PLOs

English

Program Learning Outcomes English
  • Demonstrate broad familiarity with Anglophone literature in its historical contexts, including cultural traditions, aesthetic movements, generic conventions, and critical theories.
  • Compose clear, well-organized, and well-supported interpretive essays that combine effective close reading of primary texts with a consideration of relevant historical and cultural circumstances and appropriate secondary frameworks (or, in the case of students in the creative writing emphasis, effective poems and stories).
  • Find, assess, and correctly

Economics

Program Learning Outcomes Economics
  • Economic Vocabulary. Students will demonstrate knowledge of the terms and concepts commonly used in discussions of economic issues, such as in the popular press. Examples would include monetary and fiscal policy, supply and demand, market equilibrium, gains from trade, etc.
  • Analysis of Data.

East and Southeast Asian Studies

Program Learning Outcomes East and Southeast Asian Studies
  1. Communicate in and understand basic Chinese or Japanese or other East and Southeast Asian Languages, have exposure to elementary Chinese and Japanese or other East or Southeast Asian languages, and comprehend simple texts in such media as newspaper, books, and magazines
  2. Effectively comprehend and analyze aspects of the civilizations of East and Southeast Asia as manifested in such areas as its sociopolitical systems, literary/artistic expressions, and sociological and economic trends
  3. Effectively acquire

Design

Program Learning Outcomes Design
  • Utilize knowledge gained in classroom to develop discipline-based skills in materials and techniques.
  • Demonstrate discipline-based design ideas verbally, visually and digitally.
  • Develop creative discipline-based problem solving strategies in the design process.
  • View design in broader historical and environmental contexts. 

2012 

Comparative Literature

Program Learning Outcomes Comparative Literature
  • Demonstrate a comparative understanding of national literature and literary traditions within the context of world literature through close readings of primary texts in their original languages and in translation 

  • Situate texts within their cultural and historical contexts by integrating and analyzing secondary scholarship and criticism

Communication

Program Learning Outcomes Communication
  • Describe the communication discipline and the central questions that drive the discipline.
  • Performance Indicators:
    Explain the areas of inquiry of the discipline. 
    Identify the current opportunities and challenges facing the field of Communication. 
    Differentiate the Communication discipline from other areas of study. 

Classics

Program Learning Outcomes Classics
  • Demonstrate broad familiarity with the culture, literature, history, and material remains of Greco-Roman antiquity.
  • Demonstrate reading-level proficiency in at least one ancient language (Greek or Latin).
  • Demonstrate critical analysis of primary and secondary sources through rational and evidence-based written argumentation. 

2012 

Chemistry

Program Learning Outcomes Chemistry Knowledge-Based Learning Outcomes

Graduates will be able to:

Chinese

Program Learning Outcomes Chinese Modern Chinese Language
  • develop the capability to function as informed and confident global citizens.
  • engage in conversations and comprehend Chinese material on a range of topics.
  • narrate, describe, compare, and discuss ideas on topics within their experience and of interest to them.
  • understand the general sociolinguistic norms of representative Chinese communities and can communicate in a variety of cultural settings.
  • understand and appreciate the diversity of languages and cultures as reflected in Chinese

Chicana/Chicano Studies

Program Learning Outcomes Chicana/Chicano Studies
  • Demonstrate content mastery of Chicana/o Studies history, culture, arts, health, and mental health.
  • Demonstrate specialized knowledge and theories in areas related to social policy, cultural studies, and fine arts as they apply to Chicana/o Studies.
  • Demonstrate competency in research and analytical writing skills.
  • Demonstrate the Chicana/o experience in a local and global context.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the Chicana/o peoples’ diversity as it pertains to race/ethnicity, gender, sexuali