通识教育学习成果

Learning Outcomes and Assessment Rubrics

Each course in 通识教育 addresses several outcomes.  Students who complete the general education program will encounter each outcome at least once at an introductory level. No introductory course can fully meet an outcome. Rather, every course introduces or develops several outcomes. Relevant outcomes are addressed at a higher level within the advanced work of the respective majors.

1. 书面交流 - Students will 理解 the different purposes of writing and employ the conventions of writing in their major fields. Students will produce writing that is well organized, 有证据支持, demonstrates correct usage of grammar and terminology, and is appropriate to the academic context. Assessment rubric for 书面交流
2. 批判性或创造性思维 - Critical Thinking is characterized by the comprehensive exploration of issues, 的想法, 工件, and events before accepting or formulating an opinion or conclusion. Creative Thinking reflects the capacity to combine existing 的想法, 图片, or expertise in original ways; and the experience of thinking, 反应, and working in an imaginative way characterized by a high degree of innovation and risk taking.  Assessment rubric for 批判性或创造性思维
3. 研究及资讯素养 - Students will demonstrate the ability to access, 理解, 评估, and ethically use information to address a wide range of goals or problems. Assessment rubric for 研究及资讯素养
4. 口头交流 - Students will learn to speak in a clearly expressed, 有目的的, and carefully organized way that engages and connects with their audience. Assessment rubric for 口头交流
5. 协同工作 - Students will learn to interact appropriately as part of a team to design and implement a strategy to achieve a team goal and to 评估 the process. Assessment rubric for 协同工作
6. 艺术 - Students will demonstrate through performance, 创建, or analysis an ability to interpret and explain the arts from personal, 审美, 文化, 从历史角度看. 艺术评估标准
7. 公民知识 - Students will gain knowledge of social and 政治 systems and of how civic engagement can change the environment in which we live. 公民知识评估标准
8. 道德推理 - Students will demonstrate an 理解ing of their own ethical values, other ethical traditions from diverse 的地方s and times, and the process of determining ethical practice. Assessment rubric for 道德推理
9. 全球的理解 - Students will analyze and 理解 the social, 历史, 政治, 宗教, 经济, and 文化 conditions that shape individuals, 组, and nations and the relationships among them across time. Assessment rubric for 全球的理解
10. 定量的素养 - Students will demonstrate the ability to: (1) interpret and 评估 numerical and visual statistics; (2) develop models that can be solved by appropriate mathematical methods; and (3) create arguments supported by quantitative evidence and communicate them in writing and through numerical and visual displays of data including words, 表, 图, 和公式. Assessment rubric for 定量的素养
11. 科学素养 - Students will 理解 how scientific knowledge is uncovered through the empirical testing of hypotheses; be familiar with how data is analyzed, 建立科学模型, 理论产生了, and practical scientific problems are approached and solved; have the capacity to be informed about scientific matters as they pertain to living in this complex world; be able to communicate scientific knowledge through speaking and writing. Assessment rubric for 科学素养

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