Graduation Competencies

Undergraduate Educational Values and Competencies

Graduate Educational Values and Competencies


Undergraduate Educational Values

In keeping with the Wilmington University mission of providing career-oriented programs, our "scholar-practitioner" faculty are actively engaged in promoting the following educational values:

Educational Values

  • Commitment to self-directedness, self discipline and lifelong learning
  • Sensitivity to and respect for a pluralistic society
  • Awareness of self in relationship to others and the benefits of working in teams
  • Appreciation of creative expression including the arts and humanities
  • Commitment to responsible citizenship as a contributing member of society

Undergraduate Graduation Competencies

It is intended that students earning an undergraduate degree will demonstrate college level proficiency in the following areas:

General Education

Oral Communication
  • Speak with confidence, clarity, and concisely.
  • Research, prepare, and deliver professional presentations
Written Communication
  • Write clearly, concisely and appropriately using correct English grammar, punctuation, usage, mechanics, sentence structure, and vocabulary.
  • Utilize appropriate APA format for scholarly writings.
Disciplined Inquiry
  • Utilize quantitative, qualitative and scientific reasoning to solve problems.
  • Exercise critical thinking strategies, including reasoning, problem solving, analysis and evaluation.
  • Define a problem or issue and develop questions and methods to address the problem or issue and/or to create new knowledge

Academic Program

Each academic program has specified competencies in the following areas:

  • Information literacy as related to one's academic discipline.
  • Ethics as related to one's academic discipline
  • Three or four additional program competencies as determined by the academic division.

Note: Additional competencies may be included as per external accreditation requirements.


Graduate Educational Values

In keeping with the Wilmington University mission of providing career-oriented programs, our "scholar-practitioner" faculty are actively engaged in promoting the following educational values:

Educational Values

  • Commitment to self-directedness, self discipline and lifelong learning
  • Sensitivity to and respect for a pluralistic society
  • Awareness of self in relationship to others and the benefits of working in teams
  • Appreciation of creative expression including the arts and humanities
  • Commitment to responsible citizenship as a contributing member of society

Graduate Graduation Competencies

In addition, upon graduation, students are expected to have gained an advanced level of applicable knowledge in the graduate competencies, as appropriate to one's field of study.

Oral Communication
  • Speak with confidence, clarity, and concisely.
  • Research, prepare, and deliver professional presentations
Written Communication
  • Write clearly, concisely and appropriately using correct English grammar, punctuation, usage, mechanics, sentence structure, and vocabulary.
  • Utilize appropriate APA format for scholarly writings.
Disciplined Inquiry
  • Utilize quantitative, qualitative and scientific reasoning to solve problems.
  • Exercise critical thinking strategies, including reasoning, problem solving, analysis and evaluation.
  • Define a problem or issue and develop questions and methods to address the problem or issue and/or to create new knowledge
Information Literacy
  • Access and use information effectively, efficiently, and appropriately.
  • Evaluate the quality of sources and content.
  • Use technology to effectively locate and communicate information.
Ethics
  • Demonstrate knowledge and application of prescribed ethical code(s) and/or behaviors promoted by the profession.
Additional Program Competencies
  • Two or three additional Program Competencies as prescribed by the academic division.

Note: Additional competencies may be included as per external accreditation requirements.