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discover, preserve, and disseminate knowledge; produce creative work; and promote a culture of broad inquiry throughout and beyond the Cornell community. Cornell also aims, through public service, to enhance the lives and livelihoods of our students, the people of New York, and others around the world.</p> <p>Our faculty, students, alumni, and staff strive toward these objectives in a context of freedom with responsibility. We foster initiative, integrity, and excellence, in an environment of collegiality, civility, and responsible stewardship. As the land-grant university for the state of New York, we apply the results of our endeavors in service to our alumni, the community, the state, the nation, and the world.</p> <p>Cornell University’s colleges, schools, and other academic units offer more than 4,000 courses, 70 undergraduate majors, nearly 100 graduate fields of study, undergraduate and advanced degrees, and continuing education and outreach programs. 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Through the multiple dimensions of students’ lives, Cornell provides an academic community that aims to help them achieve a variety of goals.</p> <h2 style="margin-top: 1em;">Learning Goals for Undergraduate Education</h2> <h3>Cornell graduates will:</h3> <p><strong>Demonstrate disciplinary knowledge</strong>聽and its uses by developing a systematic and coherent understanding of an academic field of study including technical dimensions, integrating information, skills and experiences, and synthesizing ideas in original ways.</p> <p><strong>Apply analytical and critical thought</strong>聽to a body of knowledge; evaluate arguments; identify relevant assumptions or implications. Formulate coherent arguments, exhibiting alertness to the possibility that something could be done better than it has been done before, and that critical engagement with a problem to be solved may lead to a creative solution.</p> <p><strong>Express ideas clearly and persuasively orally and in writing;</strong>聽work, communicate, and engage effectively with others using media as appropriate; be able to use these skills to support consensus-building, collaboration, teamwork, and facilitating outcomes.</p> <p><strong>Demonstrate scientific and quantitative reasoning</strong>聽by understanding cause and effect relationships; defining problems; using symbolic thought; applying scientific principles, and solving problems with no single correct answer.</p> <p><strong>Direct their own learning;</strong>聽work independently; formulate learning goals, select, manage and reflect upon their learning; identify appropriate resources; take initiative; manage a project through to completion; self-assess and seek additional information when needed.</p> <p><strong>Use information from a variety of sources strategically, appropriately and responsibly,</strong>聽uphold principles of academic integrity; access, and evaluate information from print and electronic sources.</p> <p><strong>Engage in the process of discovery or creation;</strong>聽demonstrate the ability to work productively, creatively, and artfully in a laboratory setting, studio, library, or field environment.</p> <p><strong>Demonstrate knowledge and awareness of different cultural practices, values, beliefs, and worldviews, and an understanding of their own cultural perspective;</strong>聽communicate effectively and respectfully with individuals from different backgrounds and across a multicultural society; demonstrate curiosity, flexibility, adaptability, and tolerance for ambiguity; investigate themselves and others as cultural beings, understanding the implied values and assumptions that underlie cultural norms and traditions.</p> <p><strong>Embrace moral and ethical values in conducting their lives;</strong>聽make judgments about the quality and value of ideas, theories, and information; promote honesty, trust, fairness, respect, and responsibility; formulate a position or argument about an ethical issue from multiple perspectives; use ethical practices in all work.</p> <p><strong>Take responsibility for their own behavior and well-being;</strong>聽direct their own activities toward the achievement of objectives, including goal setting, decision making, planning, scheduling, and time management; care for themselves responsibly; demonstrate awareness of themselves in relation to others.</p> <p><strong>Engage in their communities, demonstrating responsibility to a larger community or public;</strong>聽connect positively with and in communities of various sizes and composition through and outside the classroom; participate in community engagement or civic action to benefit the public good.</p> <h2 style="margin-top: 1em;">Colleges and Schools</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://cals.cornell.edu/undergraduate-students/student-services/academic-resources/cals-undergraduate-learning-outcomes" aria-label="College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Learning Outcomes">College of Agriculture and Life Sciences</a></li> <li>College of Architecture, Art and Planning <ul> <li><a href="https://aap.cornell.edu/academics/architecture/undergraduate/learning-outcomes" aria-label="Architecture undergraduate learning outcomes">Architecture</a></li> <li><a href="https://aap.cornell.edu/academics/art/undergraduate/learning-outcomes" aria-label="Art undergraduate learning outcomes">Art</a></li> <li>City & Regional Planning</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://as.cornell.edu/education/educational-outcomes" aria-label="College of Arts and Sciences outcomes">College of Arts and Sciences</a></li> <li>Cornell SC Johnson College of Business <ul> <li>Peter and Stephanie Nolan School of Hotel Administration</li> <li>Dyson</li> </ul> </li> <li>Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science</li> <li><a href="https://www.engineering.cornell.edu/students/undergraduate-students/curriculum" aria-label="College of Engineering curriculum">College of Engineering</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.human.cornell.edu/about/mission" aria-label="College of Human Ecology mission">College of Human Ecology</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.ilr.cornell.edu/current-students/undergraduate-student-resources/curriculum-requirements/new-curriculum-requirements" aria-label="School of Industrial and Labor Relations curriculum requirements">School of Industrial and Labor Relations</a></li> <li>Cornell Jeb E. 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