Intellectual Competencies include Reading, Writing, Listening, and Critical Thinking.
Exemplary Educational Objectives include the your ability

• to understand and demonstrate writing and speaking processes through invention, organization, drafting, revision, editing, and presentation;
• to understand the importance of specifying audience and purpose and to select appropriate communication choices;
• to understand and appropriately apply modes of expression--descriptive, expositive, narrative, scientific, and self-expressive--in written, visual, and oral communication;
• to participate effectively in groups with emphasis on listening, critical and reflective thinking, and responding;
• to understand and apply basic principles of critical thinking, problem solving, and technical proficiency in the development of exposition and argument; and
• to develop the ability to research and write a documented paper and/or give an oral presentation.

Perspectives include

• establishing broad and multiple perspectives on the individual in relationship to the larger society and world in which he or she lives and to understand the responsibilities of living in a culturally and ethically diversified world,
• stimulating a capacity to discuss and reflect upon individual, political, economic, and social aspects of life in order to understand ways in which to be a responsible member of society,
• developing personal values for ethical behavior,
• developing the ability to make aesthetic judgments,
• using logical reasoning in problem solving, and
• integrating knowledge and understanding of the interrelationships of the scholarly disciplines.

A full listing and explanation of these Intellectual Competencies, Exemplary Educational Objectives, and Perspectives can be found on the Web at the Higher Ed. Coordinating Board website.