AY 2024-2025

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C1. How will the changes fit with the Institutional Mission / Institutional Learning Outcomes (ILO)

• Demonstrate mastery of major theories, concepts, approaches to inquiry and/or practices relevant to the field of study. Demonstrate information literacy appropriate to the field of study.
• Identify and evaluate or apply diverse perspectives, assumptions, and conventions within the field of study.
• Critically examine the power and limitations of quantitative and/or qualitative evidence in the evaluation, construction, and communication of arguments in the field of study.
• Demonstrate communicative fluency appropriate to the field of study.
• Communicative fluency can include multiple expressive modes. Articulate how advancing knowledge or practice in their field of study contributes to the public good.
• Frame and examine a controversy or problem through research, projects, papers, exhibits, or performances in the field of study.
• Situate the field of study and its relevance within a broader context, including - but not limited to - social, intellectual, and/or applied professional contexts.
• Apply appropriate ethical standards or practices within the field of study.

C2. Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs)

1. Graduate students demonstrate mastery of the body of knowledge in the degree field, including the related cultural, technological, ethical and professional competencies. 
2. Graduate students demonstrate skills of critical thinking and analysis. 
3. Graduate students demonstrate both oral and written communication skills, including the academic and technical writing skills appropriate to the degree field. 
4. Graduate students demonstrate knowledge and skills related to the organization, implementation, interpretation and analysis of research appropriate to the degree field. 
5. Graduate students demonstrate knowledge and skills of leadership, advocacy and agency as these apply to the degree field. 
6. Graduate students demonstrate knowledge, skills and dispositions of critical inquiry and reflective practice. 
7. Graduate students demonstrate knowledge, skills and dispositions associated with effective collaboration with peers, colleagues and communities. 
8. Graduate students demonstrate research-based knowledge, skills and dispositions associated with equity and diversity as these apply to effective practice in the content field.