LO1: Sub-outcomes

 

Arts for Living

Creative and Performing Arts

  • A Saint Mary's student demonstrates a basic understanding of form, aesthetics, and/or theory in a creative or performing art.
  • A Saint Mary's student practices a creative or performing art.
  • A Saint Mary's student develops resources of creativity, experience, and perception, which enrich herself and her world.

Professional Arts

  • A Saint Mary's student investigates issues of policy or systems through the lens of a professional practitioner.
  • A Saint Mary's student applies knowledge of a profession in her decision making.
  • A Saint Mary's student adapts learning from multiple academic disciplines to develop solutions for concrete real-world problems.

Mathematical Arts

  • A Saint Mary's student formulates mathematical models using abstract and logical reasoning.
  • A Saint Mary's student uses and interprets mathematical models to analyze systems and patterns.
  • A Saint Mary's student uses mathematical language and concepts to phrase and answer questions pertaining to a variety of real-world contexts.

Cultures and Systems

Literature

  • A Saint Mary's student applies knowledge of literary genres, terms, and/or theories to the interpretation of English literary texts or literary texts translated into English.
  • A Saint Mary's student analyzes literary texts both as forms of cultural and artistic expression and as vehicles for enduring values.
  • A Saint Mary's student recognizes how literary texts construct human identities.

History

  • A Saint Mary's student identifies and understands salient developments in world or United States history.
  • A Saint Mary's student analyzes the historical development of human cultures in their response to their physical, social, intellectual, and political environments and seeks explanations for those developments.
  • A Saint Mary's student identifies and understands evidence of historical change from primary sources/records of the past and assesses historical interpretations in secondary sources.
  • A Saint Mary's student analyzes how her assumptions about human identity have been influenced by her historical context, and how human identities have been constructed in history.

Modern Languages

  • A Saint Mary's student communicates in a modern European language either at an advanced beginning or intermediate low level (depending upon her previous study), or at an appropriate level in another approved non-European or classical language.
  • A Saint Mary's student explains the structure of this language.
  • A Saint Mary's student identifies salient features of the geography, history, and culture of those that speak this language.
  • A Saint Mary's student demonstrates intercultural understanding by recognizing and analyzing cultural misconceptions and the influence of her own cultural identity on her interactions with others.

Social Science I

  • A Saint Mary's student identifies and explains social science concepts and theories about human behavior, systems, and cultures.
  • A Saint Mary's student applies social science concepts and theories in her analysis of human behavior, systems, and cultures.
  • A Saint Mary's student recognizes and explains effects of diversity and equity in specific areas such as class, race, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, disability, and/or privilege.

Traditions and Worldviews

Philosophical Worldviews

  • A Saint Mary's student identifies and understands significant features of and developments in philosophical traditions concerning the nature of knowledge, the nature of reality, and the nature of the good.
  • A Saint Mary's student analyzes and compares philosophical views.
  • A Saint Mary's student thinks philosophically about her interactions in the world.
  • A Saint Mary's student raises questions on philosophical issues pertaining to the development of her own worldview.

Religious Traditions I

  • A Saint Mary's student articulates an informed, broad understanding of the nature and complexities of religion and how religion interacts with other aspects of culture.
  • A Saint Mary's student describes key elements in a religion (such as sacred texts, ritual, spirituality and prayer, religious language, moral code, view of human destiny or afterlife, explanation of human and natural evil, perspectives on gender), applies her understanding of these elements to specific religious traditions, and articulates commonalities and differences among religious perspectives.
  • A Saint Mary's student engages perspectives that are new to her, both empathetically and critically, and engages in informed, civil, and open discourse about religious differences.
  • A Saint Mary's student evaluates the meaning of religious claims made by others and, in response to those claims, reflects critically on her own religious perspectives.

Religious Traditions II

  • A Saint Mary's student applies the broadened understanding of religion gained in the first course to a detailed examination of elements important to the Catholic Christian tradition (such as sacred or theological texts, ritual, spirituality and prayer, religious language, moral code, view of human destiny or afterlife, explanation of human and natural evil, perspectives on gender).
  • A Saint Mary's student analyzes issues or questions that arise in relation to those elements.
  • A Saint Mary's student engages perspectives that are new to her, both empathically and critically, and engages in informed, civil, and open discourse about religious differences.
  • A Saint Mary's student evaluates the meaning of theological claims and, in response to those claims, reflects critically on her own religious perspectives.

