Honing Skills and Capacities
Under the aim of honing skills and capacities, Stanford faculty articulated the skills and capacities they expect all undergraduates to develop. These are communication, foreign language, and each of eight Ways of Thinking/Ways of Doing (abbreviated as Ways). The Ways are Stanford’s new approach to breadth requirements. Ways of Thinking/Ways of Doing map courses by essential capacities rather than by department or academic discipline.
Here we present results of studies that seek to measure student development in communication, foreign language, and each of the eight Ways.
Communication (from Capacity and Preparatory Review Report, 2010)
The areas listed below will be added over the coming years:
Aesthetic and Interpretive Inquiry
Applied Quantitative Reasoning
Creative Expression
Engaging Diversity
Ethical Reasoning
Formal Reasoning
Scientific Method and Analysis
Social Inquiry
Following Honing Skills and Capacities, our evidence is organized in the following pages:
Cultivating Personal and Social Responsibility
Post-Graduation Outcomes
