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2. Interpretation - To ensure students avoid pitfall of looking for the “right answer”
and demand answers that are principled… students are able to encompass as many
salient facts and points of view as possible.
Interpretation requires the student to make sense of stories, art works, data,
situations, or claims. Interpretation also involves translating ideas, feelings, or work
done in one medium into another.
5. Empathy - To ensure students develop the ability to see the world from different
viewpoints in order to understand the diversity of thought and feeling in the world.
Intellectual imagination is essential to understanding and it manifests itself
not only in the arts and literature but more generally through the ability to
appreciate people who think and act differently than us.