Course Outcome Assessment for Upper Division Global Learning Courses
Faculty Name: Dr. Jean Rahier
Course: AFA 2004 Black Popular Cultures, Global Dimensions
Academic Unit: African & African Diaspora Studies (AADS) Degree Program: Certificate in AADS Semester Assessed:
Assessment Method Assessment Results 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 demonstrate understanding of the inter-relatedness of key issues and events, both historical and contemporary, relevant to the cultural politics of people of
African descent in both continental Africa and the
Diaspora.
Assessment Activity/Artifact:
Film report or reading report following a specific film projection or text reading that will address the existence of global networks or circuits within which black cultural politics are embedded.
The report will consist in answering 4 short answer questions for 25 points each. The total score will be 100 points.
Evaluation Process:
Students will be subjected to the assessment artifact at mid-semester. They will have no more than 40 minutes to answer all questions (10 minutes per question). They will receive all questions at once.
A rubric will be used to evaluate the short answers
Minimum Criteria for Success:
75 percent of students will reach a grade of 75% or higher for the entire assessment.
Sample:
To be entered at end of course
All students will be assessed.
Use of Results for Improving Student Learning
To be entered at end of course
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Course Outcome Assessment for Upper Division Global Learning Courses
Faculty Name: Dr. Jean Rahier
Course: AFA 2004 Black Popular Cultures, Global Dimensions
Academic Unit: African & African Diaspora Studies (AADS)
Global Learning Student Learning Outcome
Addressed
Degree Program: Certificate in AADS
Assessment Method
Semester Assessed:
Assessment Results
Global Perspective: Students will be able to conduct a multi-perspective analysis of local, global, international, and intercultural problems.
Course Learning Outcome
Students will be able to demonstrate comprehension of the existence of various perspectives associated with different black subjectivities and diverse cultural backgrounds among people of
African descent in both continental
Assessment Activity/Artifact:
Writing of term paper following library research and South Florida fieldwork about 2 different but related local/global cultural productions.
Evaluation Process:
A rubric will be used to evaluate the essays
To be entered at end of course
Africa and the Diaspora.
Minimum Criteria for Success:
75% of the essays will reach a grade of
75% or higher for this assessment.
Sample:
All students will be assessed.
Use of Results for Improving Student Learning
To be entered at end of course
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Course Outcome Assessment for Upper Division Global Learning Courses
Faculty Name: Dr. Jean Rahier
Course: AFA 2004 Black Popular Cultures, Global Dimensions
Academic Unit: African & African Diaspora Studies (AADS)
Global Learning Student Learning Outcome
Addressed
Degree Program: Certificate in AADS
Assessment Method
Semester Assessed:
Assessment Results
Global Engagement: Students will be able
Assessment Activity/Artifact:
Writing of term paper following library
To be entered at end of course to demonstrate willingness to engage in local, global, international, and intercultural problem solving.
Course Learning Outcome
Students will be able to—willingly— better engage in a number of problem solving activities in a variety of sociocultural contexts around the globe.
research and South Florida fieldwork about 2 different but related local/global cultural productions.
problem solving
Evaluation Process:
A component of the paper will be about the willing engagement in intercultural
A rubric will be used to evaluate the essays
Minimum Criteria for Success:
75% of the essays will reach a grade of
75% or higher for this assessment.
Sample:
All students will be assessed.
Use of Results for Improving Student Learning
To be entered at end of course
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