In 2025, College of DuPage faculty approved these Collegewide Student Learning Outcomes, which ensure graduates acquire a well-rounded education that prepares them for success in both their professional and personal lives. These outcomes reflect COD’s commitment to developing well-informed, capable graduates who can think critically, communicate effectively, and engage responsibly in an interconnected world.
At the completion of any degree program, COD graduates will meet each of the seven (7) outcome categories below using one or more of the listed methods.
Critical Thinking
- Apply appropriate strategies to solve real-world or discipline-specific problems.
- Develop logical, informed, evidence-based conclusions.
- Evaluate assumptions, arguments, or conclusions
Cultural and Historical Comprehension
- Examine a variety of cultural perspectives, ideas, or artifacts.
- Demonstrate awareness of historical events and ideas.
- Participate in respectful discourse on a variety of perspectives rooted in human experience.
Expression and Exchange of Ideas
- Integrate modes of communication such as text, speech, image, audio, video or a combination of these, as best suited to context.
- Apply strategies to achieve the author's purpose(s).
- Demonstrate an understanding of audience.
Human Behavior and Societal Impact
- Identify various ways to gather information pertinent to your discipline.
- Describe human behavior and its impact on others in a global society.
- Describe society’s impact on human behavior.
Information Literacy
- Locate information efficiently using a variety of search tools.
- Evaluate information and its sources critically and in context of an information need.
- Employ information effectively, ethically, and legally to accomplish a specific purpose.
Quantitative Reasoning
- Solve mathematical problems.
- Evaluate solutions to mathematical problems to determine the reasonableness of conclusions.
- Interpret quantitative data, such as graphs and results of analyses.
Scientific Reasoning
- Develop a scientific hypothesis based on observations.
- Employ appropriate scientific procedures to collect data.
- Evaluate the validity of conclusions drawn from scientific data.