Course Learning Report
Course: SOC 214
Date: Fall 2012
Author: SOC Faculty
PROGRAM
OUTCOME
Assessment Method
Expected Level of
Achievement
Identify the major ways in
which “race” has been
defined throughout human
history.
Assignments & Exams
70%
Exceeded – 38%
Met – 19%
Did not meet – 43%
SOC faculty will
examine how to directly
align assignments and
exam items to course
competencies.
Integrative Learning - Identify “races” and
Explore and synthesize “ethnic groups”.
knowledge, attitudes and
skills from a variety of
cultural and academic
perspectives to enhance
our local and global
communities.
Assignments & Exams
70%
Exceeded – 38%
Met – 19%
Did not meet – 43%
SOC faculty will
examine how to directly
align assignments and
exam items to course
competencies.
Integrative Learning Explore and synthesize
knowledge, attitudes and
skills from a variety of
cultural and academic
perspectives to enhance
our local and global
communities.
Assignments & Exams
70%
Exceeded – 38%
Met – 19%
Did not meet – 43%
SOC faculty will
examine how to directly
align assignments and
exam items to course
competencies.
Integrative Learning Explore and synthesize
knowledge, attitudes and
skills from a variety of
cultural and academic
perspectives to enhance
our local and global
communities.
Compare and contrast
varying racial and ethnic
groups that make up the
population of the
American society and
discuss the diversity in
backgrounds.
Results of Assessment
Next Steps *
Competency
Integrative Learning Explore and synthesize
knowledge, attitudes and
skills from a variety of
cultural and academic
perspectives to enhance
our local and global
communities.
Describe the basic social
processes that affect
societies and individual
behavior.
Assignments & Exams
70%
Exceeded – 38%
Met – 19%
Did not meet – 43%
SOC faculty will
examine how to directly
align assignments and
exam items to course
competencies.
Integrative Learning Explore and synthesize
knowledge, attitudes and
skills from a variety of
cultural and academic
perspectives to enhance
our local and global
communities.
Give examples of the
relationship of individuals
and the social and cultural
environment.
Assignments & Exams
70%
Exceeded – 38%
Met – 19%
Did not meet – 43%
SOC faculty will
examine how to directly
align assignments and
exam items to course
competencies.
Thinking/Inquiry Evaluate predictions
Assignments & Exams
Make effective decisions concerning the size and
with intellectual integrity composition of the
to solve problems and/or minority populations being
achieve goals utilizing the studied for the future.
skills of critical thinking,
creative thinking,
information literacy, and
quantitative/symbolic
reasoning.
70%
Exceeded – 38%
Met – 19%
Did not meet – 43%
SOC faculty will
examine how to directly
align assignments and
exam items to course
competencies.
Integrative Learning Explore and synthesize
knowledge, attitudes and
skills from a variety of
cultural and academic
perspectives to enhance
our local and global
communities.
70%
Exceeded – 38%
Met – 19%
Did not meet – 43%
SOC faculty will
examine how to directly
align assignments and
exam items to course
competencies.
Describe how prejudice
and discrimination may be
related, or unrelated, to
each other.
Assignments & Exams
Integrative Learning Explore and synthesize
knowledge, attitudes and
skills from a variety of
cultural and academic
perspectives to enhance
our local and global
communities.
Identify the components of Assignments & Exams
assimilation, including the
less tangible aspects such
as values, sentiments, and
attitudes.
70%
Exceeded – 38%
Met – 19%
Did not meet – 43%
SOC faculty will
examine how to directly
align assignments and
exam items to course
competencies.
Assignments & Exams
70%
Exceeded – 38%
Met – 19%
Did not meet – 43%
SOC faculty will
examine how to directly
align assignments and
exam items to course
competencies.
Integrative Learning Explore and synthesize
knowledge, attitudes and
skills from a variety of
cultural and academic
perspectives to enhance
our local and global
communities.
Define and give examples Assignments & Exams
of each of the major
patterns of intergroup
relations, assimilation,
pluralism, subjugation,
segregation, expulsion, and
annihilation.
70%
Exceeded – 38%
Met – 19%
Did not meet – 43%
SOC faculty will
examine how to directly
align assignments and
exam items to course
competencies.
Integrative Learning Explore and synthesize
knowledge, attitudes and
skills from a variety of
cultural and academic
perspectives to enhance
our local and global
communities.
Describe the theoretical
perspectives that relate to
the study of race and
ethnic relations.
70%
Exceeded – 38%
Met – 19%
Did not meet – 43%
SOC faculty will
examine how to directly
align assignments and
exam items to course
competencies.
Communication State ideas and opinions
Ethically compose and
clearly in writing.
convey creative and
critical perspectives to an
intended audience using
visual, oral, written,
social, and other forms of
communication.
Assignments & Exams
Integrative Learning - Apply a global perspective
Explore and synthesize when examining race and
knowledge, attitudes and ethnic relations.
skills from a variety of
cultural and academic
perspectives to enhance
our local and global
communities.
Assignments & Exams
70%
Exceeded – 38%
Met – 19%
Did not meet – 43%
SOC faculty will
examine how to directly
align assignments and
exam items to course
competencies.