Global Learning Course
Assessment Matrix
Faculty Name:
Course: ANT2000 Introduction to Anthropology
Academic Unit: Global & Sociocultural Studies
Global Learning Student Learning
Outcome Addressed
Global Awareness: Students will be able to
demonstrate knowledge of the
interrelatedness of local, global,
international, and intercultural issues,
trends, and systems.
Course Learning Outcome
Students will be able to explain at least
three ways that people learn to think and
behave in patterned ways that may be
intelligible to people around them but
different from those of other people around
the world. And students will also apply this
knowledge to how they think and behave in
their own society.
Degree Program: BA Sociology/Anthropology
Assessment Method
Semester Assessed:
Assessment Results
Assessment Activity/Artifact:
Comparative Childhoods worksheet. Students will come to class
having read about 2-3 contrasting societies approaches to raising
children. Collectively in their teams, they will identify key elements
of childrearing cross-culturally and contrast those against the ways
people in their own society raise children. They will also identify
what they learned about cross-cultural variation in human
societies—and apply that to their own thoughts about parenting.
How does knowledge about how other societies parent affect their
own plans to parent? [The content of this cross-cultural comparison
might shift depending on the instructor but in every case crosscultural comparison will be used for the assessment.]
Evaluation Process:
The worksheets are evaluated on three dimensions using the class’
assignments grading rubric: The rubric has different criteria all of
which are measured on a 0-4 point scale: fidelity to instructions,
comprehension of course material, writing quality, substantiation
and explanation of ideas in essay using course materials/concepts,
analysis, reflections on activity and thoughtfulness/imagination. The
grade for these criteria are averaged producing a score of 0 = F to 4
= A. This assignment will be evaluated on three criteria:
comprehension, analysis, and reflections. For the analysis criterion
which will measure Global Awareness, students will have to link
their knowledge about other peoples to their own behavior In their
society. The grade assigned will be the average of students’ scores
on these three criteria.
Minimum Criteria for Success:
The average student’s score on this assignment will be 2.5 or
higher
Sample: All students will be assessed.
Use of Results for Improving Student Learning
To be entered after course is taught
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Global Learning Course
Assessment Matrix
Faculty Name:
Course: ANT2000 Introduction to Anthropology
Academic Unit: Global & Sociocultural Studies
Degree Program: BA Sociology/Anthropology
Semester Assessed:
Global Learning Student Learning
Assessment Method
Assessment Results
Outcome Addressed
Assessment Activity/Artifact:
To be entered after course is taught
“Beyond my cultural comforts” assignment requires
Global Perspective: Students will be able
students to exchange culturally discomforting experiences
to conduct a multi-perspective analysis of
with a classmate. That classmate will accompany the
local, global, international, and intercultural
other to something s/he finds culturally comfortable but
problems.
which will be outside the classmate’s own cultural
Course Learning Outcome
Students will be able to analyze their
cultural discomforts and expand their
cultural comforts across at least one
cultural boundary.
comforts and vice-versa. In written essays, students will
apply course concepts to analyze how and why they felt
outside their cultural comforts and what perspectives they
gained by expanding their cultural horizons beyond what
they take as normal.
Evaluation Process:
The rubric explained above (using 0-4 points for each of
several criteria) will be used to evaluate the resulting
essays for: fidelity to instructions, comprehension of
course material, writing quality, substantiation and
explanation of ideas using course materials/concepts,
reflections on activity and thoughtfulness/imagination.
Students’ Global Perspective will be measured through
the substantiation criterion in particular, demonstrating
their ability to understand their own cultural comforts and
discomforts through concrete comparative examples and
linkages to the course materials. This activity is heavily
weighted in the student’s overall grade at 15%.
Minimum Criteria for Success:
The average student’s score on this assignment will be
2.5 or higher
Sample: All students will be assessed.
Use of Results for Improving Student Learning
To be entered after each time course is taught
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Global Learning Course
Assessment Matrix
Faculty Name:
Course: ANT2000 Introduction to Anthropology
Academic Unit: Global & Sociocultural Studies
Degree Program: BA Sociology/Anthropology
Semester Assessed:
Global Learning Student Learning
Assessment Method
Assessment Results
Outcome Addressed
Assessment Activity/Artifact:
To be entered after course is taught
“My Career Connections” worksheet. The
Global Engagement: Students will be able
worksheet has students investigate careers that
to demonstrate willingness to engage in
those trained in anthropology pursue or in which
local, global, international, and intercultural
anthropological knowledge is useful. They then
problem solving.
discuss cultural issues they have already
Course Learning Outcome
Students will be able to explain at least
three ways that culture affects how people
view and solve problems and apply their
learning to their own careers or career
plans.
experienced at work or which they anticipate
experiencing in their careers. They then analyze
how their gained anthropological knowledge will aid
them in addressing these issues at work or in a
career they are pursuing.
Evaluation Process:
The rubric explained above (using 0-4 points for
each of several criteria) will be used to evaluate the
resulting essays for: fidelity to instructions,
analysis, reflections on activity and
thoughtfulness/imagination. The analysis criterion
will be the one particularly attuned to evaluating
how well students can apply their global learning
from the course to problems they encounter or
anticipate encountering in their jobs and careers.
Minimum Criteria for Success:
The average student’s score on this assignment will
be 2.5 or higher
Sample: All students will be assessed.
Use of Results for Improving Student Learning
To be entered after course is taught
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