School of Education
Program Learning Outcomes for the English-Preparation for Secondary School Teaching BA program
- Use close reading skills and critical thinking to analyze and construct arguments about primary texts.
- Acquire broad and specialized knowledge about historical contexts of literature the relationship between literature and history and literary genres.
- Write scholarly research papers that use appropriate primary and secondary sources.
- Apply literary and/or rhetorical and/or linguistic theory to primary texts.
- For students in creative writing incorporate peer and instructor feedback through the workshop process.
Program Learning Outcomes for the English Adolescent Education MA and Advanced Certificate programs
- Think critically and theoretically about literature across literary genres and periods.
- Identify and incorporate theoretical and critical approaches to analysis of literature.
- Make original arguments about literary texts supported by analysis.
Program Learning Outcomes for the Education-Geography and Environmental Sciences/History MA & Advanced Certificate programs
- All graduate students will learn to apply a variety of ideas and concepts. Continuity change over time context causation and corroboration—in order to understand how change in societies systems of knowledge and belief technologies and cultures contribute to understanding the common features of the human experience.
- All graduate students will learn to analyze the culturally and politically constructed nature of individual and group identities in specific historical contexts with particular attention given to the idea of change over time.
- All graduate students will learn to evaluate the role individuals play in shaping history along with the role played by broader forces of change (e.g. social intellectual and ideological movements cultural developments and economic trends) and to appreciate the interrelationship between such factors and historical change.
- All graduate students will engage in analyzing history across multiple centuries and major geographical regions and learn to apply such analysis comparatively when appropriate.
- All graduate students will learn to conceptualize research and write papers using primary and secondary sources. Appropriate citation form will be used. Emphasis will be placed on cogently framing questions critically evaluating evidence composing an effective thesis statement constructing a persuasive argument and including pertinent historical content in the body of the paper.
Program Learning Outcomes for the Mathematics Adolescent Education BA & MA programs
- Students will demonstrate an advanced understanding of secondary school Algebra by using mathematical reasoning to formally prove and demonstrate algebraic principles and methods.
- Students will demonstrate an advanced understanding of secondary school Euclidean Geometry and Trigonometry as well as the fundamentals of Absolute and Non-Euclidean Geometry by using definitions axioms and theorems to prove geometric and trigonometric principles and methods.
- Students will demonstrate an advanced understanding of secondary school probability and Statistics by creating models with statistical software and by using Common Core materials to illustrate concepts of Probability and Statistics.
- Students will demonstrate the ability to think critically and apply mathematical principles to solve complex problems in all areas of secondary school mathematics.
*Note: The Mathematics BA with concentrations in Early Childhood Education and Adolescent Education have additional requirements in the School of Education.