Faculty and staff at the Massachusetts Bay Community College expect associate degree graduates to become proficient in the following dimensions upon successfully completing their academic program.
Graduates will explain, persuade, advocate, and argue effectively when engaged with a variety of audiences in written and oral communication.
Graduates will use a variety of mathematical tools and quantitative reasoning to solve problems and analyze complex challenges.
Graduates will understand and use appropriately a variety of technological tools.
Graduates will use scientific knowledge and methodology to test, validate, and update their knowledge about the natural world.
Graduates will analyze historical, organizational, institutional, political, and global systems of power and the complex ways that group and individual interactions impact self, community, and society. Graduates will identify the skills and strategies that they have for promoting equity, inclusion, and cultural sensitivity.
Graduates will engage in ethical reasoning, integrative/systems thinking, and creative thinking to analyze and solve problems from multiple perspectives.
Graduates will take responsibility for their actions, self-assess, self-advocate, collaborate, and develop community and civic awareness.