Stockton's Essential Learning Outcomes
Stockton University has ten essential learning objectives that every student leaves with a broader understanding of. These learning objectives are as follows:
Adapting to Change
The ability to successfully engage and navigate new or unfamiliar circumstances or create opportunities.
Communication Skills
The ability to create and share ideas and knowledge effectively with diverse audiences and in various formats.
Creativity and Innovation
The ability to generate ideas, take risks, and recognize opportunities in problem solving, relationships, or self-expression.
Critical Thinking
The ability to formulate an effective, balanced perspective on an issue or topic.
Ethnical Reasoning
The ability to consider alternative viewpoints and their potential consequences.
Global Awareness
The ability to appreciate diversity and cultural interconnectedness.
Information Literacy and Research Skills
The ability to locate, evaluate, analyze, and use information to solve problems or to produce an argument.
Program Competence
The ability to use and to integrate concepts, theories, and principles in one's major field of study in a masterful way.
Quantitative Reasoning
The ability to understand and to work confidently with numbers and mathematical concepts.
Teamwork and Collaboration
The ability to join with others to achieve a common goal.
The ability to successfully engage and navigate new or unfamiliar circumstances or create opportunities.
Communication Skills
The ability to create and share ideas and knowledge effectively with diverse audiences and in various formats.
Creativity and Innovation
The ability to generate ideas, take risks, and recognize opportunities in problem solving, relationships, or self-expression.
Critical Thinking
The ability to formulate an effective, balanced perspective on an issue or topic.
Ethnical Reasoning
The ability to consider alternative viewpoints and their potential consequences.
Global Awareness
The ability to appreciate diversity and cultural interconnectedness.
Information Literacy and Research Skills
The ability to locate, evaluate, analyze, and use information to solve problems or to produce an argument.
Program Competence
The ability to use and to integrate concepts, theories, and principles in one's major field of study in a masterful way.
Quantitative Reasoning
The ability to understand and to work confidently with numbers and mathematical concepts.
Teamwork and Collaboration
The ability to join with others to achieve a common goal.
During my college career, at Ocean County College and Stockton University, I have developed several of the Essential Learning Outcomes. My critical thinking skills were developed by taking courses like Environmental Philosophy and Ecological Economics. These classes challenged me to think outside of my comfort zone, as they were non-STEM classes. My information literacy and research skills were challenged and developed while having to manage databases while working on GIS projects. My quantitative reasoning was developed when taking statistics, although I think that is more attributed to Professor Gordon being an engaging professor. My ability to adapt to change was tested and developed during the COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine. My last semester at Ocean County College went fully online in March, therefore all of my face-to-face classes were transformed, without a solid online set up. I was surprised by my ability to adapt to these changes, and the spring semester ended up being one of my best semesters academically. This ability has helped me adapt to change in the workplace as well.
