Program Learning Outcomes for each Core Domain at MCLA can currently be found in the Course
Catalog, or click below to read the full Outcomes for each Core Domain.
- Demonstrate technological literacy by documenting required course elements.
- Express themselves in meaningful ways.
- Actively participate in a learning community.
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Critical Reading, Thinking, Writing Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of the course, students will gain:
- An understanding that good college-level writing involves a process of revising and
editing across multiple drafts.
- The ability to both give and draw from constructive feedback during the revision process.
- The ability to critically and carefully read a diversity of texts written for different
audiences and purposes.
- The ability to respond to a variety of rhetorical situations to effectively reach
different audiences.
- The ability to use different genres (or types of writing) to reach different audiences.
- The ability to use library databases to find peer-reviewed academic sources.
- The ability to evaluate, synthesize, critique, and add your own ideas to published
sources.
- The ability to effectively and ethically summarize, paraphrase, quote, and cite published
sources to achieve your purposes.
- The ability to vary your texts’ structure, paragraphing, tone, style, and grammar
depending on genre and audience.
- The ability to edit and proofread your writing.
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Creative Arts Learning Outcomes
Students will be able to:
- Describe techniques, processes and concepts that creative artists use in their work
- Discuss personal encounters with the creative arts within broader historical and cultural
contexts
- Articulate the significance of the creative arts, artistic expression and experience
in today's world
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Human Heritage Learning Outcomes
Students will be able to:
- Apply critical and comparative approaches to primary and secondary sources;
- Draw valid conclusions from documentary evidence and evaluate the significance of
such conclusions;
- Evaluate the significance of events, ideas, or circumstances in a given text both
within their own and contemporary contexts.
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Self and Society Learning Outcomes
Students will be able to:
- Identify and compare the values and assumptions of particular social settings and
cultural contexts;
- Utilize inter-disciplinary perspectives, theories and/or social science methods to
analyze significant social issues;
- Develop and present an analysis of the multiple factors that explain an individual's
relationship to society.
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Science and Technology Learning Outcomes
Students will be able to:
- Demonstrate knowledge of natural science content.
- Apply content knowledge to solve problems and make informed decisions.
- Communicate scientific findings orally and/or in writing.
- Interpret and generate graphs from scientific data.
- Apply scientific practices to test a hypothesis or answer a question.
- Find media (e.g., popular or scholarly literature) focusing on scientific topics and
evaluate the reliability of the source.
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Capstone Experience Learning Outcomes
Students will be able to:
- Acquire and evaluate information from multiple and varied information sources that
integrates two or more Tier II domains;
- Apply academic learning to the context of contemporary local and/or global communities;
- Investigate and analyze complex problems/issues and draw reasoned conclusions, providing
comprehensive support for those conclusions;
- Effectively communicate ideas, solutions, and plans through a variety of media that
must include a substantial writing component;
- Work effectively in collaboration with fellow students and/or community entities to
create a product that demonstrates the student is able to connect academic learning
and critical thinking skills with problems in the context of today’s world.
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