School of Languages, Cultures, and World Affairs (Student Learning Outcomes)

After completing our program, students will:

• demonstrate disciplinary knowledge of African American studies.
• demonstrate competence in African American studies research design and methodology.
• practice critical inquiry and analysis of the political, social, and historical perspectives of African American life and culture.

After completing our program, students will:

• demonstrate their knowledge of the essential political and physical geography of the continent of Africa.
• demonstrate knowledge and application of African Union (AU) protocols.

After completing our program, students will:

• demonstrate a knowledge of the underlying theoretical assumption in archaeology by describing how archaeology began and how the discipline has grown.
• demonstrate experience with modern data collection procedures in archaeology.
• demonstrate research skills through their experience with understanding of information processing methods such as artifact cleaning, classification, and data entry.

After completing our program, students will be able to:

• locate and analyze primary sources in Asian cultures.
• research a theme and/or current issue in Asian cultures using contemporary primary sources.

After completing our program, students will:

• identify, describe and analyze significant episodes or developments in history, politics, economics and/or sociology/anthropology of the British Isles.
• identify, describe, and interpret examples of literature, art, architecture, drama, and/or music of the British Isles.
• identify, describe and analyze cultural artifacts or historical, political, economic, or sociological/anthropological developments related to the British Empire.

After completing our program, students will:

• compose and clearly express business-related writing and corresondence in Spanish, employing requisite compositional structures and elements of said mode of writing and correspondence, while demonstrating accepted writing styles in the contexts of Spanish speaking countries.
• demonstrate familiarity with and exhibit the ability to properly contextualize key Spanish language terminologies related to the business context.
• demonstrate a cross-cultural understanding of business practices in a variety of Spanish-speaking countries.

After completing our program, students will:

• demonstrate a working knowledge of the foundational resources for research in the field and assess how they would apply to a particular question.
• conduct a clear and cogent, research project utilizing relevant secondary literature and developing a rational argument.
• present and defend a research topic in an oral presentation, which clearly explains a thesis and employs supporting argumentation in a logical sequence.

AB students take additional credit hours of Greek or Latin.

After completing our program, students will:

• demonstrate an understanding of Europe as a region in the world.
• describe, and analyze one European-wide (historical, political, cultural, economic, or contemporary) issue, or issues characteristic of any one European country.

After completing our program, students will:

• prove their understanding of language acquisition theories and instructional practices for students at the pre-kindergarten through 12th grade levels.
• demonstrate the ability to integrate the National and State student standards into lesson plans for pre-kindergarten through 12th grade.
• demonstrate the ability to create and implement assessments of their students' language skills and cultural awareness at the pre-kindergarten through 12th grade levels.

After completing our program, students will:

• demonstrate their ability to speak French at the Intermediate-High level or higher on the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) speaking proficiency scale.
• demonstrate their ability to write in French. They will be able to narrate and describe with detail in all major time frames with good control of aspect. They will be rated at the Advanced-Mid level or higher on the ACTFL scale for proficiency in writing.
• demonstrate knowledge of literacy and cultural texts from France and Francophone countries.

After completing our program, students will:

• demonstrate writing proficiency at the B1 level, as defined by the Common European Framework for Foreign Language Proficiency.
• demonstrate speaking proficiency at the B1 level, as defined by the Common European Framework for Foreign Language Proficiency.
• demonstrate understanding of texts on literary and cultural themes as well as interdisciplinary topics.

After completing our program, students will:

• demonstrate global awareness, that is, the ability to identify and describe differences and similarities within and between societies and cultures.
• describe and/or apply a theoretical approach or paradigm germane to international studies.
• demonstrate the ability to access existing knowledge by retrieving, assembling, and organizing information on particular topics and issues in international studies and its related disciplines and fields.

After completing our program, students will:

• write at the Intermediate-High level or above, as defined by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL).
• speak at the Intermediate-High level or above, as defined by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL).

After completing our program, students will:

•  develop Intermediate-level proficiency in writing Japanese.
• read authentic Japanese texts to demonstrate reading proficiency of Japanese.

After completing our program, students will:

• retrieve, identify, explain, compare, contrast, and summarize information pertaining to Jewish history, thought, religion, and culture.
• write well-organized and persuasive research papers in which they analyze a topic that is relevant to Jewish history, culture, tradition, politics, or religion
• illustrate and interpret key issues pertaining to their research topic concerning Jewish culture, traditiona, history, and politics.

After completing our program, students will:

• demonstrate an understanding of the diversity and complexity of the Latin American and/or Caribbean experience.
• apply an integrative multidisciplinary approach to an anlysis of current issues in Latin American and/or the Caribbean.
• demonstrate an appreciation for and understanding of the value of Latin American and Caribbean studies and its interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and comparative approaches.

After completing our program, students will:

• demonstrate understanding of the major concepts in linguistics.
• demonstrate awareness of cultural diversity.

After completing our program, students will:

• describe and discuss aspect (s) of Middle Eastern/Islamic world culture (s), history, and religion (s).
• gain appropriate language proficiency in Arabic or Hebrew.

After completing our program, students will:

• write in Portuguese at the Intermediate-low level on the formative assessment and at the Intermediate-high on the summative, on the ACTFL proficiency scale.
• speak Portuguese at the Intermediate-low level on the formative assessment and at the Intermediate-high on the summative, on the ACTFL proficiency scale.
• analyze cultural texts from a Portuguese-speaking country.

After completing our program, students will:

• interpret, situate and contextualize key themes and topics in a variety of media (such as Russian Literature or Film) that Russian culture deems important in understanding the traditions of the culture in their historical, intellectual, aesthetic or ethical dimension.
• demonstrate ressearch skills within the parameters of the discipline. They will be able to identify, record and interpret key scholarly artifacts as they pertain to the key themes and topics in the field of Russian Studies.

After completing our program, students will:

• speak at the Intermediate-high level or higher on the ACTFL scale.
• recognize the main periods, movements, authors and genres of Hispanic Literature, and interpret literature.
• write at the Advanced-low level on the ACTFL scale.
• identify and explain linguistic characteristics of Spanish, as well as demonstrate knowledge and apply the main concepts of phonology, morphology, semantics and syntax.