Learning Goals and Outcomes
UW Eau Claire Liberal Education
Learning Goals & Outcomes
These five goals are UW-Eau Claire’s highest, most general goals for student learning.
Following the recommendation of the LEAP National Leadership Council, the UW-Eau Claire Liberal Education Learning Goals are emphasized across “every field of college study.” That is, they are intentional in program and course design; intentional in general education and throughout the majors; and intentional in the arts and sciences and in the professional colleges (College Learning for the Global Century).
As the AAC&U stresses, the knowledge and skills of these learning goals cannot be achieved in any one program. They will be “achieved in many different ways, across highly diverse institutional contexts and fields of study” (College Learning for the New Global Century). Thus, UW Eau Claire’s Liberal Education Learning Goals are broad and general so that departments, degree programs, and co-curricular units can identify goals and/or learning outcome statements that are specific expressions of the Liberal Education Goals.
College Learning for the New Global Century. Association of American Colleges and Universities. Washington D.C. 2007.
UW-Eau Claire Liberal Education Learning Goals (approved, 12/2007)
Respect for Diversity Among People
Knowledge of Human Culture and the Natural World
Creative and Critical Thinking
Effective Communication
Individual and Social Responsibility
Learning Outcomes (proposed, 9/2008)
- UW-Eau Claire students will develop skills and knowledge for living in a cultureally pluralistic and globally interdependent world.
- UW-Eau Claire students will demonstrate a depth of knowledge about human culture and/or about the natural world. This outcome includes majors in the professional colleges.
- UW Eau Claire students will demonstrate a breadth of knowledge about human culture and about the natural world. This outcome will be grounded in general education studies in sciences, mathematics, social sciences, humanities, languages, and the arts.
- UW-Eau Claire students will develop critical thinking skills that can be applied to a range of academic and social contexts. Critical thinking includes general and discipline specific skills and procedures for inquiry, analysis, and synthesis. Critical thinking also includes information literacy and quantitative literacy.
- UW-Eau Claire students will develop creative thinking skills that include creative expression and/or creative approaches to problem posing and problem solving.
- UW-Eau Claire students will write, read, speak, and listen effectively including application to civic and discipline specific contexts. Communicating effectively includes effective team work.
- UW-Eau Claire students will develop skills and values for ethical reasoning and life-long learning.
- UW-Eau Claire students will connect their knowledge and skills to social and civic contexts.
