The successful graduate of IST will demonstrate the following attributes:

Effective Connector to the Digital World

• Undergraduate Learning Outcomes:
  • Students will be able to identify the rights, responsibilities, and opportunities of learning in an online environment.
  • Students will be able to identify, reflect, and respect the range of worldwide ethical perspectives and their impact of actions on others.

Creative and Innovative Communicator

• Undergraduate Learning Outcomes:
  • Students will be able to use reading, writing, listening, and speaking as communication tools to effectively express and communicate ideas.
  • Students will implement effective communication to speak, show, demonstrate, exhibit, or perform using a variety of media to convey complex solutions implementing change.
  • Students will be able to present multifaceted content that customizes the message for intended audiences.

Critical Thinker for Knowledge Construction

• Undergraduate Learning Outcomes:
  • Students will demonstrate reliable and valid data research strategies for intellectual or creative pursuits.
  • Students will find ways to express originality, imagination, and innovation working with complex and ambiguous situations to transform their learning.
  • Students will make decisions based upon understanding of scientific concepts and processes using observation and experimentation using appropriate technology and scientific reasoning.

Technological and Research Proficiency

• Undergraduate Learning Outcomes:
  • Students will access and use online and written information safely, ethically, and legally.
  • Students will demonstrate the ability to find, organize, understand, critically examine, and use information from various sources using a variety of technologies.
  • Students will identify the rights, responsibilities, and opportunities of living, learning, and working in an interconnected digital world.