NLC Outcomes and Competencies

Core Curriculum:

 Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board has provided definitions for the core objectives; Northeast Lakeview College has adopted these core objectives as general education competencies.

• Critical Thinking Skills: The NLC core curriculum will advance students’ critical thinking, innovation, inquiry, and analysis, evaluation and synthesis of information.
• Communication Skills: The NLC core curriculum will advance students’ effective development, interpretation and expression of ideas through written, oral and visual communication.
• Empirical and Quantitative Skills: The NLC core curriculum will advance students’ ability to manipulate and analyze numerical data or observable facts resulting in informed conclusions.
• Teamwork: The NLC core curriculum will advance students’ ability to consider different points of view and to work effectively with others to support a shared purpose or goal.
• Personal Responsibility: The NLC core curriculum will advance students’ ability to connect choices, actions and consequences to ethical decision making.
• Social Responsibility:  The NLC core curriculum will advance the students’ intercultural competence, knowledge of civic responsibility, and the ability to engage effectively in regional, national, and global communities.

Degree Programs: Associate of Arts (AA), Associate of Science (AS), and Assoicate of Arts in Teaching (AAT)

 AA Program Outcomes
 

• Demonstrate the ability to think critically based on the acquisition of theoretical knowledge.
• Demonstrate the ability to make decisions based on the acquisition of applied knowledge.
• Demonstrate effective communication through oral, written and visual media using original and/or researched material.
• Demonstrate an understanding of ethical, social and personal responsibilities in the field of concentration.
• Demonstrate the ability to apply concepts to everyday settings.

AS Program Outcomes

• Demonstrate the ability to think critically based on the acquisition of theoretical knowledge.
• Demonstrate the ability to make decisions based on the acquisition of applied knowledge.
• Demonstrate effective oral and written communication.
• Demonstrate an understanding of ethical, social and personal responsibilities in the field of concentration.
• Collect, analyze and present data to understand the core concepts of the field of concentration.
• Acquire and apply knowledge of empirical, qualitative, quantitative and/or logical aspects of the field of concentration.

AAT Program Outcomes

• Demonstrate the ability to think critically based on the acquisition of theoretical knowledge.
• Demonstrate the ability to make decisions based on the acquisition of applied pedagogy.
• Demonstrate effective oral and written communication.
• Demonstrate an understanding of ethical, legal, philosophical and historical perspectives in a diverse learning environment.
• Anticipate, recognize and respond ethically to real-world issues and concerns.
• Apply educational concepts and research to instructional planning.