Program Learning Outcomes
| Title |
Description |
| Communication Skills |
Effective development, interpretation and expression of ideas through written, oral and visual communication with an emphasis on individual and group presentations. |
| Critical Thinking Skills |
Creative thinking, innovation, inquiry, and analysis, evaluation and synthesis of information as it relates to human communication. |
| Social Responsibility |
Intercultural competence, knowledge of civic responsibility, and the ability to engage effectively in regional, national, and global communities. |
| To be determined |
This is a placeholder for course goals that have not been mapped to program learning outcomes |
| Empirical and Quantitative Skills |
Manipulation and analysis of numerical data or observable facts resulting in informed conclusions. Empirical data is considered the cornerstone of communication studies inquiry and problem solving. |
| Personal Responsibility |
Ability to connect choices, actions and consequences to ethical decision-making in a variety of individual and group projects with particular emphasis on persuasive behavior. |
| Teamwork |
Ability to consider different points of view and to work effectively with others to support a shared purpose or goal; this will involve research, collaborate creation of presentations, and the delivery of those presentations to a critical audience. |
| Content Knowledge |
Recall facts, explain principles and theories, apply factual knowledge, principles and theories to solve problems in a specific discipline (note: content knowledge related to a core learning outcome is part of the core learning outcome; content knowledge that is not related to a core learning outcome is “content knowledge”, e.g., Aristotelian foundations of modern rhetoric, organizational patterns of presentations, methods for creating and disseminating press releases, etc.). |