Learning Outcomes
The next time you find yourself wondering why you are taking a certain course for your degree, ask your professor about how the course contributes to established Learning Outcomes. Learning Outcomes are the general education goals the university has established for all students and represent the knowledge, skills and attitudes that students should gain to successfully complete the requirements of a course, program major, and degree. Additional goals may be established at the course and/or degree level.
General Education Goals
Goal I. Communication
- Students communicate effectively using appropriate writing conventions and formats.
- Students communicate effectively using appropriate oral or signed conventions and formats.
Goal II. Collaboration
- Students participate effectively in collaborative activities.
Goal III. Critical Thinking
- Students formulate appropriate questions for research.
- Students effectively collect appropriate evidence.
- Students appropriately evaluate claims, arguments, evidence and hypotheses.
- Students use the results of analysis to appropriately construct new arguments and formulate new questions.
Goal IV. Contemporary Issues
- Students effectively analyze contemporary issues within the context of diverse disciplinary perspectives.
- Students effectively analyze contemporary multicultural, global, and international questions.
Goal V. Quantitative Skills
- Students effectively perform arithmetic operations, as well as reason and draw appropriate conclusions from numerical information.
- Students effectively translate problem situations into symbolic representations and use those representations to solve problems.
Goal VI. Technology
- Students effectively use computers and other technology appropriate to the discipline.