Portland
State Goals
Department
Initiatives
Expected
Outcomes
#1: Increase the rate of completion for undergraduate students.
#2: Identify specific and measurable undergraduate learning objectives integrated across majors and general education demonstrating the value of students’ learning experiences, especially including the impact of engagement.
#3: Create and nurture high quality research and academic programs that clearly demonstrate and differentiate Portland State on a national and international basis. In doing so, we will create a magnet for students and faculty, provide evidence of our leadership position, and build credibility and influence for programs beyond those selected for advancement.
#4: Develop and support pathway programs to increase participation in higher education for Portland’s diverse population.
a.
The department will proactively encourage students to see an adviser annually b.
The department will proactively encourage students to seek assistance with their academic skills c.
The department will request data on the graduation rates among Anthropology majors from Institutional
Research as a basis for planning d.
The department will develop an advising page for its website with redesigned and revised content to facilitate dissemination of programmatic information to students. e.
The department will explore the feasibility of giving one faculty member released time/year to act as undergraduate adviser. The department will proactively encourage students to see an adviser annually f.
The department will proactively encourage students to seek assistance with their academic skills g.
The department will request data on the graduation rates among Anthropology majors from Institutional
Research as a basis for planning h.
The department will develop an advising page for its website with redesigned and revised content to facilitate dissemination of programmatic information to students. i.
The department will explore the feasibility of giving one faculty member released time/year to act as undergraduate adviser. a. Setting of goals for retention and graduate rates in future Unit Plans based on data to be developed. c. An focused advising page present on the departmental website by Fall 2009. d. On-going specific steps:
1. Faculty in required Anthropology Major courses will remind students to see their adviser
2. After midterms, faculty will provide students with information on support for academic skills (e.g.
Writing center, Skills Enhancement and Tutoring
Center).
Portland State has proposed seven (7) campus-wide undergraduate learning objectives. These include engagement, sustainability, internationalization, critical thinking, diversity, ethics and social responsibility, and communication. Your task is to map the appropriate learning objectives onto your curriculum (See
Curriculum Map for Template B).
In completing a curriculum map of these objectives, programs will develop an understanding of the relationship between departmental and campus-wide undergraduate learning objectives with the expectation that in 2009-2010 departments will be selecting at least one of these campus-wide objectives for assessment.
1. Department will work to sustain its current high levels of quality scholarship which it monitors through P&T process and peerreview.
2. Department will continue to pursue external funding.
3. Departments will maintain scholarly community engagement.
1. Department will continue to review work load distribution
2. Department will explore the feasibility of giving faculty released time for grant preparation.
Develop departmental honors program.
Have an approved and functioning departmental Honors program by Fall
2010.

Metrics/
Targets/
Evidence
Results/
Status a. Faculty will be reminded in the annual Fall departmental retreat to do d.1. and d.2. b. In the annual Spring assessment meeting, the department will check with each faculty to ensure c1. and d.2. were done.
In progress.
A completed curriculum map by December 1, 2009 and identification of the one objective to be assessed.
1. Continued scholarly productivity, productivity including quality as measured by indicators of scholarly stature.
2. Continued submission of grant proposals.
3. Continued community engagement based on professional expertise and development of community partnerships.
1. Maintaining or exceeding current levels of scholarly productivity and stature.
2. Maintaining or exceeding current numbers of grant proposals.
3. Maintaining or exceeding current levels of community engagement.
Have an approved and functioning departmental Honors program by Fall
2010.
In progress.

PSU Priorities
Department,
Division or
Center Goals
Department
Initiatives
Expected
Outcomes
Metrics/
Targets/
Evidence
Improve Student Success: Expand Innovative Scholarship: Enhance Educational Opportunity:
Increase retention and graduation rates of Anthropology majors Increase opportunities for high achieving students.
j.
The department will proactively encourage students to see an adviser annually k.
The department will proactively encourage students to seek assistance with their academic skills l.
The department will request data on the graduation rates among Anthropology majors from Institutional Research as a basis for planning m.
The department will develop an advising page for its website with redesigned and revised content to facilitate dissemination of programmatic information to students. n.
The department will explore the feasibility of giving one faculty member released time/year to act as undergraduate adviser. The department will proactively encourage students to see an adviser annually o.
