Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

Student Learning Outcomes

Arts


Creative Media Technology/Digital Graphics Technology

Students will be able to: 

  • Demonstrate visual communication skills through critiques, written explanations
  • Write effectively as to plan, process and outcome of projects
  • Interact with clients using appropriate design/graphics language
  • Illustrate ideas
  • Design page and web layouts
  • Storyboard animation and video projects
  • Create with appropriate software a product that is technically and visually sound
  • Expand expertise as technological advancements demand
  • Create projects for non-profit organizations
  • Produce original projects that respect intellectual property of others
  • Create an employment portfolio
  • Demonstrate work skills
  • Demonstrate professional demeanor

English

English program
Students in the Writing Program will be able to:
  • Recognize and employ effective reading and writing processes
  • Employ rhetorical awareness in reading and writing
  • Practice effective research strategies, and integrate research correctly and ethically from credible and relevant sources
  • Choose professional communication appropriate for audiences and situations
  • Demonstrate effective collaboration and presentation skills
  • Analyze and evaluate cultural artifacts such as texts, images, and practices as a means of academic inquiry
  • Produce writing that follows task-specific conventions of paragraphing, sentence boundaries, usage, agreement, punctuation and spelling
Linguistics
Students will be able to:
  • Demonstrate a basic knowledge of the fundamental properties of human languages
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the different components of language (e.g., phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics)
  • Identify and describe basic linguistic concepts and terminology
  • Demonstrate an understanding of how language systems are diverse and yet fundamentally similar
  • Apply the methods of linguistic analysis as introduced in the course

Humanities and Social Sciences

Humanities and Social Sciences Program
Students will be able to:
  • Employ writing and/or speaking processes such as planning, collaborating, organizing, composing, revising, and editing to create an effective oral presentation and/or written content.
  • Integrate research correctly and ethically from credible sources to support the primary purpose of communication.
  • Cultivate the skills needed to engage in civic discourse by developing and articulating well-supported arguments, actively listening, and critically analyzing and responding to diverse perspectives in a thoughtful and constructive manner.
  • Develop fundamental research skills such as synthesizing existing research studies, formulating research questions and hypotheses, analyzing data, and discussing research results.
  • Investigate diverse viewpoints, policies, philosophies, forms of expression, values, and cultural practices to determine their historical, contemporary, social, and cultural significance.
  • Apply theories, concepts, techniques, and skills learned in the academic context to real-world scenarios.
  • Apply ethical principles to assist with solving personal challenges and issues impacting members of society.
  • Develop the skills to advocate for themselves and causes important to their communities.
  • Work collaboratively to determine solutions for cultural, social, and political issues.
General Education Classes
  • Anthropology - ANTH
  • Communication - COMM
  • Gender & Sexuality Studies - GNDR
  • History - HIST
  • Journalism - JOUR
  • Philosophy - PHIL
  • Political Science - POLS
  • Psychology - PSYC
  • Public Health - PHLS
  • Social Work - SOWK
  • Sociology - SOCI
  • Spanish - SPAN

Public Health

Our Program
Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge and skill in 4 of the 7 Responsibility Areas for Health Education: Assess individual and community needs for health education
  • Access existing health related data
  • Analyze health related data
Plan Health Education Strategies, Interventions, and Programs
  • Identify populations for health education programs
  • Incorporate data analysis and principles of community organization
  • Formulate appropriate and measurable program objectives
Implement Health Education Strategies, Interventions, and Programs
  • Use community organization principles to facilitate change conducive to health
  • Demonstrate a variety of skills in delivering strategies, interventions, and programs
  • Use a variety of methods to implement strategies, interventions, and program
Develop plans for evaluation and research
  • Evaluate data–gathering instruments and processes
  • Develop methods to evaluate factors that influence shifts in health status
  • Interpret results from evaluation and research
  • Infer implications from findings for future health–related activities
In addition – students will:
  • Work collaboratively in teams
  • Solve problems from various perspectives with team members
  • Identify the problem, justify the predicted outcome, analyze the data, and synthesize the conclusion
  • Apply the public health and community health education interventions to real life situations

Education

Education
Students will:
  • Possess a general education knowledge background that provides an intellectual foundation in fine arts, humanities, mathematics, natural sciences, social and behavioral sciences
  • Know the philosophical, historical, and sociocultural foundations of education, teaching and learning, and be able to use that knowledge to solve problems, and draw conclusions
  • Demonstrate the ability to integrate and apply content and pedagogical knowledge by developing a personal philosophy of education using appropriate writing skills. Be able to recognize individual difference in students, diverse contexts and changing environments, and adjust their practice accordingly to enhance learning
  • Demonstrate knowledge of normal and exceptional patterns of development as they occur in the physical, cognitive and/or psychosocial domains
Early Childhood Education
Students will: Demonstrate the ability to integrate and apply content and pedagogical knowledge by developing a personal philosophy of education using appropriate writing skills
  • Plan, evaluate, and design curriculum appropriate for the education of young children.
  • Design educational practices and materials appropriate for the education of young children.
  • Identify practices appropriate for the education of diverse populations of children, young children with special needs, and their families.
  • Assess classroom environments for learning, safety, and effectiveness; and determine interventions that may be necessary to ensure child safety at school and/or in the home.
  • Demonstrate the ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing with children, parents, and colleagues. Analyze and explain developmentally appropriate practices in education.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of normal and exceptional patterns of development as they occur in the physical, cognitive and/or psychosocial domains