Alverno's Eight Abilities
Communication
Make connections that create meaning between yourself and your audience. Learn to speak, read, write and listen effectively, using graphics, electronic media, computers and quantified data.
Analysis
Think clearly and critically. Fuse experience, reason and training into considered judgment.
Problem Solving
Define problems and their causes, and use a range of abilities and resources to reach decisions, make recommendations, or carry out plans.
Valuing
Recognize different value systems while holding strongly to your own ethic. Recognize the moral dimensions of your decisions and accept responsibility for the consequences of your actions.
Social Interaction
Work well with others to achieve goals, resolve conflicts and build relationships. Engage in conflict resolution, active group participation and classroom discussion; and develop an understanding of how forms of interaction vary depending on the cultures and situations involved.
Developing a Global Perspective
Act with an understanding of and respect for the economic, social and biological interdependence of global life.
Effective Citizenship
Be involved and responsible in the community. Act with an informed awareness of contemporary issues and their historical contexts. Develop leadership abilities.
Aesthetic Engagement
Engage with various forms of art and in artistic processes. Take and defend positions regarding the meaning and value of artistic expressions in the contexts from which they emerge.
