As a comprehensive community college, MCC seeks to provide an education that is coherent and substantive for all students. Within each degree and program of study are requirements that embody our view of an educated person and seek to prepare that student for success in the world. These outcomes also include the development of a system for the evaluation of student learning.
The Core Learning Outcomes capture the MCC view of an educated person and students will have demonstrated competency in the following areas:
Problem Solving, Inquiry and Analysis
A comprehensive, systematic process of exploring issues/objects/ideas/artifacts through the collection and analysis of evidence prior to and resulting from informed conclusions. The ability to gather and process pertinent information in order to develop potential solutions, while comparing and contrasting alternatives to achieve a viable outcome.
Communication
The ability to express thoughts and ideas in a professional, clear coherent manner. Oral Communication is a prepared, purposeful presentation designed to increase knowledge to foster understanding, or to promote change in the listeners’ attitudes, values, beliefs or behaviors. Written communication is the development and expression of ideas in writing while learning to work in many genres and styles. Written communication abilities develop through iterative experiences across the curriculum.
Information Literacy
The ability to know when there is a need for information, to be able to identify, locate, evaluate and effectively and responsibly use and share that information for the problem at hand.
Cultural and Social Understanding
A set of cognitive and behavioral skills and characteristics that support effective and appropriate interaction in a variety of cultural context. Students should become informed, open-minded and responsible people who are attentive to diversity across the spectrum of difference. Students need to seek to understand how their actions affect others.
Technical Skills
The technical skill standards or those abilities and knowledge necessary for competent performance in carrying out responsibilities associated with college and career success.
Initiative and Engagement
An understanding and disposition that a student must self-engage and own their learning process. Built across curricular and co-curricular learning opportunities, students’ behaviors and choices reflect their ability to create simple connections among ideas and experiences, ultimately synthesizing and transferring learning to new complex situations within and beyond the campus.
MCC is committed to an open enrollment process, welcoming students who may be seeking a degree, a certificate or coursework for skills or personal enrichment. While some programs have specific requirements for admission, many courses and programs are open to anyone who completes the application process and can demonstrate the ability to benefit from the program.