Each Visual Communications student will demonstrate:
1. Literacy in reading: for content (both literal and inferential); to apply re-reading, during-reading, and post-reading strategies to all reading assignments; to research a topic; to gather information; to comprehend an argument; to determine the main idea of a passage; to understand a concept and construct meaning,
2. Literacy in writing: to take notes; to convey one’s thinking in complete sentences; to compare and contrast; to write and open response; to describe an experiment, to report one’s findings and conclusions; to generate a response to what one has read, viewed, or heard; to develop an expository essay with a formal structure,
3. Literacy in speaking: to convey one’s thinking in complete sentences; to interpret a passage orally; to debate an issue; to participate in class discussion or a public forum; to make an oral presentation to an audience; to respond to what one has read, viewed, or heard; to communicate in a manner that allows one to be both heard and understood,
4. Literacy in reasoning: to create, interpret and explain a table, chart, or graph; to compute, interpret and explain numbers; to analyze and solve a word problem; to interpret and present statistics that support an argument or hypothesis; to identify, explain and make a prediction based on a pattern; to detect and explain the logic or fallacy in an argument or a solution; to use analogies and evidence to support one’s thinking,
5. Self-expression by creatively synthesizing or combining concepts, data, information, or elements to form a new and coherent whole,
6. Productive use and understanding of technology to obtain, exchange, evaluate, and organize information,
7. Responsibility for one’s own behaviors and actions,
8. Personal growth through self-assessment, decision making, and goal setting,
9. Appreciation, respect, and understanding of the similarities and differences among people,
10. The ability to work cooperatively with others,
11. The knowledge and skills necessary to participate responsibly in society and in the democratic process.