The department will proactively encourage students to seek assistance with their academic skills p.
The department will request data on the graduation rates among Anthropology majors from Institutional Research as a basis for planning q.
The department will develop an advising page for its website with redesigned and revised content to facilitate dissemination of programmatic information to students. r.
The department will explore the feasibility of giving one faculty member released time/year to act as undergraduate adviser. a. Setting of goals for retention and graduate rates in future Unit Plans based on data to be developed. c. An focused advising page present on the departmental website by Fall 2009. d. On-going specific steps:
1. Faculty in required Anthropology Major courses will remind students to see their adviser
2. After midterms, faculty will provide students with information on support for academic skills (e.g. Writing center, Skills Enhancement and Tutoring Center). a. Faculty will be reminded in the annual Fall departmental retreat to do d.1. and d.2. b. In the annual Spring assessment meeting, the department will check with each faculty to ensure c1. and d.2. were done.
1. Department will work to sustain its current high levels of quality scholarship which it monitors through P&T process and peer-review.
2. Department will continue to pursue external funding.
3. Departments will maintain scholarly community engagement.
1. Department will continue to review work load distribution
2. Department will explore the feasibility of giving faculty released time for grant preparation.
1. Continued scholarly productivity, productivity including quality as measured by indicators of scholarly stature.
2. Continued submission of grant proposals.
3. Continued community engagement based on professional expertise and development of community partnerships.
1. Maintaining or exceeding current levels of scholarly productivity and stature.
2. Maintaining or exceeding current numbers of grant
Develop departmental honors program.
Have an approved and functioning departmental
Honors program by Fall 2010.
Have an approved and functioning departmental
Honors program by Fall 2010.
In progress. proposals.
3. Maintaining or exceeding current levels of community engagement.
In progress. In progress. s
Results/Statu

Institutional
Priorities
Modified
PSU Goal
Dept.
Learning
Objectives
How your
Learning
Objectives are conveyed to students
Metrics:
Tool &
Measures
Results/
Feedback loop
Student Success: Make learning meaningful, relevant, and authentic through active engagement with faculty, other students, and significant issues affecting communities near and far. This engagement is an important element in a comprehensive approach to enhancing student learning, preparing students for success in their personal and professional lives, and supporting higher rates of retention, graduation, and applications for continuing degrees, certificates, and licenses.
Primary means of supporting students’ success include: (1) offering high quality programs that establish and achieve both institutional and programmatic learning outcomes; (2) assisting student integration into the experience of academic and university life; and (3) supporting students’ achievement of their academic goals.
Goal #2: Identify, implement and assess specific and measurable undergraduate learning objectives integrated across majors and general education demonstrating the value of students’ learning experiences, especially including the impact of engagement.
L.O. #1
Reasoning and
Communication Skills:
Students will show proficiency in critical thinking and academic writing. Students will demonstrate the ability to think critically, including the ability to view problems from multiple points of view.
-Faculty discuss assessment with students.
-Particular assignments are identified as assessment assignments.
-Assessment goals are specified in courses.
-Assessed through review of student writing samples and analysis of course syllabi and writing assignments
(2008).
L.O. #2
Reasoning and
Communication Skills:
Students will show proficiency in critical thinking and academic writing. Students will demonstrate proficiency in a language other than their natal language.
-Faculty discuss assessment with students.
-Particular assignments are identified as assessment assignments.
-Assessment goals are specified in courses.
Fulfillment of BA/BS language requirement.
L.O. #3
Reasoning and Communication Skills: Students will show proficiency in critical thinking and academic writing. Students will be able to write an essay or paper that conforms to the basic rules of English grammar, syntax, and spelling. These essays or papers will show an understanding of the appropriate format for citing and referencing primary and secondary source material. Students will understand and apply the principles of academic honesty codified in the Anthropology Department’s “Statement on
Academic Honesty.”
-Faculty discuss assessment with students.
-Particular assignments are identified as assessment assignments.
-Assessment goals are specified in courses.
-Assessed through review of student writing samples and analysis of course syllabi and writing assignments (2008).
L.O. #4
Applications of Anthropology:
Students will understand how to apply anthropological methods in an ethical and effective fashion to research questions, issues, and debates.
