Examples of Student Learning Outcomes

Examples of Student Learning Outcomes

Communications Program

·  Communicate with diverse audiences in multiple contexts to meet the goals of the intended communication.

·  Describe and analyze the symbolic nature of communication and how it creates individual, group, and cultural reality.

·  Identify, evaluate, and utilize evidence to support claims used in presentations and arguments.

·  Demonstrate through performance and analysis the importance of both verbal and nonverbal communication.

http://www.ohlone.edu/instr/speech/courses.html

Writing

·  Analyze and synthesize course content using methods appropriate to the major;

·  make reasoned, well-organized arguments with introductions, thesis statements, supporting evidence, and conclusions appropriate to the major.

·  Use credible evidence, to include, as applicable, data from credible primary and/or secondary sources, integrated and documented accurately according to styles preferred in the major.

·  Employ rhetorical strategies suited to the purpose(s) and audience(s) for the writing, to include appropriate vocabulary, voice, tone, and level of formality.

·  Produce writing that employs the organizational techniques, formats, and genres (print and/or digital) typical in the major and/or workplace.

·  Produce writing that demonstrates proficiency in standard edited American English, including correct grammar/syntax, sentence structure, word choice, and punctuation.

https://assessment.gmu.edu/Genedassessment/outcomes.cfm

History:

1. / analyze historical facts and interpretations;
2. / analyze and compare political, geographic, economic, social, cultural, religious and intellectual institutions, structures, and processes across a range of historical periods and cultures;
3. / recognize and articulate the diversity of human experience across a range of historical periods and the complexities of a global culture and society;
4. / draw on historical perspective to evaluate contemporary problems/issues;
5. / analyze the contributions of past cultures/societies to the contemporary world.

Natural Science

1.conduct an experiment, collect and analyze data, and interpret results in a laboratory setting;

2.analyze, evaluate, and test a scientific hypothesis;

3.use basic scientific language and processes and be able to distinguish between scientific and non-scientific explanations;

4.identify unifying principles and repeatable patterns in nature, the values of natural diversity, and apply them to problems or issues of a scientific nature; and

5.analyze and discuss the impact of scientific discovery on human thought and behavior

Mathematics

1.build on (not replicate) the competencies gained through the study of two years of high school algebra and one year of high school geometry;

2.use mathematics to solve problems and determine if the solutions are reasonable;

3.use mathematics to model real world behaviors and apply mathematical concepts to the solution of real-life problems;

4.make meaningful connections between mathematics and other disciplines;

5.use technology for mathematical reasoning and problem solving; and
6.apply mathematical and/or basic statistical reasoning to analyze data and graphs.

http://www.tnstate.edu/interior.asp?mid=1636

Course Learning Outcomes: ENG 332 Communication in Business& Mgmt

Students should be able to:

1. communicate effectively i n specific writing and speaking situations related to

business and management

2. understand and respond appropriately especially to the needs of the audience

3. critique their own writing or speaking and provide effective and useful feedback to

enable other students to improve their writing or speaking

4. locate, analyze, synthesize, and effectively use sources in business and

management

Course Learning Outcomes: ARC 141 History of Design I

Students should be able to:

1. deepen their understanding of aesthetic traditions and strengthen their ability to

interpret the arts through analysis of any of a variety of man-made forms--such as

architecture and construction, landscape and urban planning, and pure and applied

three- and two- dimensional artifact--in Western civilization from pre-history to

Imperial Rome

2. understand and evaluate interpretations of any of a variety of man-made forms in

the period covered by the class

3. make critical judgments of any of a variety of man-made forms in the period covered

by the class

4. develop and awareness of the cultural and historical dimensions of the wide variety

of man-made forms in the period covered by this class

Course Learning Outcomes: Sociology 202: Principles of Sociology

Students should be able to:

1. demonstrate that they are familiar with the basic concepts by which sociologists

understand human behavior; and

2. demonstrate that they are familiar with some of the important terms related to

research methodologies in sociology; and

3. apply sociological concepts to real-world problems.

Course Learning Outcomes: HI 216 Latin America Since1826

Students should be able to:

1. understand human rights in the context of Latin American history through the

interpretation of primary and secondary sources

2. become aware of the fact that all history is interpretive, founded in a wide range of

motivations for constructing interpretations

3. make logical, historical arguments about Latin America

Course Learning Outcomes: ENG 251 Major British Authors

Students should be able to:

1. show that they can take an aspect of human experience and explore that aspect in

terms of a literary text or texts, examining their own presuppositions related to the

human experience and using the text(s) to discover a more complex understanding

of the experience.

2. become aware of the complex and dynamic nature of the interpretation of literary

texts, the forces that shape interpretation.

3. make academic arguments about the text of a major British author using reasons

and evidence from texts to support the reasons

Course Learning Outcomes: CH 100 Chemistry and Society

Students should be able to:

1. apply what they’ve learned about scientific methodology in one experimental

situation to a different situation, to reason through the new situation scientifically and

project likely results; and

2. use a basic chemical principle to explain a specific chemical process and to state

what the chemical process tells the students about the principle; and

3. identify various ways in which chemistry affects their everyday lives.

http://www.ncsu.edu/assessment/ger/pdf/ger_examples.pdf

Social Work Program Outcomes

·  Discuss the historical development of the social work profession that impacts on current structure and services.

·  Link people with and assist in the development of resources, services, and opportunities.

·  Identify and assess interactions of people within their social environment.

·  Define issues, collect and assess data, plan and contract, identify alternative interventions, select and implement appropriate course of action, using appropriate research-based knowledge and technological advances, and termination.

·  Assist and empower people to develop and use problem-solving, coping, and networking capacities.

·  Employ generalist practice skills sensitive to diverse, oppressed, and at-risk populations.

·  Apply knowledge of research studies to practice, and, under supervision, evaluate one's own practice interventions and those of other relevant systems.

·  Explain the values and ethics that guide professional social workers in their practice.

·  Under supervision, function within the structure of organizations and service delivery systems and seek necessary organizational change.

·  Discuss factors that are critical for continual professional growth and development.

·  Explain attributes that are critical to the professional use of self.

Selected outcomes from: http://programs.weber.edu/assessment/participants/student%20learning%20outcomes/socwrklist