School of Arts and Sciences

The Nine Student Attributes

When you complete your undergraduate degree in the School of Arts and Sciences, we expect you to be able to:

  1. Use what one knows to understand what one does not know
  2. Master a discipline
  3. Put the present into context through understanding of the past
  4. Reason quantitatively
  5. Form an independent opinion grounded in knowledge
  6. Use knowledge of difference to understand others
  7. Articulate arguments, inferences, and deductions for a wide range of audiences in person and in writing
  8. Come to know through the arts
  9. Lead and to serve
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