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Communicating
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Northwest students will demonstrate the role of writing and speaking in living and learning.
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- Use speaking and writing to respond effectively to a variety of purposes and audiences
- Express the relationship between form and content in speaking and writing
- Speak and write in a variety of genres and media
- Use visuals, non-alphabetic text, and non-verbal components successfully within spoken and written texts
- Speak and write individually and as part of a team to accomplish individual and team goals
- Use research effectively in spoken and written texts
- Analyze and evaluate their own and others’ speaking and writing
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Critical Thinking
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Northwest students will engage in disciplined thought to generate and communicate ideas.
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- Assimilate, retain, and interpret information
- Utilize information to generate reasonable hypotheses and draw educated conclusions
- Elucidate solutions based on these conclusions with the ability to self-evaluate their effectiveness
- Apply this self-reflective and continuous process
- Produce original expression of ideas
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Managing Information
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Northwest students will locate, retrieve, organize, store, synthesize, and annotate various forms of information.
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- Access and generate information using contemporary technologies
- Evaluate information for currency, usefulness, and accuracy
- Reorganize information for purpose
- Present information clearly
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Valuing
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Northwest students will demonstrate the formation and context of values.
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- Evaluate the difference between true and false beliefs, right and wrong actions, as well as those values that underlie artistic expression and make appropriate decisions based on these values.
- Compare historical and cultural value perspectives recognizing similarities and conflicts
- Clarify and articulate a personal value system in relationship to these cultural perspectives
- Identify the ramifications of value decisions of self and others particularly in team environments
- Consider multiple perspectives, recognize biases, deal with ambiguity, and form and defend reasoned positions
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Global, Cultural, Social, and Environmental Learning
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Northwest students will demonstrate the awareness, attitude, knowledge, and skills required to equitably engage and include people of difference.
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- Articulate and explain their personal identity, including how social and cultural influences shape values, beliefs, and actions, and how it impacts others.
- Apply critical thinking skills to examine and reflect on their own assumptions about underrepresented students.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the historical roots of various forms of social or systematic inequities and how they manifest in cultural practices and institutions.
- Identify bias and discrimination in organizational policies, procedures, and practice.
- Be able to articulate personal values and viewpoints in critical conversations about social concerns and differing values, and perspectives.
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Teamwork
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Northwest students will engage in team-based activities, and identify the logistics, value and challenges of effective teamwork.
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- Recognize and practice the stages of team formation and performance
- Recognize and effectively utilize task and/or maintenance-dimension roles
- Develop effective and ethical collaborative relationships
- Develop and use strategies to negotiate and manage conflict in team settings
- Evaluate team performances, both for individual contributions and general outcomes
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Leadership
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Northwest students will demonstrate effective and ethical leadership, and practice the skills required for such leadership.
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- Develop leadership traits including accountability, integrity and commitment
- Value and practice organization, timeliness of work, prioritization, and delegation
- Identify opportunities for leadership and the strategies for leading in a variety of contexts
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