Outcome Assessment Report (OAR)

First-Year Seminar

1. Students will use more than one academic perspective to demonstrate content knowledge.
2. Students will demonstrate effective use of active reading strategies.
3. Students will demonstrate effective use of active listening strategies.
4. Students will be able to summarize course content in writing.
5. Students will be able to analyze and interpret course content in writing
6. Students will be able to engage in critical dialogue about the course content.

First-Year Writing

1. Students will apply rhetorical concepts – audience, purpose, genre, style, occasion or exigency – to both reading and writing tasks;
2. Students will analyze and synthesize texts;
3. Students will evaluate information found using bibliographic tools;
4. Students will use drafting and revision as effective and appropriate writing practices;

Quantitative Literacy

1. Students will apply mathematical methods to draw inferences from a mathematical model of real-world phenomena.
2.  Students will create a mathematical model from an informal description of real-world phenomena.
3. Students will communicate mathematical ideas clearly and concisely.

Second-Year Writing

1. Students will use rhetorical concepts to analyze and evaluate arguments;

2. Students will compose effective arguments;

3. Students will integrate reasons and evidence derived from various sources; course is offered?)

4. Students will use drafting and revision as effective and appropriate writing practices;

Foreign Language Literacy

1. Students will acquire a core vocabulary sufficient to permit basic interactions with native speakers of the target language.

2. Students will acquire grammatical mastery sufficient to permit basic interactions with native speakers of the target language.

Wellness Activity & Literacy

1. Students will participate in physical activities that promote health-related components of physical fitness and wellbeing and provide for long-term participation potential.

2. Students will be able to explain the need for a lifetime commitment to physical well-being.

Historical and Society

1. Students will explain or apply various approaches used in the study of history and society.

2. Students will use appropriate analytical tools to interpret or evaluate human behavior at the individual, group, or societal level.

Interpretive

1. Students will read and understand primary works in literature, religion, philosophy, or the fine arts.

2. Students will analyze how these works reflect, respond to, and shape social, political, religious and/or intellectual contexts.

3. Students will write about these works from rhetorical, aesthetic, analytical, or ethical perspectives.

Creative

1. Students will demonstrate substantial knowledge of at least one creative process.

2. Students will demonstrate imaginative and generative thinking through the production of original creative artifacts.

3. Students will reflect on the process of creation and the aesthetic success or failure of the original artifacts they have created.

Scientific

1. Students will demonstrate an understanding of the scientific method within a disciplinary context.

2. Students will collect, analyze, and interpret data.

3. Students will demonstrate an understanding of the impact of scientific knowledge on the world.

Non-Western

1. Students will describe at least one topic beyond western society.

2. Students will interpret at least one text or artifact from beyond western society.