Syracuse University’s Shared Competencies are six learning goals that enhance undergraduate education through an integrated learning approach. Undergraduate students develop competencies through their major degree courses, liberal arts requirements, and co-curricular experiences. The Shared Competencies enable students to communicate their learning experience, provide pathways for academic development, and integrate different aspects of a Syracuse University education. Each competency includes corresponding framing language that communicates the content of that competency to educators and learners. The framing language suggests a range of knowledge, skills, and attributes that each competency entails.
Knowledge, exploration, and analysis of the complexity surrounding interdependent local, national, and global affairs. Engagement in responsible, collaborative, and inclusive civic and cross-cultural learning, with an emphasis on public, global, and historical issues.
The Civic and Global Responsibility rubric was created by a community of practice with faculty, librarians, staff, and students from across the University. The rubric articulates what Syracuse University students should know and be able to demonstrate by the time they graduate through four learning outcomes, specific indicators, performance levels, and performance descriptors. This rubric is intended for institutional-level use in assessing and reflecting on undergraduate student learning. Faculty teaching courses with a Civic and Global Responsibility course tag may refer to the learning outcomes when developing course learning objectives, signature assignments, and experiences for students.