Student Learning Goals
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The Donnelly College faculty has articulated seven student learning goal domains and associated outcomes that constitute the foundation of the College’s General Education program.
Communication Skills
Students will demonstrate effective communication by employing clear organization, analysis, and the thoughtful and ethical evaluation and integration of outside source material.
Learning Outcomes:
- Formulate effective writing
- Read critically across a broad range of genres, disciplines and media
- Demonstrate active and critical listening skills
- Plan, organize and deliver effective oral presentations
- Demonstrate effective revision strategies that improve written and oral communication
- Engage positively with persons from different cultures and/or nationalities
Technology and Information Literacy Skills
Students will demonstrate proficiency and adaptability in technologies and information literacy skills that support academic work.
Learning Outcomes:
- Demonstrate the use of technology and productivity software to support academic work
- Demonstrate research and information retrieval strategies and approaches
- Judge and evaluate the worth and credibility of sources
- Demonstrate the ability to use information in legal and ethical ways
Symbolic Problem Solving
Students will demonstrate competency in qualitative and quantitative problem solving and the ability to understand and use scientific method.
Learning Outcomes:
- Demonstrate competency in qualitative and quantitative and symbolic problem solving
- Assess and distinguish importance among components/variables
- Draw conclusions based on data and scientific mode
Analytical Thinking
Students will employ reflective and critical thinking to evaluate diverse ideas from the Liberal Arts and Sciences so as to integrate knowledge in the search for truth.
Learning Outcomes:
- Employ reflective and critical thinking
- Evaluate opposing ideas from across a range of disciplines
- Understand and apply scientific methods
Personal and Interpersonal Skills
Students will recognize their own self worth and champion the dignity of the other in light of the transcendent destiny of every human person.
Learning Outcomes:
- Demonstrate the independence to complete academic projects and manage their lives
- Demonstrate the ability to work cooperatively in groups
- Assess their own abilities, set goals and formulate plans to reach their goals
- Demonstrate collaborative learning to be students as teachers of each other
Academic Inquiry
Students will demonstrate an openness to exploration in the search for truth as accessed by faith and/or reason.
Learning Outcomes:
- Combine ideas and words from others while maintaining academic integrity
- Compare and respect diverse viewpoints
- Demonstrate self-directed learning
Values
In keeping with our Catholic identity, students will value excellence in the pursuit of truth, ethical behavior and the appreciation of the diversity of thought.
Learning Outcomes:
- Exhibit curiosity and openness to new ideas
- Recognize the interrelationship of society and the environment
- Recognize the unique nature and dignity of the human person
- Examine the relationship between faith and reason
- Recognize and understand perspectives related to race, ethnicity, gender, religion and socioeconomic conditions in both in the United States and global contexts
- Acknowledge their potential to engage in service of the community and be active citizens