Student Learning Outcomes

The following table provides the faculty governance-approved Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) for each component of the General Education Program:

Component

SLOs

ACAD 101
  • Students will connect personal and social responsibility to their own academic efforts.
Founding Documents
  • Students will identify the social and political contexts of the Founding Documents (United States Constitution, Declaration of Independence, Federalist Papers, and Emancipation Proclamation). 
  • Students will identify one or more documents that are foundational to the African American Freedom struggle.
Global Perspectives
  • Students will explore societies and cultures outside the dominant historical and cultural experience of the United States.
  • Students will describe the development and functioning of the modern world.
  • Students will identify relevant connections between course material and a global cultural event.
  • Students will explore societies and cultures outside the dominant historical and cultural experience of the United States.
Historical Perspectives
  • Students will examine knowledge or ideas from a historical perspective.
  • Students will demonstrate their ability to think historically by identifying sound and unsound historical reasoning.
Humanities and Arts
  • Students will describe diversity in people, or ideas, or institutions, or moral codes, or ethical principles. 
  • Students will analyze a complex issue, subject, or matter in relation to a cultural, societal, linguistic, historical, or artistic perspective (as appropriate to the discipline).
Intensive Writing
  • Students will demonstrate competency in written communication through completion of one of more written assignments totaling 4,000 words of more.
Natural Sciences
  • Students will be conversant with a few fundamental concepts from natural science, including earth, life, and/or physical sciences.