Adult Degree Completion (ADC) Program General Education Statement of Purpose and Goals

The Adult Degree Completion General Education Program fosters the development of the skills, knowledge, and moral character essential to lifelong learning and a rich, satisfying life by:

1. Providing students with essential foundations in the main areas of human knowledge.
2. Engaging students in the persistent practice of critical thinking, persuasive writing, quantitative reasoning, creative expression, and effective research and speaking.
3. Enhancing self-understanding as citizens of diverse communities in an ecologically imperiled world.
4. In light of Dominican’s Catholic heritage, offering guidance–and freedom–needed for developing awareness of the moral and spiritual dimensions of existence.

ADC General Education Goals

Students will demonstrate:

1. Learning in the essential foundations in the main areas of human knowledge (i.e., sciences, arts and humanities);
2. Persistent practice of critical thinking, persuasive writing, quantitative reasoning, creative expression, and effective research and speaking;
3. Understanding of themselves as citizens of diverse communities in an ecologically imperiled world; and
4. Development of their awareness of the moral and spiritual dimensions of existence.