Ideal OSU Grad

The genesis of this in not clear--some curriculum council created the original, the someone else edited it at the suggestion of Rebecca Sanderson.

Created by an OSU curriculum Council around 2004/5

Profile of Ideal Undergraduate Student Upon Graduation in 2007

• Ability for critical thinking & problem solving:
• Have the ability to learn and problem solve wherever they are.
• Know what a team is.
• Differentiate between what a text says and personal beliefs and to demonstrate ability to understand meaning of text.
• To understand biases.
• To read all kinds of texts below the surface.
• Ideas for components of outcome statement:
• Open minded observations/intuition
• Education deductions
• Reasoning/Analysis
• Applicable processes
• Uncertainty
• Critical thinking skills to use in problem solving and decision making.
• Design a solution supported by engineering theories.
• Articulate a theoretical framework that is applicable to the solution.
• Analyze issues/problems from a variety of contexts or paradigms.
• Articulate and discern advantages/disadvantages of various approaches or perspectives.
• Uncertainty
• Understand what they read/hear relating to their field.
• Recognize/seek evidence for statements.
• Critique/assess the quality of evidence.
• Draw conclusions on state of knowledge.
• Communicate their analysis and conclusion.

• Experience working on an interdisciplinary team:
• In a class, student organization, research group, internship, students coordinate with fellow students of different academic disciplines/backgrounds; faculty and staff mentors; community members and work to common goals.
• Recognize roles and responsibilities of team members.
• Understand the dynamics of a team system.
• Develop respect for others’ ideas and opinions.
• Integrate multiple perspectives and expertise into a common product.

• Technical literacy in information services (library, web, etc.):
• Students will use and demonstrate technical resources to enhance information gathering designed to solve problems for different purposes.

• Scientific literacy:
• Use data to accurately solve complex problems.
• Evaluate scientific information to understand its creditability and where and how it might be applied.

• Communication skills-writing, speaking, media:
• Be able to write career approach communications with few or no grammar/spelling errors.
• Students will demonstrate the ability to write thoughts and ideas using proper syntax, grammar, and sentence structure.
• Articulate ideas clearly, legibly, and understandably with correct spelling and grammar to produce grants, news articles, reports, letters, memos, or research documentation.

• Solid substantive knowledge in several fields.

• Awareness of and concern for international affairs:
• Awareness of Multiple Perspectives and Concerns for Diversity
• Demonstrate the ability to understand and share perspectives in a respectful way.
• Analyze impact of multiple perspectives when problem solving critical local and global issues.
• Understanding that one’s own perspective is culturally shaped and is not universal.
• Respect
• Demonstrate an understanding of multiple perspectives.
• Respect understanding of multiple perspectives through writing, speaking, visual art or technology.
• Understanding of the dominant and its privileges.
• Articulate the influences that a diverse population brings to a community.

• Sense of societal responsibility, community services and citizenship undergirded by outreach and internship experiences.

• Ability to respond to the marketplace.

• Sense of membership in an ongoing community of scholars at OSU that would develop into a desire for lifelong learning.
• Be able to adapt written and oral communication to audience and control specific situations.

• Ability to take information from one or more sources, determine the relationships between the information, integrate the relationships, and use it to solve a problem.

• Interdisciplinary Teams:
• Practice listening; feedback to ensure meaning.
• Identify/integrate diverse views/perspectives.
• Develop an array of solutions/improvements.
• Analyze possible consequences.
• Agree consensus decision.

• Understand:
• Increase knowledge of historical and present social and political issues that impact diverse communities of minorities.
• Effective in communication/relating to diverse groups.