Curriculum & Degree Requirements

At the undergraduate level, CPCS provides a comprehensive Bachelor of Arts degree program that integrates general education, skill development and support, with majors focused on professions related to public and community service.

The undergraduate curriculum is organized around four overarching learning outcomes:

• Language and technical skills necessary for purposeful inquiry and communication
• Professional competence to function effectively in a broad range of workplace and community-based roles and activities
• Critical consciousness needed to clarify and challenge prevailing values, ideologies, and practices
• Essential knowledge required for participating fully in society

In working toward meeting these overall learning outcomes and earning a degree, CPCS students are required to complete 40 (3 credit equivalent) competencies. The curriculum is organized into four developmental levels with competencies at each successive level demanding more complex intellectual tasks. At each level students are provided multiple opportunities to develop and apply appropriate academic and practice-oriented skills. The forty competencies are clustered into three main curricular categories:

• Core Knowledge and Skills
• Majors and Concentrations
• Communications Portfolio