Student Learning Outcomes

See course description for FYF 101 in the undergraduate bulletin external website.

Students will:

1. 1. Produce written texts that sustain a unifying focus with coherently-structured and logically ordered sentences and paragraphs;
   2. Control surface features such as syntax, grammar, punctuation, and spelling;
   3. Present an argument in writing, with use of evidentiary examples;
   4. Adopt appropriate voice, tone, and level of formality appropriate to different rhetorical situations, genres, and audiences; and
   5. Engage in scholarly research-based practices and document another writer’s written work and ideas, in a manner appropriate to relevant academic or professional disciplines.

Students will:

1. 1. Represent mathematical information symbolically, visually, numerically, and verbally, and interpret and draw inferences from mathematical models such as formulas, graphs, tables, and schematics.
   2. Apply arithmetical, algebraic, geometric and statistical methods with appropriate technological tools to solve problems;
   3. Think critically and apply common sense in estimating and checking answers to mathematical problems in order to determine reasonableness, identify alternatives, and select optimal results, judging the soundness and accuracy of conclusions derived from quantitative information; and
   4. Communicate mathematical information effectively using symbols, visual, numerical, or verbal representations.

Students will:

1. 1. Develop a basic familiarity with various forms of literature, including prose, poetry, and drama.
   2. Develop a basic familiarity with the methods of literary study, including relevant literary terms and modes of literary criticism.
   3. Demonstrate critical thinking through close reading and evidence-based analysis of literary texts, with attention to their historical and cultural contexts.
   4. Demonstrate an awareness and understanding of the diversity and complexity of human experience and identities as expressed in literary texts.

Students will:

1. 1. Analyze problems by considering diverse and varying forms of evidence and multiple perspectives within historical and cultural contexts.

Students will:

1. 1. Describe how science affects contemporary issues;
   2. Communicate scientific concepts effectively;
   3. Draw logical conclusions based on scientific data;
   4. Distinguish between scientific evidence and pseudoscience; 
   5. Demonstrate an understanding of the scientific method.

And, in addition, in Lab courses, students will:

1. 1. Collect and present scientific data; and
   2. Access sources of scientific information that are both relevant and reliable.

Students will:

1. 1. Critically read and understand tabular data, graphs, or other displays of data; (methodological reasoning)
   2. Identify independent variables and dependent variables; (methodological reasoning)
   3. Write or identify a well-formulated hypothesis; (methodological reasoning)
   4. Recognize and interpret types of relationships between variables (positive and negative); (methodological reasoning)
   5. Apply one or more conceptual frameworks to an issue or problem; (conceptual reasoning); and
   6. Identify and explain the various factors that influence human behavior. (conceptual reasoning)

Students will:

1. 1. Analyze works of art using vocabulary appropriate to the art form;
   2. Demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between artistic technique and the expression of a work's underlying concept;
   3. Analyze the relationship between works of art and the social, historical, global and personal contexts in which they are created or experienced; and
   4. Engage in the artistic process, which should include conception, creation, interpretation, and/or ongoing critical analysis.

Students will:

1. 1. Produce written texts that sustain a unifying focus with coherently-structured and logically ordered sentences and paragraphs;
   2. Control surface features such as syntax, grammar, punctuation, and spelling;
   3. Present an argument in writing, with use of evidentiary examples;
   4. Adopt appropriate voice, tone, and level of formality appropriate to different rhetorical situations, genres, and audiences;
   5. Engage in process-oriented approaches to writing that include drafting, workshopping, responding to evaluative feedback, and revision;
   6. Engage in scholarly research-based practices and document reliance on other writers’ written work and ideas, in a manner appropriate to relevant academic or professional disciplines;
   7. Produce a portfolio of a minimum of 4-6 pieces of academic writing, which includes at least 8-10 pages of revised, research-supported academic writing and at at least 2 pages of self-reflection on the writing process.

Students will:

1. 1. Construct a relevant message supported by scholarly and sufficient research;
   2. Organize message content based on an accepted and coherent organizational pattern;
   3. Deliver an audience-centered presentation;
   4. Use language clearly, appropriately, and inclusively that follows to the grammatical rules of Standard American English; and
   5. Effectively deliver, in an extemporaneous manner, informative, persuasive, and special occasion speeches.

Students will:

1. 1. Demonstrate the ability to articulate ethical arguments and to defend them using evidence and sound ethical reasoning, and
   2. Demonstrate the ability to critically evaluate ethical arguments, including the consideration of alternative perspectives and the recognition of relevant ethical theories and principles.

Students will:

1. 1. Clearly and comprehensively explain an issue or problem,
   2. Explore and locate potentially relevant information, while recognizing the importance of context, assumptions, and alternative perspectives,
   3. Critically evaluate the quality of information and integrate that information into a careful analysis which recognizes the complexity of the problem or issue,
   4. Ethically and effectively make use of that information in drawing conclusions, defending a hypothesis, formulating hypotheses, and/or solving problems.
   5. Effectively and ethically navigate digital environments, including online research tools, cloud-based collaboration, and digital security.

Difference, Power, and Privilege (DPP)
Students will:

1. 1. Demonstrate an understanding of historical and/or contemporary relationships between difference, power, privilege, and related inequalities, and
   2. Apply this understanding in conducting analyses, drawing conclusions, and/or making decisions.

Global Awareness (GA)
Students will:

1. 1. Demonstrate an understanding of diversity in a global context or an issue of global significance (e.g. climate change, the legacy of colonialism, global public health, etc.), and
   2. Apply this understanding in conducting analyses, drawing conclusions, and/or making decisions.