Health
Services Support for the UWSP Core Competencies
Working Document
How
does the Health Service staff help students achieve each of the following:
- Read
critically, think logically, research effectively, and write coherently.
- Write appropriately
to a discipline.
- Understand
human communication and deliver an effective presentation.
- Quantify
and understand the real world using mathematics.
- Use the
scientific method, understand the pure sciences, and understand how
science relates to individuals or society at large.
- Understand
and appreciate Non-Western ideas and institutions and how they differ from
Western traditions..
- Understand
and appreciate the culture and history of racial and ethnic groups in the United States
and their relationship to the white majority culture.
- Appreciate
human behavior and heritage and understand the nature, development, and
interaction of cultures, societies, and civilizations over time.
- Understand,
appreciate and evaluate the enduring expressions of the human mind and
culture.
- Understand human behavior, the
structures of society, and the interrelationships among social
institutions and participate as thoughtful and informed members of society
at all levels.
- Understand how language functions and
cultures differ.
- Understand
and appreciate the ways human societies interact with and affect the
natural environment.
- Understand
concepts of wellness and apply them to personal lifestyles.