Complete a table for each Contemporary Global Issues Category Learning Outcome. Please respond to each Learning Outcome directly. Using repeated or “copy and paste” answers for each of the three CLOs often results in the form being sent back for revision
The first table provides examples of how the table can be completed.
Activities CLO
Category Learning
Outcome #
Subject
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Assessment
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#1: Demonstrate ethical and competent communication
#2: Using historical and contemporary examples, describe how perceived differences, combined with unequal distribution of power across economic, social, and political institutions, result in discrimination
The course deals specifically with constructing argument, avoiding fallacies, and delivery of argument focus on the means to effective communication.
The course provides a critical analysis of the social institutions and structural forces that impact family life and the experiences and interactions of individuals within families. Key issues, as they relate to SLO2, include the ways in which different families are structurally situated within American society, the kinds of resources available to them (e.g., economic, political, and social), and the ways in which this differential access creates diverse family experiences.
What assignments, class activities, discussions are used to address this outcome?
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Second lecture deals specifically with ethical argument.
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Weekly in-class discussion groups, topics include refuting arguments, proposing a change and
Discussion exercises, both in class and online, provide students with opportunities to demonstrate their understanding of the effects of social inequality on family structures and interactions. An assignment requires students to examine interactional processes that maintain dominance and inequality in family and marital relationships.
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Rubric on major assignments has specific section for ethics in communication
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Advice Project: administered a question on the first and last class periods asking students to advise a friend on how to challenge a grade with a professor. These responses were then coded by two different instructors to determine how advice shifted before and after the class.
An examination essay asks students to discuss family patterns related to social class, racial and ethnic inequality, gender inequality, and inequalities based on sexual orientation combining information from lectures, readings, videos, and films.
Another assignment asks students to conduct research on the impact of poverty on family structures and interactions and to share that information in presentations to classmates for discussion.

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Category Learning
Outcome #1
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CLO
Category Learning
Outcome #2
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CLO
Category Learning
Outcome #3
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Assessment
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* At a minimum, the course should include a single out-of-class written assignment with a minimum of 1250 words plus references that develops and sustains a critical perspective using evidence as support and a multidisciplinary approach. The assignment should include at least 2 outside sources.