Undergraduate Learning Outcomes

Undergraduate Learning Outcomes

1. Critical Thinking and Problem-Solving:  

Students will be able to:

  • Observe, examine, and dissect the assumptions and conventions of different areas of study, while addressing complex questions, problems, materials, and texts of all types with creative solutions and analytical processes (Degree Qualifications Profile, 2014). 
  • Respond to problems from an interdisciplinary perspective, informed by their courses and co-curriculum.

 

2. Quantitative Reasoning:

Students will be able to:

  • Evaluate a numerical expression of information while ethically drawing meaning from the underlying data. 
  • Discover, define, and demonstrate functional relationships between variables. 
  • Interpret quantitative data to support an argument. 

 

3. Communication and Information Literacy:

Students will be able to:

  • Find, appraise, organize, use, and convey information and their ideas, both individually and collaboratively, through oral, digital, and written forms.

A. Information Literacy:

Students will be able to:

- Evaluate large quantities of information, purposefully select a range of information sources, understand how information is produced and valued, incorporate multiple resources using technology responsibly, and participate ethically in communities of learning (Association of College and Research Libraries, 2015; Information Literacy VALUE Rubric; CSU Monterey Bay, Threshold Concepts). 

B. Written Communication:

Students will be able to:

- Construct logical and persuasive arguments, reflective narratives, or explications of issues, problems, or technical processes. 

- Address both specific and general audiences through different genres in their writing. 

C. Oral and Digital Communication: 

Students will be able to:

- Speak clearly and effectively, listen and resolve conflicts with empathy, and use visual representations to communicate data to specific and general audiences. 

- Foster understanding, or promote change in listener attitudes, values, beliefs, or behaviors (AAC&U, 2009). 

- Analyze or produce ideas using digital media and digital storytelling techniques (Bryn Mawr Digital Competencies Framework, 2016). 

D. Collaborative Communication and Teamwork: 

Students will be able to:

- Understand the value and process of working with others, develop critical perspectives and skills needed to co-create knowledge, and value content and contributions made by others (Bryn Mawr Digital Competencies Framework, 2016). 

- Establish professional working relationships through group-process and interpersonal work. 

 

4. Acting as Men and Women for and with Others:

Students will be able to:

  • Expand their perceptions of commitment, civic engagement, love, and the world beyond themselves. 
  • Analyze local and global problems, they will identify issues of social justice, human rights, and equity, formulated through the eyes of others. 
  • Apply ethical reasoning, students will discern personal and professional responsibilities in dismantling unjust social structures and taking courageous action.  

 

5. Integrative Learning:

Students will be able to:

  • Assess their personal values and reflect on connections among ideas and experiences; between disciplinary, personal, technological, and community life to synthesize and transfer their learning to new and complex situations (AAC&U, 2009).

 

6. Engaging with Diverse Perspectives: 

Students will be able to:

  • Recognize their own bias and privilege. 
  • Critically analyze the roles of intersectionality and power within institutions and systems, and dialogue about differences with these nuanced understandings. 
  • Relate to others as globally-minded citizens and professionals based on an interpretation of diversity as an aspect of individual and community identity, and in relation to political, economic, and social dynamics (Intercultural Competence and Knowledge VALUE Rubric, AAC&U; https://www.bc.edu/content/dam/files/schools/cas_sites/core/Toward-a-Renewed-Core-10.30.13.pdf). 
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