PALs Sample English 1101 Course Matrix with LEAP* Essential Learning Outcomes
LEAP Essential Learning
Outcomes
 Inquiry and analysis
 Critical and creative
thinking
 Written and oral
communication
 Teamwork and problem
solving
 Civic knowledge and
engagement—local
and global
 Ethical reasoning and
action
 Foundations and skills for
lifelong learning
 Inquiry and analysis
 Critical and creative
thinking
 Written and oral
communication
 Teamwork and problem
solving
 Civic knowledge and
engagement—local
and global
 Foundations and skills for
lifelong learning
 Inquiry and analysis
 Critical and creative
thinking
 Written and oral
communication
 Foundations and skills for
lifelong learning
 Critical and creative
thinking
 Written and oral
communication
 Information literacy
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Teamwork and problem
solving
General Education
Outcomes
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Demonstrate critical and
creative thinking
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Demonstrate a broad
understanding of diversity
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Clearly communicate
ideas in written and oral
form
English 1101 Course Outcomes
Project Activities/Assessment Tools
Demonstrate proficiency in analyzing and evaluating
forms, arguments, and rhetorical strategies of diverse
texts.
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Demonstrate the ability to use critical and flexible problemsolving skills across disciplines and environments
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Collaborative endeavors requiring students to
develop solutions to problems/tasks such as
organizing the intellectual assets of classes; setting
group work schedules and project deadlines;
assigning job titles and duties; setting group goals,
rules and guidelines; and expressing all of these in a
clear form. All with the goal of formulating a course of
action related to addressing a community issue.
Demonstrate the ability to identify and use appropriate
tone, diction, style, and format for diverse audiences.
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Students will write multiple documents and multiple
versions of documents altered to suit different
audiences. (GGC community, greater community,
peers, faculty and staff, etc.)
Demonstrate the ability to create via print and electronic
media original oral presentations and written texts that
effectively argue a stance, support a position, answer a
question, or solve a problem using sound reason and
relevant evidence appropriate to purpose and audience
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Assessed writing assignments of varying lengths and
complexities totaling a minimum of 25 pages.
Assignments will include analytical papers, e-mails to
peers, faculty, and staff, assessment reports and
evaluations of project and personal activities,
discussion in online forums, reflective essays, and
items such as education posters, flyers, and
documents.
Assessed oral assignments that include activities
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Demonstrate critical and
creative thinking
Demonstrate a broad
understanding of diversity
Clearly communicate
ideas in written and oral
form
Demonstrate critical and
creative thinking
Demonstrate a broad
understanding of diversity
Clearly communicate
ideas in written and oral
form
Demonstrate critical and
creative thinking
Understand and
effectively use information
technology
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Students identify specific elements of forms and
strategies, and strengths and weaknesses of forms
and strategies before employing them in
communications and while working with students in
other classes to edit and improve public projects.
Students write essays, e-mails, reports, and
educational documents in which students adopt
positions arguing for/ supporting/ explaining/
requesting a point or course of action related to
addressing a community issue.
LEAP Essential Learning
Outcomes
General Education
Outcomes
English 1101 Course Outcomes
 Critical and creative
thinking
 Written and oral
communication
 Civic knowledge and
engagement—local
and global
 Foundations and skills for
lifelong learning

Clearly communicate
ideas in written and oral
form
Demonstrate the ability to successfully engage individually
and collaboratively in the writing process.
 Inquiry and analysis
 Critical and creative
thinking
 Written and oral
communication
 Information literacy
 Foundations and skills for
lifelong learning

Understand and
effectively use information
technology
Demonstrate knowledge of basic principles of research
and documentation
*Liberal Education and
Essential Learning Outcomes
Project Activities/Assessment Tools
such as presentations and discussions.
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Cumulative work product including multiple drafts of a
single document
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Prewriting assignments requiring students to select
and develop concepts appropriate to assigned purposes.
Possible methods might include writing in class or in print
or electronic media showing evidence of brainstorming,
clustering, outlining etc.
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Assignments requiring students to construct
documents that express a clear, central idea and contain
organized paragraphs supporting that idea in a logical,
coherent, and cohesive fashion.
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Assignments requiring students to review their written
products with the intention of identifying and revising the
documents for focus, logic, content, and organization.
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Assignments requiring students to edit their written
products for correct usage.
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Assignments requiring students to assess a written
product based on established criteria.
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Assignments requiring students to revising written
products based on feedback.
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Assignments requiring students to select and collect
secondary materials for use in an assignments.
Field research.
America's Promise (LEAP)
“The LEAP campaign is organized around a robust set of "Essential Learning Outcomes" (PDF) -- all of which are best developed by a
contemporary liberal education. Described in College Learning for the New Global Century (PDF), these essential learning outcomes and a
set of "Principles of Excellence" (PDF) provide a new framework to guide students' cumulative progress through college.” (Please see links
for further information.)