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General Education Learning Outcomes​ and Assessment Rubrics

Each course in General Education addresses several outcomes.  Students who complete the general education program will encounter each outcome at least once at an introductory level. No introductory course can fully meet an outcome. Rather, every course introduces or develops several outcomes. Relevant outcomes are addressed at a higher level within the advanced work of the respective majors.

  1. Students will understand the different purposes of writing and employ the conventions of writing in their major fields. Students will produce writing that is well organized, supported by evidence, demonstrates correct usage of grammar and terminology, and is appropriate to the academic context. (Written Communication)
    Assessment rubric for Written Communication
  2. Students will be able to analyze and interpret information from multiple perspectives, question assumptions and conclusions, and understand the impact of biases, including their own, on thinking and learning. (Critical Thinking)
    Assessment rubric for Critical Thinking
  3. Students will demonstrate the ability to access, understand, evaluate, and ethically use information to address a wide range of goals or problems. (Research Fluency)
    Assessment rubric for Research Fluency
  4. Students will learn to speak in a clearly expressed, purposeful, and carefully organized way that engages and connects with their audience. (Oral Communication)
    Assessment rubric for Oral Communication
  5. Students will learn to interact appropriately as part of a team to design and implement a strategy to achieve a team goal and to evaluate the process. (Collaborative Work)
    Assessment rubric for Collaborative Work
  6. Students will demonstrate through performance, creation, or analysis an ability to interpret and explain the arts from personal, aesthetic, cultural, and historical perspectives. (Arts)
    Assessment rubric for Arts
  7. Students will gain knowledge of social and political systems and of how civic engagement can change the environment in which we live. (Civic Knowledge)
  8. Students will demonstrate an understanding of their own ethical values, other ethical traditions from diverse places and times, and the process of determining ethical practice. (Ethical Reasoning)
    Assessment rubric for Ethical Reasoning
  9. Students will analyze and understand the social, historical, political, religious, economic, and cultural conditions that shape individuals, groups, and nations and the relationships among them across time. (Global Understanding)
    Assessment rubric for Global Understanding
  10. Students will demonstrate the ability to: (1) interpret and evaluate numerical and visual statistics; (2) develop models that can be solved by appropriate mathematical methods; and (3) create arguments supported by quantitative evidence and communicate them in writing and through numerical and visual displays of data including words, tables, graphs, and equations. (Quantitative Literacy)
    Assessment rubric for Quantitative Literacy
  11. Students will understand how scientific knowledge is uncovered through the empirical testing of hypotheses; be familiar with how data is analyzed, scientific models are made, theories are generated, and practical scientific problems are approached and solved; have the capacity to be informed about scientific matters as they pertain to living in this complex world; be able to communicate scientific knowledge through speaking and writing. (Scientific Literacy) ​
    Assessment rubric for Scientific Literacy

General Education Learning Outcomes by Course Category






Learning Outcome

Course Category

First year Seminar (FYS)

First year writing (FYW)

Connections (C)

Mathematics

Natural Science

Advanced Quantitative/
Scientific Reasoning

Social and Behavioral Sciences

History

Literature

Arts-- Visual and Performing

Critical and Creative Thinking 

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Written Communication

X

X

X

 

 

 

 

 

X

 

Research Fluency 

X

X

X

 

 

X

 

Oral Communication 

X

 

X

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Arts

 

 

 

 

 

X

Civic Knowledge 

 

 

 

 

 

 

X

X

 

 

Collaborative Work

X

X

X

 

 

 

 

 Ethical Reasoning

 

 

 

 

X

 

X

X

 

 

Global Understanding

 

 

 

 

X

 

Quantitative Literacy 

 

 

 

X

X

X

 

 

 

 

Scientific Literacy 

 

 

 

 

X

X

X

 

 

 

Page last updated: February 08, 2021