Instructional Planning Yearly Update
Date __________12/9/12_______
Department _Political Science___________
Division ________HASS_________________
Goals and Recommendations from Program Plan
List the top five Goals and Recommendations from the last Program Plan and indicate whether they have been met?
Goals / Recommendations from six-year plan In progress
Goal Met
Comments
(identify source
of funding)
Full-time hire
Yes
Resources for creating online videos
Work with other disciplines on improving
writing
X
X
Create Poli-Tech program
X
New Goals and Recommendations
Goal/Recommendation
We hired Trevor Nakagawa in spring of 2012. With a new
faculty member, the department is just beginning to work
towards realizing some of our other important goals for this
planning cycle.
Plan: Seek funding opportunities for the necessary equipment
Plan: Hold conversations/meetings with other departments to
explore possibilities
Plan: Work on finding internships for political science
students as a first step towards eventually developing this
program
List any new goals and recommendations identified by the department
Cost
Explanation/Evidence of Need
None.
SLO Assessment Progress: In a sentence or two, describe where your department should be on the Revolving Wheel of Assessment (what
assessment you should have done in the last year) and what was actually done. If not every thing was completed, explain why.
We completed the program planning process in spring of 2012 and so have not assessed any SLO for the last two semesters. The fall 2012
semester is the first one in which we’ll be back to doing SLO assessment. This semester the department is assessing Critical Thinking, one of
the core competencies and we will be reviewing our findings at our meeting during spring 2013 FLEX week.
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Fill out the Assessment Results section below.
SLO Assessment Results: List SLO assessments, dialogues, and priorities identified as a result of your assessment below. Attach
Departmental Assessment Analysis Forms completed in the last two semesters.
Core Competency, Course
Date of meeting where
SLO, or CTE Program SLO analysis / dialogue took
Assessed. Example: all course place. Example: Department
SLOs for English 1A, 1B and 2 Meeting 8/27/10
Priorities identified for program as a result of assessment. Example:
Develop strategies for teaching research and documentation skills; share
rubrics for research papers; provide more instructional support outside of
class.
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