Histories

  • A Saint Mary's student analyzes in depth historical developments of a particular aspect or issue in human culture, possibly including its contemporary impact.
  • A Saint Mary's student articulates the ways in which this development is affected by cultural factors such as gender, religion, values, and privilege.

Science for the Citizen

Natural Science I

  • A Saint Mary's student uses scientific methods to investigate questions appropriate to the natural sciences.
  • A Saint Mary's student demonstrates specific knowledge of processes and principles underlying natural phenomena.
  • A Saint Mary's student identifies, analyzes, and evaluates critical scientific issues and approaches pertaining to the issues that face her as a citizen.

Natural Science II

  • A Saint Mary's student demonstrates specific knowledge of processes and principles underlying natural phenomena.
  • A Saint Mary's student uses scientific methods to investigate questions appropriate to a particular natural science.
  • A Saint Mary's student identifies, analyzes, and evaluates critical scientific issues and approaches.

Social Science II

  • A Saint Mary's student utilizes scientific knowledge to evaluate claims about human behavior.
  • A Saint Mary's student uses scientific methods to investigate questions appropriate to particular social sciences.
  • A Saint Mary's student identifies, analyzes, and evaluates critical scientific issues and approaches pertaining to the issues that face her as a citizen.

 

LO2: Sub-outcomes

 

Cognitive Skills

Critical Thinking

  • A Saint Mary's student employs various aspects of critical thinking-interpretation, analysis, evaluation, inference, explanation, and self-regulation-in her intellectual work.

Interpretation of Complex Texts and Artifacts

  • A Saint Mary's student infers relevant meanings from the content and formal features of complex texts and artifacts, and from their relationship to their cultural or historical context.

Quantitative Reasoning

  • A Saint Mary's student creates and interprets arguments supported by quantitative evidence.

Media Literacy

  • A Saint Mary's student decodes, analyzes, and evaluates media messages within the context of political, economic, and ideological systems.

Communicative Skills

Writing Competence

  • A Saint Mary's student employs conventions of academic writing to formulate meaningful claims, construct effective arguments, and employ evidence appropriately.  She communicates her ideas in writing with precision and style.

Oral Competence

  • A Saint Mary's student orally communicates with clarity, organization, supporting information, and style.

Technological Literacy

  • A Saint Mary's student uses technology effectively for communication, research, collaboration and problem-solving, while understanding the ethics and safety issues in electronic media and responsible use of technology.

Investigative Skills

Evaluation of Data

  • A Saint Mary's student assesses the validity and reliability of data (qualitative or quantitative) and analyzes whether such data appropriately addresses a particular claim.

Problem Solving

  • A Saint Mary's student uses her knowledge to design, implement, and evaluate a strategy to reach a goal or solve an unscripted problem.

Information Literacy

  • A Saint Mary's student determines the extent of her information need and obtains, evaluates and uses information effectively with an understanding of economic, legal, ethical, and social issues surrounding information use.

Collaborative Skills

Shared Inquiry Skills

  • A Saint Mary's student collaborates effectively, utilizing appropriate skills such as active listening, constructive feedback, supportiveness, conflict management, and assertiveness.  She engages in respectful dialogue on issues of substance in a variety of settings.

Dialogue with Difference Skills

  • A Saint Mary's student articulates her growth through interacting with diverse people, places, and beliefs.

Women's Voices

  • A Saint Mary's student identifies and understands women's contributions to human knowledge and achievement and how those may have been influenced by constructions of gender.
  • A Saint Mary's student reflects analytically upon her own heritage and experience as a woman and articulates her reflections within a particular disciplinary context.
  • A Saint Mary's student produces an informed argument for the value of women's voices and the importance of resisting gender prejudice.

 

LO3: Sub-Outcomes

Social Responsibility

  • A Saint Mary's student evaluates social conditions.
  • A Saint Mary's student discerns human needs.
  • A Saint Mary's student is able to respond as an agent of change.

Intercultural Competence

  • A Saint Mary's student identifies and understands the aspects of culturally diverse environments in order to communicate more effectively across cultures; and she can produce an informed argument for the value of human diversity for its own sake and the importance of resisting ethnocentric prejudice.
  • A Saint Mary's student reflects before and after intercultural engagement in order to identify her own cultural norms and how these norms shape her interactions with others; and she can produce an informed argument for the value of human diversity for its own sake and the importance of resisting ethnocentric prejudice.

Global Learning

  • A Saint Mary's student articulates the interconnections among the historical, political, geographic, cultural, and/or socioeconomic dimensions within a country or region outside the United States.
  • A Saint Mary's student explains global interdependence and other complex issues that cross national boundaries.