PLOs

Mathematics

Program Learning Outcomes Mathematics
  • Demonstrate analytical skills and extensive experience with the tactics of problem solving and logical thinking. Graduates will have the ability to ask all-important questions and perform suitable quantitative analysis.
  • Demonstrate a solid understanding of rigorous mathematical proof.

Mathematical and Scientific Computation

Program Learning Outcomes Mathematical and Scientific Computation
  • Demonstrate analytical skills and extensive experience with the tactics of problem solving and logical thinking. Graduates will have the ability to ask pertinent questions and perform suitable quantitative analysis.
  • Demonstrate a solid understanding of rigorous mathematical proof.

Linguistics

Program Learning Outcomes Linguistics
  • Express, assess, and defend analyses of linguistic data or societal concerns related to language use, with clarity and rigor in standard written academic English;
  • Effectively analyze the structure of languages, as manifested in their phonological, morphological, syntactic, and/or semantic systems; and
  • Effectively utilize a standard scientific research methodology appropriate to linguistic analysis.

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Japanese

Program Learning Outcomes Japanese Japanese Language
  • Demonstrate practical functionality in all four aspects of the Japanese language, i.e., in listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
  • Utilizing a thorough knowledge of foundation-level Japanese grammar and vocabulary, comprehend and respond appropriately to spoken commands and announcements, to medium-length spoken accounts of sequences of event and other similar narrations, and to speech used in commonly occurring situations in daily and academic life.
  • Demonstrate sensitivity to the cultural styles of Japane

Italian

Program Learning Outcomes Italian
  • Language. Students will demonstrate an ability to operate in Italian, 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.

International Relations

Program Learning Outcomes International Relations
  • Explain the causes and consequences of key phenomena in International Relations.                                
  • Understand the strengths and weaknesses of different disciplinary approaches to the study of International Relations.

History

Program Learning Outcomes History
  • Factual Knowledge. Students will demonstrate a basic grasp of important people, places, and events in the past. They will be able to identify the who, what, when, where, why, and historical significance of key actors and moments in history.

German

Program Learning Outcomes German
  • Language. Students will demonstrate an ability to operate in German, 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.

Geology

Program Learning Outcomes Geology
  • Apply the fundamental principles of geology, mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology to address geological issues.
  • Identify common Earth materials at all spatial scales.
  • Describe the origin of the solar system and Earth and be able to understand our planet in comparison with other planets. 
  • Comprehend the 4.6 billion year history of Earth and the evolution of the solid earth, the cryosphere, the hydrosphere and the atmosphere.
  • Understand the chronology of life on Earth and the fundamentals of biologi

French

Program Learning Outcomes French
  • Language. Students will demonstrate an ability to operate in French, 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.