Cochise College General Education
Mission
The Cochise College general education curriculum equips students with essential knowledge and skills for the 21st century. It fosters curiosity for learning, broadens diverse and global perspectives, and develops effective communication, critical thinking, and creativity while promoting individual expression. This curriculum supports personal enrichment, community engagement, data literacy, and lifelong learning.
Values
In higher education, the values underpinning general education serve as guiding principles that shape the academic experience and prepare students for multifaceted societal roles.
At Cochise College, we:
1. Foster curiosity, collaboration, and lifelong learning.
2. Prioritize critical thinking, scientific inquiry, and data-informed decision-making.
3. Emphasize effective communication in various modalities and contexts.
4. Promote global and cultural awareness and foster respect for diverse perspectives and experiences.
5. Encourage integrity, ethical decision-making, civic participation, and social responsibility.
6. Nurture innovation and creativity, inspiring students to think creatively, solve complex problems, and generate novel ideas.
7.Empower students to take ownership of their learning journey, fostering self-reflection and self-awareness.
Outcomes
Students fulfill general education requirements at Cochise College by demonstrating competency in the following areas: communication, creativity, critical thinking, diverse and global perspectives, and data literacy. These outcomes clearly state the competencies that students are expected to acquire at Cochise College upon completion of a degree.
Communication: Apply writing and/or speaking skills effectively.
Performance Indicators
1. Effective communication
2. Audience-appropriate communication
3. Purpose-appropriate communication
Creativity: Develop analytic insight with individual expression.
Performance Indicators
1. Innovative solutions
2 .Novel interpretations
3. Self-expression
Critical Thinking: Apply logical, analytical, analogical, and/or reflective reasoning.
Performance Indicators
1. Logical reasoning
2. Analytical reasoning
3. Analogical reasoning
4. Reflective reasoning
Diverse and Global Perspectives: Recognize the diversity of the human experience.
Performance Indicators
1. Cultural self-awareness
2. Cultural awareness
3. Ethical perspective application
Data Literacy: Use digital tools and resources to gather and evaluate information.
Performance Indicators
1. Source evaluation
2. Information relevance
3. Medium literacy
4. Ethical information use
Cochise College is committed to continuous improvement of its students’ learning. The learning improvement process provides evidence of how well the college is meeting its objectives, helps identify areas of improvement, and allows improvements to be implemented. This is achieved by investigating current levels of learning, experimenting with ways to improve learning, and using the experimentation results to integrate successful strategies and actions for improving student learning into the college’s curriculum or procedures.