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CL2.1.l. Pursuit of wisdom

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Students understand the difference between being smart and being wise. They seek wisdom, an advanced mental competence that combines intelligence, experience, and common sense to create the ability to make judgments that reflect a deep understanding of facts, opinions, theories, and human nature.

CL3.1.a. Rational decision making

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Students demonstrate the ability to employ a rational process that avoids rationalizations and elevates logic over emotions. The rational process includes: 1) Identifying long-term and short-term objectives. 2) Devising alternative courses of action to achieve the objectives. 3) Foreseeing potential consequences to each person or group (i.e., the stakeholder) affected by the decision. 4) Choosing the course of action most likely to produce the optimum (i.e., best possible) result. 5) Monitoring the effectiveness of the decision and making adjustments as necessary to achieve the objectives.

CL3.1.b. Ethical decision making

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Students demonstrate the ability to discern the ethical implications of their choices by systematically considering core ethical principles and the discipline to do what they think is right even when it is difficult, risky, or personally costly.7 1) Students understand that they are morally and legally accountable for the consequences of their decisions (including a decision not to decide). 2) Students evaluate their choices in terms of core ethical principles (e.g., honesty, loyalty, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, kindness, and good citizenship) and they eliminate any option that is illegal or unethical. 3) Students understand that in dilemmas where ethical principles compete (e.g., honesty versus kindness, loyalty versus fairness), they should choose the option most likely to produce the greatest good for the greatest number (i.e., the best possible result).