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Department of Music

January 5, 2016
The writing-related learning outcomes developed by the team from the Department of Music are for the core music history sequence: MUH 2014 Introduction to Music Literature, MUH 3211 Music History and Literature I, and MUH 3212 Music History and Literature II. However, they can be used to cover the rest of the department’s curriculum since…

Department of Modern Languages and Literatures

January 5, 2016
The learning outcomes developed by the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures were created with various student populations in mind, including those studying French, Italian, and Spanish languages. These outcomes are organized according to students’ proficiency level and student status: undergraduate (elementary/initial, intermediate, advanced) and graduate. For each undergraduate proficiency level, there are learning outcomes…

Department of Mathematics

January 5, 2016
The writing-related learning outcomes for the Department of Mathematics were developed by mathematics faculty during the summer session of the WAC Fellows Program. The outcomes are organized around the discipline-specific notions of utilizing mathematical symbols to convey mathematical information, proof-writing as composing, application of mathematical results, and communication of those results to non-mathematicians. Learning Outcomes…

Department of Finance

January 5, 2016
The writing-related learning outcomes, developed by the faculty of the Department of Finance, are organized around five categories: critical thinking domain knowledge rhetorical contexts research methods kinds of evidence accepted and used in finance These five categories were applied to the activities and purposes specific to finance as an academic discipline and profession. Finance Writing…

Department of Criminal Justice

January 5, 2016
The learning outcomes developed by Department of Criminal Justice are organized according to four general categories: content knowledge, research methdology, communication (i.e., the ability to write within genre conventions), and critical thinking. Criminal Justice Learning Outcomes 1 (PDF) Criminal Justice Learning Outcomes 2 (PDF)

Department of Chemistry

January 5, 2016
The writing-related learning outcomes developed by faculty from the Chemistry Department are organized around Bloom’s taxonomy and connect specific outcomes to various courses currently taught within the department. These courses range from first-year general chemistry, taken by a a wide variety of students, to upper-level courses taken primarily by chemistry majors. Chemistry Undergraduate Student Writing…

Department of Anthropology

January 5, 2016
Curriculum Grid Biological Anthropology WAC FINAL Presentation WAC OUTCOMES Learning Outcomes (PDF)  

College of Optics and Photonics

January 5, 2016
These writing-related learning outcomes are for the BS program in the College of Optics and Photonics. Photonics Student Writing Outcomes (PDF)

College of Education and Human Performance II

January 5, 2016
These are the learning outcomes created by the second team of faculty from the College of Education and Human Performance who participated in the WAC Fellows Program in the fall of 2014. Writing Related Learning Outcomes (PDF)