NMHED General Education Common Core Competencies

• Analyze and evaluate oral and written communication in terms of situation, audience, purpose, aesthetics, and diverse points of view.


• Express a primary purpose in a compelling statement and order supporting points logically and convincingly.


• Use effective rhetorical strategies to persuade, inform and engage.


• Employ writing and/or speaking processes such as planning, collaborating, organizing, composing, revising & editing to create presentations using correct diction, syntax, grammar and mechanics.


• Integrate research correctly and ethically from credible sources to support the primary purpose of a communication.


• Engage in reasoned civil discourse while recognizing the distinctions among opinions, facts, and inferences.

• Graph functions.


• Solve various kinds of equations.


• Demonstrate the use of function notation and perform operations on functions.


• Model/solve real‐world problems.

• Demonstrate an understanding of the theoretical, geometrical underpinnings of calculus.


• Use concepts of function, limit, continuity, derivative, and integral.


• Apply methods of calculus to optimization, graphing, and approximation.


• Apply differential and integral calculus to problems in geometry, physics, and other fields.

• Display, analyze, and interpret data.


• Demonstrate knowledge of problem‐solving strategies.


• Construct valid mathematical explanations.


• Display an understanding of the development of mathematics.


• Demonstrate an appreciation for the extent, application, and beauty of mathematics.

• Describe the process of scientific inquiry.


• Solve problems scientifically.


• Communicate scientific information.


• Apply quantitative analysis to scientific problems.


• Apply scientific thinking to real world problems.

• Identify, describe, and explain human behaviors and how they are influenced by social structures, institutions, and processes within the contexts of complex and diverse communities.


• Articulate how beliefs, assumptions, and values are influenced by factors such as politics, geography, economics, culture, biology, history, and social institutions.


• Describe ongoing reciprocal interactions among self, society, and the environment.


• Apply the knowledge base of the social and behavioral sciences to identify, describe, explain, and critically evaluate relevant issues, ethical dilemmas, and arguments.

• Analyze and critically interpret significant primary texts and/or works of art (this includes fine art, literature, music, theatre, and film).


• Compare art forms, modes of thought and expression, and processes across a range of historical periods and/or structures (such as political, geographic, economic, social, cultural, religious, intellectual).


• Recognize and articulate the diversity of human experience across a range of historical periods and/or cultural perspectives.


• Draw on historical and/or cultural perspectives to evaluate any or all of the following: contemporary problems/issues, contemporary modes of expression, and contemporary thought.