About Shoreline
General Education Outcomes
Quantitative Reasoning
Communication
Information Literacy
General Intellectual Abilities
Multicultural Understanding
Global Awareness
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Students will read, write, speak in, and listen to college-level English. Effective communication incorporates awareness of the social nature of communication and the effects of ethnicity, age, culture, gender, sexual orientation and ability on sending and receiving oral, non-verbal, and written messages.
- Listen to, understand, evaluate and respond to verbal and non-verbal messages.
- Comprehend, analyze and evaluate information in a given text (such as a story, essay, poem, textbook, etc.).
- Formulate and verbally express focused, coherent, and organized information, ideas, and opinions, with style and content appropriate for the purpose and audience, in a variety of communication contexts, such as one-on-one situations, small groups and classes.
- Formulate and express information, ideas and opinions in mechanically sound written forms that have a clear purpose, focus, thesis and organization; that are appropriate for their audience in content and style; and that support, clarify, and expand complex ideas with relevant details, examples and arguments.
- Use supplemental materials (visual, auditory, etc.) to support verbal or written communication; comprehend and evaluate visual messages such as pictures, graphs, and other printed or electronic material.
- Assess themselves as communicators, based on the standards of clear and effective communication expressed or implied above and make adjustments and improvements in their communication strategies.
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