The Clarkson Common Experience provides a common set of learning expectations and outcomes for all Clarkson students. To achieve these outcomes, each student is required to complete a set of courses and a professional experience. Course work consists of required and elective courses both from within a student's major field and from across the spectrum of all disciplines in the university. Embodied in the Common Experience are four components that serve as common threads through multiple courses:
- learning to communicate effectively,
- developing an appreciation for diversity in both working and living environments,
- recognizing the importance of personal, societal, and professional ethics,
- understanding how technology can be used to serve humanity.
Each of these components is introduced early in the curriculum, reinforced in subsequent courses, and included in upper division courses.
Background Documents
- Clarkson Common Experience - Catalog Description (MS Word 50K)
- Table of Learning Outcomes (MS Word 99K)
- Common Experience Outcomes By Course (MS Word 45K)
- Common Experience Committee Responsibilities (MS Word 22K)
Resources
- Degree Requirement Changes (MS Word 37K)
- Professional requirement - curriculum plan (MS Word 43K)
- Professional experience - curriculum plan (MS Word 43K)
- Communication-intensive (C2) course proposal (MS Word 25k)
- Communication-intensive (C1) course proposal (MS Word 29k)
- Technology course proposal (MS Word 22k)
- Knowledge area (Contemporary/Global Issues) course proposal (MS Word 35k)
- Knowledge area (Cultures and Societies) course proposal (MS Word 35k)
- Knowledge area (Imaginative Arts) course proposal (MS Word 35k)
- Knowledge area (Economics/Organizations) course proposal (MS Word 36k)
- Knowledge area (Science/Technology/Society) course proposal (MS Word 35k)
- Knowledge area (Individual/Group Behavior) course proposal (MS Word 23k)
- Examples of Eight-semester Plans (MS Excel 52K)
