Associate of arts with Certificate in Correctional Mental Health Degree Outcomes
- Graduates will develop and maintain personal and professional relationships through respect, clear boundaries, empathy and honest interactions.
- Graduates will critically assess one’s own attitudes, values and assumptions and consider their impact on individuals and the wider society.
- Graduates will communicate appropriately based on topic, audience and situation.
- Graduates will build knowledge of diverse ideas, values, perspectives and experiences.
- Graduates will articulate the significant signs and symptoms associated with major types of mental illness.
- Graduates will incorporate an ethic of care in all aspects of practice to ensure humane treatment for clients/consumers/patience, regardless of race, creed, diagnosis, wealth, age (develop appreciation social justice).
- Graduates will integrate an understanding of the broad spectrum of human services
Core Abilities Outcomes
Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking:
Graduates will be able to question, search for answers and meaning, and develop ideas that lead to action.
Responsibility:
Graduates will be able to respond by examining the relationship between self, community, and environments, evaluating potential impacts and consequences of actions, and making choices and contributions based on that examination and evaluation.
Information Competency:
Graduates will be able to seek, find, evaluate and use information and employ information technology to engage in lifelong learning.
Effective Communication:
Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods.
Multiculturalism:
Graduates will demonstrate knowledge of diverse ideas, cultures and experiences and the ability to examine their own attitudes and assumptions in order to engage others with civility and empathy.
Fundamental Areas of Knowledge Outcomes
Communication:
Graduates identify, analyze, and evaluate rhetorical strategies in one’s own and other’s writing in order to communicate effectively.
Humanities:
Graduates acquire skills to critically interpret, analyze and evaluate forms of human expression, and create and perform as an expression of the human experience.
Social Sciences:
Graduates use social science research methods and/or theory in order to analyze and interpret social phenomena.
Natural Sciences:
Graduates use the scientific method to analyze natural phenomena and acquire skills to evaluate authenticity of data/information relative to the natural world.
Quantitative & Symbolic Reasoning:
Graduates utilize mathematical, symbolic, logical, graphical, geometric, or statistical analysis for the interpretation and solution of problems in the natural world and human society.