Students will understand and apply research methods appropriate to an least one subfield of anthropology.
-Faculty discuss assessment with students.
-Particular assignments are identified as assessment assignments. in courses.
-Assessed through review of student writing samples and analysis of course syllabi and writing assignments.
-Assessment goals are specified
L.O. #5
Applications of Anthropology: Students will understand how to apply anthropological methods in an ethical and effective fashion to research questions, issues, and debates.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of how the interplay among theory, research questions, methods, and data shapes our knowledge and/or interpretations of the human past and present.
-Faculty discuss assessment with students.
-Particular assignments are identified as assessment assignments.
-Assessment goals are specified in courses.
- Assessed through review of student writing samples and analysis of course syllabi and assignments in ANTH
456:Issues in Cultural Resource Management and ANTH
304: Social Theory (2004), and ANTH 305: Cultural
Theory and ANTH 304: Social Theory (2005).
- Assessed through review of student writing samples and analysis of course syllabi and writing assignments in
ANTH 461: Advanced Topics in Archaeology and
ANTH 372: Human Variability (2006).
-Results confirmed current practices.
-Results used to change course content and structure, particularly in preparing syllabi.
-Results stimulated discussion, focus on specific student learning issues and teaching.
-Results used to improve student advising and recruitment.
-Results led the department to increase the number of methods courses offered.
-Results used to refocus course emphases and assignments.
-Results used to adjust of the curriculum map.
-Results stimulate discussion, focus on specific student learning issues and teaching.
-Results used to improve student advising and recruitment.

Institutional
Priorities
Modified PSU
Goal
Dept. Learning
Objectives
How your
Learning
Objectives are conveyed to students
Metrics: Tool
& Measures
Results/
Feedback loop
Student Success: Make learning meaningful, relevant, and authentic through active engagement with faculty, other students, and significant issues affecting communities near and far. This engagement is an important element in a comprehensive approach to enhancing student learning, preparing students for success in their personal and professional lives, and supporting higher rates of retention, graduation, and applications for continuing degrees, certificates, and licenses.
Primary means of supporting students’ success include: (1) offering high quality programs that establish and achieve both institutional and programmatic learning outcomes; (2) assisting student integration into the experience of academic and university life; and (3) supporting students’ achievement of their academic goals.
Goal #2: Identify, implement and assess specific and measurable undergraduate learning objectives integrated across majors and general education demonstrating the value of students’ learning experiences, especially including the impact of engagement.
L.O. #6
Applications of Anthropology: Students will understand how to apply anthropological methods in an ethical and effective fashion to research questions, issues, and debates.
students. assessment assignments. courses.
Students will understand the relevance of anthropology in and to contemporary public issues.
-Faculty discuss assessment with
-Particular assignments are identified as
-Assessment goals are specified in
-Assessed through review of student writing samples and analysis of course syllabi and writing assignments in
ANTH 333: The Anthropology of
Food and ANTH 399: Historical
Archaeology and the Origins of the
L.O. #7
Applications of Anthropology:
Students will understand how to apply anthropological methods in an ethical and effective fashion to research questions, issues, and debates.
Students will understand the ethical codes appropriate to each subfield of anthropology.
-Faculty discuss assessment with students.
-Particular assignments are identified as assessment assignments.
-Assessment goals are specified in courses.
-Assessed through review of student writing samples and analysis of course syllabi and writing assignments.
L.O. #8
Anthropological Theories:
Students will show mastery of theories fundamental to the subfields of Anthropology.
Students will understand theoretical frameworks fundamental to the subfields of Anthropology.
-Faculty discuss assessment with students.
-Particular assignments are identified as assessment assignments.
-Assessment goals are specified in courses.
-Assessed through review of student writing samples and analysis of course syllabi and writing assignments.
L.O. #9
Anthropological Theories:
Students will show mastery of theories fundamental to the subfields of Anthropology.
Students will understand how and why the subfields of anthropology (i.e. sociocultural anthropology, anthropological archaeology, and biological anthropology) interrelate.
-Faculty discuss assessment with students.
-Particular assignments are identified as assessment assignments.
-Assessment goals are specified in courses.
-Assessed through review of student writing samples and analysis of course syllabi and writing assignments.
