
- Actively integrate theory and practice
- Engage in effective intellectual collaboration
Dynamic Understanding of the Liberal Arts, through the ability to:
- Understand disciplinary knowledge in arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics, and physical and natural sciences
- Evaluate evidence using methodologies from multiple disciplines
- Demonstrate quantitative, textual, visual, and digital literacy
- Employ deep knowledge, insight, and judgment to solve real world problems
Effective Communication, through the ability to:
- Exhibit skill in oral, written, and digital communication
- Engage in effective discourse through active listening, questioning, and reasoning
Global Engagement and Respect for Diversity, through the ability to:
- Understand the histories, causes, and implications of global processes
- Engage with the global community through knowledge of a second language
- Understand and respect diverse cultural and religious traditions
- Display self-reflective awareness of their role as citizens in a diverse local, national, and global community
Civic and Social Responsibility, through the ability to:
- Appreciate and critique values and beliefs including their own
- Demonstrate ethical citizenship and leadership and embody a concern for social justice
- Exhibit a commitment to community and serving others