Program Overview

University College Bachelor of Arts Completion Program

The Bachelor of Arts Completion Program is designed to meet the learning outcomes critical for success at work while fostering life-long learning. The program enhances skills through six critical outcomes that will have a lasting effect throughout one's career and personal life.

Program Outcomes

The program focuses on the following six critical outcomes:

• Creativity: the ability to conceptualize and rework problems and to generate solutions to those problems
• Critical thinking: the skill of analyzing and defining issues, developing an appreciation for multiple viewpoints, and generating wellcrafted arguments
• Knowledge utilization: the ability to find useful information, ideas, concepts, and theories; to synthesize them and build on them; and to apply them in the workplace as well as in personal life
• Decision making: the ability to analyze options and outcomes for decisions in terms of their values and effects and to make decisions that are rational, legal, and ethical
• Empowerment: the confidence that comes from knowing how to act, when to act, and how to respond to the opportunities and constraints that affect one's efforts to get things done
• Effective communication: knowing one's audience and learning how to empathize with them; reading, writing, and speaking effectively; making presentations that are persuasive and entertaining; and arguing to powerful effect

These outcomes are designed to enhance the skills and qualities sought in job candidates by employers, including verbal and written communication skills, strong work ethic, teamwork skills, analytical skills, and initiative.