George Fox Core Competencies
Students of all levels and disciplines should be able to demonstrate competency in the areas below prior to graduating.
Rubrics for each outcome area can be found in and . Rubrics were selected and refined by faculty in the Cornerstone Core (general education) program.
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Students will learn to identify and cultivate key moral and intellectual virtues for their own development and for their instrumental value as performance strengths in their career and calling.
Dimensions: Habits and Practices, Self Awareness, Virtue Literacy
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Students will integrate a faith perspective in thinking about various subject areas and epistemologies
Dimensions: Christian Faith Integration and Christian Worldview Awareness
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Students will understand the arc of the Christian story and their place in it.
Dimensions: Biblical/Christian Characters, Biblical/Christian Meta-Narrative, Biblical/Christian Themes & Motifs
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Students will learn to think in a disciplined and evaluative maner, to analize and interpret the processes by which varuious claims are made and reliable conclusions are reached.
Dimensions: Identification, analysis and evidence giving, implications
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Students will identify and analyze complex cultural practices, values, and beliefs and navigate the ways cultural differences shape meaning.
Dimensions: Application, Cultural Self-Awareness, Cultural Worldview Frameworks
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Empirical reasoning skills are necessary to frame a problem, analyze empirical information, draw conclusions from the analysis, and communicate the results to an audience.
Dimensions: Define Problem/ Topic, Data/Information collection and/or selection, Analysis, Conclusion
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Students will critically contemplate the conflicting value choices of the ethically complex world in which we live, articulate their own values, and reflect on how these values shape their ethical decisions.
Dimensions: Articulate ethical concepts, Explain ethical positions, Evaluate ethical arguments, Develop ethical arguments
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Students will be able to recognize when there is a need for information and to identify, locate, evaluate and responsibly use that information.
Dimensions: Question, Search, Evaluate, Apply
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Students will learn to deliver prepared, purposeful presentations designed to increase knowledge, to foster understanding, or to promote change in the listeners' attitudes, values, beliefs, or behaviors.
Dimensions: Introduction, Internal Structure, Content, Conclusion, Vocal Delivery, Physical Delivery, Language
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Students will possess the ability to reason and solve quantitative problems from a wide array of authentic contexts and everyday life situations, to create sophisticated arguments supported by quantitative evidence, and to clearly communicate those arguments in a variety of formats.
Dimensions: Application / Analysis, Calculation, Interpretation, Evaluate Potential Solutions, Communication
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Students will be proficient in oral and written communication by (a) analyzing assigned texts and identifying the significance of rhetorical situations, (b) practicing core skills, particularly: asking insightful questions, listening attentively and critically to texts and peers, and reflecting on perennial issues and big ideas, ( c ) constructing their own responses through expository writing and class discussion.
Dimensions: Argument and Thesis, Content & Ideas, Evidence and Support (Analysis), Genre and Disciplinary Conventions, Language (Editing)
