Goals and Outcomes Review the Category Goals and Outcomes that are expected to be reached after taking the coursework in the Liberal Arts Core. Liberal Arts Core ☰ Menu Requirements Goals and Outcomes Assessment Definitions Skills Employers are Looking For Assessment Four-Step Direct Assessment Process Category 1A Goals and Outcomes Goal 1: Students will display the ability to produce written texts that are focused, clear, complete, and effective. Outcome 1: Ideas expressed and explained in written texts are organized and communicated clearly, with detailed explanation and support for points made. Outcome 2: Research and source materials are used critically and with understanding of their content and context. Outcome 3: Ability to use professional documentation style correctly and consistently. Outcome 4: Written texts demonstrate understanding of audience needs, critical context, and writing purpose. Goal 2: Students will display the knowledge of and ability to practice the processes of effective writing. Outcome 1:Awareness and skillful use of writing processes, including invention, drafting, revising, and editing. Category 1B Goals and Outcomes Goal 1: Presentational/Speaking Skills: Students will display competence in creating and presenting oral messages in a variety of contexts. Outcome 1: Create and present well-organized, well-delivered speeches. Outcome 2: Use effective audience analysis to communicate in interpersonal, group, and public situations. Outcome 3: Use research support to make a persuasive argument. Outcome 4: Use appropriate visual aids and/or technology to enhance communication. Outcome 5: Demonstrate an awareness of the ethical responsibilities of communicators in public, interpersonal, and group situations. Outcome 6: Work constructively in groups to solve problems and accomplish tasks by applying specific group communication concepts and processes. Goal 2: Thinking/Listening Skills: Students will develop thinking and listening skills necessary for effective communication in a variety of relational contexts. Outcome 1: Identify how the process of perception works in everyday life. Outcome 2: Critically analyze and interpret verbal and nonverbal messages. Outcome 3: Identify specific strategies for how interpersonal relationships begin, are maintained and end. Outcome 4: Apply interpersonal conflict concepts to personal interactions. Outcome 5: Demonstrate an understanding of language bias/prejudice and its impact on the communication process. Outcome 6: Demonstrate an understanding of culture and its impact on the communication process. Outcome 7: Demonstrate effective listening in a variety of contexts. Category 1C Goals and Outcomes Goal 1: Make sense of quantitative information. Outcome 1: Interpret information from verbal, graphical, numerical, and algebraic perspectives used to describe or model quantitative situations. Goal 2: Use appropriate mathematical tools/techniques to work with quantitative information. Outcome 1: Represent and manipulate quantitative information, using standard mathematical conventions, to clarify meaning. Outcome 2: Draw correct conclusions from quantitative information and construct valid arguments to justify them. Goal 3: Value mathematics as a natural way to approach and address questions that arise in daily life, the workplace, and society. Outcome 1: Recognize the broader definition of mathematics. Outcome 2: Increase mathematical confidence as it is applied to daily life and lifelong learning. Category 1D Goals and Outcomes Goal 1: Students will recognize that wellness affects all aspects and quality of life. Outcome 1: Describe and differentiate the 6 dimensions of wellness and apply to content area (DWB) Outcome 2: Know how to self-assess (DWBL) Goal 2: Students will be able to apply decision-making processes to improve well-being. Outcome 1: Identify credible and reliable sources of wellness information for decision- making purposes. (DWB) Outcome 2: Explain behavior change via a theoretical perspective. (DWB) Outcome 3: Apply knowledge from self-assessment to create goals. (DWBL) Outcome 4: Ability to perform basic techniques of a specific activity. (DWBL) Goal 3: Students will be able to articulate why wellness is important. Outcome 1: Identity situations that illustrate how wellness can impact the everyday life of individuals, society and/or environment. (DWB) Outcome 2: Identify situations that illustrate how wellness can impact me. (DWBL) Category 2A Goals and Outcomes Goal: The purpose of Humanities 1, 2, and 3 is to acquaint students with the Western tradition as expressed in its literature, philosophy, religion, politics, arts, sciences, and technology. The study both of history and of core texts in their contexts is central to this process. Humanities 1, 2, and 3 share the broader goals of the Liberal Arts Core, including the development of core skills such as reading, writing, and critical inquiry. Outcome 1: Students who complete Humanities 1, 2, and/or 3 should be able to explain the contents of the works of literature, religion, philosophy, etc. which they were assigned; be able to place those works in the historical and/or cultural context within which they were written; and discuss what importance they have for the intellectual and/or religious tradition of the West. Outcome 2: Be able to place major works of art, sculpture, and architecture within the periods and cultures to which they belong, and discuss how those works relate to intellectual, religious, or historical developments in those periods and cultures. Outcome 3: Identify significant historical events and developments in the periods which they studied, discuss this origins, how they relate to intellectual, religious, and other cultural developments, and their importance for Western civilization. Category 2B Goals and Outcomes Goal 1: Students will achieve a broad understanding of a particular Non-Western Culture. Outcome 1: Students will be able to independently and critically interpret a document, item from the news, artifact, question, or scenario in the light of an informed general understanding of the particular Non-Western Culture they have studied. Goal 2: Building upon this understanding of a particular Non-Western Culture, students may also achieve a better appreciation of the simultaneous uniqueness and universality of all humanity. Outcome 1: Students may also be able to draw some cross-culturally comparative and/or universal conclusions from the same document, item from the news, artifact, question or scenario. Category 3A Goals and Outcomes Outcome 1: Explain the nuance and meanings in a variety of works of artistic/creative works. Outcome 2: Explain and support the values of studying and understanding artistic creative activity. Category 3B Goals and Outcomes Outcome 1: Explain the nuance and meanings in a variety of works of philosophy and/or literature and religion. Outcome 2: Explain and support the values of studying and understanding literary and philosophic works. Outcome 3: Explain the nuances and meanings in a variety of religious texts. Outcome 4: Explain and support the values of studying diverse approaches to religion. Category 5A Goals and Outcomes Outcome 1: Discuss the kinds of questions social scientists and historians ask. Outcome 2: Identify some major concepts and/or issues within the social sciences and history. Outcome 3: Comprehend and identify ways in which human behavior, relationships, and institutions are influenced by economic, environmental, geographical, historical, political, psychological, and socio-cultural structures and processes. Outcome 4: Describe and critique scientific methods social scientists use to explore social and behavioral phenomena. Category 5B Goals and Outcomes Outcome 1: Discuss the kinds of questions social scientists and historians ask. Outcome 2: Identify some major concepts and/or issues within the social sciences and history. Outcome 3: Comprehend and identify ways in which human behavior, relationships, and institutions are influenced by economic, environmental, geographical, historical, political, psychological, and socio-cultural structures and processes. Outcome 4: Describe and critique scientific methods social scientists use to explore social and behavioral phenomena. Category 5C Goals and Outcomes Outcome 1: Discuss the kinds of questions social scientists and historians ask. Outcome 2: Identify some major concepts and/or issues within the social sciences and history. Outcome 3: Comprehend and identify ways in which human behavior, relationships, and institutions are influenced by economic, environmental, geographical, historical, political, psychological, and socio-cultural structures and processes. Outcome 4: Describe and critique scientific methods social scientists use to explore social and behavioral phenomena. Category 6 Goals and Outcomes Goal 1: Challenge students’ intellect and promote the development of their higher-order thinking skills Goal 2: Synthesize a student’s previous learning experiences in the LAC. Goal 3: Provide students with a link of theory to practice through applied problem solving. Goal 4: Promote the development of skills and dispositions associated with self-directed, life-long learning.
