SR 12-03 - Resolution Affirming CI Learning Outcomes

Senate Resolution File:
SR 12-03 Resolution Affirming CI Learning Outcomes

Drafted By: Senate Exec: Jim Meriwether (Chair); Mary Adler, Simone Aloisio, David Ashley, Frank Barajas, Lillian Castaneda, Nancy Deans, Therese Eyermann, Jeanne Grier, Beth Hartung, Antonio Jimenez-Jimenez, Dawn Neuman, Claudio Paiva
Purpose: To re-affirm, in one place, all approved CI student learning outcomes

Senate Resolution
This resolution affirms that CI graduates are expected to have met the following learning outcomes, and will be assessed accordingly:

Gen Ed, Mission-based Learning Outcomes [from SP 07-00]
Evaluate issues and integrate ideas from multiple perspectives, including cultural, national and international, and disciplinary perspectives, and identify actions consistent with their own civic responsibility. They will be able to:
Outcome 1.1 Integrate content, ideas, and approaches from
(a) multicultural perspectives,
(b) national and international perspectives, and
(c) integrative perspectives across disciplines.

Outcome 1.2 Take individual and collective actions which can address issues of public concern.

Gen Ed Learning Outcomes [from SP 07-00]
Identify clear, logical, and creative arguments. They are able to:

Outcome 2.1 Reason inductively and deductively and from a variety of perspectives.
Outcome 2.2 Deliberate with others and present arguments clearly, logically, and creatively.

Find and critically examine information. They are able to:

Outcome 3.1 Access needed information effectively and efficiently.
Outcome 3.2 Evaluate information and its sources critically.
Outcome 3.3 Explain the economic, legal, social, and ethical issues surrounding the use of
information.

Communicate effectively using a variety of formats. They are able to:

Outcome 4.1 Speak and present effectively in various contexts.
Outcome 4.2 Write effectively in various forms.
Outcome 4.3 Use relevant tools in various contexts to present and/or integrate ideas.
Understand the physical universe and its life forms, scientific methodology, and mathematical concepts,
and use quantitative reasoning. They are able to:

Outcome 5.1 Conduct planned investigations using the scientific method to reach reasoned conclusions.
Outcome 5.2 Solve problems using mathematical methods.
Outcome 5.3 Use graphs, tables, etc. to represent and explain scientific and mathematical models.
Outcome 5.4 Make connections between important/core/key concepts (or big ideas) in the natural sciences to describe/explain natural phenomena.

Cultivate intellect, imagination, sensibility and sensitivity through the study of philosophy, literature, languages, and the arts. They are able to:
Outcome 6.1 Analyze creative human products and ideas.
Outcome 6.2 Articulate personal thoughts and emotions when encountering human creations and ideas.
Outcome 6.3 Create original and imaginative works in philosophy, literature, language, and/or the arts.

Understand social, cultural, political, and economic institutions and their historical backgrounds, as well as human behavior and the principles of social interaction. They are able to:
Outcome 7.1 Convey how issues relevant to social, cultural, political, contemporary/historical, economic, educational, or psychological realities interact with each other.
Outcome 7.2 Discuss how social sciences conceive and study human experience.
Outcome 7.3 Use social science methods to explain or predict individual and collective human behavior.

Program Learning Outcomes [as codified by individual Program Long Forms]
Analyze issues, and where appropriate develop and convey to others solutions to problems, using the methodologies, tools and techniques of an academic discipline. [CI Mission Based Outcomes]

Students will be assessed on their ability to achieve established program learning outcomes for the majors, minors, and/or courses of study.