The Mission of the DCCCD is to equip students for successful living and responsible citizenship in a rapidly changing local, national, and world community. The Core Curriculum, therefore is designed to provide students with learning experiences that will allow the development of essential Intellectual Competencies of reading, writing, speaking, listening, critical thinking and computer literacy. In accordance with the THECB guidelines, the purpose of the Core is to provide course and other experiences, the outcomes of which help students attain the following perspectives:
- Establish broad and multiple perspectives on the individual in relationship to the larger society and world in which he or she lives, and to understand the responsibilities of living in a culturally and ethnically diversified world;
- Stimulate a capacity to discuss and reflect upon individual, political, economic, and social aspects of life in order to understand ways in which to be a responsible member of society;
- Recognize the importance of maintaining health and wellness;
- Develop a capacity to use knowledge of how technology and science affect their lives;
- Develop personal values for ethical behavior;
- Develop the ability to make aesthetic judgments;
- Use logical reasoning in problem solving; and
- Integrate knowledge and understand the interrelationships of the scholarly disciplines.
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