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Institutional Competencies

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The Comprehensive Learner Record, or CLR, is designed to help students connect their experiences, both in and out of the classroom, to UGA's Institutional Competencies. These six competencies cover a spectrum of learning experiences and will help students visualize and document their professional growth.

UGA'S INSTITUTIONAL COMPETENCIES

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Critical Thinking

The ability to pursue and comprehensively evaluate information before accepting or establishing a conclusion, decision, or action.

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Analytical Thinking

The ability to reason, interpret, analyze, and solve problems from a wide array of authentic contexts.

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Communication

The ability to effectively develop, express, and exchange ideas in written, oral, interpersonal, or visual form.

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Social Awareness & Responsibility

The capacity to understand the interdependence of people, communities, and self in a global society.

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Creativity & Innovation

The capacity to combine or synthesize existing ideas, images, or expertise in original ways and the experience of thinking, reacting, and working in an imaginative way characterized by innovation, divergent thinking, and risk taking.

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Leadership & Collaboration

The capacity to engage in the relational process of optimizing personal and collective strengths toward a common goal.

The CLR will visually show how students' completed courses and activities help them gain these professional skills.

CLR Diagram for Competencies