Core Curriculum Learning Outcomes

Springfield College Seminar Learning Outcomes

1. Demonstrates logical reasoning and analysis based on evidence from multiple sources.
2. Interpret issues from diverse perspectives, including but not limited to cultural, philosophical, and/or global perspectives.
3. Identify and apply a variety of disciplinary approaches to investigate a central big question.
4. Reflect on the role the Humanics philosophy plays in your Springfield College educational experience.

Quantitative Reasoning Learning Outcomes

1. Demonstrate the ability to interpret and draw inferences from mathematical models.
2. Demonstrate the ability to represent mathematical/numerical information in various ways.
3. Demonstrate the ability to solve problems using an array of mathematical methods.
4. Demonstrate the ability to construct and utilize mathematical models for applications.

Composition I Learning Outcomes

1. Students will demonstrate ability to write using well developed central ideas, appropriate supporting details, and clear organizational patterns.
2. Demonstrate the ability to create written arguments supported by authoritative sources.
3. Demonstrate the ability to locate, evaluate, and use academic and other appropriate sources, as well as to show how a source’s value is informed by context.
4. Demonstrate the use of an appropriate set of conventions for citing sources (APA or MLA).
5. Demonstrate awareness of the grammar, mechanics, punctuation, and usage errors they are most likely to commit and work to reduce them.

Composition II Learning Outcomes

1. Students will learn and use key rhetorical concepts of audience, purpose, context, and genre in order to analyze and produce a variety of texts.
2. Students will demonstrate an ability to develop and expand central ideas, cite appropriate supporting details, and employ clear organizational patterns in the service of writing produced for various audiences and purposes.
3. Students will use strategies—such as interpretation, synthesis, response, critique, and design/redesign—to compose texts that integrate the writer’s ideas with those from appropriate sources.
4. Students will practice applying appropriate citation strategies (e.g. MLA or APA) in their own work and apply basic proofreading strategies.

Wellness and Physical Literacy Learning Outcomes

1. Demonstrate an understanding of the dimensions of wellness, factors that impact each dimension, and how dimensions are interrelated.
2. Demonstrate the ability to assess individual wellness and reflect on how individual wellness practices have lifelong impacts.
3. Demonstrate knowledge of a range of skills and physical activities that enhance physical literacy.
4. Demonstrate the motor competence, tactical knowledge, perceived motor competence, and intrinsic motivation necessary to be able to select and participate in physical activities throughout life.

Literature Learning Outcomes

1. Demonstrate the ability to analyze a literary text by examining textual elements such as plot, character, point of view, tone, imagery, symbols, and theme.
2. Demonstrate the ability to discuss and cite relevant quotations from a literary text in service of a thesis or line of inquiry.
3. Recognize and describe the diversity of human experience through literary analysis.
4. Demonstrate the ability to evaluate literature in the context of relevant historical and cultural factors.

Understanding the World

Spiritual and Ethical Perspectives Learning Outcomes

1. Demonstrate philosophical problem-solving or religious literacy through the application and analysis of an example.
2. Identify and define terminology, concepts, ideas, or practices in philosophy or religious studies.
3. Apply methods of philosophy or religious studies to interpret interactions between individuals and society.
4. Accurately use methods of philosophical or religious reasoning as they engage fundamental questions about the human condition.

Aesthetic Expression Learning Outcomes

1. Identify and/or describe learned methods, concepts, techniques, terms, and/or forms in the creative field.
2. Identify and describe learned connections between historical, social, and/or cultural contexts of a work/artist in the creative field.
3. Engage in creative expression and/or develop original creative work applying learned methodology or context.
4. Interpret and critically evaluate creative work.

Historical and Social Literacy Learning Outcomes

1. Explain the basic principles and methodologies of history or social science research.
2. Apply central concepts and/or theories used by historians or social scientists.
3. Describe cultural phenomena and explain the impact of culture on people and/or the impact of people on culture.
4. Describe an institution and explain an institution’s impact on people and/or the impact of people on an institution.

Scientific Reasoning Learning Outcomes

1. Students will demonstrate an understanding of science as a way of knowing about the physical and/or natural world.
2. Students will demonstrate the ability to assess the credibility of scientific information.
3. Students will be able to collect and analyze data and information to test hypotheses and draw conclusions about the physical and natural world using appropriate scientific methods.

Themed Exploration

Themed Exploration Learning Outcomes

1. Students will demonstrate an understanding of how diverse worldviews, experiences, and power structures impact the theme under study.
2. Students will demonstrate an understanding of how disciplinary perspectives result in a variety of ways of knowing that increase understanding of any theme under study.
3. Students will demonstrate an understanding of how interdisciplinary ways of knowing can help to develop effective problem-solving strategies.

Creativity Learning Outcomes

1. Students will demonstrate awareness of historical and cultural practices related to the creative process across disciplines.
2. Students will demonstrate creative problem-solving strategies in service to others.
3. Students will demonstrate through creative and analytical projects their ability to conceptualize new visions of the world around them.
4. Students will demonstrate an understanding of the creative process as a source of resilience and personal expression.

Social Justice Learning Outcomes

1. Students will be able to describe evidence of social inequality and injustice in the United States and/or other parts of the world...
2. Students will be able to describe privileges experienced by those from more powerful social categories...
3. Students will be able to explain causes of social inequality and injustice at all three of these levels: (a) individual attitudes and behaviors; (b) cultural ideas and representations; and (c) institutional/organizational practices and structures.
4. Students will be able to describe strategies for reducing social inequality and injustice.

Health and Wellness in Society Learning Outcomes

1. Describe the complex forces (biological, cultural, structural, and/or spiritual and ethical) that impact wellness and health...
2. Evaluate the impact of various influences (e.g. personal attitudes, family systems, values, social environment and culture, behavior and knowledge) on health and wellness.
3. Analyze the influence of politics, media, empirical literature, and/or socioeconomics on health and wellness.
4. Use interdisciplinary perspective to develop effective strategies to analyze health and wellness at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels of society.

Study Abroad Learning Outcomes

1. Experience the cultural nuances that define their international context.
2. Understand the impact of various influences within another culture.
3. Use interdisciplinary skills to analyze the influence of politics, media, empirical literature, and/or socioeconomics within an international context.

Preparing Teachers for a Global Society Learning Outcomes

1. Students will be able to identify various facets of culture by examining cultural differences, misconceptions and biases...
2. Students will be able to identify interdisciplinary ways of understanding how teachers can approach various societal challenges...
3. Students will be able to create and maintain safe learning environments that value diversity...

Writing Across the Curriculum

Writing Across the Curriculum Learning Outcomes

1. Students will demonstrate knowledge of course content through completion of writing assignments.
2. Students will demonstrate the ability to use recursive strategies of researching, drafting, revising, and editing during the composing process.
3. Students will apply appropriate disciplinary writing genres in written assignments.
4. Students will employ discipline specific citation style.
5. Students will demonstrate principles of academic honesty in their writing as defined by both institutional and instructor standards.

Core Capstone Work

Core Capstone Work Learning Outcomes

1. Communicate effectively orally or in writing in ways that enhance meaning as part of a professional project.
2. Demonstrate the ability to make connections between at least two parts of the Core Curriculum learning outcomes and their major in a piece of signature work.
3. Demonstrate the role of the Humanics philosophy and leadership in service in order to investigate a central question related to the student’s major.