The School of Graduate Studies

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The Bethune-Cookman University School of Graduate Studies provides outstanding learning opportunities for adult learners from diverse social, economic and educational backgrounds. To accomplish this mission and support the needs of adult learners, we are committed to providing the highest quality programs of instruction using the most current technology.

Institutional Graduate Student Learning Outcomes

Vision:

Students will graduate from Bethune-Cookman University as transformative leaders with complex cognitive skills; practical knowledge and competency; an appreciation of human differences and commonalities; and an integrated sense of identity and civic responsibility that prepares them to live successfully within a multicultural and global community.

The graduate, as a transformative leader, will possess:

1. Complex cognitive skills
   
   The graduate actively engages in critical reflection based on analysis, synthesis, and evaluation in experiences that promote positive transformation in fellow human beings. The graduate program integrates research methodology throughout the curriculum.
    
2. Practical knowledge and competency
   
   When applying discipline-specific principles, the student will discriminate among possible solutions, selecting and supporting those that take into consideration societal impact, e.g., the health, safety, and empowerment of others.
    
3. An appreciation of human differences and commonalities
   
   The graduate actively discriminates among positions, selecting and supporting those that empower fellow human beings. Across the curriculum, the student will demonstrate sensitivity and respect for human differences and commonalities in the various domains in which they occur including, but not limited to, differences by age, gender, race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, language, and socio-economic status.
    
4. An integrated sense of identity and civic responsibility
   
   The graduate actively defends positions that move global society in a direction that promotes self-worth, self-directed lifelong learning, social justice, and civic engagement. The graduate will demonstrate a passion for lifelong learning fostered by a holistic view of self-worth and the capacity to be a self-directed learner. When assigned to teams, graduates will share responsibility, analyze ideas, discern feasible solutions, build a consensus, and develop strategies for action and evaluation in defense of positions that move self and global society in a direction that promotes social justice and civic responsibility.

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