CL&S

Spanish

Program Learning Outcomes Spanish
  • Demonstrate effective communicative skills in Spanish in the Interpersonal, Interpretative and Presentational modes.
  • Demonstrate cultural awareness with respect to the diversity of the Spanish speaking world by comprehending Spanish for native speakers in a variety of settings, types of discourse, topics, registers, and broad regional variations.
  • Demonstrate awareness of discourse in the disciplines in oral and written registers.
  • Demonstrate analytic, interpretive and critical thinking skills with respect to linguistic

Sociology

Program Learning Outcomes Sociology
  • Engage in critical, analytical thinking and writing.
  • Describe and analyze the connections between individuals, institutions, and social structure, which is fundamental to the sociological enterprise.
  • Discuss and synthesize the leading sociological paradigms, including the foundational work of Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, and Karl Marx.
  • Conduct original research and collect data using quantitative and qualitative methods.
  • Understand the crucial role of gender, race, class, and ethnic diversity in major America

Science and Technology Studies

Program Learning Outcomes Science and Technology Studies
  • Analyze how science and technology have shaped, and have been shaped by, society.
  • Draw from across the humanities and social sciences in order to study scientific and technological change. 
  • Communicate complex ideas about science and technology effectively, both orally and in writing.
  • Analyze how controversies and conflict shape the development of science and technology.

n.d. 

Russian

Program Learning Outcomes Russian
  • Language. Students will demonstrate an ability to operate in Russian, i.e. communicate orally and in writing, demonstrate an awareness of appropriateness of communication with respect to situation and register, be able to write a cogent essay according to appropriate disciplinary standards.
  • Culture.

Religious Studies

Program Learning Outcomes Religious Studies
  • Engage in critical, analytical thinking about religion
  • Understand how to use and contextualize primary source materials
  • Examine and interpret religion from a diversity of viewpoints
  • Develop reflective understanding of the practices and practitioners of religion
  • Discuss the relations between religion and ethics
  • Present complex and original ideas in written and oral formats   

revised: 2017 

Psychology

Program Learning Outcomes Psychology I.  Knowledge about the Science and Application of Psychology
  • A. Characterize the nature of psychology as a discipline
  • Understand why psychology is a science
    Understand the primary objectives, assumptions, and methods of psychology

Political Science

Program Learning Outcomes Political Science / Political Science--Public Service
  • Identify and explain key behavioral and institutional characteristics of political systems, including those within countries and the international political order;                                                                                           
  • Understand an

Physics

Program Learning Outcomes Physics
  • Demonstrate proficiency with mathematics and mathematical concepts.
  • Work in a variety of technical, academic, and professional careers.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of classical and quantum classical and quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, electricity and magnetism, laboratory skills including basic digital electronics and computer interfaces to scientific equipment, special relativity, and scientific.
  • Work in a professional laboratory setting. 

2012 

Philosophy

Program Learning Outcomes Philosophy
  • Employ analytical techniques to construct arguments that proceed via trustworthy inferences from plausible starting points. Although emphasis is on philosophical arguments, the techniques apply to all areas of argumentation.

Native American Studies

Program Learning Outcomes Native American Studies Critical Thinking
  • Demonstrate the ability to analyze and interpret data in both lower-division and upper-division Native American Studies (NAS) courses.
  • Demonstrate the ability to develop conclusions from multiple sources.
Communication Skills
  • In all NAS GE courses, the students will demonstrate the ability to clearly and effectively write about the experiences of Native American peoples. This includes indigenous populations in North American (the U.S.