Who am I?/What am I learning
How does new K/S/A connect to previous
What am I doing with new found K/S/A
Why is it important/how is this type of learning
transformative/what’s next
Discover
Connect
Experience
Become
Curiosity
Independence
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Identify opportunities to expand your
knowledge, skills and/or attributes
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Act on opportunities beyond program
requirements to expand your knowledge,
skills or attributes
Consider other approaches to learning
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Discuss the knowledge, skills and/or attributes
you have learned through pursued opportunities
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Evaluate how pursued opportunities have
contributed to your learning
Approach to
learning
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Explain your own approach to learning
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Experiment with different approaches to
learning
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Assess how understanding different approaches to
learning has impacted you as a learner
Collaboration
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Recognize different perspectives and
realities
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Connect different perspectives and realities
when collaborating with others
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Integrate different perspectives when
collaborating with others
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Develop a plan to meet your learning goal(s)
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Demonstrate interest to learn about other
cultures
Identify your own cultural values and
preferences
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Discuss multiple cultural perspectives and
practices
Illustrate the ability to interpret intercultural
experience from your own and other
worldviews
Explain how differences in cultural values
can lead to stereotypes and biases
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Examine how your actions are contributing to
your learning goals
Participate in intercultural learning activities
Evaluate how the consideration of different
perspectives and realities has impacted your
learning
Assess your progress towards your learning goal(s)
Goal Setting
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Identify your learning goal(s)
Noticing Culture
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Cultural Selfawareness
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Describe your own communication style
preferences and how they are influenced by
culture
Explain the relationship between language
and culture learning
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Student Success
Intercultural
Understanding
Undergraduate
Research
Capacity
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Intercultural
Learning
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Define intercultural learning and describe
a cultural values framework
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Intercultural
Communication
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Explain differences in cultural
communication
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Language and
Culture
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Demonstrate interest in learning an
additional language
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Topic
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Identify a topic of personal or general
interest
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Ask in-depth and increasingly disciplinespecific questions about a topic of interest
Existing
Knowledge
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Locate existing information in an area of
interest
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Problem Solving
Strategies
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Explain research processes employed by
others
Analysis &
Conclusion
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Awareness of
Limitations and
Assumptions
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Explain the influence of culture on your own
worldviews
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Assess your learning and articulate strategies to
continue learning about other cultures
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Evaluate positive and negative aspects of your own
culture(s)
Assess your own intercultural capacity including
areas for future skills development
Discuss how assumptions of similarity or
assumptions of difference can influence
intercultural experiences
Develop and articulate strategies to adapt
communication strategies in multicultural
contexts
Obtain communicative proficiency in an
additional language
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Compare and contrast samples of existing
knowledge, research and/or views.
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Identify problem-solving strategies and
methods appropriate to a research project
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Observe patterns, differences and/or
similarities
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Organize evidence to reveal preliminary
findings
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Recognize how different perceptions,
purposes, assumptions and limitations
affect research
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Identify some of the disciplinary approaches,
methods and assumptions informing
research
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Demonstrate ability to interact and communicate
effectively in multicultural settings
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Compare worldviews based on knowledge of more
than one language
Reframe question(s) based upon a review of
existing knowledge, disciplinary practices,
research and/or views.
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Engage in a substantial literature review of
information gathered from relevant sources
representing various disciplinary points of view
Discuss research designs and methods that are
most appropriate for one’s own research and
informed by disciplinary practice
Interpret research findings in a manner informed
by disciplinary practice
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Formulate a research question(s) that is/are new to
one’s self, appropriate to the field of study, context
specific and that transform(s) one’s own
understanding of knowledge and research
Identify and evaluate critically the gaps in current
research
Critically assess the research plan and findings
with disciplinary approaches, methods and
assumptions in mind
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Assess and employ appropriate research design
processes
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Draw disciplinary-informed appropriate
conclusions
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Consider implications for further research and
propose future work needed based on findings,
seeking to apply disciplinary approaches and
methods
Entrepreneurial
Capacity
Taking Risks
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Identify risk(s) of taking new action
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Develop a plan to mitigate harmful risks
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Test for effect of risk
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Assess results of risky actions/behaviors
Problem Solving
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Identify obstacles to success
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Observe one’s own environment to
uncover new opportunities
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Select and/or design strategies to overcome
obstacles
Reframe innovative thinking in context of
realistic application
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Innovative
Thinking
Outline alternative approaches to solving a
problem
Outline innovative approaches to new or
existing prospects
Justify and recommend solutions to local, national
and/or international challenges
Evaluate the outcome of one’s own innovative
thinking
Connection &
Synthesizing?
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Recognize existing connections among
ideas or solutions
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Connect ideas or solutions in a new way
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Use knowledge, ideas or technologies to create
new or significantly improved products, services,
processes or policies
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Assess new enterprise and effectiveness of
development process
Social
responsibility
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Identify personal values within the context
of a larger society
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Give examples of personal choices and habits
that affect sustainability
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Act in a socially responsible way locally,
regionally, nationally and globally
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Evaluate how personal choices affect the
environment
Define & Connect
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Define sustainability
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Identify how concepts of sustainability are
connected to issues of social justice, the
environment and the economy
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Discuss a sustainability issue from a social,
economic and environmental perspectives
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Explain how one’s own gained awareness has
changed or shifted perspectives regarding
sustainability
Taking action

Express/Show concern for global,
environmental and/or social issues
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Choose to contribute directly toward solving
one or more sustainability challenges
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Extend sustainable practices to achieve positive
social, economic and environmental outcomes
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Measure the impact of your actions and assess
whether this action can be sustained over time to
continually make a positive impact
Sustainability
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