General Education

Essential Learning Outcomes

North Seattle Community College serves a diverse student population with a wide variety of educational backgrounds and goals. As a learning community, we foster and promote the following outcomes:

Knowledge

Facts, theories, perspectives, and methodologies within and across disciplines

Intellectual and Practical Skills, including

  • critical thinking and problem solving
  • communication and self-expression
  • quantitative reasoning
  • information literacy
  • technological proficiency
  • collaboration: group and team work

Personal and Social Responsibility, including

  • civic engagement: local, global, and environmental
  • intercultural knowledge and competence
  • ethical awareness and personal integrity
  • lifelong learning and personal well-being

Integrative and Applied Learning

Synthesis and application of knowledge, skills, and responsibilities to new settings and problems