Hope College Skills and Habits of Learning

Skills of Learning

Hope College students will demonstrate college-level proficiency in:

• critical thinking
• mathematical thinking
• reading, listening, and viewing with understanding, sensitivity, and critical acumen
• use of computer technology and library research facilities
• written and oral communciation

Habits of Learning

Hope College students will be encouraged and taught to develop an approach to learning in the tradition of the liberal arts, emphasizing:

• analytic, synthetic, and systematic thinking
• appreciation for tradition
• creativity
• curiosity and openness to new ideas
• intellectual courage and honesty
• moral and spiritual discernment and responsibility