CTE: Overview

The Department of Career and Technical Education strongly believes in the importance of academic integration within each program area. The TMCC philosophy of General Education is grounded in the belief that a multi-faceted array of concepts and experiences enhances and broadens students’ abilities to contribute to a more vibrant, ethical, progressive and responsible society. General Education at TMCC will produce students who can think critically, use technology effectively, and understand the culture of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, solve concrete problems and apply their skills and competencies to benefit themselves and society, with an emphasis upon contributing to the success of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa.

General Education Student Leaning Outcomes are:

1. Communications:
   Students will have developed sufficient skills with the English language such that they can read, accurately interpret, critically analyze written material, express themselves effectively through narrative, explanatory, and investigate writing utilizing standard rhetorical techniques in the styles and formats, and at the level of complexity appropriate to their TMCC studies.
2. Mathematics:
   Students will be able to apply arithmetical, geometric, statistical, and algebraic principles of mathematics and problem solving at a level of complexity appropriate to their TMCC studies.
3. Science:
   Students will be conversant with the general knowledge bases and the procedures and techniques by which knowledge are generated and accessed through the life, physical and earth sciences, and they will be able to select and apply the techniques and procedures of the sciences at a level of complexity appropriate to their TMCC studies.
4. Humanities and Social Science:
   Students will be conversant with the general knowledge bases and the procedures and techniques by which knowledge and arts expressions are generated and accessed in the two divisions of (1) the humanities and fine arts, and (2) the social and behavioral science, and they will be able to select and apply the techniques and procedures of these two areas at a level of complexity appropriate to their TMCC studies.
5. Culture/Diversity:
   Students will be able to consider a variety of perspectives based on differences such as those stemming from culture, culture heritage, class gender, ethnicity, historical development, community and leadership and they will apply this awareness at a level of complexity appropriate to their TMCC studies.
6. Critical Thinking:
   Students will be able to raise vital questions and problems, gather and assess relevant information, come to well-reasoned conclusions and a solutions, and test those solutions against relevant criteria, think open-mindedly about their assumptions, consider the practical consequences and communicate effectively find solutions at a level of complexity appropriate to their TMCC studies.
7. Technology:
   Students will be conversant with the general knowledge bases and the procedures and techniques by which knowledge is generated and accessed through the use of technology, and they will be able to select and apply the techniques and procedures of technology at a level of complexity to their TMCC studies.