LaGuardia Core Competencies

As part of a student’s general education requirements, all students are required to work on developing a series of core competencies. Each major has designated specific courses in which these competencies will be reinforced and students’ work will be deposited in their ePortfolios. Faculty will inform students what assignments to deposit and which competency those assignments meet. For more information, please look at: www.laguardia.edu/ assessment.

Definitions Of LaGuardia Community College Core Competencies

Inquiry & Problem Solving -- refers to the ability to design, evaluate, and implement a strategy or strategies to answer an open-ended question or achieve a desired goal.

Global Learning -- is a critical analysis of and an engagement with complex, interdependent global systems and legacies (such as natural, physical, social, cultural, economic, and political) and their implications for people’s lives and the earth’s sustainability.

Integrative Learning -- is an understanding & a disposition that a student builds across the curriculum & co-curriculum, from making simple connections among ideas & experiences to synthesizing & transferring learning to new, complex situations within & beyond the campus.

Our New Core Competencies Are Communicated Via Three Abilities:

Written -- is the development and expression of ideas in writing. Written communication involves learning to work in many genres and styles. It can involve working with many different writing technologies, and mixing texts, data, and images.

Oral -- serves to negotiate meaning with others, impart knowledge clearly, foster understanding, and/or influence opinion.

Digital -- is the ability to create, evaluate, present, and communicate using a range of digital technologies. It requires one to manipulate and adapt digital media in order to effectively express ideas to others. For our purposes, digital communication emphasizes multi- media forms of expression, such as text, image, and/or video, as well as various platforms for digital interaction, including discussion threads, instant messaging, and social media.