L.O. #10
Anthropological Theories: Students will show mastery of theories fundamental to the subfields of
Anthropology. Sociocultural
Anthropology: Students will understand the concept of culture, defined as the social construction of meaning. Students will also understand that the culture concept has changed over time. Students will be able to identify the specific theories of culture that shape ethnographic interpretation and be able to assess these theories critically.
-Faculty discuss assessment with students.
-Particular assignments are identified as assessment assignments.
-Assessment goals are specified in courses.
-Assessed through review of student writing samples and analysis of course syllabi and writing assignments.
Pacific Northwest (2007).
-Results used to change course content and structure, particularly in preparing syllabi.
-Results were used to make minor revisions to the rubric used to score this outcome.
-Results stimulated discussion, focus on specific student learning issues and teaching.
-Results confirmed current practices.
-Results confirmed current practices.
-Results led to discussion of better ways to address this goal in the upper-division course requirements. This conversation is on-going, as there is currently no faculty member who feels qualified to teach a course on the interrelation of these subfields.
-Results confirmed current practices.

Institutional Priorities
Modified PSU Goal
Dept. Learning
Objectives
How your Learning
Objectives are conveyed to students
Metrics: Tool &
Measures
Student Success: Make learning meaningful, relevant, and authentic through active engagement with faculty, other students, and significant issues affecting communities near and far. This engagement is an important element in a comprehensive approach to enhancing student learning, preparing students for success in their personal and professional lives, and supporting higher rates of retention, graduation, and applications for continuing degrees, certificates, and licenses.
Primary means of supporting students’ success include: (1) offering high quality programs that establish and achieve both institutional and programmatic learning outcomes; (2) assisting student integration into the experience of academic and university life; and (3) supporting students’ achievement of their academic goals.
Goal #2: Identify, implement and assess specific and measurable undergraduate learning objectives integrated across majors and general education demonstrating the value of students’ learning experiences, especially including the impact of engagement.
L.O. #11
Anthropological Theories:
Students will show mastery of theories fundamental to the subfields of Anthropology.
Sociocultural Anthropology:
Students will understand the interconnection between social structure (kinship, gender, class, nation, race) and culture, and how social power is a dimension of all cultural phenomena.
L.O. #12
Anthropological Theories:
Students will show mastery of theories fundamental to the subfields of Anthropology.
Anthropological Archaeology:
Students should demonstrate an understanding that archaeology is the materialist study of long term culture change, and that culture change is mediated by biological, ecological, and cultural processes. Culture is minimally defined as shared, learned behavior that is transmitted through time and across space.
L.O. #13
Anthropological Theories:
Students will show mastery of theories fundamental to the subfields of Anthropology.
Biological Anthropology: Students will understand the biological history of the human species, including the mechanisms responsible for biological variation and adaptation in contemporary human populations, their living relatives, and their fossil ancestors.
L.O. #14
Anthropological Theories:
Students will show mastery of theories fundamental to the subfields of Anthropology.
Biological Anthropology: Students will understand the varied meanings of the term “race” with respect to history, biology, and anthropology.
They will understand that the historical and cultural lay-usage of this term is entirely incompatible with modern understanding of the mechanisms responsible for biological variation in human populations
-Faculty discuss assessment with students.
-Particular assignments are identified as assessment assignments.
-Assessment goals are specified in courses.
-Assessed through review of student writing samples and analysis of course syllabi and writing assignments.
-Results confirmed current practices.
-Faculty discuss assessment with students.
-Particular assignments are identified as assessment assignments.
-Assessment goals are specified in courses.
. -Assessed through review of student writing samples and analysis of course syllabi and writing assignments.
-Results confirmed current practices.
-Faculty discuss assessment with students.
-Particular assignments are identified as assessment assignments.
-Assessment goals are specified in courses.
-Assessed through review of student writing samples and analysis of course syllabi and writing assignments.
-Results confirmed current practices.
-Faculty discuss assessment with students.
-Particular assignments are identified as assessment assignments.
-Assessment goals are specified in courses.
-Assessed through review of student writing samples and analysis of course syllabi and writing assignments.
-Results confirmed current practices.
Results/Feedback loop

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455 Faunal 3
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