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Christine Kourinian, M.S.
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Mark Pursley, M.A.
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Emil Sargsyan, M.A.
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Institutional Learning Outcomes
The Institutional Effectiveness Committee has been tasked by the LAMC Academic Senate Curriculum Committee to coordinate the drafting of general education student learning outcomes and discipline specific learning outcomes. The Curriculum Committee, in delegating this task, is responding to two institutional motivations for assessment of student learning outcomes. The first is a desire on the part of the college to improve student learning, a responsibility that is central to its mission. The second is a related desire to assure the public of the quality of education at the institution. It further recognizes the mandate from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges that institutions assess themselves in a systematic manner designed to improve the effectiveness of teaching and learning.
General Education outcomes formulated for the purpose of assessment are not directly related to the General Education requirements for the A.A. Degree or General Education Requirements that are part of the certification process for transfer to the CSU system. Rather, general education outcomes established to assess the quality of education at LAMC are a reflection of the belief that students who complete a specified course of study at the college should be able to demonstrate competency in a broad range of abilities that are the charge of higher education.
Written and Oral Communication
Students will demonstrate the interactive nature of communication involving speaking, writing, listening and reading. Evidence will be the student’s ability to make a clear, well-organized verbal presentation employing appropriate evidence to support the arguments or conclusions and to write a clear, well-organized paper using documentation and quantitative tools when appropriate.
Information Competency
Students will demonstrate information competency by combiningaspects of library literacy, research methods and technological literacy. It includes consideration of ethical and legal implications of information and requires the application of both critical thinking and communication skills. Evidence will be the ability to find, evaluate, use, and communicate information in all its various formats.
Problem Solving
Students will demonstrate the ability to solve problems by examining, selecting, using and evaluating various approaches to developing solutions. Evidence will be the ability to observe and draw reasonable inferences from observations, distinguish between relevant and irrelevant data, define problems, analyze the structure of discipline or profession-based problem solving frameworks and to use such frameworks and strategies to develop solutions.
Quantitative Reasoning (Math Competency)
Students will demonstrate quantitative reasoning by identifying relevant data (numerical information in mathematical or other contexts), selecting or developing models appropriate to the problem which represents the data (organized representations of numerical information, e.g., equations, tables, graphs), obtaining and describing results and drawing inferences from data. Evidence will be the ability to extract appropriate data from a problem, to arrange data into tables and graphs or to select or set up an equation or formula, to obtain correct results, to describe trends and features in those results and to make predictions or estimates while drawing qualitative conclusions about the original situation.
Aesthetic Responsiveness
Students will demonstrate aesthetic responsiveness by taking a position on and communicating the merits of great works of the human imagination such as art, music, literature, theater and dance and how those works reflect human values. Evidence will be written or oral communications that articulate a response to works of art, explain how personal and formal factors shape that response and connect works of art to broader contexts.
Ethics and Values
Students will demonstrate facility in making value judgments and ethical decisions by analyzing and formulating the value foundation/framework of a specific area of knowledge in its theory and practice or in a professional context. Evidence will be the ability to identify own values, infer and analyze values in artistic and humanistic works as well as scientific and technological developments and to engage in values-inflected and ethical decision-making in multiple contexts.
Global Awareness
Students will demonstrate global perspectives by generating theoretical and pragmatic approaches to global problems within a disciplinary or professional context. They will develop responsibility toward the global environment in others. Evidence will be the ability to analyze global issues from multiple perspectives, to articulate understanding of interconnected local and global issues, and apply frameworks in formulating a response to global concerns and local issues.
Los Angeles Mission College
General Education and Learning Outcomes