Faculty/Staff Application to Offer Non-Academic Credit bearing Beyond the Classroom (BTC) Experience
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
551 Oak Street, Chattanooga, TN 37403 Mail Code 5555 423-425-5825 www.utc.edu/think/beyond
Modified source: MTSU QEP Document-2006
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. –Aristotle
Experiential learning is learning by doing.
This application will be evaluated by a committee using the Guidelines found at http://www.utc.edu/thinkachieve/experiential-learning.php Examples of Applications for currently designated courses are also available at that site.
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Please describe how often this experience is offered or when it will first be offered: Click here to enter text.
1. Describe the experience. Please attach any syllabi, program descriptions or relevant learning
materials referenced in your description of the experience:
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2. How will you incorporate reflection before, during and after the experience?
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3. How do your students have opportunity to demonstrate proficiency in the SLO’s below?
Student Learning Outcome
Corresponding Experience Learning Outcome (3 of 5)
Identifies, evaluates, and
interprets information by
raising pertinent questions
and identifying
uncertainties
Solves problems by
determining limitations,
making connections, and
prioritizing the potential
solution
Creates innovative
solutions to problems
through creative thinking
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Communicates ideas and
information effectively
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Integrates knowledge and
skill through reflection on
thinking and learning
processes
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Note: For the purposes of student recognition, a list of students adequately demonstrating 3 of the 5 SLO’s from
the table above must be submitted to bengt-carlson@utc.edu by the last day of the semester. The below rubric
can be used as a guide. Only the names of the adequately participating students are required.
Student Learning
Outcome
Does not
demonstrate this
attribute(0)
Demonstrates this
attribute rarely(1)
Identifies, evaluates,
and interprets
information by
raising pertinent
questions and
identifying
uncertainties
Fails to state
questions or
uncertainties,
misrepresents
information
States pertinent
question(s), but fails
to identify how or
why it is a question or
problem. Identifies
some information
appropriately
Solves problems by
determining
limitations, making
connections, and
prioritizing the
potential solution
Fails to state
limitations, but does
not demonstrate
gains in perspective
on problem or
solutions
States limitation(s),
but finds few
connections to a
larger context or
other ways of
addressing the
problem
Creates innovative
solutions to problems
through creative
thinking
Fails to demonstrate
any interest in
approaching
problems from
multiple perspectives
States problem,
shows desire, and
exhibits effort to
introduce new
solutions
Communicates ideas
and information
effectively
Fails to state, and
discuss ideas and
information
Integrates knowledge
and skill through
reflection on thinking
and learning
processes
Fails to show
reflection; does not
demonstrate
understanding of
importance of
relationship between
knowledge and skill
Demonstrates this
attribute
adequately(2)
States pertinent
questions and
elements of the
question or problem.
Articulates scope of
question and
accurately interprets
and evaluates
information
Identifies multiple
limitations and
connections to
similar problems
appropriately
integrated with
discussion of
solutions
Demonstrates this
attribute
thoroughly(3)
Approaches problem
and solutions
iteratively from
different and related
perspectives not
suggested by others
Demonstrates
extensive
comprehension of
problem through
multiple effective,
original solutions
Occasionally
demonstrates ability
to comprehend, state,
and discuss
information
Consistently and
clearly states and
discusses points
Consistently states,
and discusses points
with precision,
identifies and
corrects any
discrepancy between
sent and received
messages
Reflects incompletely,
demonstrating some
acquisition of
knowledge and skill
through thinking and
learning
States how reflection
upon thinking and
learning processes
has increased
understanding of the
discipline,
incorporating the
relationship between
theory and practice
Regularly and openly
reflects on thinking,
learning, and growth
in the discipline
through recognition
of innate synergy
between knowledge
and skill
Adequate: 3 SLOs = minimum of 4.5 points, 4 SLOs = minimum of 6.0 points, 5 SLOs = minimum
of 7.5 points
Precisely states
understanding of
questions and related
uncertainties.
Interprets
information and
limits thereof.
Clearly distinguishes
connections between
limitations and
similar problems and
accurately prioritizes
multiple solutions to
particular problem
TOTAL POINTS