Programs – A
- Apply accounting analysis to problems in real world situations. understand current accounting events. and evaluate specific accounting policy proposals (Critical thinking).
- Use Generally Accepted Accounting Principles to prepare and analyze financial statements and related qualitative information (Quantitative reasoning).
- Demonstrate an ability to apply authoritative accounting and auditing standards to solve real-world accounting and auditing problems (Problem solving).
- Demonstrate mastery of the relevant topics and ethical judgment and consideration needed for licensure and success in the Public Accounting profession (Specialized knowledge).
- Explain accounting issues effectively in written and oral form using correct accounting logic stating relevant accounting principles and rules (Communication).
- Apply accounting analysis to problems in real world situations including technology and techniques in data analytics. understand and evaluate current events and specific policy proposals in accounting taxation and auditing (Critical thinking).
- Use Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and other standards to prepare analyze and audit financial statements and related qualitative information. understand the research literature and conduct original research in accounting (Quantitative reasoning).
- Demonstrate an ability to research and apply authoritative standards rules and regulations in accounting auditing and taxation to solve real.world problems (Problem solving).
- Demonstrate mastery of the relevant topics and ethical judgment and consideration needed for licensure and success in the Public Accounting profession (Specialized knowledge).
- Explain and articulate accounting issues effectively in written and oral form using correct accounting logic stating relevant accounting principles and rules (Communication).
- Describe how the department's interdisciplinary approach contributes to an understanding of "minoritized" communities as well as the relationship between knowledge and social responsibility.
- Identify the role of historical, cultural and social forces including slavery, colonialism, immigration, globalization and other factors, in shaping Africa, the Americas, the African Diaspora, and Latinx communities.
- Critically utilize and integrate theory, methods, data and analysis as a means of building knowledge through research, written assignments and community-based service learning.
- Demonstrate skills in critical thinking, oral communication, information technology, and media literacy.
- Advance human rights, racial and economic justice through an understanding of the role of public policy, social movements and indigenous resources in ameliorating inequality.
- Read with understanding ancient Greek at an advanced level from a wide range of periods and genres. this should include the ability to translate and to recognize and explain features of morphology grammar and syntax using the appropriate technical terminology.
- Read with understanding Latin at an elementary level. this should include the ability to translate and to recognize and explain features of morphology grammar and syntax using the appropriate technical terminology.
- Analyze how an ancient Greek work's style and structure contribute to its meaning by applying techniques of stylistic and rhetorical analysis to works in ancient Greek or English translation.
- Discuss in broad outline the significant literary cultural and historical developments of Greek and Roman civilization with appropriate attention to textual evidence material culture archaeological evidence and modern critical approaches.
- Pose meaningful questions of ancient texts archaeological evidence and.or material culture and design projects to answer these questions that utilize current research methods and resources in the field.
- Knowledge base in the field of Animal Behavior and Conservation. Students acquire knowledge of key concepts and principles and overarching themes in animal behavior animal cognition conservation psychology/biology animal welfare science comparative psychology and research methods. Students acquire credentials for employment in fields related to ABC.
- Scientific inquiry and critical thinking. Students learn to reason scientifically gain information literacy skills interpret statistical information and learn to interpret and design studies in animal behavior and cognition.
- Ethical and Social Responsibility in a Diverse World. Students learn to apply ethical standards in conducting and evaluating psychological and behavioral research build and enhance interpersonal relationships adopt values that build community at local national and global levels.
- Communication. Students learn communication skills to disseminate research findings and to apply psychological content and skills to a range of career goals exhibit self-efficacy and self-regulation develop and refine project management skills enhance their teamwork capacity and develop meaningful professional direction for life after graduation.
- Understand the principles and research methods of cultural anthropology linguistic anthropology biological anthropology and archaeology.
- Critically appraise the broad scope of the history of anthropology as a discipline.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the intellectual and cultural traditions of several non-Western societies through exposure to ethnographic analysis in coursework.
- Understand and debate the basic principles of the scientific method especially as applied to human evolution and variation.
- Acquire competence in qualitative and quantitative methods for the analysis of anthropological problems.
- Critically evaluate ethnographic methods as practiced in anthropology from scientific and ethical standpoints.
- Compare a variety of viewpoints in order to contextualize differences in cultural values and practices.
- Examine the relevant cultural factors for analysis of race prejudice and gender roles in comparative perspective.
- Analyze and debate the application of anthropological theory and knowledge in specific case studies from around the world in such fields as medicine law human rights conservation and the environment.
- Demonstrate the ability to develop critical arguments in writing.
- Acquire mastery of proper social-science formatting for the citation of quoted material.
- Demonstrate effective oral communication skills for informing persuading or debating issues.
- Articulate the history of the discipline of Anthropology and its distinctive research questions.
- Recognize the subjects and methods of the four subfields.
- Demonstrate specialized knowledge of a single subfield or single topic across subfields.
- Formulate an anthropological research question and conduct ethnographic and-or quantitative.scientific research to answer it.
- Fully participate in conversations with native speakers of Arabic convey abstract and concrete language in all time frames on a wide range of topics from the personal to the political and speak in a range of formal to informal registers depending on context.
- Write routine informal and some formal correspondence narratives descriptions and summaries narrating in all time frames with long and relatively complex paragraphs.
- Demonstrate aural comprehension of main ideas and most supporting details in the speech of native speakers discussing familiar topics such as family politics and history in a range of formal to informal registers.
- Demonstrate comprehension of main ideas in a wide variety of written fictional non-fictional and journalistic texts without the use of a dictionary.
- Demonstrate a broad understanding of the cultural diversity of the Arab World recognizing key cultural names texts behavioral norms and the ability to adapt to a wide variety of social situations linguistically and culturally.
- Read with understanding Latin or ancient Greek at an intermediate level from a range of periods and genres. This should include the ability to translate and recognize and explain features of morphology, grammar, and syntax using the appropriate technical terminology.
- Gather analyze and interpret information from a variety of sources and points of view by gaining knowledge of major monuments and artifacts from a wide range of societies across the ancient Mediterranean world.
- Discuss in broad outline the significant literary cultural and historical developments of the ancient Mediterranean world with appropriate attention to textual evidence material culture archaeological evidence and modern critical approaches.
- Pose meaningful questions of archaeological evidence material culture and ancient texts and design projects to answer these questions that utilize current research methods and resources in the field.
- Students will gain an understanding of the study of art and culture as a historical discipline.
- Students will develop an awareness of the rich visual and material cultures of the past and present from a global perspective.
- Students will demonstrate the ability to identify locate evaluate and synthesize information relevant to works of art and architecture from primary and secondary sources.
- Students will acquire the skills to analyze objects and images both traditional and in new media and to understand their political and social significance and to situate them within an interdisciplinary perspective.
- Students will learn the terminology methods and critical modes of analysis of the visual field and be able to demonstrate that knowledge in both written and spoken expression.
- Students will gain the ability to think critically about art materials and the past as well as the world around us.
- Deeper understanding of the methodology of the discipline.
- Deepening and enriching the bibliography.
- Reading proficiency in a foreign language.
- Sharpening critical thinking skills.
- Increasing research skills to the point of creating an independent and original thesis that is publishable. Students must be qualified to compete in the museum world and/or enter Ph.D. programs.