Florida International University: Student Learning Outcome Assessment

Department: Chair: Year: 2007-08

PROGRAM NAME & CIP CODE: Core Assessment - Humanities with Writing

Expanded Statement of Institutional Purpose	Learning Outcomes	Assessment Measures & Procedures	Outcome Assessment Results	Use of Results for Program Improvement
In these courses students strengthen the critical reading and writing skills needed to succeed within the University and beyond. Students interact analytically with, and respond critically to, primary and secondary texts in the humanities and learn to integrate the ideas and words of others into their own writing. By writing informed essays, students develop the ability to present ideas logically and sequentially and to provide balanced exposition and critical examination of complex events, positions, arguments, or texts. In these courses students learn to use writing as a form of inquiry in reflecting critically upon central topics in the humanities, such as individual, moral, and social values; historical perspectives and events; culture and the arts; philosophy; and religious beliefs and practices. Students address themes centered on the traditions; shared values and myths; literary, artistic, historical, and philosophical traditions; and cultural standards and common values which underlie contemporary societies and their historical antecedents.	Interpret and explain in an organized, critical, and analytical fashion the meaning and structure of various texts in the humanities.	60% of students will score a “good” or better in Critical Thinking Skills on papers assessed by History Faculty using a common rubric. 60% of students will score “good” or better in Written Communication skills on papers assessed by History Faculty using a common rubric.
Explain, interpret, evaluate, elaborate, and describe in an organized critical and analytical fashion the context, history, influence, and structure of one or more of the following: Architectural, interior, and landscape design, Religion and society, Philosophies/historical and contemporary, Cultures of the ancient world, Major world civilizations, American history, Ibero-American history, Morality and life, Contemporary Europe, History of Ideas, Intellectual History	60% of students will score “Good” or better in content and discipline knowledge as measured by papers assessed by History Faculty using a common rubric.

Expanded Statement of Institutional Purpose

Learning Outcomes

Assessment Measures & Procedures

Outcome Assessment Results

Use of Results for Program Improvement

In these courses students strengthen the critical reading and writing skills needed to succeed within the University and beyond. Students interact analytically with, and respond critically to, primary and secondary texts in the humanities and learn to integrate the ideas and words of others into their own writing. By writing informed essays, students develop the ability to present ideas logically and sequentially and to provide balanced exposition and critical examination of complex events, positions, arguments, or texts.

In these courses students learn to use writing as a form of inquiry in reflecting critically upon central topics in the humanities, such as individual, moral, and social values; historical perspectives and events; culture and the arts; philosophy; and religious beliefs and practices. Students address themes centered on the traditions; shared values and myths; literary, artistic, historical, and philosophical traditions; and cultural standards and common values which underlie contemporary societies and their historical antecedents.

Interpret and explain in an organized, critical, and analytical fashion the meaning and structure of various texts in the humanities.

60% of students will score a “good” or better in Critical Thinking Skills on papers assessed by History Faculty using a common rubric.
60% of students will score “good” or better in Written Communication skills on papers assessed by History Faculty using a common rubric.

Explain, interpret, evaluate, elaborate, and describe in an organized critical and analytical fashion the context, history, influence, and structure of one or more of the following: Architectural, interior, and landscape design, Religion and society, Philosophies/historical and contemporary, Cultures of the ancient world, Major world civilizations, American history, Ibero-American history, Morality and life, Contemporary Europe, History of Ideas, Intellectual History

60% of students will score “Good” or better in content and discipline knowledge as measured by papers assessed by History Faculty using a common rubric.