GEIT: Spring 2016
Presentation at the Faculty Forum
February 17, 2016
Working Groups
• Spring 2016 projects:
– Identify outcomes.
– Design/revise courses.
Identify Outcomes.
• Need for one level below existing goals
and objectives:
– Course design/revision
– Course approval
– Course delivery
– Outcomes assessment
Proposed Model
• One with coherence within and across courses
and categories
• One in the spirit of the revised program:
– “multi-tiered program” with beginning, middle,
and end
– “See connections.”
The Essential Learning Outcomes
Beginning in school, and continuing at successively higher levels across their college studies, students should prepare for twenty-first-century
challenges by gaining:
Knowledge of Human Cultures and the Physical and Natural World
• Through study in the sciences and mathematics, social sciences, humanities, histories, languages, and the arts
Focused by engagement with big questions, both contemporary and enduring
Goal
Intellectual and Practical Skills, including
• Inquiry and analysis
• Critical and creative thinking
• Written and oral communication
• Quantitative literacy
• Information literacy
• Teamwork and problem solving
Practiced extensively, across the curriculum, in the context of progressively more challenging problems, projects, and standards for performance
Objective
Personal and Social Responsibility, including
• Civic knowledge and engagement—local and global
• Intercultural knowledge and competence
• Ethical reasoning and action
• Foundations and skills for lifelong learning
Anchored through active involvement with diverse communities and real-world challenges
Integrative and Applied Learning, including
• Synthesis and advanced accomplishment across general and specialized studies
Demonstrated through the application of knowledge, skills, and responsibilities to new settings and complex problems
LEAP
Performance Level
Objective
Outcomes
Access the Needed Information
Evaluate Information and its Sources
Critically*
Use Information Effectively to
Accomplish a Specific Purpose
Performance Description
General Education
Goals and Objectives

Explore the world: Investigate human cultures and the natural world.
• Critically engage with the products of culture, through interpretation or creative expression.
• Critically interpret history and society.
• Apply methods of scientific inquiry effectively.
• Apply mathematical concepts effectively.

Engage the world: think critically and convey new understanding.
• Demonstrate logic and reasoning skills.
• Write effectively in scholarly and creative contexts.
• Speak effectively in scholarly and creative contexts.
• Develop the skills necessary to locate, evaluate, and employ information effectively.
• Use technology to communicate information, manage information, or solve problems.
Goal
Objective

Experience your world: integrate and apply your new learning.
• Apply disciplinary and interdisciplinary knowledge and skills to address complex problems.
• Practice reflective inter/intra-personal skills.

Expand our world: develop compassion and ethical understanding across cultures and become an engaged global
citizen.
• Understand diverse communities on local, national, and/or global levels.
• Analyze ethical implications of the global distribution of power and resources.
• Question assumptions about individual and group identity.
• Demonstrate intercultural understanding required to effectively negotiate a diverse global society.
Objective: Develop the skills necessary to locate, evaluate, and employ information effectively.
Outcomes
Keystone
1
Locate information effectively.
Evaluate information effectively.
Employ information effectively.
• Simple
• Few
• Shared
2
Mid-Point
Senior
3
4
Keystone
Mid-Point
Senior
Next Steps
• Next 4 weeks: Working groups meet
to organize and to identify outcomes.
• March 23: Presentation at the
Faculty Forum and before GECCo and
ARC.
• April: Course design/revision